Taking into account extracurricular involvement of students in engineering education

From some years, in France, skills resulting from experiences got outside the educational system are taken into account for getting a diploma in the frame of long life learning. Since last year, there is also a law that makes mandatory not only valorization but also validation of those experiences for students during initial training. During engineering studies, this was something often done for skills acquired in the frame of student's associative life, but the law is now broader because it implies taking into account for example experiences as citizens. This can also include community services, international experiences outside curricula... The paper describes this French law itself, how it has been extended in the frame of European project like Extrasup, but also how it is applied in some engineering universities and the difficulties encountered in its application. It links also this student's involvement with peace engineering.