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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.

This international colloquium is organized by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (University of Oxford), the ENS de Lyon, the Institut d’histoire des représentations et des idées dans les modernités (Institute of History of Representations and Ideas In Modernity, CNRS, IHRIM), the CoMod Labex (Université de Lyon), the GIS Humanités (Humanities Scientific Interest Group), the Institut d’histoire du livre (Institute of History of Books), the Société d’étude du xviie siècle (Society for 17th Century Studies), the Municipal Library of Lyon, and the Institut des Sources chrétiennes (Institute of Christian Sources, CNRS, HISOMA).

Beelys, the student entrepreneurship center of the Université de Lyon, is officially kicking off its new program at an inaugural soirée on November 6, 2018, in the Grand amphithéâtre of the Université de Lyon.

Alongside the IDEXLYON initiative, the Université de Lyon is launching a call for projects for “Campus Arts", to support student initiatives, encourage creativity and foster their artistic expression.

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.

The Université de Lyon is recruiting five student volunteers for a civic service in order to energize student life and promote the Université de Lyon’s initiatives for its students. The future Student Life ambassadors’ mandate will begin in early October and last for eight months.

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.

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.

On October 18, 2018, during Open Access week, the Université de Lyon is organizing a half-day of conferences and workshops on the theme of open science.

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.

The IDEXLYON is launching a call for interest for “Teaching Innovation” to identify and support innovative educational initiatives at the Lyon Saint-Étienne site that will contribute to the Université de Lyon’s academic excellence.

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.

The 2018 Science Fair is coordinated by the Université de Lyon in the Lyon metropolis and the Rhône département. Its events will bring you to the heart of scientific projects to help you gain a better understanding of today’s world.

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.

An official signing ceremony for the Sino-French oncology agreement was held on September 28 at the Hôtel de Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The event was attended by Yannick Neuder, Vice-President of Higher Education, Research and Innovation for the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Prof. Fan Jiang, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, and all of its academic partners.

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.

This academic year, the Collège des Hautes Études Lyon Science[s] (CHEL[s]) is offering a new shared course entitled "Emotions at Work" (“Les émotions en activité”), led by speakers from the École Centrale de Lyon, the ENS de Lyon, Sciences Po Lyon, VetAgro Sup and the CNSMD de Lyon, in a series of 12 conferences open to the public.

The first My Lyon evening organized by the Students Welcome Desk is dedicated to sponsorship, and is open to all students who would like to fully experience life in Lyon.

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.

Do you belong to a student association, and would you like to lead a project to benefit other students within 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 holds two sessions per year.

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 170 dancers that make up the Joyeuse Cacaphonie, 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. The grand representation is on Sunday, September 16, 2018!

The Tech 4 Inclusion call for projects supports laboratory inventions aiming to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities and marginalized people.

The Université de Lyon invites you to join from September 11 to 13 for its first Urban Logistics Summer School, for an immersion into the world of urban space, transport and movement management. This new training program, designed for companies and authorities, will enable participants to increase their understanding of the challenges and strategies of various stakeholders, while providing a systematic view of the issue.

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.

The 2018-2019 ranking in L’Étudiant magazine has for the second year in a row designated Lyon as the best city for students, tied with Toulouse.

The Students Welcome Desk is back for three months, from September 3 to November 30, 2018 in the Université de Lyon’s buildings, to greet all new students for the new academic year.

The Globalink program gives undergraduate students an opportunity to complete a 12-week research internship under the supervision of Canadian university professors from May to September.

This year, the Students Welcome Desk is once again offering a themed schedule and daily assistance to support students in their administrative procedures.

The Université de Lyon and its partners have planned over 30 themed events to welcome all students. Housing, orientation, sport, jobs, health, international studies – these and other topics will help students understand student life in Lyon and Saint-Étienne.

The Students Welcome Desk is open in Saint-Étienne from August 28 to October 19, 2018 to welcome all students for this new academic year.

The 2017-2018 Syrian recipients of supportive scholarships provided by the Université de Lyon enjoyed a friendly and festive half-day to celebrate the end of the academic year.

The Ulysses program provides scholarships of up to €5,000 (€2,500 from France, €2,500 from Ireland) in order to support the launch of research projects led collaboratively by researchers in France and Ireland. All fields of research are eligible to receive this scholarship fund.

