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Many events are offered throughout the year by Arqus, on the key themes of the alliance: research, entrepreneurship, multilingualism, etc. Find the events planned for the week of April 12 to 18, 2021.

The Innovation Factory (Fabrique de l'Innovation), one of the Université de Lyon’s flagship programs, has launched its very own website. The website has been designed to provide companies and social and economic players with information on the Innovation Factory’s turnkey and tailor-made offers to accelerate their innovation and boost their creativity.

The 2021 International Medicine and Humanities Summer School, whose theme will be “Health in a post-Covid world”, will take place online from July 2 to 13, 2021.

From April 6 to 11, 2021, the Université de Lyon and the site’s institutions invite you to discover the diversity, wealth and quality of the cultural and artistic works put together and presented on the campuses as part of the Campus Arts Festival.

From 13th to 15th October 2021, the Center for Knowledge and Innovation Transfer (ZWI) of the University of Graz will hold the Arqus PhD Week for Careers Outside Academia.

This call for projects is open year-round and aims to provide financial support to researchers and higher education institutions to help them prepare their responses to the European Commission’s calls for projects in research, innovation and training.

On March 31, the “Female entrepreneurs: economic issues and impact” lecture will be the first in a series organized by the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center, which is led by the Université de Lyon and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon.

Thanks to support from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, the Université de Lyon has taken part in a number of online events organized by the EUA-CDE network (Council for Doctoral Education of the European University Association). This network includes 260 universities and aims to promote discussions and experience-sharing among European doctoral training professionals.

The Université de Lyon has joined the initiative launched by the World Trade Center Lyon to organize a student co-working day in one of the ten co-working facilities in the Part-Dieu district.

Are you a research professor at one of the Université de Lyon’s institutions in Saint-Etienne? Are you looking for ways to incorporate creativity into your teaching? Come and discover the D-Factory, the Innovation Factory’s new site in Saint-Étienne, on March 29.

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

On March 25 at 2:30 PM, Arqus European University Alliance organizes the online workshop “Implementation of mobility windows” with the aim of getting acquainted with the definition of mobility window and discussing the ways of integrating it into the study programme curricula. The workshop is open for academic and administrative staff at all Arqus universities.

The year 2020 and the global health crisis have put an end to the once dominant model of mass and globalized tourism. Pop’Sciences will spend the first half of 2021 looking at the question of tourism, how it is perceived and how it has evolved over time.

The ESR Social Sciences institutions’ “COOP-AURA-SHS” regional cooperation network is organizing a half-day webinar on March 25 to discuss European opportunities for Social Sciences research projects. This event is aimed at researchers and research professors who would like to learn about European funding options.

Every year, throughout France, Science Fairs invite the general public to have fun with science, to discover new technologies and the latest developments. Laboratories, companies, organizations and cultural players all come together to offer activities, exhibitions, lectures, visits and much more...

The Université de Lyon’s IADoc@UdL project was developed in response to the 2019 call for “Doctoral Contracts in Artificial Intelligence” programs launched by the French National Research Agency (Agence nationale de la recherche – ANR).

As part of its support plan for students, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region has just opened a free telephone hotline providing psychological support. This hotline puts students in touch with a caring team of professionals who are available to listen to their psychological problems 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Arqus Café is a free, easy to access, easy to use online platform for students who are interested in practicing and improving their foreign language skills and exchange ideas with other European students in a friendly, relaxed environment.

The Université de Lyon's regional finals of the international Francophone “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” competition will be held on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Watch it live on the UdL website or Facebook page at 6 PM.

The University of Bergen (UiB) has developed the interdisciplinary course Ocean-climate-society (SDG200), open to all Arqus students. The course will be taught onboard the sailing ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl in the period from 1 May to 25 August 2022, while sailing across the Pacific from Valparaíso in Chile to Palau. The course is open for students from all academic backgrounds.

Join the H2O’Lyon Graduate School of Research on March 22 to celebrate World Water Day.

The Université de Lyon is launching a peer-to-peer student health awareness program this year in partnership with several of its institutions and the Crous de Lyon.

On February 2, the Arqus European University Alliance organised a webinar on the accreditation of prior learning that was dedicated mainly to the presentation of the French existing system called Validation des acquis et de l’expérience (Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning - APEL).

On March 16, 2021, a first high-level seminar explored two priority areas for the Alliance: artificial intelligence and climate change. This was the first of a series of high-level seminars with the final goal of developing a Joint Research Action Plan, complementing individual Research Action Plans of each Arqus university.

What is Europe's place on the international scene? What impact can it have in the face of the individual policies of the member states? What role can it play in responding to current global challenges? These questions will be at the center of the debate, which will make it possible to compare the opinions of researchers from different European countries, and specialized in cultural history, international law, European studies, security and politics.

The 2021 Brain Awareness Week, co-organized by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS), the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale – Inserm), the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, the Fondation Neurodis, the Fondation APICIL, the LabEx CORTEX, the LabEx ASLAN, the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Pop’Sciences of the Université de Lyon and the Le Vinatier hospital, will take place online from March 16 to 25.

