Gap year

Gap year: a personal choice

The gap year constitutes a break in the studies, between two academic years. It gives students the opportunity to undertake a personal project and to gain original experience, which is not accessible to him/her within the classic training framework (including international mobility).

Students can choose to undertake their gap year in different forms:

• Training in a field different from that in which the student is enrolled in France or abroad;
• Professional experience in France or abroad (fixed -term contract, ...);
• Civic engagement in France or abroad, which may take the form of voluntary work, international solidarity, international volunteering in a public administration or business or a European voluntary service.
• A business creation project as a student/entrepreneur.
• A personal development project in France or abroad.

NB The gap year:

• does not contribute towards the award of the degree at Centrale Nantes
• is based on the development of a personal project with full awareness of the consequences (autonomy, degree obtained one year later etc.)
• is subject to the approval of the Director, or of the Dean of Studies at the institution in which the student is enrolled.