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As part of the Tara Océan Foundation’s 20th anniversary celebrations, the Tara schooner will sail up the Rhône from the Mediterranean to Lyon, where it will take a break between two phases of the Tara Europa expedition. This exceptional stopover in Lyon will provide an opportunity for a scientific program, suitable for all audiences.

The next Congress of the French Federation of Research Ethics Committees (Fédération Nationale des CER) will take place on Friday December 8, 2023 at the Université Paris Cité. The Congress will focus on “Ethics in RECs, from Aristotle to Chat GPT”.

This day is aimed at PhD students and young researchers in the H₂O'Lyon community who want to boost their careers, continue in academia or move into other types of profession.

The Students Welcome Desk hotline is now closed. This three-month support program, set up by the Université de Lyon to help international students with their administrative procedures, came to an end on Thursday, November 30. Update on the steps to follow from now on.

The Collegium - Institute of Advanced Studies of the Université de Lyon is launching “Confluence of Research Worlds” (Confluences des mondes de la recherche), a series of podcasts to discover the ongoing research of the 2023/2024 fellows.

To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Université de Lyon invites you to take part in the events organized by its member and associate institutions, which are free of charge and open to all.

The European Research Council (ERC) has just communicated the list of beneficiaries of the 2023 Consolidator grants. The Lyon region has three projects, respectively on epilepsy, on an alternative to harmful polyfluorinated compounds (PFAS), and finally on the diversity of languages.

The Inserm Ethics Committee (CEI – Comité d’éthique de l’Inserm) is organizing its 10th annual meeting on November 22, 2023 in partnership with the Espace éthique Région Île-de-France.

As part of the LYSiERES² project – Science with and for society – led by the Université Lumière Lyon 2, Pop’Sciences has produced a series of articles on the potential of artificial intelligence in the health sector, particularly in the field of diagnostics.

As part of the European Week for Waste Reduction, the Université de Lyon invites you to take part in a Clean Walk organized by student organizations in Lyon on November 18, 2023.

The Ambition Europe Day is organized by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Entreprises, member of the Enterprise Network, in association with all those involved in the regional innovation ecosystem.

The Collegium de Lyon, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of the Université de Lyon, is organising the presentation of the 2023-2024 fellows on Tuesday, November 7 at 2 p.m., in the amphitheater of the Université de Lyon. The fellows will be presenting their research projects.

In November, Pop’Sciences will publish the latest issue of its magazine focusing on water management, from the preservation of this precious resource to its use for human activities. Find out more about this new issue during a panel discussion, in collaboration with the Municipal Library of Lyon!

On November 6, at the Sciences Po Lyon Public Factory, the Métropole de Lyon and the City of Lyon, together with the Université de Lyon, awarded the 2023 Young Researcher Prize. Find out who the four winners of this year’s €5,000 prize are.

All PhD students and recent graduates of the Université de Lyon are invited to take part in the 2024 edition of the My Thesis in 180 Seconds competition. Applications are open until February 11, 2024.

From November 4 to 10, the Métropole de Lyon and the cities of Lyon and Villeurbanne are organizing the Biennale de l’Hospitalité (Hospitality Biennial). A week of seminars, screenings, visits, discussions, etc. designed to inform, share, mobilize, and make Lyon a more welcoming and supportive place.

The Université de Lyon supports the initiatives of organizations working for the well-being of all students. Find out more about Nightline Lyon’s night-time listening service and how to get involved.

Once again this year, the Université de Lyon’s member and associate institutions have made their mark in the Shanghai 2023 (published on October 27, 2023) and Times Higher Education 2024 (published on October 26, 2023) rankings by subject.

The Université de Lyon is organizing a conference held by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science on Thursday, October 26. To mark the occasion, a delegation from the JSPS Strasbourg Office will present the various mobility programs funded by Japan.

The Rendez-vous Carnot is a unique event in France, allowing innovative companies (of all sizes and from all sectors of activity) to meet with research laboratories to establish the R&D partnerships necessary to finalize their innovation project.

On October 12 and 13, 2023, the MANUTECH-SISE (Surface and Interface Science and Engineering) Laboratory of Excellence will organize its biennial seminar, in Marcoux, in the Loire department.

The 35th edition of the Entretiens Jacques Cartier will be held in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region from October 9 to 11, 2023. The entire program will revolve around a single theme: the France-Quebec Year of Innovation.

Every year, throughout France, the Science Fair invites 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 theme of the 2023 Science Fair will be “Sports and Science”.

On August 29, the Loire CPAM organized a webinar entitled: “International students: all you need to know about health insurance in France”. The Université de Lyon is making the recording available to students who may have missed it.

The Université de Lyon and the University of São Paulo (USP) have renewed their partnership for another five years at a signing ceremony held on October 2, 2023.

Rulan Verma, PhD student at the IRCELyon laboratory shares with us her experience with Espace Ulys!

The House of Mathematics and Computer Science (MMI, Maison des Mathématiques et de l'Informatique), a LabEx MILYON project supported by the Université de Lyon, invites you to discover its new exhibition, “Dans ma cuisine” (“In my kitchen”), from September 30, 2023 to June 29, 2024.

