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As part of IDEXLYON, the Université de Lyon is launching the fifth IMPULSION call for projects.

The Université de Lyon met with Irene Cristofori, a Neuroscience faculty researcher at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, winner of the 2019 IMPULSION grant.

From July 9 to 10, the Université de Lyon participates in the U7 International Alliance Summit. Under the high patronage of the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, this two-day session will allow 49 university presidents, from 21 countries, to debate the universities' contribution to thinking global issues, and set a list of commitments before the next G7 (Biarritz, August 2019).

The MANUTECH-SLEIGHT Graduate School of Research (EUR) is organizing the second Interdisciplinary Science Week from July 8 to 12, 2019 and is releasing its new website.

The first Digit'Era Day, a meeting organized by the Digital Transformation University Diploma’s Alumni Association, will take place on July 4, 2019 at the Université de Lyon.

On July 2, 2019, the Université de Lyon organized the first Doc'Talks, an after-work gathering which brings PhD students and doctors together in a friendly environment to interact and share their experiences.

The Université de Lyon met with members of the GAELIS organization, winners of the Université de Lyon’s Student Initiative Fund’s call for projects, with their PSTTE project.

As part of the “Searching for New Worlds” lectures to be held on July 1 and 2 at La Scala Paris, Hélène Courtois, an astrophysicist at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, invites us to take a trip to the extremes of scientific knowledge with her “Latest discoveries of the Cosmos Explorers” lecture.

The Université de Lyon and its member and associated institutions have put forward several seven-month civic service missions to revitalize student life at the start of the 2019 academic year. Applications are now open.

From July 1 to July 12, the Université de Lyon is taking part in the medicine and humanities summer school. It is being held in Shanghai 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, and is focusing on “Integrated medicine: the art of combining Western and traditional Chinese medicine” this year.

The Université de Lyon will unveil the LudiMoodle project’s initial results at the “Gamification as a driver of student motivation” lecture, to be held on June 28, 2019 at the MILC amphitheater.

On Wednesday, June 26, 2019, the ARQUS European University Alliance project was selected as part of the European Commission’s call for “European Universities” pilot projects launched in October 2018. This alliance is made up of nine associates, including three member institutions of the Université de Lyon, and will help establish better European cooperation over the next three years.

Urban goods transportation is undergoing many changes: the development of cyber commerce, the impact of artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles, the optimization of urban logistics spaces, etc. This is why the Université de Lyon is offering an innovative training program for senior executives and decision-makers for public local authorities: the Urban Logistics Summer School.

The Université de Lyon and the Université Clermont Auvergne and Associates are working together for the third Doctoriales event: A fresh look at innovation issues. This hands-on training program will be held on the university site, on June 24, 25 and 26, 2019, in the Valpré space (Écully).

The Université de Lyon and the Université Clermont Auvergne are organizing their Doctoriales event, with the theme, “a fresh look at innovation issues”. They will be held on June 24 and 25, 2019, in Écully.

As part of the Lyon Cité Campus Operation, the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, the City of Lyon, the Université de Lyon, the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and INSA Lyon unveiled eight renovated buildings, as well as the LyonTech-la Doua campus’ bike path through the Evariste Galois public garden in Villeurbanne on Monday, June 24.

The École urbaine de Lyon met with Alexandra Pech, an Anthropology PhD student at the ENS de Lyon, whose thesis subject is based on food and the Anthropogenic Era.

The “Publish or innovate: a dilemma, or not an issue?” seminar organized by the Institute of Analytical Sciences, in partnership with PULSALYS, will take place on June 18, 2019.

Launched in 2013, the “48 Hours to Bring Ideas to Life®” is a national innovation challenge for students from all academic fields to work on projects put forward by companies. The challenge will take place in Lyon and Saint-Étienne on November 29 and 30, 2019 during the Université de Lyon’s Innovation Week, IN-SITU. Teachers now have the opportunity to learn more about how this national event is run, as well as its benefits for participants, by attending information meetings on June 18 and July 4 in Lyon and Saint-Étienne.

One of the Université de Lyon’s eight academic colleges, the Academic College of Social Sciences, is organizing a day of round-table discussions based on “the new professional research competencies” on June 17 at the IUT Lyon 3.

On June 17, 18 and 19, the Université de Lyon had the pleasure of hosting the Institut universitaire de France’s interdisciplinary symposium, which focused on memory this year.

The World Blood Donor Day, held on June 14, is an opportunity to thank blood donors and to highlight the importance of daily mobilization. The Université de Lyon supports this great solidarity event which raises public awareness of the importance of blood donation and promotes the French ethical model.

In November 2018, the Association Nationale des Docteurs (ANDès), Adoc Mètis, the Réseau National de Collèges Doctoraux (RNCD) and the Université de Lyon met with the doctoral community in Lyon for the second edition of the doctoral teaching workshop. A white paper containing the proposals submitted as part of this workshop has just been published.

The La Botte d’Or group, winner of the 2019 call for Campus Arts projects funded by IDEXLYON and accompanied by the Nid de Poule theater, as part of the Spotlight Prize, has completed its project. “Un Cœur à aimer toute la terre ou Le Procès de Don Juan” will be presented from June 13 to 15, 2019 at the ENS de Lyon’s Kantor theater.

Each year, the Friends of the Université de Lyon Association (AAUL - Association des Amis de l’Université de Lyon) awards prizes to students, post-docs, research professors and researchers from the higher education institutions of the Université de Lyon. On June 13 2019, twenty students were awarded traditional Education Prizes.

The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes BIOTechno Forum is a scientific event for students and young researchers in the field of biotechnology. The Université de Lyon has partnered with the 22nd forum being held in Grenoble on June 11.

Whether it is in athletics, football or swimming, there have been a number of wins for our AS UdL teams this month. Here are some photos of their wonderful achievements during the French University Championships.

The students of the Analytical Techniques diploma in the Chemistry Department of the IUT Lyon 1 invite the university community to participate in the Chemistry Escape Rooms on June 7 and 8, 2019, at the LyonTech-la Doua campus. As a winner of the 2018 call for expressions of interest in educational Innovation launched by IDEXLYON, this project was set up in collaboration with the Takagi company and the ‘marche au vol’ group, with co-financing from SOLVAY.

The international “Participatory sciences: new epistemological, ethical and political challenges” symposium will take place on the June 6 and 7 2019. This event, organized by Stéphanie Ruphy and Baptiste Bedessem from the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, is the result of the PartiSCiP project funded by IDEXLYON.

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

As part of the 2019 Fête des Lumières (Festival of Lights), from December 5 to 8, the Université de Lyon is launching a call for artistic creations to all its students. This call will enable the UdL to be part of Lyon’s major events, and encourage its students' creative capabilities.