Every Monday during the month of March, the Métropole de Lyon's Health Info Bus, in partnership with the Université de Lyon, the Crous and the ARMH Foundation, offers prevention activities to talk to students about their health.

This portal is initiated by Arqus AL6 "Research Support and Early Stage Researcher Development".

The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has launched the santepsy.etudiant.gouv.fr platform to provide immediate psychological support to students who need it. Developed in collaboration with the French Federation of Psychologists and Psychology, this service is open to any student who would like to contact a psychologist, as close as possible to his or her home or place of study.

Since 2018, Le Rize, the CMTRA and the ENM have jointly been working on the “Instruments voyageurs” (Travelling instruments) project, in which they go out to meet the people of Villeurbanne to learn more about the musical instruments they keep in their homes. Find out more about their participatory approach in this webinar.

Time for Season Five of the Anthropocene Wednesdays! This unmissable weekly event, created and organized by the École urbaine de Lyon, focuses on better understanding the global changes that are taking place in our urban world. The Anthropocene Wednesdays are the perfect opportunity for researchers and specialists from all fields to come together to discuss and uncover solutions.

The March 2020 lockdown caused havoc in the world of higher education and research. As soon as it was announced, the first question was: how can we continue teaching and research activities in these conditions? Answering this question has involved making a number of adjustments to existing activities, resulting in a wide range of educational continuity plans within our member and associate institutions.

PULSALYS is launching a Call for Expressions of Interest for researchers, engineers and staff from the Lyon and Saint-Étienne sites’ public research laboratories.

Having just completed the sixth session of the Digital Transformation University Diploma (DTUD), the Disrupt’Campus team is already preparing the next session, which will be held from March 1 to July 2, 2021.

La seventh Digital Transformation University Diploma class began on March 1, 2021. This year’s program was the first to be launched entirely online, due to the current health situation.

The Innovation Factory is a Université de Lyon program that encourages students to lend their talent and creativity to helping social and economic players innovate in new ways. This year, the Innovation Factory will continue to work with research professors at Université de Lyon institutions in order to help them learn all about creativity tools and how they can help their students become innovators.

Arqus has created a new multidisciplinary Arqus research network and platform to bolster research and scientific exchange on the Romance languages (linguistics, literature and cultural studies) within the Alliance.

The Académie de Lyon’s Board of Education and the Université de Lyon have been working together for several years to make university studies more accessible to students with disabilities and inform them of the steps they should plan for.

The new Resto’ Crous at the ENS de Lyon’s Monod campus in Gerland was officially opened on February 22, 2021. This marks the end of the renovation and extension works that began back in 2017 as part of Operation Campus and the Partnership Contract with NEOLYS/Demathieu et Bard, and managed by the Université de Lyon. The operation-maintenance phase is scheduled to last until 2044.

Bringing together students from each of Arqus’ seven universities for a week of online courses and collaborative working sessions. The students will work in groups to develop an interdisciplinary research project to map the climate risks of their local cities.

With the support of the French Regional Health Agency, France Assos Santé is launching a citizen challenge to allow young people aged 16-25 to express their health-related needs and expectations.

The Université de Lyon invites you to take a look at the list of winners from the “Cervical Cancer Screening” quiz contest and to watch the “Let’s talk a little, let’s talk about the truth; talk to the CRCDC AuRA” (Parlons Peu, Parlons Vrai, Parlons avec le CRCDC AuRA) video.

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

Local food for school cafeterias, rooftop gardens, access to rights in prison, support for transplant patients... Take a look at the six studies supported by the Université de Lyon’s Science Shop for 2021.

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated every year on February 11. This international event was introduced by the United Nations to promote equal access to and participation in science for women and girls and to highlight the great contributions that they have made to science and technology. To mark this event, the Arqus Alliance universities have decided to organize a webinar, open to all, to share their STEM expertise.

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

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (February 11), Arqus members decided to organize a webinar open to all, to promote their actions to raise awareness among young girls about STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and address issues of intersectionality and gender equality.

Accessible to all, this portal brings together internship offers from entrepreneurs / start-ups, academic and socioeconomic partners of the Arqus European University Alliance.

A new podcast series named “Arqus Knowledge Pills” brings the scientific expertise of the seven partner universities of the Arqus European University Alliance together – and directly to its listeners.

The Hairesis Project Workshop, led by Madalina Dana, winner of the 2019 IMPULSION call for projects, will be held on February 5, 2021.

On 3rd February at 17.30, a few days leading up to the celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Arqus European University Alliance will hold an online event on women and academia. The online discussion includes a special focus on the access and presence of women in "hard sciences" (women in STEM disciplines – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

A new incubator is set to open at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in the spring of 2021 as part of the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center’s Manufactory program, which is led by the Université de Lyon and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon.

A wide range of opportunities are available to doctoral students and young researchers from our member institutions, from specialized online courses and online summer and winter schools, to a wide range of other events and seminars led by world-renowned specialists.

