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The Université de Lyon is organizing the "In All Directions" Medicine and Humanities summer school in collaboration with the University of Ottawa, the faculty of medicine at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

From May 27 to June 1, 2018, the Université de Lyon took part in the annual NAFSA conference, which brings together specialists in higher education and research from around the world.

For the third year running, the Université de Lyon, in partnership with the University of Turin, the Polytechnic University of Turin and the Conference of Western Switzerland's Universities (CUSO), is organizing a cross-border doctoral workshop on the theme: "The doctoral experience, a springboard for your professional future: tools and strategy".

This agreement enables 30 PhD grants a year to be awarded to Chinese students carrying out their PhD programs at the Université de Lyon.

On May 15 and 16, the Université de Lyon will host the colloquium dedicated to 'Welcoming International Students' organized by Campus France for the first time. Highlights of the event will include a presentation of the "French language and multilingualism" plan, as well as an update on rights of residence regulations and the Student Plan reform.

An important official delegation from Lyon visited China from May 2 to 9. The mission, led by the President of the Lyon Metropolis, David Kimelfeld, and the Mayor of Lyon, Georges Képénékian, to mark the 30th anniversary of the partnership between Lyon and Guangzhou (Canton), aimed to promote our city's sectors of excellence, its competitiveness clusters, companies and higher education institutions.

The Université de Lyon participates in the Tongji University alumni evening, on April 26. Registrations for this convivial meeting are open.

From April 25 to 28, 20 carefully selected students from Tongji University came to Lyon and were hosted by the Université de Lyon, as part of the Engineers of Excellence in France project, the 2018 theme of which was "City, Tradition, Modernity and Durability".

On March 5, 2018, the Université de Lyon with the CNRS received a delegation from Tohoku University (Japan) led by its President, Susumu Satomi, to develop the ELyTMaX International Mixed Unit (UMI) and the ELyT Global International Associated Laboratory (LIA).

The Université de Lyon (UdL) has signed an agreement with the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to award thirty doctoral grants each year to Chinese PhD students at the UdL.

The Students Welcome Desk will be organizing new sessions open to all students on Tuesdays and Thursdays from January 16 to February 15, 2018, to welcome those arriving for the first time at the start of this new term.

In response to the situation in Syria, stakeholders in higher education and research from the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, including the Université de Lyon, have rallied together to better welcome and support Syrian students. We have received feedback from three of these schemes which were explained by statements from the students themselves.

The Université de Lyon and the University of Tokyo, the prestigious Japanese institution, have renewed their cooperation agreement for the next five years, as part of the International Alliance program.

On Monday 4 December 2017, the Université de Lyon invited the Université de Lyon's international researchers to an end-of-year reception organized by Espace Ulys at the Alliance Française de Lyon.

Thanks to this charter, the Université de Lyon aims at reinforcing learning and mobility opportunities for students, academic staff, researchers and professors as well as fostering cooperation with academic and research centers in Europe and throughout the world.