Each year, the Métropole de Lyon, in partnership with the Université de Lyon, awards young researchers prizes to promote scientific excellence in Lyon.

As a celebration of the 2019 Biennale de Lyon, the Université de Lyon is organizing a seminar about art and creation in higher education and research, on October 8. In light of this, the university is now launching a call for papers.

The Collegium de Lyon, the Lyon Institute for Advanced Studies, has launched a new call for applications for stays of five or ten months for the 2020-2021 academic year. Applications are open until September 30, 2019.

The festival, held on May 23 at La Sucrière, drew 1,200 young local entrepreneurs. A look back at the success of the second festival held by Beelys, the Université de Lyon’s student entrepreneurship center.

We interviewed Xin Yee Ng, a student in the IDEXLYON Acoustics Master's program.

The Université de Lyon’s knowledge sharing web portal, Pop'Sciences, gave us some wonderful experiences in May with its second festival and the release of its web magazine, "The best is yet to come?".

If France is chosen to host the WorldSkills Competition in 2023, it will be held in the city of Lyon. Every other year, this international competition celebrates the top young professionals in over 50 professions. The Université de Lyon is partnering with the city to support its candidacy.

We may not know what the future holds, but the people who will build it will be at the HUBLO Festival in Lyon, at la Sucrière on May 23, 2019. You have a taste for adventure and personal growth by exploring new spaces. You break rules and conventions. If entrepreneurship is your life, HUBLO is the festival for you.

Meet the members of the PLicSou organization, whose “1 vs. the Auditorium” project won the Campus Arts call for projects.

The Université de Lyon is launching calls for international projects in order to strengthen its research and training partnerships.

The second edition of the Innovation Academy closed on May 23, 2019 at the Sucrière during the HUBLO Festival.

Every week, beginning in April 2019, the École urbaine de Lyon’s Anthropocene Wednesdays will provide an opportunity to think about the deep changes our world is going through. Researchers and experts from all fields will discuss, define issues and uncover solutions surrounding specific topics.

The Université de Lyon launches a call for applications for the outgoing mobility of Master's students to Canada (University of Ottawa and Université de Sherbrooke).

Meet Cyprien Lefebvre, Co-founder of WeeeFund, a project incubated by Beelys.

Well-being is a essential for student to flourish and be successful. Are you planning to set up actions in your institution? Are you looking for speakers? Take part in NEM2019!

If you would like to receive scientific support for your initiatives and apply for the Science Shop call for projects, but are having trouble identifying a research topic, the Science Shop can help you build your project. Attend the workshop on Monday, May 20, at the Centsept.

The Université de Lyon’s Student Initiative Fund (FIE) Commission has voted to grant subsidies to 10 projects, two of which address the “Welcoming students” theme put forward for this session.

Offering workshops, games, radio shows, exhibitions, guided tours, the Pop’Sciences Festival is a free event where the general public can meet researchers, play, experiment and participate in debates about scientific progress in a number of areas, including astronomy, artificial intelligence, nutrition, and fake news. The festival will include about fifty events and nearly a 150 speakers...

The Université de Lyon met with Bruno Fedrici, an alumnus of the 2018 Digital Transformation University Diploma program.

The Université de Lyon launches a call for projects which is split in two parts: the funding of short duration outgoing scientific mobility to Japan and the support of structuring projects organized on the Lyon Saint-Étienne site with Japanese institutions.

IN-SITU, the Université de Lyon’s innovation week, will be held from November 26 to December 4, 2019. It aims to promote projects, initiatives and actions so local socio-economic players can innovate with the Université de Lyon and its member institutions.

On May 16, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon are co-organizing a lecture as part of the Digital Transformation University Diploma: “Legal Techs, how technology is bringing about the digital transformation of law.”

The Université de Lyon met with Alexandre Valt, the research manager at NGE group, who has taken full advantage of the services which the university provides to the socio-economic world.

We met with Gaëlle Simon, an anthropology student at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, and Chancella Djimasde, high-school senior at the lycée Frédéric Faÿs in Villeurbanne, who took part in the gatherings for high-schoolers to meet doctoral students.

The Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon's entrepreneurship department (including Beelys, Lyon Start Up and the HUBLO Festival) is pleased to welcome its new financial partner, the XEFI group, a leading provider of local IT services for very small businesses and SMEs, IT, Office Automation, software and cloud-based software.

The Université de Lyon met with Emmanuel Fourault, who founded the Cuir Marin de France company, and whose project was incubated as part of the Student Entrepreneur Diploma (D2E) in the Beelys PEPITE, the Université de Lyon’s center supporting young entrepreneurs.

The Université de Lyon congratulates the forthcoming appointment of seven research professors from the Lyon Saint-Étienne site as members of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) on the October 1, 2019, for a five-year period.

Through its IDEXLYON project, the Université de Lyon is launching a new “Educational Innovation” call for projects centered on innovative educational initiatives. The deadline for applications is set on June 30, 2019.

Meet the members of the N.U.A.G.E. organization, whose “New Urban Generation Festival #2” project won the Campus Arts call for projects.

The UdL’s sports teams did very well in the French University Climbing Championships in Toulouse.

We met with Didier Chavanon, alumnus of the Digital Transformation University Diploma program.

The Université de Lyon and The University of Sao Paulo launch a joint call for research projects to research professors and researchers in order to support the most innovative and ambitious research activities.

The Université de Lyon met with Anne Delos, who founded the Ma friche urbaine company, and whose project was incubated as part of the Student Entrepreneur Diploma (D2E) in the Beelys PEPITE, the Université de Lyon’s center supporting young entrepreneurs.

The École urbaine de Lyon is launching its first call for participation to players from the Lyon Saint-Étienne site, in order to devise the program for the second “Anthropocene School” Festival, which will be held at the Halles du Faubourg from January 27 to February 2, 2020.

Meet Rosalie Blanc and Romane Corlay, members of the RBRC organization, whose “RR11POSTCARDS” project won the Campus Arts call for projects.

The École urbaine de Lyon launches a call for applications for doctoral contracts for the 2019-2020 academic year. Applications are open until May 31, 2019.

Following the success of the first Inter-University seminar, which covered the layout and design of spaces at the university, the four universities at the Lyon Saint-Étienne site are holding a second event on April 30, May 14, and May 23, this time highlighting new educational approaches.

We interviewed Luisa Mesquita, who graduated from the distance learning dual-diploma program in São Paulo.

After the official awards ceremony for being the number-one French University Sports Association, which was held on April 6, in Paris, the Université de Lyon celebrated its sports teams’ success on Tuesday, April 30. During this evening, in attendance of the members of the club and many high-level athletes, Khaled Bouabdallah, the President of the Université de Lyon, and Dany Davesne, the President of the AS, gave a retrospective of the club’s achievements.