Researchers from Arqus member institutions (the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and the Université Jean Monnet) have the opportunity to benefit from research support schemes provided by Arqus European partners.

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

Available in English, the Arqus newsletter will keep academic communities up to date with the opportunities and events organized by the Alliance.

Since its creation back in 2017, the Université de Lyon’s Disrupt’Campus teams up with the Métropole de Lyon to organize a series of lectures based on the themes covered in the Digital Transformation University Diploma. The next meeting, which will take place on January 25, 2021, will explore artificial intelligence.

Over 45% of students say they have sleep problems, which are often due to study-related stress. Because students need a high quality of life to flourish, the Université de Lyon and the Crous de Lyon have partnered with the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region to hold a two-week program promoting better sleep, running from January 25 to February 5, 2021.

For the third year running, the École urbaine de Lyon, supported by the Université de Lyon, invites you to attend its Anthropocene School Festival (À l’École de l’Anthropocène). The aim of this event is to help us gain a better understanding of urban worlds and global change through discussions and experiments with scientists, artists, activists, political figures and organizations. This third “hybrid” edition will explore the Anthropogenic Era without borders.

Having been an integral part of the Manufacture district, the creative heart of the Saint-Étienne area, for several years now, the Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory officially opened its D-Factory (Design Factory) in the new “Centre des Savoirs pour l’Innovation” (Knowledge Center for Innovation) on January 25.

The Economy Days, led by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, is organizing an Economy Evening based on the theme “2021: Balancing rebound and protection”, in partnership with the BRED and the French Association of Economic Science.

Through this project, Arqus aims to enhance the research and innovation dimension of the Alliance’s activities and to address current global societal challenges through intensified joint research, characterised by the pursuit of excellence, openness, transparency and effective engagement with society.

Campus France has produced a step-by-step video tutorial that shows you how to renew your residence permit online via the ANEF platform.

The ultra-high-field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) center in Lyon, a research unit supported by the CNRS, the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon), is launching an NMR platform specifically for companies. The NMR platform is part of a large group of platforms supported by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region: the Company-focused research and innovation facilities (Installations de recherche et d'innovation centrées entreprises – IRICE).

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

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

PULSALYS is launching the fifth program for local young doctors who are interested in creating a start-up. This program is supported by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, via the PEPITE BEELYS.

For the 2020/2021 academic year, the Université de Lyon is partnering with the Nightline organization and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region to offer a listening, support and information service for students experiencing psychological difficulties from the Lyon and Saint-Etienne institutions. The hotline, which was launched on November 14, 2020, is looking for new students to join its team of volunteers. Applications are open until Wednesday, February 10, 2021.

The three winners of the 2020 Young Researcher Prize have made a video to tell us all about their research projects and explain why they chose to come to Lyon.

The Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center, led by the Université de Lyon and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, is the winner of the Esprit d'entreprendre call for projects launched by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (via the PEPITE BEELYS).

The “Rhône Campus Alliance” (Alliance Campus Rhodanien – ACR) was created in 2017 with the aim of strengthening scientific and academic synergies between the University of Geneva, the Université Grenoble Alpes, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, the University of Lausanne, the Université de Lyon and the Université Savoie Mont Blanc due to their geographical proximity. It aims to encourage specific collaborations related to complementary and shared institutional expertise and facilities.

The BREXIT transition period will end on December 31, 2020.From January 1, 2021, British citizens will be subject to different procedures depending on when they arrived in France.

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

The IDEXLYON Industrial Chair in veterinary public health (santé publique vétérinaire - SPV), funded by the Université de Lyon and Boehringer Ingelheim, has been officially launched by the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and VetAgro Sup, in partnership with the Université de Lyon, Boehringer Ingelheim and the CNRS.

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

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

The Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center’s Lyon Start Up program, supported by the Université de Lyon and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, held its finals and awards ceremony for the 10th and 11th editions of the program on Thursday, December 10.

The University of Granada organizes the online conference “Virtual Exchange as an Instrument for the internationalization of the Curriculum”, by Francesca Helm from the Universito of Padua.

The three grant recipients from the Université de Lyon laboratories: from left to right Chloé Michaut, Yvon Jaillais and Angela Madeo.

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

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

The Université de Lyon met with Lab4Kids, which is developing a solution to help children and their families during blood tests. Supported by Campus Creation, a company creation simulation program/competition run by the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center, the team took part in the Arqus European University’s Virtual Company Creation Challenge.

2021 call for applications is now open.

The Université de Lyon and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon are launching the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center, a major platform to support entrepreneurship and skills development.

Launched on December 7, 2020, the Pack Ambition International call for projects aims to strengthen the reputation and recognition of higher education and research in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region throughout Europe and the rest of the world.

The AGORAé project, carried out by GAELIS, an independent and solidarity-based group of organizations and elected student representatives in Lyon, resumes providing essential items for students in difficulty..

The Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory organized a new edition of the national “48 Hours to Bring Ideas to Life®” challenge from November 26 to 28, 2020. An opportunity for companies to leverage student creativity to develop new ideas.

The Université de Lyon and Ayming, with the participation of the French National Organization of Research and Technology (Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie – ANRT), invite you to discover the benefits of the CIFRE thesis, as well as the best practices and the experience of a CIFRE scheme beneficiary, on December 3 at 11:30 AM.

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

Together with water, energy is one of the pillars of life and human activities. Nowadays it is impossible to make any reliable prediction about our future without a deep and unbiased reflection on energy. It underlies the most important topics like migrations, wars, tensions among countries, technological competition, public health and others.

An information session about H2020 European funding for the ERC’s scholarship program specifically for the Social Sciences will be held on Thursday, December 1st, 2020.

To celebrate the publication of the collective work “L'Art de chercher : l’enseignement supérieur face à la recherche-création” (The Art of Research: creative research in higher education), the Université de Lyon is hosting a webinar on December 1, 2020 to discuss the questions, expectations and challenges related to creative research.

The second wave of the pandemic will last until March and will take the lives of 55,000 people. This is the conclusion reached by a team of researchers from the University of Granada, Université de Lyon and University of Western Cape.

The University of Graz runs two programs to improve its teaching in English as part of the Arqus European University Alliance. These are “Certificate Teaching in English” and “Online Advanced Course”.

Given the negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis and its subsequent lockdown on students’ mental health, the Jean Bergeret Regional Institute has set up a special psychological support service for all students in the Lyon area.

After a week of public voting and jury rating, SonoTOM has won the 2020 Arqus Virtual Company Creation Challenge! The final had been programmed for the week of the 16th of November so as to be part of the activities organised for the 2020 Global Entrepreneurship Week.

A new podcast series named “Arqus Knowledge Pills” brings the scientific expertise of the seven partner universities of the Arqus European University Alliance together – and directly to its listeners.

After two days of pitching their projects, the winners of the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center’s Accelerated Young Companies (Jeunes Entreprises Accélérées – JEA) competition, led by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, were announced on Friday November 27. Read all about them in this article.

The Students Welcome Desk hotline is now closed. This three-month support program set up by the Université de Lyon to help international students with their administrative procedures and everyday issues came to an end on Friday, November 27 at 6:30 PM.

Rounds 2 of the Lyon Start Up 10 (the spring class) and Lyon Start Up 11 pitching competitions, organised by Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center carried by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, were held on November 24. At the end of the pitches, 20 projects were selected from a total of 50 projects presented by the 11th class, as well as 10 projects from a total of 20 projects from the 10th class.

Are you a student, professor, researcher or administrative staff member at one of the Arqus Alliance institutions? You are invited to take part in an online discussion workshop based on the theme of pedagogical excellence on Tuesday, November 24, 2020, from 2 PM to 3:30 PM.

The fifth Pop’Sciences Forum will run from November 24 to December 1st, 2020 and will focus on a range of energy transition issues, from concerns and myths to means of implementation. As with each edition of the Forum, a Pop’Sciences Mag will explore the various themes addressed, all while providing an overview of the current state of research conducted in Lyon and Saint-Étienne.

As part of its CURSUS+ project, the Université de Lyon is launching a series of lectures called “Students Successes” with a lecture of Marc Romainville called "The scale and factors of "success" at university". Redesigned in a 100% remote format opened to all, this event is an opportunity to review the new university entry support schemes, in particular those of CURSUS+.

The Foundation for the Université de Lyon held the 13th Economy Days (Journées de l’économie – Jéco) on November 17, 18 and 19, 2020. This year’s event was the first to be held in exclusively online.

Twenty years after the launch of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), the Ministers commit to a new vision for 2030, which will be more inclusive, more innovative and more interconnected. In the document, the Ministers also acknowledge the great challenges education is facing today as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

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

Virtual tours, scientific workshops, games, online exhibitions, and much more... Pop’Sciences invites you to re-experience the 29th Science Fair from the comfort of your own home, with over 30 online activities organized by the Rhône County research community that the whole family can enjoy.

From November 16 to 22, 2020, people will have the chance to vote on the Arqus website for their favourite business project, among the 5 final candidates proposed by Arqus Universities.

The Université de Lyon has teamed up with the Nightline Lyon and the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to officially launch its night-time hotline on Saturday, November 14, 2020. This free night-time helpline is run by students from Lyon and Saint-Étienne, for students from Lyon and Saint-Étienne, and will be available every day from 9:00 PM to 2:30 AM, both via online chat and by phone.

Registration is open to attend CLARA Cancéropôle’s 2020 French-Chinese symposium online event on Thursday, November 12 from 9 AM to 12:30 PM. This eighth edition will focus on reprogramming the tumor microenvironment.

On November 10, 2020, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon have put forward a brand new lecture as part of the Digital Transformation University Diploma. This event will be held online and will focus on the challenges involved in the use of technologies for learning and continuing education.portera sur le thème des enjeux des technologies pour l’apprentissage et la formation continue.

