Student and Campus Life Contribution (CVEC), Necessary for Enrollment

The CVEC is the Student and Campus Life Contribution fee. It helps to provide students with social, health, cultural and sport-related support, and to encourage preventive and health education initiatives.

By law, it is collected by the CROUS. For the academic year 2024-2025, it costs €103 a year. Students may be subject to it or exempt from it, depending on their situation.

In 2024-2025, the Student and Campus Life Contribution fee is €103.

The Student and Campus Life Contribution applies to all students, future students and international students enrolling at the university, unless they are exempt by law.

Students exempt from paying the CVEC:

• Grant holder based on social criteria managed by the CROUS (year in progress)
• Recipient of a grant paid out by the region for paramedical, health and social training courses
• Recipient of an annual allowance
• Refugee
• Recipient of subsidiary protection
• Asylum seekers with the right to remain in France

For example:

• In all cases, the student must logon to the dedicated website (or go to the Post Office) to get their CVEC certificate.
• Apprentices must pay the CVEC but can ask their employer to reimburse the sum
• Students in CPGE (Preparatory classes for the Grandes Écoles) pay the contribution when they register for university
• Students who register for more than one course in the same academic year are only required to pay the CVEC once when they first register.

Exempt from payment:

• International students registering in France for an incoming exchange programme such as Erasmus.
• Interns on funded continuing education courses (paid for by their employer or by a collecting body)
• Students returning to unfunded research who have signed an agreement with the University for additional services
• Students and interns only registering to train for the certificate of aptitude for teaching (external and internal) under the continuing education system
• Future students registered for a course preparing the DAEU – Diplôme d’accès aux études universitaires (Diploma of Access to University Studies)
• Auditors

For more information on international students, please go to the Campus France website

The http://cvec.etudiant.gouv.fr platform has been open since the end of May 2024.

The CVEC must be paid before registering at the university. You will need the code on your individual certificate to register.

• Payment is done online by credit or debit card

Step 1: Log in to one of these websites: https://www.messervices.etudiant.gouv.fr or http://cvec.etudiant.gouv.fr

Page: LOG IN. Students who have registered on Parcoursup for the current year will receive an email telling them how to create their account. Any other students will need to create their account or edit it if they no longer have access.

Step 2: Fill in the personal data required and indicate the city in which you will be studying

Step 3: Pay the CVEC online or request to be exempt from payment online.

• Cash payments

If you are unable to pay your CVEC online, go to the FDJ Nirio network to pay in cash. No handling fee will be charged.

Within 48 hours, the student will receive an email containing a link with which to download their CVEC certificate. This certificate contains a CVEC code, which you must keep if you wish to register at the university.

Future students can get reimbursed of the CVEC:

• If you are a scholarship holder
• If you qualify for an exemption
• If you have enrolled for a course that does not require payment of the CVEC

Refund requests are to be sent to the CROUS via the dedicated website.
If the student is an apprentice, they can ask their employer to reimburse the sum.

The CVEC reimbursement application campaign for the year 2023-2024 is closed 31 May 2024. Refunds are no longer possible.

Requests for CVEC refund for 2024-2025 will be open as September 1st 2024 until May 31st 2025.