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From April 6 to 11, 2021, the Université de Lyon and the site’s institutions invite you to discover the diversity, wealth and quality of the cultural and artistic works put together and presented on the campuses as part of the Campus Arts Festival.

The year 2020 and the global health crisis have put an end to the once dominant model of mass and globalized tourism. Pop’Sciences will spend the first half of 2021 looking at the question of tourism, how it is perceived and how it has evolved over time.

Every year, throughout France, Science Fairs invite the general public to have fun with science, to discover new technologies and the latest developments. Laboratories, companies, organizations and cultural players all come together to offer activities, exhibitions, lectures, visits and much more...

The Université de Lyon's regional finals of the international Francophone “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” competition will be held on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Watch it live on the UdL website or Facebook page at 6 PM.

What is Europe's place on the international scene? What impact can it have in the face of the individual policies of the member states? What role can it play in responding to current global challenges? These questions will be at the center of the debate, which will make it possible to compare the opinions of researchers from different European countries, and specialized in cultural history, international law, European studies, security and politics.

The 2021 Brain Awareness Week, co-organized by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS), the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale – Inserm), the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, the Fondation Neurodis, the Fondation APICIL, the LabEx CORTEX, the LabEx ASLAN, the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Pop’Sciences of the Université de Lyon and the Le Vinatier hospital, will take place online from March 16 to 25.

Since 2018, Le Rize, the CMTRA and the ENM have jointly been working on the “Instruments voyageurs” (Travelling instruments) project, in which they go out to meet the people of Villeurbanne to learn more about the musical instruments they keep in their homes. Find out more about their participatory approach in this webinar.

Time for Season Five of the Anthropocene Wednesdays! This unmissable weekly event, created and organized by the École urbaine de Lyon, focuses on better understanding the global changes that are taking place in our urban world. The Anthropocene Wednesdays are the perfect opportunity for researchers and specialists from all fields to come together to discuss and uncover solutions.

Local food for school cafeterias, rooftop gardens, access to rights in prison, support for transplant patients... Take a look at the six studies supported by the Université de Lyon’s Science Shop for 2021.

The Université de Lyon invites you to discover the Pop’Sciences interview with Isabelle Vauglin, regional head of the association Femmes et Sciences (Women and Science organization), astronomer and researcher at the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ENS de Lyon).

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated every year on February 11. This international event was introduced by the United Nations to promote equal access to and participation in science for women and girls and to highlight the great contributions that they have made to science and technology. To mark this event, the Arqus Alliance universities have decided to organize a webinar, open to all, to share their STEM expertise.

A new podcast series named “Arqus Knowledge Pills” brings the scientific expertise of the seven partner universities of the Arqus European University Alliance together – and directly to its listeners.

On 3rd February at 17.30, a few days leading up to the celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Arqus European University Alliance will hold an online event on women and academia. The online discussion includes a special focus on the access and presence of women in "hard sciences" (women in STEM disciplines – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

For the third year running, the École urbaine de Lyon, supported by the Université de Lyon, invites you to attend its Anthropocene School Festival (À l’École de l’Anthropocène). The aim of this event is to help us gain a better understanding of urban worlds and global change through discussions and experiments with scientists, artists, activists, political figures and organizations. This third “hybrid” edition will explore the Anthropogenic Era without borders.

2021 call for applications is now open.