Over 46,000 participants attended the 2018 Science Fair. Nearly forty research institutions and laboratories, universities and grandes écoles presented their projects, opening up science and experimentation to a wider audience. In 2019, why not you?

The Université de Lyon met with members of the science Student Office (BDE) at the Université Jean Monnet, who won the Campus Arts call for projects with the “Concours Cult’” project.

After its first successful run in 2018, with over 3,000 registered students, the Université de Lyon’s Research Ethics platform is launching its MOOC’s second session. Registration is open on the FUN platform until May 28, 2019.

The Université de Lyon met with Guillaume Millet, professor at the Université Jean Monnet. Discover his international career and learn about the Fellowships call for projects he was awarded.

Meet Esthelle Frois and Antoine Bouré, members of the Ansthelle Cooperative, who are graduates of the École supérieure d'art et design Saint-Étienne and winners of the Campus Arts call for projects for their “Failure by Design” project.

In March 2018, the IDEXLYON launched two support campaigns (one for colloquiums, and the other for thematic schools) in order to promote the spread of scientific knowledge and to grow the international reputation of the Lyon Saint-Étienne site. One year later, it is time to take stock of the progress that has been made.

The Université de Lyon interviewed Leïla Guermit, a member of the Université de Lyon’s Sports Association, who discusses her experience as a world champion of university rugby sevens.

Beelys, the student entrepreneurship department of the Université de Lyon, organized the semi-finals of the Accelerated Young Companies program (Jeunes entreprises accélérées – JEA) on April 16, 2019. Save the date for the final on May 23 at the HUBLO Festival!

On April 11, 2019, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon are co-organizing a lecture as part of the Digital Transformation University Diploma: “The brain or machines: who is in charge? Challenges for companies.”

The Université de Lyon officially launched its CURSUS + project in the presence of the National Research Agency on April 11.

Do you belong to a student association and would you like to lead a project that would benefit other students at the Lyon Saint-Étienne site? The Université de Lyon can help you finance your project via the Student Initiative Fund (FIE – Fonds d’initiative étudiante) that organizes several sessions per year.

Beelys, the student entrepreneurship department of the Université de Lyon, organized the semi-finals of the Campus Creation Contest on April 10 and 11, 2019. A look back at this event, which will lead to the final contest between the remaining teams on May 23 at the Hublo Festival.

The Collegium de Lyon, Lyon’s Institute of Advanced Studies, is celebrating its tenth anniversary by holding a colloquium on April 10 and 11, which will cover the topic of new perspectives on rationality in a transnational world.

After its successful launch in 2018 involving over 3,000 participants, mostly PhD students, the University of Lyon is launching its second Massive Open Online Course, to be held on 23 April 2019. Registration are now open.

As part of its annual scientific forum, the CLARA cancer research cluster will be organizing an evening open to the general public, on the subject of clinical cancer research.

As part of the Campus Arts Festival – national Arts and Culture in Higher Education Days, the Université de Lyon invited all students to attend its closing concert at the Transbordeur on April 4, featuring the French-Welsh indie folk band, Shake Shake Go.

The fourth gathering for universities, the Army and companies (Rencontres université défense entreprises - RUDE) was held on Thursday, April 4, 2019, at the Rockefeller campus of the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. The event introduced students and university staff to the Army and its ties with the university.

The Campus Arts Festival, being held as part of the Arts and Culture in Higher Education Days (JACES – Journées des arts et de la culture dans l’enseignement supérieur), aims to showcase cultural and artistic achievements in higher education. For the second consecutive year, the Université de Lyon and institutions of higher education in Lyon and Saint-Étienne chose to combine their artistic and cultural programs, providing over forty events open to the public between April 2 and 4, 2019.

On September 16, the Université de Lyon, the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lumière Lyon 2, Jean Moulin Lyon 3, and the Fred Bendongué Company brought together 270 students and staff from the universities and inhabitants of the third and seventh districts of Lyon in a parade for the 2018 Dance Biennial.

Pop’Sciences partnered with the Cancéropôle Lyon-Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (CLARA) to publish the latest issue of its on-line magazine, Pop’Sciences Mag, covering “Oncology: new areas of research”.

The Université de Lyon and Pôle Emploi, through the support of the Objectif Pour L'Emploi association, have been able to provide a new scheme, "Du doctorat a l'emploi" ("From your PhD to employment", DDAE), which offers customized support for graduates entering employment. Read on for a summary of the 2017 sessions and a presentation of this year’s program, which will run in April 2019.

On Monday, April 1, 2019, the Université de Lyon, the Académie de Lyon, the Université Lumière Lyon 2, the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and the Crous de Lyon unveiled Franck Scurti’s artistic work, “Fire at full moon revisited 2018”.

On Saturday, March 30, the Métropole de Lyon’s Student House is holding a day of workshops and training offered by and for student organizations in Lyon.

Every Friday morning, the Innovation Factory team holds hands-on workshops to discover creativity and ideation methods in Saint-Étienne, as part of the International Design Biennial.

The Université de Lyon regional final of the international Francophone "“My Thesis in 180 Seconds” competition will be held on Thursday, March 28, 2019 in the UdL’s Grand Amphithéâtre. Come and support our PhD students!

This workshop is designed for research professors, Innovation-Creativity-Entrepreneurship advisors and the staff of the Université de Lyon and its member institutions. Participants will learn how to incorporate fablabs into their teaching.

The Université de Lyon regional final of the "My Thesis in 180 Seconds" (MT180) competition was held on Thursday, March 28, in the Université de Lyon's Grand Amphithéâtre. Fourteen candidates from the site's institutions presented their thesis subjects, with a mix of humor and apprehension, to a full house before three jury prizes and one audience prize were awarded.

The “Women’s freedom and rights in Islam” colloquium is being held by the Triangle laboratory and the ENS de Lyon, the COMOD LabEx and the Fondation Orient Mont-Pèlerin de Genève, on March 28 and 29, 2019, from 9 AM to 6 PM, at the ENS de Lyon (Descartes site, room D2 128).

On Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 6 PM, the Université de Lyon’s main amphitheater will welcome teachers, students, library staff, educational engineers and other higher education players for a presentation of the findings from the inter-university seminars about the layout and design of formal and informal spaces at the university.

For the eleventh International Design Biennial, the Innovation Pre-Factory is holding a number of free events for professors and staff of the Université de Lyon, which are also open to companies, local and regional institutions and the general public.

Nearly 50 years after it was first built, the Porte des Alpes campus is starting a major urban metamorphosis process. The transformation guide plan for the campus was approved in March 2017, setting the framework for changes at the site. The Université de Lyon and the Université Lumière Lyon 2 have built an exhibition to reveal these changes to the public.