As part of the measures to contain the current epidemic, all Lyon and Saint-Étienne University Libraries (Bibliothèques universitaires – BUs) are once again adapting their services to best meet your needs during this difficult time. The teams are doing their utmost to ensure that these resources remain available to all who need them.

Local food for schoolchildren, green roofs, access to rights in prisons, levers for guidance for young people and more... Discover the 10 subjects of study offered in 2021 by the Science Shop.

The Université de Lyon and the Laboratoire Aménagement Économie Transports are organizing the “Urban Logistics Meetings” to be held on November 6, 2020. The event will involve researchers and professionals specializing in issues related to urban freight transportation.

The ‘Rendez-Vous de l’Emploi’ Forum (Employment meetings) - digital edition, organized by the Université de Lyon and its partners, is a unique opportunity for local recruiters to advertise their employment offers and select applicants from a pool of over 800 doctors. This year’s meetings will take place online on Thursday, November 5.

The Science Shop has invited a researcher, a social worker and a local member of the PoliCité collective to come and to discuss the study conducted in East Lyon as part of a seminar in November 2020. This seminar, initially scheduled for April 2020, will take place both in person and online.

The Innovation Factory is a Université de Lyon program that encourages students to use their talent and creativity to innovate in new ways. Its services are aimed at project leaders from the academic and socio-economic world. On November 5, it made its online opening to present its training facilities and services to research professors from the Université de Lyon institutions.

Eleven French-Brazilian projects were selected by the joint committee as part of the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa Do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)/Université de Lyon 2020 joint call for projects issued on October 7, 2020.

Intended for all members of the Arqus scientific community of Lyon Saint-Étienne, these opportunities aim to develop research activities with an international vocation: conferences, doctoral grants, etc.

The Manufactory Sans Souci incubator, a program run by the Université de Lyon’s Entrepreneurship Center and supported by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, is looking for students to join its 2020/21 class. Applications are open until December 3.

Having been trained by the Rhône-Alpes Auvergne Tobacco Institute (Institut Rhône-Alpes Auvergne de Tabacologie –IRAAT), the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1’s health students (Étudiants Relais Santé – ERS) are launching a podcast as part of the “Tobacco-free month”. They are here to support you and encourage you to take part in this nation-wide challenge, which invites all smokers to quit for one month with the support of their family and friends, starting November 1.

The Manufactory La Doua incubator, a program run by the Lyon and Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center and supported by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, launched its 2020/21 START and UP programs back in October. Take a look at the selected projects to find out more.

Do you represent a research laboratory? Are you a researcher, student, engineer or scientific mediator? Would you like to share your current research or your passion for science with a curious audience? If yes, why not apply to take part in the 2021 Pop’Sciences Festival?

The Université de Lyon and Pôle emploi (the employment center) are partnering with Verneil Formation to bring you the “Doc’ to Job” program. This program is designed for doctors who have been seeking employment for at least the last five months. The next class will begin in mid-November (the date will be announced soon).

The Arqus ISLYE (International Soft Landing for Young Entrepreneurs) program enables student entrepreneurs to work with Arqus European University member institutions’ incubators in order to develop their international development strategy.

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

If you are a doctoral or postdoctoral researcher, the Research Academy of Leipzig University offers you the opportunity to strengthen the skill sets you need as an early career researcher in a differentiated and tailored way and to actively plan the next steps on your career path.

The Université de Lyon has renewed its cooperation agreement with the University of Fudan for a period of five years. Fudan University is ranked 100th in the Shanghai 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU – Shanghai Ranking) and is ranked the sixth best Chinese university in this same world-class ranking.

In a letter dated October 19, 2020, Philippe Mauguin, Chairman and CEO of Inrae, renews his support for the Target-University project.

Today, we celebrate our first Arqus day, happy and excited as we share the challenge of building together bridges to the future of our seven universities.

The Arqus Café is a free, easy to access, easy to use online platform for students who are interested in practicing and improving their foreign language skills in a friendly, relaxed environment.

The Arqus European University is organizing a session of presentations and discussions with experts from the European Commission and Arqus member institutions on October 16, 2020, from 2 PM to 3 PM. The session will focus on the challenges and problems encountered, as well as their solutions, in order to enable all students to benefit from mobility experiences.

Replicability is traditionally considered the hallmark of good science. However, in some cases important published scientific findings have failed to replicate. What does this say about scientific practices? What are the causes and significance of this “replicability crisis”? And how should scientific communities, scientific institutions, policy makers and the general public react to it?

The Lyon Cité Campus project involves upgrading the Université Lumière Lyon 2 and Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 campuses and improving their energy efficiency. The north wing of the Palais building will be completed in September 2020, marking the end of construction works at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, which began in February 2017. Work is still in progress at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, and is scheduled for completion in August 2021.

The Saint-Étienne 2020 Erasmus Days will feature a series of briefings and activities focusing on the Arqus European University Alliance.