The MSH Lyon Saint-Étienne is launching a new call for projects in 2018 to provide a high level of support to multidisciplinary research projects in the fields of human and social sciences as well as between them and other fields.

The student athletes from the UdL Sports Association are not on holiday quite yet. After the French University Championships, many of them will be participating in high-level international competitions this summer.

The general managers for the departments of the five institutions are performing the initial inventory for the four support functions: finance, human resources, schooling and IT systems >>

As part of IDEXLYON, 6 projects were selected from the call for the Scientific Breakthrough Program to receive funding of up to 1.2 million euros per project.

Every year, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) invites PhD students, fellows and established research professors alike from all academic disciplines to apply for mobility scholarships to fund a research assignment in Germany.

Following the success of the last workshop, Pulsalys, the innovation accelerator led by the Université de Lyon, is organizing a new development workshop on the theme of intellectual property on July 10.

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

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 took part in this day, which was organized by the National Association of Doctors, and provided an opportunity for group discussions surrounding best practice for the professional and geographic mobility of doctors.

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.

Pop’Sciences is celebrating its first anniversary with the launch of its new webzine, Pop’Sciences Mag, which delves into the issues surrounding artificial intelligence.

In 2019, IDEXLYON will support around sixty stays, for incoming as well as outgoing mobility.

The 13 members of the delegation led by Jacques Frémont, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ottawa, had the opportunity to meet the various academic players of the Lyon Saint-Étienne site for two days and strengthen their collaboration.

A semester of study is coming to a close, ending the first cycle of the Digital Transformation DU (University Diploma). The innovative training program ends on a positive note, before it begins a new cycle on 24 September.

The agreement pertaining to the first Chair of the IDEXLYON project was signed on June 26, 2018. It is spearheaded by IFP Énergies Nouvelles and the Chemistry laboratory of the ENS de Lyon, whose supervisory institutions are the ENS de Lyon, the CNRS and the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.

The many titles and medals won by the students of the AS UdL throughout the season have led to the Université de Lyon leading the FFSU’s national ranking of sports associations. A look back at the celebratory evening of June 20 for our winning athletes.

According to its policies: international mobility during the doctoral studies and post-doctoral career development, the Université de Lyon will finance the attendance of interested doctoral Students at the Naturejobs Career Expo Fair which is organized in London on 4th October 2018.

Nearly 60 countries and institutions, including the Université de Lyon and international associations were present at the village for the 17th Fêtes Consulaires on Place Bellecour on June 23 and 24.

The 15th Lyon Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Entrepreneurship Fair will take place at the Centre de Congrès de Lyon on June 13 and 14, 2018. This is a unique gathering to create your company, develop your network and learn about the experiences of successful entrepreneurs.

The Université de Lyon's Student Initiative Fund (FIE) committee has voted to allocate grants to eleven of the thirteen projects submitted during the Spring 2018 session.

On June 11, 2018, all key actors from higher education and research institutions within the Université de Lyon as well as Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Lyon & Saint-Étienne metropolises representatives met for the Foundational Meeting of the University Development Scheme. The objective of this large gathering was to discuss actions taken since 2010 and identify the main priorities for 2020-2030.

This workshop, which is geared towards all research professors and administrative staff at the Université de Lyon and its member and associated institutions, will enable participants to build their very own toolbox to facilitate the organization of workshops.

Led by the Université de Lyon, H20'Lyon, one of the two Graduate Schools of Research (EUR) selected by the French National Agency for Research in November 2017, has just been launched in Lyon during the international I.S.Rivers conference.

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

As part of IDEXLYON, the Université de Lyon is organizing two days of debate and reflection on June 6 and 7 to reaffirm its ambitions in research ethics, scientific integrity and social responsibility.

The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes BIOTechno Forum is a scientific event for young researchers in the field of biotechnology. It has now been organized for 21 years by two of the region's young researcher associations: BioDocs Lyon and Glob'Alps.

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 September and October.

Five multidisciplinary teams will have 48 hours to tackle three challenges and invent new ways of browsing, exploring and visualizing data and documents posted on the Persée portal, one of the Université de Lyon's 24 research federations.

Following the resignation of Bernard Bouché on April 24, 2018, the Université Lumière Lyon 2 must appoint an external figure to represent employee representative organizations (article L712-3 3°b of the French Education Law).

