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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Since its creation back in 2017, the Université de Lyon’s Disrupt’Campus teams up with the Métropole de Lyon to organize a series of lectures based on the themes covered in the Digital Transformation University Diploma. The next meeting, which will take place on January 25, 2021, will explore artificial intelligence.

The Economy Days, led by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, is organizing an Economy Evening based on the theme “2021: Balancing rebound and protection”, in partnership with the BRED and the French Association of Economic Science.

The ultra-high-field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) center in Lyon, a research unit supported by the CNRS, the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon), is launching an NMR platform specifically for companies. The NMR platform is part of a large group of platforms supported by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region: the Company-focused research and innovation facilities (Installations de recherche et d'innovation centrées entreprises – IRICE).

PULSALYS is launching the fifth program for local young doctors who are interested in creating a start-up. This program is supported by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, via the PEPITE BEELYS.

The Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center, led by the Université de Lyon and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, is the winner of the Esprit d'entreprendre call for projects launched by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (via the PEPITE BEELYS).

The Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center’s Lyon Start Up program, supported by the Université de Lyon and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, held its finals and awards ceremony for the 10th and 11th editions of the program on Thursday, December 10.

The Université de Lyon met with Lab4Kids, which is developing a solution to help children and their families during blood tests. Supported by Campus Creation, a company creation simulation program/competition run by the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center, the team took part in the Arqus European University’s Virtual Company Creation Challenge.

The Université de Lyon and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon are launching the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center, a major platform to support entrepreneurship and skills development.

The Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory organized a new edition of the national “48 Hours to Bring Ideas to Life®” challenge from November 26 to 28, 2020. An opportunity for companies to leverage student creativity to develop new ideas.

After two days of pitching their projects, the winners of the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center’s Accelerated Young Companies (Jeunes Entreprises Accélérées – JEA) competition, led by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, were announced on Friday November 27. Read all about them in this article.

Rounds 2 of the Lyon Start Up 10 (the spring class) and Lyon Start Up 11 pitching competitions, organised by Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center carried by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, were held on November 24. At the end of the pitches, 20 projects were selected from a total of 50 projects presented by the 11th class, as well as 10 projects from a total of 20 projects from the 10th class.

The Foundation for the Université de Lyon held the 13th Economy Days (Journées de l’économie – Jéco) on November 17, 18 and 19, 2020. This year’s event was the first to be held in exclusively online.

From November 16 to 22, 2020, people will have the chance to vote on the Arqus website for their favourite business project, among the 5 final candidates proposed by Arqus Universities.

On November 10, 2020, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon have put forward a brand new lecture as part of the Digital Transformation University Diploma. This event will be held online and will focus on the challenges involved in the use of technologies for learning and continuing education.portera sur le thème des enjeux des technologies pour l’apprentissage et la formation continue.

The Innovation Factory is a Université de Lyon program that encourages students to use their talent and creativity to innovate in new ways. Its services are aimed at project leaders from the academic and socio-economic world. On November 5, it made its online opening to present its training facilities and services to research professors from the Université de Lyon institutions.

The Manufactory Sans Souci incubator, a program run by the Université de Lyon’s Entrepreneurship Center and supported by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, is looking for students to join its 2020/21 class. Applications are open until December 3.

The Manufactory La Doua incubator, a program run by the Lyon and Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center and supported by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, launched its 2020/21 START and UP programs back in October. Take a look at the selected projects to find out more.

The Arqus ISLYE (International Soft Landing for Young Entrepreneurs) program enables student entrepreneurs to work with Arqus European University member institutions’ incubators in order to develop their international development strategy.

Ten projects supported by the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center’s PEPITE BEELYS, led by the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon, were awarded prizes at the PEPITE Awards ceremony on Tuesday, October 6, 2020.

As part of the CREATIV' week, the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center’s PEPITE (Student Center for Innovation Transfer and Entrepreneurship) BEELYS, led by the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon, will host a series of online workshops from October 12 to 16, 2020.

The new 100% digital version of the BEELYS Campus Creation competition, a program run by BEELYS, a program of the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center and led by the Université de Lyon and the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon, was launched with an opening lecture on Thursday, October 8, 2020.

On October 2, 2020, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon will launch a new series of lectures as part of the Digital Transformation University Diploma. This first lecture will focus on urban planning algorithms.

The 11th edition of Lyon Start Up, a Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center program led by the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon, was launched on Thursday, September 17, 2020. It is an opportunity for the team, applicants and partners to get to know each other, as well as to meet this year’s sponsor, Émilie Legoff, founder of Troops.

The Université de Lyon met with Nawel Boughanem, an alumnus of the “Lockdown graduating class” of the Digital Transformation University Diploma program.

To further its aim of promoting research and the transfer of knowledge to civil society, PULSALYS, the Technology Transfer Acceleration Office in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, is launching the fourth edition of its program for local young doctors. This program will give them an opportunity to further develop the results from their thesis or during their post-doctorate careers for a year, while receiving funding and personalized support.

The 100 projects selected to join the 11th Lyon Start Up program, led by the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon, were unveiled on July 20, 2020.

Discover what ITECH LYON textile engineering student Lisa Filippi had to say about taking part in the 2018/19 Campus Creation program.

A second Manufactory incubator, a program run by the Université de Lyon’s Entrepreneurship Center and supported by the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon, is being set up on the LyonTech-la Doua site. Applications to join the class of 2020/21 are open until September 14.

The Innovation Academy is open to doctoral students at the Lyon and Saint-Étienne sites. The hands-on training program is designed around innovation management and understanding business strategies. Four teams worked to develop a business project, from the idea to the business plan. These projects were awarded based on both a presentation before the Innovation Academy jury and a public vote.

