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All PhD students and recent graduates of the Université de Lyon are invited to take part in the 2023 edition of the My Thesis in 180 seconds competition.

Every year, throughout France, Science Fairs invite the general public to have fun with science, to discover new technologies and the latest developments. The scientific community has come together to offer a range of activities, exhibitions, lectures, tours, and much more. The 2022 edition will be held from October 7 to 17 in Lyon and in the Rhône department. Save the date!

Lyon Urban School is organizing an international seminar focusing on environmental vulnerability and public decision-making in a post-disaster context. The seminar will be held from October 6 to 8 in Lyon and Tokyo, as part of the 2022 "Rentrée Anthropocène" event.

The Life RECYCLO project, of which the Université de Lyon is a partner, will take part in the Entre Rhône et Saône Festival in July. This is the first edition of this Lyon event, which will put water in the spotlight.

P for Popularizing knowledge, O for an Open campus, P for Producing science with and for the public...For the past five years, the Pop’Sciences portal has evolved to provide a complete offer to all science lovers: events, themed articles, magazines, festivals... To mark its fifth anniversary, Pop’Sciences takes part in the NIMS 2022 Forum.

Come and support Bastien Marguet, a PhD student at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, and the 15 other finalists at the My Thesis in 180 Seconds national finals on May 31, 2022 at the Bourse du Travail in Lyon.

The Université Lumière Lyon 2 is among the twelve new winners awarded this label by the French Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) during the second wave of the “Science with and for Society” (SAPS - "Science avec et pour la société") call for projects.

The Université de Lyon's Research Ethics Committee is a consultative body that aims to support researchers who wish to ensure the ethics of their research protocols (except for research involving the human person). Dr. Humbert de Fréminville, who chairs the CER-UdL, explains its objectives and how it works.

For the fifth year running, the Université de Lyon and higher education institutions in Lyon and Saint-Étienne chose to combine their artistic and cultural programs and highlight student initiatives on campus. Organized as part of the Arts and Culture in Higher Education Days (Journées des arts et de la culture dans l’enseignement supérieur – JACES), Campus Arts will host over 20 events from April 4 to 6, 2022.

The House of Mathematics and Computer Science (Maison des Mathématiques et de l’Informatique – MMI), part of the Université de Lyon's MILYON Laboratory of excellence (Laboratoire d’excellence), is looking for training, leading or education organizations or professionals to help develop the program for its next season.

The Université de Lyon regional final of the “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” (MT180) competition was held on Thursday, March 24, in the Université de Lyon’s Grand Amphitheater. Fourteen candidates from the site’s institutions presented their thesis subjects, with a mix of humor and scientific popularization, to a full house, as well as online, before three jury prizes and one people’s choice award were awarded.

From March 21 to 26, 2022, the École urbaine de Lyon, the H2O'Lyon Graduate School and their partners are organising a Water Week on the theme of groundwater, to match Unesco's World Water Day.

Brain Awareness Week is organized each year in March by the French Neuroscience Society. This event is an opportunity for researchers, physicians and student volunteers to share developments in brain research laboratories with the general public, as well as to explain the importance of brain research, the challenges involved, and its impact on our society.

For the fourth year running, the École urbaine de Lyon is organizing a series of public lectures on urban and anthropogenic issues. Eleven research professors will present their work over the course of five or six sessions, starting during the “À l’École de l’anthropocène” (At the Anthropocene School) week through to the end of June 2022.

The fourth edition of the “À l'École de l'Anthropocène” (Anthropocene School) festival will be held from January 24 to 30 and will offer an open, sensitive, citizen-based program focusing on global change as part of “Villeurbanne 2022, the French Capital of Culture” event, and will be hosted in one of its iconic venues: Le Rize.