Through its 2017-2021 Regional Scheme for Higher Education, Research and Innovation, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region aims to support academic research projects conducted by research laboratories in public research institutions, including universities, higher education institutions, organizations and university hospitals.

In a letter dated October 14, 2020, the local economic stakeholders (Medef Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, CPME Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, CCIR Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Medef Lyon Rhône, Medef Loire, Medef Loire Nord Roanne, CPME Loire, CCI Lyon Métropole Saint-Étienne Roanne) affirm their desire to support the Target-University in its creation and labeling.

The 2020 world exhibition for those involved in international relations – the EAIE – has been redesigned to comply with current health regulations. The Université de Lyon expects that its participation in this exhibition will help it to develop its international partnerships and provide an opportunity to interact with academic and scientific communities from all over the world through online meetings.

Ten projects supported by the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center’s PEPITE BEELYS, led by the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon, were awarded prizes at the PEPITE Awards ceremony on Tuesday, October 6, 2020.

In a letter dated October 13, 2020, Antoine Petit, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique) provided support for the Lyon Saint-Étienne Target-University.

As part of the CREATIV' week, the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center’s PEPITE (Student Center for Innovation Transfer and Entrepreneurship) BEELYS, led by the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon, will host a series of online workshops from October 12 to 16, 2020.

The Université de Lyon provides students and young graduates working on an artistic project with support from professional cultural organizations in the Lyon and Saint-Étienne areas. Take a look at the eleven 2020 winning projects.

The Université de Lyon launches a call for applications to support the outgoing mobility of master’s students willing to carry out research internships in Japan.

The new 100% digital version of the BEELYS Campus Creation competition, a program run by BEELYS, a program of the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center and led by the Université de Lyon and the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon, was launched with an opening lecture on Thursday, October 8, 2020.

The Strategic Orientation Council, common to the Université de Lyon and the Fondation pour l'Université de Lyon, discussed the progress of the Target-University during its meeting on October 5, 2020.

In a letter dated October 6, 2020, the Chairman and CEO of Inserm provided support for the Target-University.

Over a hundred participants attended the international “strategic issues and major breakthroughs” webinar, which combined presentations and discussions on existing and future projects being developed as part of the Université de Lyon's International Alliance.

The École urbaine de Lyon, one of the two Convergence Institutes of the Université de Lyon, is organizing a Rentrée Anthropocène (Anthropocene back-to-school event) which will take place from October 2 to 10, 2020 in the higher education institutions of Lyon and Saint-Étienne.

On October 2, 2020, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon will launch a new series of lectures as part of the Digital Transformation University Diploma. This first lecture will focus on urban planning algorithms.

After the successful 2019 Science Fair, which brought together over 50,000 visitors in Lyon and the Rhône region, the Science Fair will return from October 2 to 12, 2020 in a completely new format. Fun, free and open to all; this year’s edition will feature nearly 200 different activities, which you can enjoy either in person at several locations or online from the comfort of your home.

The Université de Lyon met with Gérard Chuzel, who has been representing the UdL in Brazil since early 2020, to talk about his career and his daily responsibilities.

Vilnius University, one of the seven partner universities that form the Arqus Alliance, has awarded today the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to His Excellency the President of France Emmanuel Macron, for his idea of creating the European university initiative, the origin of the Arqus European University Alliance.

The INSA Lyon, the École Centrale de Lyon and the Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne are now among the 11 most environmentally friendly universities and public schools in France.

The Open Science Committee has just published its “Open Science Passport” for PhD students in search of tools and the best practices.

The new pathfinder group will explore how to maximize the benefits of mobility of students and staff in the changing context of the new decade. Thus, the experts will discuss issues such as sustainability, digitalization, inclusion and quality learning among many others.

Following the success of its first four sessions, the Université de Lyon’s RESETIS platform is launching a new MOOC session. Registration is open via the FUN-MOOC platform until Tuesday, October 20, 2020.

Six French-Brazilian projects have been selected as part of the Université de Lyon – University of São Paulo 2019 joint call for projects.

The École urbaine de Lyon, supported by the Université de Lyon, has launched a call for projects to participate in the 2021 Anthropocene School Festival (À l’École de l’Anthropocène)! All institutions, laboratories, researchers, professors and students wishing to propose a project for this edition are asked to respond to this call for participation no later than September 21, 2020.

The plastronics training course started on Friday, September 11, 2020, in the presence of Mathieu Bancelin, Director of New Technologies for the Intelligent Exterior Systems Division at Plastic Omnium, the course sponsor.

The memorandum of understanding between the Université de Lyon and the China Scholarship Council (CSC) stipulates that the Lyon Saint-Étienne site’s institutions will host around thirty Chinese doctoral students per year.

The 11th edition of Lyon Start Up, a Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center program led by the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon, was launched on Thursday, September 17, 2020. It is an opportunity for the team, applicants and partners to get to know each other, as well as to meet this year’s sponsor, Émilie Legoff, founder of Troops.

L’Étudiant magazine’s 2020-2021 rankings placed Lyon as the second best city for student quality of life for the second year in a row.

