About the Université de Lyon

L’Étudiant magazine’s 2021/22 rankings have once again placed Lyon as the second best city for student quality of life.

The UdL met with Florence Labarre, a PhD student working on a CIFRE thesis at the Laboratoire aménagement économie transports (LAET-UMR CNRS 5593) at the ENTPE. She took part in the second Innovation Academy program, a hands-on training program organized by the Université de Lyon’s doctoral studies department based on innovation and creating value.

The Université de Lyon met with Safe B, the team that won the Arqus 2021 Virtual Company Creation Challenge with their connected mouthguard that helps detect concussions in rugby.

The Université de Lyon met with Solenne Becart, creator of Goodloop, an ecological and responsible project supported by the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center.

The UdL met with Jérémy Argusa, a young doctor who completed his CIFRE thesis in the L-VIS laboratory working with the rugby coaches’ union in December 2020. Jérémy was a project leader during the first edition of the Innovation Academy, a hands-on training program organized by the UdL’s doctoral studies department based on creating value and innovation.

The UdL met with Kévin Meurdefroid, president of ATTOM, a company supported by the UdL, which recruits doctors and sets up laboratories on the LyonTech-la Doua campus.

This charter is the first, mandatory step towards being eligible to take part in the different Erasmus program activities.

The Université de Lyon invites you to discover the Pop’Sciences interview with Isabelle Vauglin, regional head of the association Femmes et Sciences (Women and Science organization), astronomer and researcher at the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ENS 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.