On March 26, the Université de Lyon gathered its member and associated institutions at the École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon) to discuss its international policy in Shanghai and China, and prospects for future development.

On Thursday, March 21, the Université de Lyon will host a workshop exploring the socio-economic factors that play a role in how people learn to read, held by the Collège académique EduCoLa (Education, cognition, language). This multidisciplinary seminar will include talks by social science and cognitive (neuro)science researchers.

The Université de Lyon was honored to host Campus France for a presentation of the “Welcome to France” label on March 15, which was followed by a practical workshop a few days later.

As part of the JEA acceleration preparation program offered by Beelys, the Université de Lyon’s student entrepreneur department, each project leader is given the opportunity to connect with a mentor who will support him or her in building and growing a start-up company.

The ninth Industry Week will be held from March 18 to 24, with events taking place throughout France. Since 2011, this yearly event highlights the industry sector and its players by offering educational events open to the general public.

As part of the IDEXLYON project, the Université de Lyon and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon held a day for the socio-economic world on Friday, March 15, 2019. It aimed to offer new tools to foster relationships between the socio-economic world and the Université de Lyon, thereby contributing to the success of the University, its students and socio-economic partners.

On Wednesday, March 13, the Université de Lyon’s Science Shop brought together nearly 70 partner universities, institutions and organizations in the Hôtel de la Métropole de Lyon. Through the presentation of the ten projects being supported this year, it explained the program and its impact on innovation, both in the Université de Lyon and in society as a whole.

Beelys, the student entrepreneurship department of the Université de Lyon, organized a Student Entrepreneurship Diploma regional boot camp from February 13 to 15, 2019. A look back at this event, which offered forty entrepreneurs workshops and opportunities to put their newly-acquired theoretical knowledge to the test in the streets of Lyon.

Understanding your neighborhood urban planning documents, providing better support for people with “dys-” conditions, raising awareness of waste sorting, identifying the drivers of volunteer commitment, etc. Once again, this year the Science Shop is providing support for a variety of public health, civic involvement, third space development issues, and more. Come discover them at the launch evening on March 13, 2019, at the Hôtel de la Métropole.

Alstom and the Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory have just closed their third multidisciplinary student challenge, this time exploring the theme of talent management (attracting and integrating new employees, and supporting their growth). The awards were given by Gwenaelle Prigent, Director of Human Resources for Alstom’s signaling department.

On Thursday, March 7, and Friday, March 8, Beelys will be hosting 48 students from the ECMT+ program at the Roanne campus of the Université Jean Monnet, to test their entrepreneurial projects on the population of Lyon.

Beelys met with Louis Bonduelle, CEO of Chez Nestor, who is an expert from the Accelerated Young Companies (JEA) program, which is run by the student entrepreneurship department of the Université de Lyon.

This event was held in Houston for the launch of a bilateral fund supporting collaborative research between France and the University of Texas. The day focused on two main themes: Computer-Assisted Surgery (artificial intelligence) and simulation and visualization tools.

On March 6, 2019, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon are co-organizing a lecture about digital transformation in companies as part of the Global Industrie exhibition.

For Brain Awareness Week from March 5 to 20, the general public will have the chance to discover advances in brain research. The event being held in Lyon for the 21st time will focus on research in the field of neuroscience, in particular in the areas of perception, action, memory and development.

Beelys met with Ylhame Kassi, founder of Ylperform, who is the sales expert for the Accelerated Young Companies (JEA) program, which is run by the student entrepreneurship department of the Université de Lyon.

Based on a selection of photographs of Earth at night, taken from space, three students from the Cities and Urban Environments Master’s program are taking visitors on a tour of the scientific disciplines that take a closer look at the nightlife and nighttime atmospheres.

The Université de Lyon’s Student Initiative Fund (FIE) Commission has voted to award grants to 20 projects led by student organizations.

Beelys is supporting the second Winter Innovation Lab, which will be held from February 25 to March 1, 2019, at the Innovation Pre-Factory in Saint-Étienne.

The UdL’s sports teams did very well in the 2019 French University Indoor Track and Field and Archery Championships.

In order to establish their international policy and European ambitions, the Université Jean Monnet, the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, under the banner of the Université de Lyon (UdL), have joined the “ARQUS” European Alliance.

The Innovation Pre-Factory in Saint-Étienne is celebrating its third year with an open house.

The third innovative Digital Transformation University Diploma (DU) program will kick off on March 4 at the Université de Lyon Applications are open until February 28.

As part of IDEXLYON, 8 projects were selected from the Campus Arts call for projects 2019.

On February 11, 2019, Frédérique Vidal, minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation, and Guillaume Boudy, general secretary for Investment, announced the list of 103 Laboratories of Excellence (LabEx) which have been extended for an additional five-year period. Eleven of these Laboratories of Excellence are affiliated with the Université de Lyon, which maintains Lyon’s status as the number one academic site in terms of number of LabEx.

The first Science Fair in 1991 was initiated by Hubert Curien and organized by the French Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation. It hosts thousands of original and inclusive events in France and abroad for people of all ages and backgrounds.

On Wednesday, February 6, Beelys is organizing a speed dating workshop to find internships at the Université de Lyon. This is an opportunity for students to find a company or a startup in the launch phase, and gain a unique job experience.

The selection committee composed of regional experts gathered on February 1, 2019 to select the 100 projects that will take part in the eighth Lyon StartUp support program. The results are now being announced.

The “Yerevan: 2,800 years of History” exhibition marks the 2,800th anniversary of the founding of Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia. The city was originally named Erebuni when it was founded in 786 BC. This photo exhibit at the Université de Lyon is open to the public.

Over 45% of students say they have sleep problems, which are often blamed on stress related to their studies. Because students need a high quality of life to flourish, the Université de Lyon and its member institutions have partnered with the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region to hold a two-week program promoting better sleep, from February 4 to 15.

Do you belong to an organization, a neighborhood council or another group of citizens? Are you facing questions or issues that require specialized knowledge or insight from an urban planner, a sociologist or a lawyer? Submit your question to the Science Shop and the Université de Lyon will help you to find answers.

The Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory is partnering with Alstom to hold an innovation challenge for the third year in a row. This year’s challenge will tackle “Talent management at Alstom: attracting and integrating new employees, and supporting their growth”

The general meeting of the Council for Doctoral Education of the European University Association (EUA-CDE) was held on June 7 and 8, 2018 at the University of Ljubljana, on the Council’s tenth anniversary. The theme was “Excellence through Diversity – Doctoral education in a globalized world”.