New international fellows started their residency at the Collegium de Lyon for the academic year 2023-24.

The Université de Lyon will attend, from September 26 to 29, the 33rd edition of the largest institutional fair in Europe, organized by the EAIE (European Association of International Education).

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.

On Tuesday, September 12, the Université de Lyon will host a conference presenting the Franco-American Fulbright Commission.

On November 14, Patricia Rousselle, CNRS Research Director at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, will receive the CNRS Innovation Medal for her work on skin healing and regeneration.

With this annual report, the Université de Lyon invites you to discover the major projects and actions that its teams carried out in 2022, in terms of training and doctorate, research, innovation and entrepreneurship, international policies, campus and student life, science and society.

The Université de Lyon, at the initiative of the health referents of its member and associate institutions and with the support of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, is launching a new online health directory. The Student Health portal has also been translated into English, with the aim of improving knowledge of the French healthcare system and facilitating access to healthcare for all students on the site.

Every year at the start of the academic year in September, the Université de Lyon sets up its Students Welcome Desk to greet international students and help with their their back-to-school procedures. In Lyon, the 2023 edition will be held from September 4 to November 30.

Thanks to the support of the Métropole de Lyon, the Jean Bergeret regional institute is offering a free listening and psychological support service for international students living in Lyon.

Marcelo Giordan, teacher researcher at the ICAR laboratory talks about his experience with Espace Ulys!

The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS – Centre national de la recherche scientifique) is a multidisciplinary public research organization under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Its local branch gathers most of the laboratories and research units in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, affiliated with our institutions.

On August 16, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR - Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche) published its guide to the start of the 2023-2024 academic year. This comprehensive guide outlines measures taken to improve the daily life of students, with particular emphasis on the importance of providing support to students.

Zhaoke Luo, PhD student at the SBRI laboratory shares with us his experience with Espace Ulys!

While the recycling of wastewater is still not very present in Europe and in France, the Life RECYCLO project tackles the problem of the reuse of laundry water. An innovative project that has just taken a new important step: the prototype is under construction at the premises of the Treewater company in Alixan, near Valence (France).

On July 6, 2023, the Université de Lyon and its partners – the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes academic region, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region and the Métropole de Lyon, symbolically brought to a close Lyon Cité Campus, a major project to modernize the Université de Lyon’s real estate portfolio that began 14 years ago.

For its new feature on light, Pop’Sciences met with scientists and lighting professionals in the Lyon Saint-Étienne region.

The Manutech SLEIGHT Graduate School will hold its 10th SLEIGHT Science Event from July 3 to July 6 2023 in Saint-Étienne, bringing together researchers and students from the Saint-Étienne Lyon site. The topic for this event will be Sustainable Surface Engineering.

The Université de Lyon has signed an agreement with the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to provide funding of 30 doctoral scholarships per year. This agreement allows Chinese students to do their PhD in one of the member institutions of the Université de Lyon.

The QS World University Rankings, established by the British company QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), was published on June 27, 2023. Five member institutions from the Université de Lyon were mentioned in this twentieth edition.

The Université de Lyon has just launched its new platform for managing pedagogical registrations for PhD students for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Under the Agir ensemble (Act together) label, the Université de Lyon and the Crous de Lyon are offering 35 member and associate institutions a guide to five workshops to help them raise public awareness.

On June 9 and 10, 2023, the Ernest Wallon Stadium in Toulouse hosted the French men’s and women’s university rugby sevens championships. At the end of a great competition, the AS UdL athletes took the championship in the elite men’s category!

Established in 2022, the Université de Lyon’s Research Ethics Committee (CER-UdL) supports researchers who wish to ensure the ethics of their research protocols (except for research involving human subjects). It will welcome four new members at the start of the 2023 academic year.

On June 7, the Université de Lyon organized the first “Assises de la transition” (Transition conferences) for its 35 member and associate institutions, led by Frank Debouck, its President, and Cécile Delolme, its Vice-President for Major Transitions and Director of the ENTPE.

From June 5 to 9, 2023, the Innovation Factory from the Université de Lyon opens it doors for the second edition of “Meet & Fabrik”. On the agenda: meetings, round tables, creativity and prototyping workshops, an exhibition at the FabLab, demonstrations, open house, launch party...

As in 2022, the Times Higher Education Impact 2023 Ranking includes 22 French institutions. Among them were four member or associate institutions of the Université de Lyon.

The 75th Annual Conference and Expo of NAFSA Association of International Educators will be held this year from May 30 to June 2 in Washington D.C.

The Université de Lyon congratulates the 18 research professors from the Lyon Saint-Étienne site who have been appointed members of the University Institute of France (Institut Universitaire de France – IUF) from October 1, 2023, for a period of five years.

Enkhtuul Batbold, PhD student at the CRCL laboratory shares with us her experience with Espace Ulys!

Pop’Sciences has partnered with the CNRS to provide a multidisciplinary overview of the research involved in tackling the global health crisis of antibiotic resistance.

