Education Program

Free credit for accredited French education

The FranceVPS Education Program provides free annual credit to accredited French universities, grandes écoles, IUTs, and registered French open-source projects. Students and faculty get hands-on infrastructure experience without the credit-card friction that excludes a lot of would-be builders.

What's available

• €600/year credit per student account — enough to run a Cloud VPS continuously plus learn with hourly GPU experiments.
• Institutional credit pool for course-wide deployments. A typical computer science department gets €15,000-30,000/year for student projects.
• Curriculum support — pre-built lab environments for systems administration, distributed systems, security, and ML courses.
• API access at full feature parity — students learn the same tools they'll use in industry.
• Direct support channel for faculty to coordinate course deployments.

Eligibility

The program is open to:

• Students enrolled at accredited French institutions (universities, grandes écoles, IUTs, BTS, CPGE).
• Faculty teaching computer science, electrical engineering, or related disciplines at the same.
• French-incorporated open-source projects with active commits in the last 6 months and 50+ GitHub stars.
• Coding bootcamps and associations registered as 1901 non-profits in France.

Verification is by institutional email or SIRET number. We don't ask for a copy of your student card.

Participating institutions

We work with departments at École 42, Sciences Po, Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, Sorbonne Université, ENS Lyon, INSA Lyon, Télécom Paris, EPITA, Epitech, ENSEEIHT, and 30+ other institutions. The full list is available on request.

Apply

Faculty: contact us to set up an institutional pool. Include your department's name, expected number of students per academic year, and the courses for which you'd use the credits.

Students: sign up at panel.fra-vps.com with your institutional email. The credit is applied automatically once verified.

Open-source projects: send us your GitHub link, the project's main French maintainer, and a brief description. Approval typically within 5 business days.