On January 29, 2019, the Université de Lyon and the CNRS opened a new joint branch within the University of Ottawa. This one-of-a-kind Franco-Canadian initiative will strengthen existing collaborative research projects and create possibilities for new projects shared by the two countries.

On January 29, 2019, Université de Lyon representatives traveled to Ottawa. Prompted by the launch of a CNRS-UdL branch in Ottawa, they then built the international JIN laboratory and the Alex Trebek Forum for Health and Artificial Intelligence.

The agreement to build the “Joint Institute for Neuromuscular Research” (JIN) International Associated Laboratory (LIA) was signed on January 29, 2019, by the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, the University of Ottawa and the CNRS.

In anticipation of its “Life-saving actions week” scheduled in May, the French blood agency (Établissement français du sang) is running a large-scale campaign on campuses and in schools in Lyon. The Université de Lyon is supporting this campaign by hosting blood drives in its facilities.

The École urbaine de Lyon, one of the two Convergence Institutes of the Université de Lyon, is holding a major multidisciplinary event. This week-long festival will provide many opportunities to learn, debate and build upon ideas alongside scientists, thinkers, artists, politicians, organizations, etc.

The eco-friendly action awareness campaign launched by the Université de Lyon in 2018 is continuing this year. This campaign is the result of collaborative work between representatives of the energy and ecological transition, the institutions’ communications departments and the Université de Lyon’s project team.

On December 4, the Université de Lyon brought together its key partners from the International Alliance for a colloquium, which marked the occasion of it reestablishing its representative office in China.

To kick off 2019, the Université de Lyon’s Culture, Science and Society Department presents images and figures looking back at the 2018 Science Fair, which was held on the Métropole de Lyon and the Rhône department.

On January 19 and 20, 2019, the 40 participants in the Accelerated Young Companies (JEA) program spent an immersive weekend together to learn from one another and grow their businesses.

The selection committee met on Thursday, January 17, 2019 and announced the eight winning projects from the Tech 4 Inclusion call for proposals.

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019, the second information evening about studies after the baccalauréat is being held by the Académie de Lyon and the Université de Lyon, for students with disabilities in 11th and 12th grade (or in Première and Terminale respectively), or who are receiving individualized support.

Over 200 participants attended this second evening informing high-school juniors and seniors with disabilities about higher education. It was held by the Board of Education of the Académie de Lyon and the Université de Lyon.

Beelys launched its 2019 Accelerated Young Companies (JEA) contest on January 10 at the Incity Tower. What is the program about? Supporting startups in their acceleration phase.

The Lyon Saint-Étienne MSH selected seven research programs that were submitted for this 2018 call for proposals by human and social sciences laboratories in Lyon and Saint-Étienne.

As part of the “Open Libraries +” project led by the Université de Lyon, the Marie Curie library at INSA Lyon will exceptionally remain open during the Christmas holiday season.

The IDEXLYON consortium agreement was signed on December 19, 2018 by all project members.

The Université de Lyon’s Student Initiative Fund (FIE) commission has voted to grant subsidies to 15 projects, two of which address the “sustainable development” theme put forward for this session.

Pierre Marc Johnson, the 24th Prime Minister of Quebec, and who is now advocatus emeritus of the Quebec Bar, received an Honorary Doctorate from the Université de Lyon and its President Khaled Bouabdallah on November 12, 2018, during the Jacques Cartier Meetings.

Following the success of the last workshops, PULSALYS, the innovation accelerator led by the Université de Lyon, is organizing a new development workshop on the theme of patents on December 13.

The CirB-RNA project, coordinated by the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 as part of the Investments for the Future Program, tries to create a diagnosis test to accompany the development of curative treatments of Hepatitis B, non-existent today whilst the disease affects more than 240 million people worldwide. In order to foster exchanges on the subject, the research team offers a workshop on December 11, with various speakers.

As part of the Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (RICE) workshop network, creative lunch workshops are being held throughout the year. These workshops are primarily aimed at RICE members, but they are also open to staff and professors from the Université de Lyon and its member institutions, subject to limited available seating.

This December 10 initiative was jointly led by Beelys, the La Poste group, the CEA and Lyon French Tech. During the evening, the Beelys student-entrepreneurs leading artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) projects were given the opportunity to test their business model on AI & IoT experts from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region: LETI CEA Tech, Minalogic and Probayes.

The award ceremony for the seventh Lyon StartUp was held on Wednesday, December 10, at the Embarcadère, in the second district of Lyon. It was attended by Rémi Rochon, the head of the graduating class and founder and director of Okeenea.

The Pop’Sciences festival is coming back in 2019. It gives researchers, PhD students, engineers, laboratory technicians, facilitators, mediators, and Pop’Sciences contributors an opportunity to present their research, test a scientific mediation, see how their fellow citizens understand their work and communicate their passion for science to a wider, more diverse audience directly in a local neighborhood.

A lecture and debate about animal consciousness is being held at the veterinary campus in Lyon on December 6, 2018. It is funded by IDEXLYON and is part of the Global Health 2018 series of lectures organized by VetAgro Sup.

The E-Learning mornings are a series of conferences exploring innovative practices in digital education. This event for teachers and professionals will be held at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 on December 5, and will feature the skill-based approach to learning, which is now one of the major issues being explored in higher education.

The Université de Lyon and PULSALYS, its Technology Transfer Acceleration Company (SATT), are pleased to invite you to its end-of-year celebration, “PULSALYS fête ses lumières” on Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 5:30 PM.

The random draw to fill four seats on the Université de Lyon’s governing board, three of which are for category 5 (BIATSS) and one for category 6 (users) was held on November 15, 2018.

To further its aim of promoting research and the transfer of knowledge to civil society, PULSALYS, the Technology Transfer Acceleration Company (SATT) in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, is launching a new program targeting local young PhDs. This program will provide them with an opportunity to further develop the results from their dissertation for a year, while receiving funding and personalized support.

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) met for the fourth time on Friday, November 30, 2018.

This final My Lyon evening to close the Students Welcome Desk project is open to all students. It will be held within the Musée des Confluences.

The first event held in Saint-Étienne for the national “48 hours to bring ideas to life®” challenge brought together 70 students from a variety of fields. Three teams were rewarded for their innovative ideas in this event held by the Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory.

This evening was open to all students and featured exclusively student-created programming based on world arts and cultures. This evening closed the Students Welcome Desk program and was held on Thursday, November 29 by the Université de Lyon, the Crous de Lyon and the Musée des Confluences.

For the renewal of the framework agreement for the cooperation between the São Paulo University (USP) and the Université de Lyon (UdL), a delegation from the UdL, led by its President Khaled Bouabdallah and its Vice-President for International Relations, Jacques Comby, traveled to São Paulo on November 28 and 29.

