CFA de l'Université de Bordeaux

Name

CFA de l'Université de Bordeaux

Legal name

Université de Bordeaux

Website

https://u-bordeaux.fr

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Talence

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

CFA de l'Université de Bordeaux is the apprenticeship training center (Centre de Formation des Apprentis) of the Université de Bordeaux. It delivers vocational higher education through apprenticeship contracts that combine theoretical learning at the university with practical professional experience with partner enterprises. The CFA integrates with the broader Université de Bordeaux ecosystem, providing access to 80 research units and over 100 technology platforms.

Product overview

CFA de l'Université de Bordeaux offers a portfolio of innovation and technology transfer services organized around collaborative research programs (LabCom), technological services, scientific consulting, and R&D funding mechanisms. The offering includes The Hub as a unified resource interface, FabLab Coh@bit for digital fabrication, Disrupt Campus for student-business collaborations, and PhD student missions for companies seeking specialized expertise. These services are designed to facilitate public-private partnerships and accelerate innovation transfer from the university to the socio-economic ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Apprentissage (Apprenticeship Programs) Apprenticeship (work-study) training programs enabling students to earn a salary while pursuing academic credentials at the Université de Bordeaux, alternating between classroom instruction and professional experience with partner enterprises. Open to students seeking vocational qualifications integrated with practical employment.
• Contrat de professionnalisation (Professionalization Contract) Professionalization contracts offering alternance training pathways targeting young graduates and career changers, combining work experience with vocational qualification.
• Formation professionnelle (Continuing Professional Development) Continuing professional development programs for working adults and career changers, including skills acquisition modules, validation of prior learning (VAE), and professional certifications.
• Prestations technologiques (Technological Services) Technology service contracts through which university platforms and laboratories provide companies with expertise, competencies, and technical resources in exchange for payment.
• Consultance scientifique (Scientific Consulting) Scientific consulting services allowing companies to directly engage university researchers for intellectual work, including bibliography reviews and expert advice without inventive activity.
• Dispositifs de financement R&D (R&D Funding Programs) R&D funding mechanisms including CICO (tax credit for research collaborations), CIR (research tax credit), regional aids, and national/EU funding support for collaborative research.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• CESI: CESI is a major French engineering and management school with an extensive apprenticeship (alternance) program across multiple campuses. It competes for the same enterprise apprenticeship contracts and student persona, but operates as a private association rather than a public university component, with a more commercial engagement model.
• CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers): CNAM is a much larger French public higher-education institution with a long-established national footprint offering professional development and apprenticeship-eligible programs. It overlaps significantly with the CFA's continuing-education and formation professionnelle offerings but at a national rather than regional scale.
• AFTRAL (formerly AFTRAL / ISTELI): AFTRAL is one of France's largest private apprenticeship training networks, specializing in transport, logistics, and supply-chain trades. It competes for enterprise apprenticeship contracts and alternance students across France, offering a more commercially driven sales motion than a university-affiliated CFA.

Direct peers

• Université de Nantes - CFA: The CFA at Université de Nantes is a closely comparable peer: a French public-university apprenticeship training center in western France operating under the same regulatory framework (alternance contracts, taxe d'apprentissage financing) and using the same national recruitment platform.
• Université Paris-Saclay - CFA: CFA of Université Paris-Saclay is the most direct comparable: a French public research-university apprenticeship training center, similarly embedded within a major research ecosystem with multiple campuses. It serves the same core function of combining academic study with paid apprenticeship contracts for the same student persona.
• Université de Lille - CFA: The CFA at Université de Lille operates an analogous public-university apprenticeship model in northern France, offering work-study programs integrated with research university infrastructure. It targets the same student persona and employer partner types via the same national Parcoursup channel.
• Université de Lyon (Université Claude Bernard / Jean Moulin) - CFA: The CFA cluster associated with Université de Lyon offers comparable apprenticeship pathways within a major French research-university ecosystem in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Same public-institution structure, same alternance model, same Parcoursup recruitment channel.
• Université de Strasbourg - CFA: The CFA at Université de Strasbourg provides the same apprenticeship-training model integrated within a French public research university. It addresses the same student persona (apprenticeship-track learners) and the same employer enterprise-partner pool across eastern France.

Emerging players

• INSEEC U. (Groupe INSEEC): INSEEC U. is a French private higher-education group that has been rapidly expanding its apprenticeship-based programs (particularly at Grande École and Bachelor level). It targets overlapping student personas and competes for the same employer apprenticeship contracts with a private-school commercial focus.
• ISCOD (alternance school): ISCOD is a French private apprenticeship school specializing in remote (100% online) alternance programs in digital, marketing, and business fields. It competes for the same enterprise apprenticeship contracts with a digital-first delivery model that may attract employers and students seeking flexibility beyond traditional university-based CFAs.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cfa-de-l-universit%C3%A9-de-bordeaux
• Instagraminstagram.com/universitedebordeaux

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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