Lyon Urban School, one of the two Convergence Institutes attached to the Université de Lyon, is putting out its first call for applications for 2018-2019 EUL doctoral contracts.

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.

On May 24 and 25, the SAB met for the second time at the Université de Lyon.

On Thursday, May 31, the Innovation Factory is helping to develop the Public Factory, a project led by Sciences Po Lyon. Students and professors at the Université de Lyon are invited to rise to the challenge during a brainstorming evening for the project.

Over two and a half days, this international colloquium will bring the DEMOCRASCI project to a close—a project that has been examining the epistemological foundations and principles of the democratization of the governance of science.

Through its commitment to its European InSPIRES and NUCLEUS projects, the Université de Lyon attended the Living Knowledge conference, which took place in Budapest between May 28 and June 1. The event aimed to initiate communication between researchers and practitioners, to reflect on our understanding of knowledge and to explore ways to generate knowledge which can lead to significant social change.

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.

With 11 medals, including 6 gold medals, the Université de Lyon's Sports Association (AS UdL) was crowned champion of France after its incredible performance at the summer university athletics championships in Marseille, France.

From May 14 to 16, the second edition of the Doctoriales brought together over 50 PhD students, who had come to follow this hands-on training program by getting involved in a multidisciplinary consulting mission. 9 organizations representing the great variety of local socio-economic players each suggested an innovation or development challenge.

The AS UdL women's and men's teams won some incredible victories during the French University Rowing Championships on May 19 and 20 in Mâcon (Bourgogne), not forgetting the great rankings from Lyon and Saint-Étienne students in canoeing/kayaking.

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

The urgency of climate change requires every public player to play an active role in France's energy and ecological transition. To this end, the Université de Lyon adopted an ambitious strategy on March 13, 2018, choosing to get organized to limit its environmental footprint and permanently strengthen its development.

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

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

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 May 3, Beelys, the Student Center for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship shared by the Université de Lyon and the Fondation pour l'Université de Lyon, is inviting the region's economic stakeholders to meet student entrepreneurs and start-ups with great potential.

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

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.

Each year, the Friends of the Université de Lyon Association (AAUL - Association des Amis de l’Université de Lyon) awards prizes to students, post-doctorates, research professors and researchers from the higher education institutions of the Université de Lyon-Saint-Étienne. On April 26, eight researchers were awarded these prizes.

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

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

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 closing of the first year of the Innovation Academy took place on April 24 in the Université de Lyon's Grand Amphithéâtre, for which around one hundred people gathered to support the PhD students during their pitches.

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.

Lifesaving Action Week (Semaine des gestes qui sauvent), launched in 2017 by the Ville de Lyon, is a chance for the general public to learn about and train in basic first aid. The Université de Lyon is contributing to this laudable metropolitan initiative by offering a free induction workshop on April 25 from 6 pm to 8 pm.

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.

On Monday, March 5, 2018, the Université de Lyon and Inra signed a framework agreement with the common aim of promoting their collaborations and partnerships by implementing an active and strategic site policy on research and innovation, by coordinating their regional transfer and innovation policy, and by jointly developing scientific culture and a culture of dialogue with society.

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.

On Thursday, April 12, the École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon) inaugurated the M7 building, a new space dedicated to research built on the Lyon Cité Campus, our major project aiming to redesign and modernize the Université de Lyon's facilities.

The House of Mathematics and Computer Science (MMI - Maison des mathématiques et de l’informatique), an organization run by the Université de Lyon's MILYON LabEx, is looking for partners (associations, research and education institutions, activity leaders) for event organization and outreach activities during the 2018-2019 academic year.

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.

During a feedback morning on March 30, 2018, the organizers of the interdisciplinary "Repairing Man?" colloquium took stock of this scientific event co-organized by the three IDEXLYON Academic Colleges of the Université de Lyon, "Life Sciences and Health", "Engineering and Technology" and "Education, Cognition and Language".

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.

Néolatinlyon 2018 - Call for applications for the neo-Latin school

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.

IMU Day 2018: March 28, 2018 - The PIXEL Center, Studio 24, 24 rue Decorps, 69100 Villeurbanne, France

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.

Take a look at the comic book created by the ASLAN LabEx as part of the ETUDYS research project.