This class, despite its small size, remains extremely diverse, both in terms of countries of origin and disciplines.

The respective objectives of these two projects are to set up student entrepreneurship initiatives and to develop dual/multiple diplomas within the Arqus consortium.

Do you belong to a student organization and would you like to lead a project that would benefit other students at the Lyon Saint-Étienne sites? 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.

The THNS2020 forum entitled "Mega Project and Urban Transforming " was initially scheduled in Shanghai. Due to the current circumstances, it will be held online jointly with the T2M forum (18th International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility). This joint conference will be open to participants all over the world on October 22-23 and October 29-30.

Intended for all members of the Arqus scientific community in Lyon & Saint-Étienne, these opportunities aim to jointly develop research activities (medium and long-term projects, research stays) as well as the skills of the individuals leading them (networking, mentoring for young researchers).

The particular health situation and the future development of certain procedures are modifying the conditions for receiving and renewing residence permits.

The Université de Lyon (UdL), with the support of IDEXLYON, launches international calls for projects with the aim of strengthening its research and training collaborations with partners in Shanghai (China) and in Japan.

For the start of the academic year, the Université de Lyon informs you about your health and helps you see more clearly about access to care. Discover or rediscover our health portal, now enriched with two new devices: the 100% optical health care offer and M'T Dents (Love Your Teeth) scheme.

The Université de Lyon met with Nawel Boughanem, an alumnus of the “Lockdown graduating class” of the Digital Transformation University Diploma program.

The Université de Lyon met with Louise Chabert, a student at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3. Louise decided to end her studies with an internship at the Université de Lyon’s Science Shop and to use her skills to work on social creativity.

The HYBRID IT project was created as part of the PIA 3 (Programme investissements d’avenir 3) call for “Higher Education Training Hybridization” projects. The State has awarded one million euros in funding to launch the project.

The Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon support students in their initiatives by offering a free organization leadership training program. To help us build a program for the new academic year that best meets everyone’s expectations, please fill out a short survey that was launched this summer.

To further its aim of promoting research and the transfer of knowledge to civil society, PULSALYS, the Technology Transfer Acceleration Office in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, is launching the fourth edition of its program for local young doctors. This program will give them an opportunity to further develop the results from their thesis or during their post-doctorate careers for a year, while receiving funding and personalized support.

The 100 projects selected to join the 11th Lyon Start Up program, led by the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon, were unveiled on July 20, 2020.

Discover what ITECH LYON textile engineering student Lisa Filippi had to say about taking part in the 2018/19 Campus Creation program.

Researchers at the Institute for Catalysis and Environmental Research of Lyon (Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l’environnement de Lyon – Ircelyon) are currently testing a method that uses chemical compounds in the breath to detect Covid-19.

A second Manufactory incubator, a program run by the Université de Lyon’s Entrepreneurship Center and supported by the Fondation pour l’Université de Lyon, is being set up on the LyonTech-la Doua site. Applications to join the class of 2020/21 are open until September 14.

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

The Innovation Academy is open to doctoral students at the Lyon and Saint-Étienne sites. The hands-on training program is designed around innovation management and understanding business strategies. Four teams worked to develop a business project, from the idea to the business plan. These projects were awarded based on both a presentation before the Innovation Academy jury and a public vote.

The new Figaro Étudiant ranking puts Lyon as the second best city to study in.

The designer Éric Jourdan has been appointed Director of the École supérieure art et design de Saint-Étienne (Esadse), one of the Université de Lyon’s associated institutions. He assumed the position on July 1, 2020.

The Innovation Academy, which invites doctoral students to experience an entrepreneurial adventure together, will come to an end under rather exceptional circumstances this year. Come and take part in the final challenge from June 30 to July 5 and vote for the most convincing project!

The Université de Lyon met with Marie Lopez Y Laso, an environmental geography student at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne. She decided to round off her “Biodiversity, Landscapes and the Environment” Master’s degree by completing a participatory research internship with the Université de Lyon’s Science Shop. The future graduate is using her skills to help the ACOPREV organization, which was founded by the inhabitants of Saint-Julien-en-Quint to find a way to produce renewable energy in the Drôme region.

The Université de Lyon met with Mila Daval, a social and environmental psychology student at the Université de Nîmes. Mila decided to end her studies with an internship at the Université de Lyon’s Science Shop and to use her skills to work on social innovation. In February 2020, she joined Tissu Solidaire, an organization that uses sewing as a mediation tool to encourage the social inclusion and professional integration of refugees.

For the second year running, the IDEXLYON is launching the ELAN-ERC scheme to support and guide researchers and research lecturers in preparing their applications for the European Research Council’s (ERC) call for projects.

In April, 70,000 students responded to the Centre National de Ressources et de Résilience (CN2R) research center’s prospective study to determine the psychological effects of the Covid-19 lockdown. Today, students from the Université de Lyon are invited to take part in the second phase of this study.

In May 2020, the Université de Lyon signed a three-year framework agreement with the New York University in Shanghai.

