IFOSEP

What IFOSEP does

IFOSEP SARL is a privately held French professional training institute founded in 2003 and headquartered in Eichhoffen, Grand Est. The company specializes in continuing professional education for the sanitary, social, and medico-social sectors, with gerontology as its anchor domain. It operates as a B2B training provider serving healthcare establishments — including EHPADs (elderly care homes), ESSMS (social and medico-social establishments), and hospitals — as well as the individual healthcare professionals who work in them. The company delivers approximately 700 training days per year from a team of 9 employees.

IFOSEP's product is a 12-domain training catalog spanning gerontology, workplace quality of life and risk management (under the Qualiâge sub-brand), care and support, disability, AFEST (workplace-embedded training co-developed with IRE3A), home care, management and project leadership, hygiene and prevention, emergencies (AFGSU levels 1 and 2), social-care animation, communication, and hospitality/catering in care settings. Training is delivered in two formats: INTRA, where trainers travel to the client's establishment for group sessions, and INTER, where open-enrollment sessions (minimum 5 participants) are held at IFOSEP centers or partner venues across Grand Est cities including Eichhoffen, Dole, Nancy, Metz, Dijon and Strasbourg. The platform layer is essentially a content/pedagogical library plus an operational delivery network rather than a software product; there is no proprietary technology stack, mobile app, API, or AI/ML component referenced.

The business model is sales-led professional services revenue from training delivery. Prices are quoted net of VAT (French professional-training exemption) and typically include pedagogical materials, trainer travel for INTRA, and lunch for INTER; payment terms are 30 days from invoice with 1.5x legal-rate late penalties. IFOSEP holds four sector certifications — Qualiopi (French national training quality), NF, DATADOCK and ADPC — which are prerequisites for accessing OPCO-funded enterprise training demand in France. The firm is founder/owner-operated with no disclosed institutional investors, no funding history, and no public revenue disclosure.

Name

IFOSEP

Legal name

IFOSEP® SARL

Website

https://ifosep.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

IFOSEP is a French professional training institute founded in 2003 that delivers continuing education across 12 healthcare and social-care domains, primarily gerontology, to EHPADs, ESSMS and hospitals across the Grand Est region through INTRA and INTER delivery formats.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Training Services

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (61143), Professional and Management Development Training (611430), Educational Services (61)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Safety, Compliance & Regulatory (OSHA/HSE/GxP) Certifications (EDAAANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Food Safety, Sanitation & HACCP Training (EDAOAKAG), Compliance, Risk & EHS Management (BPABAAAK)

Keywords

• Healthcare professional training
• Continuing professional development
• Gerontology training programs
• AFEST workplace training
• Medico-social sector training

Headquarters

HQ city

Eichhoffen

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Professional Training Services: IFOSEP generates revenue through professional training services for healthcare workers in sanitary, social, and medico-social sectors. Training is provided in both INTRA (client premises) and INTER formats (IFOSEP centers or partner venues). Prices are quoted net of all taxes (TVA exempt as per French training regulations) and include pedagogical materials, trainer travel expenses (for INTRA), and lunch (for INTER sessions).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

IFOSEP delivers continuing professional training programs to healthcare, social, and medico-social sector professionals across the Grand Est region of France. Training is sold to EHPADs, ESSMS, hospitals, and similar establishments in two formats — INTRA (on-site at the client) and INTER (open enrollment at IFOSEP or partner venues) — covering 12 domains anchored by gerontology and including AFEST workplace-based training methodology.

Product overview

IFOSEP (Institut de Formation Spécialisé en Éducabilité Professionnelle) is a professional training institute established in 2003, offering a comprehensive portfolio of training programs for healthcare, social, and medico-social sector professionals in the Grand Est region of France. The organization provides approximately 700 training days per year across 12 specialized domains: Gérontologie, Qualité de vie au travail et Gestion des risques, Accompagnement et Soins, Handicap, AFEST, Aide et soins à domicile, Encadrement Organisation et Conduite de projet, Hygiène et Prévention, Urgences, Animation, Communication et Perfectionnement des Fonctions, and Hôtellerie et Restauration. The training is delivered through both intra-establishment (on-site) and inter-establishment (public sessions) formats, with options for in-person and distance learning.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Qualiâge: A brand/platform under IFOSEP focused on quality of life at work and risk management training programs.

Products and services

• Formation en Gérontologie

Quantifiable outcome

• Approximately 700 training days delivered per year

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• IRE3A®coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFOSEP collaborates with IRE3A® to design and implement AFEST (Action de Formation En Situation de Travail) programs. Together they develop competency development pathways that combine on-the-job training with professional education, strengthening professionalization and securing practices in healthcare settings.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• AFPA: AFPA is France's national association for adult vocational training, offering accredited programs across healthcare support, social care, and related fields. It competes with IFOSEP's aide-soignant and medico-social training catalog, particularly for CPF-funded and OPCO-financed learners.
• CEGOS: CEGOS is one of France's largest professional training and development groups, offering management, leadership, and professional skills programs across all sectors. It overlaps with IFOSEP's management/encadrement and communication training domains at greater scale and national reach, and competes for healthcare-organization training budgets.

Others

• ANFH: ANFH is the French OPCO (joint collecting body) that funds continuing training for public-hospital employees. It is not a direct competitor but is a critical funding channel for IFOSEP's public-sector healthcare clients and shapes the regulatory/compliance framework in which IFOSEP sells its training plans.
• Uniformation: Uniformation is the OPCO for the social, medico-social, and home-care sectors — directly aligned with IFOSEP's ESSMS and home-care buyer base. Like ANFH, it is a funding intermediary rather than a competitor, but it heavily influences which training providers and certifications are pre-approved for its member establishments.

Direct peers

• CNEH (Centre National de l'Expertise Hospitalière): CNEH is a leading French training and consulting organization dedicated to hospital and healthcare-facility professionals. It overlaps directly with IFOSEP's healthcare-facility buyer segment (EHPADs, hospitals, medico-social establishments) and offers a comparable catalog of continuing education and management training, but at a national scale.
• EHESP (École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique): EHESP is France's premier public health and healthcare management school, delivering continuing education and professional development programs for healthcare managers, inspectors, and practitioners. It competes with IFOSEP's encadrement/management training domain and serves the same regulatory-compliance-driven buyer base.

Emerging players

• AFNOR Compétences: AFNOR Compétences is the training and skills-development arm of AFNOR, offering professional training including quality management, risk, and regulatory compliance. It overlaps with IFOSEP's Qualiâge (QVT/risk management) and hygiene/quality training domains, and benefits from AFNOR's standards-body brand authority.
• ORSYS: ORSYS is a French professional training firm specializing in IT, digital, management, and project-management training delivered across France. It overlaps with IFOSEP's encadrement/conduite-de-projet and digital-related training domains and competes for similar mid-market healthcare-establishment training budgets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Ifosep-1504672533173338
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ifosep

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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