About the Université de Lyon

In the midst of the ongoing health crisis, the Université de Lyon and the Crous de Lyon have decided to join forces and launch an original and artistic awareness campaign about protective measures against the pandemic, to be launched in February 2021. The campaign is aimed at all students and staff members at the Lyon and Saint-Étienne sites.

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).

The Foundation for the Université de Lyon supports the INSA Lyon and CPE Lyon in developing plastronics training programs. Meet Armand Brousselle, graduate of the 2018/19 class of the “Plastronics Project Manager” program, who is now working as an Innovation Engineer at Faurecia Interiors.

The Université de Lyon has co-signed the press release issued by the universities and higher education institutions in Lyon and Saint-Étienne in response to a series of tragic events within the university community.

The Saint-Étienne National School of Engineering (ENISE – École nationale d'ingénieurs de Saint-Étienne) will be integrated into the École Centrale de Lyon as an in-house school as of January 1, 2021.

The Université de Lyon is in mourning following the death of Renaud Mahieux, who was a professor at the ENS de Lyon’s Biology Department and a member of the International Infectious Diseases Research Center (Centre international de recherche en infectiologie – CIRI).

The Université de Lyon met Alexane Rose, graduate of the 2018/19 class of the “Plastronics Project Manager” training program run by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, who is now working as a Data Scientist at NXP.

On Thursday, November 26, the Université de Lyon and Sherbrooke University renewed their strategic partnership agreement that began in 2014 as part of the development of the International Alliance*. The ceremony was held online due to the current epidemic.

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.

Ivan Bittar is a tutor and instructor for the French-speaking section in Shanghai. His one-year tutoring and teaching assignment at the French Medical School is part of the “Filière médicale francophone à Shanghai” project managed by the Université de Lyon and funded by the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

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 and everyday issues came to an end on Friday, November 27 at 6:30 PM.

The Presidents also reiterated their commitment to achieving record mobility figures within Arqus, mainly through developing innovative joint programs.

On November 17, Arqus joins the higher education community worldwide celebrating the International Students’ Day.

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.

In a letter dated October 21, 2020, the President and Chairman of IFPEN (French Institute of Petroleum & New Energies) Pierre-Franck Chevet supports the Target-University in Lyon Saint-Étienne.