The Institut Pasteur in Tunis and the Université de Lyon, as partners of the *H2020 InSPIRES project consortium, are organizing a spring school for the science shops on April 22 and 23, 2019.

On November 28, Beelys, the Université de Lyon’s Student Center for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship, the Foundation for the Université de Lyon and Enactus invite you to listen to the stories and experiences of student-entrepreneurs who traveled abroad to find inspiration and who leveraged the power of acculturation in their entrepreneurial projects.

On November 27, students within the Académie de Lyon are asked to elect 7 student representatives to the Crous’s Board of directors for a two-year period.

In the upcoming Pop’Sciences Forum, the Université de Lyon and its partners are exploring the new transformations within the city and for its citizens that are being brought about by digital technology.

On the morning of November 27 in Brussels, the representatives of the Universities of Granada (Spain), Graz (Austria), Leipzig (Germany), Padova (Italy) and Vilnius (Lithuania), and Lyon signed a memorandum of understanding to establish the ARQUS European University Alliance, an initiative designed to promote deep integration of the six institutions in their teaching and learning, research, outreach and civic engagement missions.

The Université de Lyon is organizing a meeting between middle-schoolers and PhD students on November 22 at the Maria Casarès middle school at Rilleux-la-Pape where the doctoral dents will answer middle- and high-schoolers’ questions about the academic world and scientific professions. At the end of the day, the general public will be invited to attend discussions from 5 to 8 PM.

The 2018 Tour de France Agir Ensemble operation will be held from November 19 to 23, 2018. This week will raise awareness of the importance of environmentally friendly actions with fun and educational workshops for students and staff.

The graduation ceremony for the first graduating class of the Université de Lyon’s innovative program, the Digital transformation university diploma (DU), was held on November 19.

A random draw will be held to fill four seats on the Université de Lyon’s governing board, three of which are for category 5 and the other for category 6.

The academic world has been engaging more and more with civil society in recent years. As part of their commitment to fostering dialog between universities and citizens, Sherbooke University and the Université de Lyon are holding a colloquium to explore relevant issues and exchange best practices.

My Thesis in 180 Seconds, the international Francophone competition launched in Quebec, is back for the sixth time in France. The initiative is led by the Conference of university presidents (CPU) and the CNRS. The Université de Lyon is organizing the competition for the Lyon Saint-Étienne site on behalf of its member institutions.

The 2018 Jacques Cartier Meetings will be held in Lyon from November 12 through 14. This year’s theme is “Mobility, Territories, and Smart Cities”. Lyon Urban School (École urbaine de Lyon), the Université de Lyon and the Faculty of Art and Science of Concordia University in Montreal are holding a colloquium during the event on the topic: “Are Lyon and Montreal Smart Cities?” on November 12 and 13.

On November 6, Beelys, the student entrepreneurship center at the Université de Lyon, presented its programs for the entrepreneurs of tomorrow to over 300 entrepreneurs, students, mentors, and partners.

The Foundation for the Université de Lyon is organizing the eleventh Economy Days on November 6, 7 and 8, in collaboration with the ENS de Lyon.

On Tuesday, November 6, during the Economy Days (JÉCO), the Université de Lyon awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to Professor Vernon Smith, the 2002 Economic Sciences Nobel Prize laureate for his research in experimental economics.

The framework agreement was renewed for five years during the visit from a delegation from Tongji University, led by the President of the University Board, FANG Shouen.

The Lyon Urban School, one of the two Convergence Institutes attached to the Université de Lyon, is putting out the 2018-2019 call for internship topics and projects for students enrolled in partner Master’s programs.

The Université de Lyon’s Science Shop is building a bridge between research and civil society. Each year, it matches organizations with a team of scientists to find practical solutions to their concerns.

The Collegium de Lyon’s scientific board has selected twenty top-level foreign researchers to work at the Lyon Institute of Advanced Studies in 2018-2019, which has celebrated its tenth anniversary.

The Université de Lyon is co-organizing the 2018 Europe Ambition Day on October 23. This will provide an opportunity for many local companies and research centers to obtain European funding.

On September 16, the Université de Lyon, the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, the Université Lumière Lyon 2, the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and the Fred Bendongué Company gathered 270 Université de Lyon students and staff members, along with local inhabitants of the third and seventh districts of Lyon, to participate in a parade at the 2018 Dance Biennale.

The Université de Lyon will attend the 11th Rendez-Vous Carnot on October 17-18 at the Lyon Cité des Congrès.

The Innovation Pre-Factory in Lyon is celebrating its first anniversary by hosting an Open Day on October 17, from noon to 6:30 PM.

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

Over one hundred people visited the Innovation Pre-Factory in Lyon during the open house on September 17. This day was held as a celebration of the building’s first anniversary. Visitors were given the opportunity to discover the fablab and creativity room located at the LyonTech-la Doua campus.

The Université de Lyon is hosting the “Learning to learn in a fake news world, from high school to university” colloquium on Tuesday, October 16, 2018, which is being organized by the Conference of University Presidents (CPU - Conférence des présidents d'université).

The Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is launching a call for projects for an “Ambitious Research Package”, which aims to support laboratory projects with high socio-economic potential. The Université de Lyon is responsible for the first phase, the call for interest.

The Université de Lyon’s Disrupt’ Campus curriculum is launching a new conference cycle for its autumn training course. These free conferences are co-organized by the Métropole de Lyon, and they are open to the general public. The four-part “Digital Tools and Organizational Transformation” series will discuss how the digital revolution is changing working methods and management.

The Métropole de Lyon has partnered with the Université de Lyon to award the 2018 Young Researcher Award to three young researchers from Lyon on October 9, during the 27th Science Fair.

On October 8, during the Science Fair, the L’Oréal Foundation revealed the names of the 30 young women winners of the French L’Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science Award. Two doctoral students in Lyon were among the winners.

Hélène Courtois, professor and Vice-President of the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, was awarded the French Award for Scientific Influence on Tuesday, October 2, by Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs.

Led by the Université de Lyon and coordinated by the Université Jean Monnet, MANUTECH-SLEIGHT was one of two Graduate Schools of Research (EUR) selected by the French National Agency for Research in November 2017. It has just been launched on the Manufacture campus in Saint-Étienne.

The Université de Lyon and its partners, the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Assurance Maladie and the Crous de Lyon, are launching a widespread information campaign at the start of this academic year. It aims to help students gain a better understanding of the health system and remind them of the importance of taking care of their health, even when young.

The mayor of Porto-Novo in Benin visited the Innovation Pre-Factory and the Maison du Projet on the LyonTech-la Doua campus during his time in Lyon.