On May 16, 2023, the French President announced the creation of four new bioclusters and 12 new university hospital institutes (IHU – instituts hospitalo-universitaires) to strengthen health research in France and accelerate the transition from research to care. Among them, two Lyon-based programs of excellence have been selected: Everest (liver diseases) and BCF2I – French Biocluster for Innovation in Infectious Diseases.

Every two years, the Université de Lyon organizes a festival in the heart of a city. With over a hundred activities that are free and open to all, the Pop’Sciences Festival is the perfect opportunity for researchers, PhD students, local cultural partners, etc., to meet local residents and share their passion for science.

Salim Dahmani, PhD student at the Ampère laboratory talks about his experience with Espace Ulys!

On April 19, departments from the Université de Lyon relating to innovation and entrepreneurship (the Innovation Factory, SATT PULSALYS & the Entrepreneurship Center) took part in a workshop organized by the Université Lyon 2 as part of the TETRIS (TEchnology TransfeR Innovation Schemes in Latin America) project around innovation and technology transfer.

Forty-four higher education institutions are winners of the ASDESR call for projects, launched in November 2021 by the General Secretariat for Investment (SGPI) and the National Research Agency (ANR). Among the winners, two projects hail from the Lyon Saint-Étienne academic site.

On April 18, 2023, the East China Normal University (ECNU) and the Université de Lyon renewed their framework agreement, signed in 2012 and renewed for the first time in 2018, for another 5 years.

The Métropole de Lyon and the City of Lyon, in association with the Université de Lyon, are launching a call for applications for the 2023 Young Researcher Prize.

The Université de Lyon is launching a new session of its Ethics MOOC. Enrollment is open via the FUN-MOOC platform until June 16, 2023.

To mark the tenth edition of the Arts and Culture in Higher Education Days (Journées des arts et de la culture dans l’enseignement supérieur – JACES), the Lyon and Saint-Étienne higher education institutions are offering an artistic and cultural program filled with more than 20 events from April 3 to 5, 2023.

The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the list of recipients of the prestigious “Advanced” grants. Lyon has two laureates: TEMPO* and IGN.

Students and future students can now apply for accommodation and/or a scholarship with the Crous de Lyon before May 31, 2023, to prepare for the start of the school year in September.

The QS World University Ranking by Subject 2023, compiled by the British company QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), was published on March 22. This 13th edition includes nine member and associate institutions of the Université de Lyon.

The Université de Lyon welcomed two Brazilian delegations in March and April 2023. The goal was to introduce the academic site and the Lyon health ecosystem, in order to stimulate exchanges and build new collaborations with Brazil.

The 12 doctoral students who took part in the regional finals of the international My Thesis in 180 Seconds competition delighted the large audience at the Université de Lyon’s Grand Amphitheater on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. The candidates who qualified for the national semi-final are Lucie Boël, from the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and Valentin Gautier, from INSA Lyon.

Two years after the launch of the Life RECYCLO project, it is continuing its activities and its communication with the general public. Whether you are a laundry professional or user, curious about water conservation, or simply interested in science, subscribe to the newsletter to keep up to date with the project’s progress!

The Université de Lyon regional final of the international Francophone “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” competition will take place on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at 6 PM. You can watch the final in person or via live streaming on the UdL website and Facebook page.

The U7+ Alliance provides the University Presidents with a unique forum for discussion regarding higher education and research. It calls upon the world’s largest universities to demonstrate their decisive role and responsibility within the multilateral framework.

The graduate school H₂O'Lyon and their partners are offering a week of open university events to match World Water Day on March 22, the theme of which this year is "Accelerating Change". A rich programme to better understand the issues surrounding water. To be followed face-to-face or remotely: webinars, workshops, exhibitions, round discussions, etc.

The 25th Brain Awareness Week (Semaine du Cerveau) 2023 will be held in the city of Lyon under the theme: “My brain explores the world”.

2023 is off to a flying start for the Université de Lyon’s Sports Association. After winning several titles during the French Indoor Athletics, Judo and Archery Championships, the UdL Sports Association (AS UdL) 8+ rowing team will be awarded the 2022 “International Men’s Team of the Year” University Sports Trophy.

The CNRS laboratory "Sous-marin Provence Méditerranée", co-directed with Aix-Marseille University and IFREMER, is a pioneering new research platform.

In 2022, the European Research Council funded more than 300 researchers in Europe through its “ERC Consolidator Grants”. Forty-one of the recipients are from France, including three from the Lyon Saint-Étienne university site.

Brazil, and in particular the State of São Paulo, is one of the geographical areas with which the Université de Lyon has been developing close relations. After a brief interruption due to the Covid crisis, the Université de Lyon resumed its activities in 2022, particularly in the fields of training and research.

The international researchers in residency at the Collegium de Lyon for 2023 have arrived.

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes offers more than 300 permanent grants to individuals, companies, local authorities, organizations and public interest institutions. Among them are several grants and calls for projects aimed at higher education, research and innovation.

On December 12 and 13, 2022, the Métropole de Lyon adopted its new University Development Plan (SDU – Schéma de développement universitaire), after working in close partnership with the Université de Lyon.

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).