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The Université de Lyon and the Université Clermont Auvergne & Associés are working together for the fourth Doctoriales event, entitled A fresh look at innovation issues.

After a week of jury rating and public voting with over 7,560? votes cast, Safe B (Université de Lyon) has won the 2021 Arqus Virtual Company Creation Challenge! The final had been programmed for the week of May 3, 2021 as part of the 2021 Arqus Academic Week.

On April 26 and 27, 2021, a group of design school students took part in a creative challenge organized by the Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory. This challenge is part of a much larger project: rethinking the iconic red lion, the symbol of ONLYLYON, so that its design is more in keeping with the City of Lyon’s sustainable development values.

From May 3 to 9, 2021, people will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite business project among the 6 finalists proposed by Arqus universities.

The Innovation Factory (Fabrique de l'Innovation), one of the Université de Lyon’s flagship programs, has launched its very own website. The website has been designed to provide companies and social and economic players with information on the Innovation Factory’s turnkey and tailor-made offers to accelerate their innovation and boost their creativity.

Applications to join the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center’s Accelerated Young Companies program, led by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon and the Université de Lyon, are open until May 14.

On March 31, the “Female entrepreneurs: economic issues and impact” lecture will be the first in a series organized by the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center, which is led by the Université de Lyon and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon.

The Université de Lyon has joined the initiative launched by the World Trade Center Lyon to organize a student co-working day in one of the ten co-working facilities in the Part-Dieu district.

Are you a research professor at one of the Université de Lyon’s institutions in Saint-Etienne? Are you looking for ways to incorporate creativity into your teaching? Come and discover the D-Factory, the Innovation Factory’s new site in Saint-Étienne, on March 29.

PULSALYS is launching a Call for Expressions of Interest for researchers, engineers and staff from the Lyon and Saint-Étienne sites’ public research laboratories.

La seventh Digital Transformation University Diploma class began on March 1, 2021. This year’s program was the first to be launched entirely online, due to the current health situation.

Having just completed the sixth session of the Digital Transformation University Diploma (DTUD), the Disrupt’Campus team is already preparing the next session, which will be held from March 1 to July 2, 2021.

The Innovation Factory is a Université de Lyon program that encourages students to lend their talent and creativity to helping social and economic players innovate in new ways. This year, the Innovation Factory will continue to work with research professors at Université de Lyon institutions in order to help them learn all about creativity tools and how they can help their students become innovators.

A new incubator is set to open at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in the spring of 2021 as part of the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center’s Manufactory program, which is led by the Université de Lyon and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon.

Having been an integral part of the Manufacture district, the creative heart of the Saint-Étienne area, for several years now, the Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory officially opened its D-Factory (Design Factory) in the new “Centre des Savoirs pour l’Innovation” (Knowledge Center for Innovation) on January 25.