The start of the academic year ceremony for the Université de Lyon was held on October 1, 2018 in the Grand amphithéâtre of the Université de Lyon. The event celebrated past accomplishments and shared future plans for the site’s academic and structural changes.

The graduation ceremony for the École nationale d'ingénieurs de Saint-Étienne (ENISE), a member institution of the Université de Lyon, was held at the Zénith de Saint-Étienne on September 29.

The Université de Lyon sponsored the second “Lyon in the move” event, an evening to celebrate the involvement of young people in city life, organized by the Le Progrès newspaper and the Métropole de Lyon.

The first class enrolled in the innovative “Plastronics Project Manager” training program began its academic year on September 24.

Nineteen doctoral students from the Université de Lyon, 13 from the Università degli Studi di Torino, 9 from the Politecnico di Torino and 8 from the Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale attended an intensive professional development training program in Turin.

The Université de Lyon organized the first session of its Urban Logistics School from September 11 to 13, immersing participants in the world of urban space, transport and movement management. It provided its 15 participants with a systemic approach to the strategic issues involved in urban logistics.

Every year, the Jeune Ballet at Lyon's Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse (CNSMD) performs a famous piece by an internationally-renowned choreographer. Last March, the student dancers had the opportunity to perform May B by Maguy Marin.

Major players in the area of higher education and research in Lyon met on September 17 for the official inauguration of two new buildings on the LyonTech-la Doua campus: Michel-Eugène Chevreul and Edgar Lederer.

Since January 2018, the 270 participants that make up the "Joyous Cacophony", the Université de Lyon's group, have filled the gymnasiums and universities of Lyon to learn and practice the choreography designed by Fred Bendongué for the 2018 Dance Biennale Parade, on September 16, 2018.

On September 10, the Université de Lyon greeted the prestigious China University of Political Sciences and Law for the International France-China Men’s Soccer Tournament.

On Monday, July 9, 2018, the “CURSUS +” project, spearheaded by the Université de Lyon, was announced as winner of the “New University Curriculum” call for projects, which was launched in 2017 by the French National Research Agency under the Investments for the Future Program (PIA) 3.

The Université de Lyon has hosted the "In Every Sense" 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.

The Université de Lyon’s research ethics platform launched its MOOC during its annual symposium on June 6 & 7.

Each year, the Métropole de Lyon, in partnership with the Université de Lyon, awards young researchers prizes to promote scientific excellence in Lyon.

On 11 June, Cédric Villani, the renowned deputy and mathematician, visited the Beelys student-entrepreneurs, the Pulsalys start-ups and the students enrolled in the Digital Transformation university diploma at the Université de Lyon.

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.

The sixth SG Sevens, which took place on Friday, May 17 and Saturday, May 18, 2019 in Epernay (Marne), crowned the Université de Lyon’s rugby sevens team the new French University Champions in the elite men’s category.

The Doctoriales will be held on the university site, on May 14, 15 and 16, 2018 in the Valpré space (Écully). Organized across the Lyon Saint-Étienne site, the Doctoriales offer hands-on training programs where multidisciplinary PhD teams can take a fresh look at the challenges faced by organizations (companies, authorities, associations, etc.).

On Wednesday, May 2, the Académie de Lyon and the Université de Lyon organized an evening to inform junior and senior high-school students with disabilities about higher education opportunities.

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

The first year of the Innovation Academy will come to a close on April 24, 2018, at the Université de Lyon with its final Challenge. This is a chance for PhD students to present how their projects have progressed since the launch day in January earlier this year.

The 27th year of this prestigious global web conference: The Web Conference (formerly WWW), organized by the Université de Lyon in partnership with the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the Métropole de Lyon, and in collaboration with Digital League and IW3C2, took place from April 23 to 27, 2018, at the Centre de Congrès de Lyon.

By organizing its first Pop'Sciences Forum, the Université de Lyon aims to bring together researchers, the public, artists, associations and companies, so they can learn and reflect together about the reality of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our society. The program, which will last more than two weeks, includes lectures, screenings, debates, workshops and meet-ups on the topics of work, health, ethics, feminism and democracy.

Over 100 students are expected to gather on the LyonTech-la Doua campus on Thursday, April 12, for a charity orienteering event organized by the Cancer Master's course at the Université Lyon 1 in support of the fight against cancer.

The National University Dance Events are a true highlight for university dance and a unique opportunity to highlight students' creative work from the year and thus promote their artistic talent. The event has been scheduled for April 5 at the Maison de la Danse, where we will be able to see 180 shortlisted dancers perform!

As part of Sustainable Development Student Day 2018 organized by the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, several events are being held throughout the day of Thursday, April 5, 2018, to raise the awareness of as many people as possible about environmental issues.

The Arts and Culture in Higher Education Days (JACES: Journées des arts et de la culture dans l’enseignement supérieur) aim to showcase cultural and artistic achievements in higher education. For 2018, the Université de Lyon's member institutions have decided to share a program for the first time, with over 30 events open to the public from April 3 to 5, 2018.

As part of IDEXLYON, five projects were announced the winners of the Campus Arts call for projects.

As part of Sustainable Development Student Week, the Université de Lyon is launching an awareness campaign on eco-friendly actions. This campaign is the result of collaborative work between representatives of the energy and ecological transition, the institutions' communication departments and the Université de Lyon's project team.

The Université de Lyon regional final of the My Thesis in 180 Seconds (MT180) competition was held on Thursday, March 29, in the Université de Lyon's Grand Amphithéâtre. Fourteen candidates from the site's institutions presented their thesis subjects, with a mix of humor and apprehension, to a full house before three jury prizes and one audience prize were awarded.

In partnership with the Université de Lyon, the Métropole de Lyon is supporting scientific events held in the region.

Whether rugby, football or basketball, there have been a number of wins for our UdL AS teams in team sports events this month. Here are some photos of their wonderful achievements during the French University Championships.

Every year the CNRS rewards those who have contributed most to its outreach and to the advancement of research.

Meetings with exceptional researchers in mathematics and computer science.

The supported symposiums and thematic schools will share a dual objective of disseminating scientific knowledge and boosting the international reputation of the Lyon Saint-Étienne university site.

As part of Brain Awareness Week 2018, the ASLAN and CORTEX LabExes organized a public conference evening on March 13 with the aim of learning more about the difficulties that dyslexic students face, as well as their compensation strategies to support academic success.

For Brain Awareness Week from March 12 to 17, the general public will have the chance to discover advances in brain research. In Lyon, the event will be highlighting two key issues: perception and addiction.

Khaled Bouabdallah, President of the Université de Lyon and Vice-President of the CPU, meets Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs.

From March to June 2018, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon will be offering a series of lectures discussing digital transformation at the Métropole de Lyon's Maison des Étudiants.