The Innovation Academy, which invites doctoral students to experience an entrepreneurial adventure together, will come to an end under rather exceptional circumstances this year. Come and take part in the final challenge from June 30 to July 5 and vote for the most convincing project!

The fifth graduating class of the Université de Lyon’s Digital Transformation University Diploma program proudly invites you to attend their Digit’Era Day, which will take place online on June 4, 2020.

The Digital Sciences and Uses University Diploma (Diplôme universitaire Sciences et Usages du Numérique – DU-SUN) is a training program that focuses on digitally managing and transforming organizations. The program is provided by the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and the Université de Lyon’s Disrupt’Campus. The first course will start in September 2020.

The Université de Lyon met with Nicolas Goiran, an alumnus of the 2019 September graduating class of the Digital Transformation University Diploma program.

The third HubLo Festival, jointly organized by the BEELYS PEPITE, Lyon Start Up and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, was set to take place on May 13 and 14 at H7. As a result of the current exceptional circumstances, it will now be held online, starting on April 30.

From April 24 to 26, the European Commission will launch a pan-European hackathon to invite all European citizens to work together to develop innovative solutions for coronavirus-related challenges

On March 13 2020, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon will kick offer a brand new lecture as part of the Digital Transformation University Diploma. This lecture will focus on artificial intelligence.

The Université de Lyon met with Isabelle Cohen, an alumnus of the March 2020 Digital Transformation University Diploma graduating class.

The fifth edition of the Digital Transformation University Diploma program will take place from March 2 to July 7, 2020. Applications are already open for students in initial or continuous training.

The 100 projects selected to join the Lyon Start Up 10 program were unveiled on February 12, 2020.

The DeepTech Tour is a Bpifrance event that brings together 20 university campuses, local economic players and innovation support structures. The Université de Lyon is set to host the event in Lyon on January 30, 2020.

On January 24 and 25, the entrepreneurs selected for the 2020 Accelerated Young Companies (JEA – Jeunes Entreprises Accélérées)* pre-acceleration program came together for a weekend to take part in the Winter Session.

In response to a human resources innovation challenge, the Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory and Alstom have teamed up to organize a PEP’S, a Multidisciplinary Team Project, with the aim of developing one of the winning concepts. They are now looking for two professors to mentor the students taking part in the project.

The Foundation for the Université de Lyon has revealed its new website, which is more in keeping with the Université de Lyon’s image.

On January 10 2020, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon will kick off the New Year by offering a brand new lecture as part of the Digital Transformation University Diploma. This lecture will focus on marketplace platforms.

The 13th BEELYS Accelerated Young Companies (JEA) pre-acceleration program was presented in a launch party at Boehringer Ingelheim on Tuesday January 7. This evening was an opportunity for the selected start-ups to pitch their projects and to meet with partners of the Université de Lyon’s Entrepreneurship Center.

On December 10, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon are co-organizing a lecture as part of the Digital Transformation university diploma, on the theme of digital steering in businesses.

The finals and awards ceremony of the ninth Lyon Start Up program were held on Tuesday, December 10. With four months of training full of discussions and sharing, participants came away from the BEELYS program with a wealth of experience.

IN-SITU, the Université de Lyon’s innovation week, was held from November 26 to December 4, 2019.

PULSALYS and the Université de Lyon wish to invite you to the “PULSALYS celebrates its highlights” event on December 4, which this year will exceptionally host the closing evening of IN-SITU, the Université de Lyon's innovation week.

Beelys, the Université de Lyon's student-entrepreneur center, has won the “Esprit d’Entreprendre” Call for Expression of Interest launched by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation for the international orientation of young entrepreneurs.

The Université de Lyon is launching the third Innovation Academy program, during which a group of doctoral students will experience an entrepreneurial adventure together while developing innovative projects.

The Université de Lyon and entrepreneurs from Beelys and Lyon StartUp look forward to welcoming you to the Entrepreneurship Center Programs’ launch party at the Université de Lyon on November 12, 2019.

The Foundation for the Université de Lyon is organizing the twelfth Economy Days on November 5, 6 and 7, in collaboration with the ENS de Lyon. This event is entirely free and accessible to all. Registration is mandatory.

The graduation ceremony for the second and third graduating class of the Université de Lyon’s innovative program, the Digital Transformation University Diploma (DU), was held on October 21. 27 students graduated in the 2018/19 academic year.

The Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory and Lyon Parc Auto are organizing an ideation challenge on October 17 and 18, with a new challenge for students: “Redesign your neighborhood parking lot”.

The Digital Transformation University Diploma began its fourth year at the Université de Lyon on September 16, 2019.

Are you a student in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes who wants to change the rules? Do you have what it takes to build a world based on your values? Take part in the regional challenge for the best student Idea, co-organized by the Beelys PEPITE.

To further its aim of promoting research and the transfer of knowledge to civil society, PULSALYS, the Technology Transfer Acceleration Office (SATT) in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, is launching the second edition of its program for local young doctors. This program will give them an opportunity to further develop the results from their thesis or during their post-doctorate careers for a year, while receiving funding and personalized support.

The Université de Lyon met with Agnès Portelange, an alumnus of the September 2018 graduating class of the Digital Transformation University Diploma program.

On September 27, the Université de Lyon and the City of Lyon are co-organizing a lecture on the “Protection of personal data and the GDPR” as part of the Disrupt’Campus training program at the Université de Lyon.

IDEXLYON and the PULSALYS SATT, with support from the ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency) are launching a new joint call for projects on September 17: Tech4Earth.

As part of the partnership between the Fondation pour l'Université de Lyon, the Université de Lyon and the City of Lyon, a fund has been set up to enable seven student-entrepreneur projects to fund their prototyping process.