What is Qualiopi certification for, and how can you fund your CSR training? Discover the programs and courses offered by Altopi.
Training your teams is often the starting point for an effective corporate CSR strategy. But for this upskilling to be truly useful, it must be based on structured, recognized, and fundable training programs.
That is precisely the role of Qualiopi certification, which guarantees the quality of training providers and, in many cases, allows for training to be funded through your OPCO.
Altopi is Qualiopi certified. Our CSR training courses and workshops can therefore meet the expected quality standards and be eligible for funding schemes depending on your situation.
In this article, find out what Qualiopi is for and how to fund your CSR training.
Qualiopi is the quality certification for training providers in France. Established by the government, it confirms that a provider meets a set of requirements aimed at ensuring the quality and rigor of the training services offered to companies and learners.
In practical terms, this certification verifies several essential criteria:
• The clarity of learning objectives
• The quality and consistency of the content
• The adaptation of training to the target audience
• The methods for monitoring and evaluating participants
• The existence of a continuous improvement process for training programs
For companies, Qualiopi is a simple and reliable benchmark: it ensures that training is based on a structured framework, with defined teaching methods, clear objectives, and an assessment of skills acquired.
Another important point: Qualiopi certification is now a prerequisite for accessing certain professional training funds.
With Qualiopi, training is not just a one-off workshop. It is part of a structured pedagogical framework, which includes:
• Explicit learning objectives
• A detailed program
• Methods for assessing skills acquired
• Participant tracking
• Continuous improvement of content and methods
For companies looking to launch or structure their CSR strategy, this framework provides a way to train teams professionally, consistently, and in a way that truly drives action.
For many SMEs and mid-sized companies, the training budget is a key factor. One of the main benefits of Qualiopi certification is that it enables access to funding schemes for training initiatives. In fact, only training provided by certified organizations is eligible for certain public or mutualized funding.
Depending on your situation and industry, several schemes may be available to cover all or part of the training costs.
In practical terms, the goal is to make training more accessible for your teams while making the most of existing resources.
Qualiopi-certified training courses may be eligible for funding through your OPCO (Skills Operator).
OPCOs support companies with professional training funding, particularly through the skills development plan. Depending on your industry, company size, and the type of training, a portion of the cost can be covered or co-financed.
CSR training can fall under this framework when it aims, for example, to:
• Develop team skills regarding environmental and social issues
• Structure a CSR or climate strategy within the company
• Train teams on topics such as sustainable procurement, life cycle assessment (LCA), or the ecological transition
The process generally works as follows:
1. The company identifies training that meets its needs
2. It submits a funding request to its OPCO
3. The OPCO confirms the funding terms based on eligibility criteria
This allows you to train your teams on CSR issues while making the most of available funding options.
Procurement often accounts for a significant portion of a company's environmental and social impact. It can also be tied to regulatory requirements, compliance, or supplier risk management. Implementing a sustainable procurement policy therefore helps to reduce impacts, secure the supply chain, and structure your CSR approach.
The "Sustainable Procurement" training offered by Altopi provides teams with a clear, practical method for integrating CSR issues into procurement practices and deploying a more sustainable supplier strategy.
Training Objectives
Enable participants to master the fundamentals of sustainable procurement, identify key issues for their company, and formalize a procurement policy aligned with CSR goals.
This 2-day training is specifically designed for:
• Procurement Managers
• Procurement Specifiers
• Management teams involved in supplier strategy or CSR initiatives
Program Highlights
Participants will work on several key dimensions of sustainable procurement:
• The fundamentals of CSR applied to procurement, regulations, and the ISO 20400 standard,
• Analyzing supplier risks, dependencies, and supply chain impacts,
• Integrating a life-cycle costing approach into procurement decisions,
• Implementing sustainable criteria and clauses in tenders,
• Issues regarding business ethics, anti-corruption measures, and fairness in supplier relationships,
• Defining monitoring indicators, audits, and continuous improvement processes,
• Raising supplier awareness and engagement in the process.
By the end of the training, teams will have concrete tools to integrate CSR into their procurement processes and move from strategic intentions to operational, measurable, and manageable practices.
The Climate Fresk is a collaborative workshop designed to help teams understand the causes and consequences of climate change based on scientific data from IPCC reports. Structured as a serious game, this workshop makes climate issues accessible and fosters a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms driving climate change.
The goal is to provide teams with the key insights they need to take action within their professional context.
This workshop helps to:
• Quickly raise team awareness about climate issues
• Foster a collective sense of awareness
• Create a shared knowledge base regarding the climate
• Kickstart an internal dynamic focused on the ecological transition
It is often an excellent starting point for engaging employees in CSR or climate-related initiatives.
Altopi can also train specific employees to become Climate Fresk facilitators within your organization. This approach allows you to internalize climate awareness, roll out the workshop more broadly, and strengthen long-term team engagement.
To learn more about this workshop and how it works, check out our page dedicated to the Climate Fresk workshop.
The “My Job Has an Impact” workshop is a CSR awareness session designed to concretely link company activities to environmental and social issues. Unlike theoretical approaches, this workshop starts directly with your product or service to analyze its impacts throughout its lifecycle.
The workshop takes place in several stages:
• Reconstructing the lifecycle of the product or service
• Analyzing the associated environmental and social consequences
• Identifying key impacts and risks
• Brainstorming concrete improvement solutions
• Developing an initial action plan
The goal is to help teams realize the impact of their work and identify actionable levers they can apply directly to their daily professional lives.
Altopi can also train your teams to facilitate this workshop internally, in order to spread the CSR approach more widely and firmly embed these reflections into your business operations.
To learn more about how this workshop works, check out the dedicated page for the "My Job Has Impact" workshop.
Every company moves at its own pace when it comes to social responsibility and the ecological transition. Some organizations want to start by raising awareness among their teams about CSR issues, while others are looking to formalize a more comprehensive approach.
To meet these diverse needs, Altopi also designs custom CSR training programs, adapted to your company's specific context and priorities.
We offer targeted training programs, including:
• Nailing your EcoVadis questionnaire : training to understand the EcoVadis logic, structure your evidence, and aim for a medal — without outsourcing the entire process.
• Becoming a CSR Manager : supporting an employee to get them up to speed quickly on CSR topics (management, structuring, reporting).
• Training your sales teams in CSR : learning how to highlight your CSR initiatives in client proposals and turn them into a real business advantage.
• Understanding and managing a Carbon Footprint : mastering the methodology, the challenges, and how to use the results to guide your climate strategy.
These training programs can be built based on your industry, your level of CSR maturity, your regulatory or strategic challenges, and the target audience (management, HR, procurement, operational teams, etc.)
And they can be organized in different formats to fit your organizational constraints: in-person, remote, or in a hybrid format.
This approach allows us to provide practical training that is directly applicable to your organization, and to make upskilling a real driver for implementing and accelerating your CSR strategy.
For SMEs and mid-caps looking to accelerate their transition, training teams is often the most effective starting point. It helps them better understand the issues, identify the impacts of their activities, and turn CSR ambitions into concrete actions.
The Qualiopi certification plays a key role in this process. It allows you to:
• Guarantee the quality of training, thanks to a structured pedagogical framework,
• Access funding options more easily, particularly via OPCOs depending on your situation,
• Support the upskilling of teams on CSR issues.
With its training programs and workshops, Altopi supports companies that want to raise awareness among their teams, structure their CSR approach, and take action faster.
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