Over the past month, there have been two events for the Beelys (Boosting Entrepreneurial Spirit in Lyon Saint-Étienne) PEPITE. A look back at the D2E mentor breakfast and the entrepreneur community evening #2, which brought together around 150 participants in total.

INSA Lyon, CPE Lyon, Lycée Arbez Carme and the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon have pooled their expertise to build a training course dedicated to plastronics. The first training course, at bac+5 level (five years of post-baccalaureate study), will start in September, 2018.

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, through the Factory of Innovation scheme and Alstom, has completed its second multidisciplinary student challenge. This year, the theme of the event was "safety on public rail transport for passengers and staff". Two prizes were awarded to teams made up of students from several institutions at the Université de Lyon.

Through the Factory of Innovation scheme and for the second year running, the Université de Lyon and the French rail company Alstom are organizing an ideation challenge based on the theme "safety on public rail transport for passengers and staff".

The Université de Lyon regional final of the international French-speaking "My Thesis in 180 Seconds" competition will be held on March 29 at 6 pm in the UdL's Grand Amphithéâtre. Come and support our PhD students!

The first edition of the Winter Innovation Lab, February 26 to March 2, 2018, is coming. Learn how to create that prototype you really need.

From the 12 projects submitted during the Fall 2017 session, the Université de Lyon's Student Initiative Fund (FIE) committee has voted to allocate grants to ten projects.

French University 2nd Division Judo and Kyu Championships - Reims, France - February 8, 2018 - Photo credits: UdL Sports Associations (AS)

For the launch of the 2018 Science Shop work placements, a Science Shop exhibition will take place at the Université de Lyon from February 15 to March 1, in the hall at 90 Rue Pasteur Lyon 7e.

Would you like to try out an innovative digital solution to improve air quality in cities? Wait no longer and submit your application before March 15, 2018 to take part in the [R] Challenge, so you can receive support from experts and access resources for your experiments in the Lyon metropolitan area.

Beelys is offering internships in startups in the fields of software development, communication/web communication and marketing/web marketing. To find out more about these opportunities, come along to the "Stage Dating" ("Internship Dating") workshop on February 6, 2018 in the Grand Amphithéâtre at the Université de Lyon.

The UdL Sports Association's teams shone during the French University Indoor Athletics Championships held in Aubière (Puy-de-Dôme) on February 1. The event, organized by the French University Sports Federation (FFSU - Fédération Française du Sport universitaire) was a tremendous success and one which will be remembered by the many Université de Lyon students standing on the podiums!

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.

Frédérique Vidal, the French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, visited the Université de Lyon on Friday, January 26, 2018, to discuss Parcoursup, the new admissions platform for higher education. During her visit, the university presidents presented innovative schemes and procedures that contribute towards the success of students within their institutions.

Fifty PhD students attended the Innovation Academy's launch day at the Université de Lyon on January 23, 2018. This was a real success for the new scheme that encourages PhD students to develop innovative projects.

Do you belong to a student association and would you like to lead a project that would benefit other students at the Lyon Saint-Étienne site? The Université de Lyon can help you finance your project via the Student Initiative Fund (FIE - Fonds d’initiative étudiante) that organizes two sessions per year in spring and autumn. Each FIE session includes a focus on a specific topic, called a “Theme FIE”, enabling students to apply for increased funding for their projects.

Do you have an innovative idea or project? Has your startup not yet entered its creation phase, and has the legal status of your company not yet been filed? Then you should apply for the sixth year of Lyon StartUp from February to June, 2018.

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.

The JEA acceleration and development program for startups, led by Beelys, is back for its 11th year. 52 startups have been selected out of 200 applicants to participate in the 2018 project.

As part of the Franco-Chinese University Tournament, two of the Université de Lyon's Sports Association teams represented French university football in China for ten days from October 27 to November 7, 2017.

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 SameSame startup, founded by Alexandre Boulmé as part of his student entrepreneur diploma (D2E) at the Université de Lyon, won one of three PEPITE Tremplin Awards for student entrepreneurship on 15 November 2017 in Paris. Its mobile app, GONG, aims to support aphasia patients who have suffered strokes using images that facilitate communication.

The Pulsalys SATT and IDEXLYON are launching a joint call for projects to support innovation in the major theme "Humanities and Urbanity".

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.

On December 4, 2017, Sciences Po Lyon opened its new Saint-Étienne campus at the Université Jean Monnet. The opening ceremony, which marked the end of 18 months of construction work, was an opportunity to highlight the strong links and shared effort that unite these two member institutions of the Université 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.

The universities in the Métropole de Lyon have great research facilities that contribute to their excellence and reputation. To highlight their potential and the work they have carried out, the Métropole, in partnership with the Université de Lyon, decided to award €5,000 prizes to three young researchers.

The regional final for the Idea Challenge, a competition for the student with the best idea, took place on Saturday 25 November at the Université de Lyon. Over fifty students from the entire region gathered to explore their idea, work on their pitch and defend their project to a jury of professionals.

Beelys (Boosting Entrepreneurial Spirit in Lyon and Saint-Étienne), the Université de Lyon's support center for student entrepreneurs, has teamed up with Sherbrooke's Accelerator for the Creation of Technological Businesses (ACET) in Canada to create an exchange and international mobility program for entrepreneurs who would like to take part.

Beelys (Boosting Entrepreneurial Spirit in Lyon and Saint-Étienne), the student entrepreneurship center, celebrated its 2017/2018 launch party on Tuesday 7 November in the Grand Amphithéâtre of the UdL. Over 300 partners, entrepreneurs and students gathered for the presentation of the Beelys programs and the graduation ceremony for entrepreneurs from the D2E (Student Entrepreneur Diploma) class of 2016/2017.

The early care provided for pupils with specific learning difficulties may have improved considerably over the past fifteen years, but the situation remains difficult for students in higher education. The ETUDYS project aims to increase awareness of the difficulties faced by dyslexic students to provide better support..

On 11 October 2017, the Université de Lyon was among the 14 institutions to sign the Sustainable Development Plan charter for energy and environmental efficiency in public and private tertiary buildings.

Are you a student in second year or above, or have you recently graduated? Are you looking to supplement your basic training program with a short course (17 weeks from 26 February 2018) orientated towards the socio-professional sector? Enroll now onto the Université de Lyon's Digital Transformation University Diploma (DU) (enrollment open until 31 January 2018)

As part of IDEXLYON's call for PhD mobility applications, 50 grants have been allocated.

The "Open libraries +" scheme, which was created for the site by the Université de Lyon, aims to improve students' visits to libraries in Lyon Saint-Étienne by extending opening hours and informing users about the occupancy rates of the site's 12 libraries in real-time.