OPCO funding

Your skills operator, the primary source of funding for your training programs.

As key players in vocational training, skills operators (OPCOs) inform, advise, and support companies and their employees in their training and apprenticeship projects. MDConseil Formation works with all OPCOs to facilitate the funding of your training programs.

What is an OPCO?

Created by the "Professional Future" law of 2018, skills operators replaced the former OPCA in 2019. 11 OPCO today they cover the 329 professional sectors: each company is attached to one of them according to its collective agreement.

  • Atlas — insurance, banking, finance, consulting, accounting expertise (14 branches)
  • Opcommerce — trade sector (20 branches)
  • OPCO Mobilités — Mobility and transport professions (17 branches)
  • Akto — labor-intensive service companies (24 sectors)
  • OPCO 2i — industry and inter-industry (29 branches)
  • Afdas — culture, media, leisure, sport, tourism (31 branches)
  • Ocapiat — agriculture, fishing, agri-food (50 sectors)
  • Constructys — Building and public works (3 branches)
  • Uniformation — social cohesion (18 branches)
  • OPCO EP — local businesses (54 sectors)
  • OPCO Health — health and social care (4 branches)

The three main missions of an OPCO

  1. Supporting very small and small businesses in defining their training needs, with local services and funding for the skills development plan.
  2. Promoting apprenticeships : apprenticeship and professional training contracts, work-study retraining schemes.
  3. Providing technical support to professional sectors : workforce planning and skills management, levels of support, certifications.

How to find your OPCO?

Three simple ways to identify your service provider:

  • the search engine of France Compétences
  • search by number SIRET of your company
  • search by collective agreement identifier (IDCC), mentioned on your payslips.

The financing arrangements proposed by the OPCOs

The skills development plan (companies with fewer than 50 employees)

Very small and small businesses (TPE-PME) benefit from partial or full funding for their training, either in the form of an annual allowance or hourly reimbursement. Depending on the OPCO (Skills Operator), tuition fees, related expenses (travel, accommodation), and salary costs may be covered.

Collective actions

A collective action is a catalogue of training courses selected by the OPCO (Skills Operator) on topics deemed strategic for the sector. Advantages: negotiated rates, coverage of up to 100% of training costs, and simplified administrative procedures.

The negotiated tariff agreements

Some OPCOs enter into partnerships with training organizations to offer preferential conditions to their members.

Apprenticeship-based retraining programs

The OPCOs cover the training costs of retraining or promotion programs through work-study. Since 1er January 2026, the period of retraining replaces the Pro-A device.

The FNE-Formation

The OPCOs have processed the FNE-Formation funding requests for training courses related to major transitions. View the current status of the device.

The ESF+ 2025

Several OPCOs offer the ESF+ 2025 scheme, which finances up to 50% of training costs. Learn more about the ESF+ 2025.

And what about the CPF (Personal Training Account) in all of this?

The Personal Training Account remains a complementary lever: integrated into the company's HR policy, it becomes a win-win tool for financing employee training projects. Discover the CPF.

MDConseil Formation, your partner in dealing with OPCOs

Our teams are familiar with the criteria and funding procedures of each OPCO (Skills Operator). We help you prepare your applications and maximize the funding for your training programs.

Do you have a training project?

MDConseil Formation assists you in identifying the appropriate system and in preparing your funding applications.

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