Watch live the academic dialog that will explore how the Covid-19 has affected and will continue to affect scientific knowledge and citizenship as key components in western democratic societies.

As part of the measures to contain the current epidemic, all Lyon and Saint-Étienne university libraries have adapted their services, but will remain closed to the public until further notice.

The Université de Lyon held an online Pop’Sciences Forum to mark World Ocean Day. “Should we leave the Oceans alone?” On June 8, three guest speakers appeared on the event’s “improvised set” to address this issue.

Are you a researcher at the Université de Lyon who wants to share your passion? Submit your project before July 14 to take part in the 16th European Researchers’ Night, which will take place on November 27, 2020, in Saint-Étienne.

Do you belong to an organization, a neighborhood council or another group of citizens? Do you have a particular social issue or do you work in the social and solidarity-based economy? 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 before June 7, 2020, and the Université de Lyon will help you to find answers.

The Emergency Mentoring Program is open to students and other volunteers who would like to offer remote support to young people facing educational disruption during the COVID-19 crisis.

The fifth graduating class of the Université de Lyon’s Digital Transformation University Diploma program proudly invites you to attend their Digit’Era Day, which will take place online on June 4, 2020.

The Université de Lyon will fund research projects with the potential to provide short or medium-term solutions to the Covid-19 crisis. This funding will be provided through the IDEXLYON.

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

Find out who won the “Immunization” quiz contest and discover the new immunization information page on the Université de Lyon’s website.

The Digital Sciences and Uses University Diploma (Diplôme universitaire Sciences et Usages du Numérique – DU-SUN) is a training program that focuses on digitally managing and transforming organizations. The program is provided by the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and the Université de Lyon’s Disrupt’Campus. The first course will start in September 2020.

From the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, the entire French research community, from life sciences to human and social sciences, has been working hard to develop effective treatments against the spread of the virus and to assess the social impact of this crisis. Researchers at the Lyon and Saint-Étienne sites are no exception, having carried out many studies on COVID-19.

The Université de Lyon met with Nicolas Goiran, an alumnus of the 2019 September graduating class of the Digital Transformation University Diploma program.

The third HubLo Festival, jointly organized by the BEELYS PEPITE, Lyon Start Up and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon, was set to take place on May 13 and 14 at H7. As a result of the current exceptional circumstances, it will now be held online, starting on April 30.

Registration for the 2020-2021 Respite Inter-University Diploma (Diplôme Inter-Universitaire – DIU) opened on February 1, 2020. This diploma was created by the “Fondation France Répit” [the French Respite Foundation], working on behalf of the Foundation for the Université de Lyon. It is led by the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and the Université Jean Monnet.

The Université de Lyon opens two calls for professors and researchers for the development of innovative training programs (AL3) and for the development of research collaborations (AL6)

From April 24 to 26, the European Commission will launch a pan-European hackathon to invite all European citizens to work together to develop innovative solutions for coronavirus-related challenges

In the context of the Covid-19 epidemic, the Université de Lyon and its institutions are committed to bridging the digital divide and have devised an emergency plan for students to provide them with computer equipment and internet access. The Métropole de Lyon is financially supporting this initiative.

In light of recent Covid-19 developments, measures have been put in place for the IDEXLYON 2020 projects.

As part of the European Immunization Week, the Université de Lyon, in partnership with its member and associated institutions’ health services (SSU – services de santé universitaire), is organizing a quiz contest for students at its member and associated institutions.

The Research Ethics Review Board will be an integral part of the RESETIS platform. Its main task will be to provide an advisory opinion on research protocols to researchers and research professors at the Université de Lyon.

“Discovery”, a real-time, adaptive clinical trial, will test four different treatments against Covid-19 and will enroll 800 patients in France.

In order to guarantee the continuity of vital activities for the most precarious, the online platform jeveuxaider.gouv.fr was launched by the FRench Government. It is built in conjunction with the largest associative networks, and will allow all those who can and who wish to give their time so that the most vulnerable are not the first victims of the Covid-19 health crisis.

In addition to the urgent need to take action against climate change, there are a number of solutions that already exist or that need to be further explored. This is why the Université de Lyon has joined forces with the École urbaine de Lyon to organize a major lecture entitled “Climate change, what can we do about it?” which will be held at 6 PM on March 10.

This special issue, published as part of the 2020 Brain Awareness Week, highlights the research that reveals how our emotions influence the choices we make, how they are linked to addiction and habits, how they are used for communication purposes, and much more.

In the midst of this unprecedented outbreak, it is important to prevent the spread of false information and seek information from verified sources. Academic research, especially that which is conducted at the Lyon and Saint-Étienne sites, can provide answers to your questions.

In light of the recent recommendations, we can confirm that the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and the Université Lumière Lyon 2’s health services will remain open to all students in Lyon. These two health centers have set up a hotline for all Université de Lyon students, regardless of their home institution.

The weather is nice, you are no longer at university, and for most of you, you think you will not be exposed to serious risks if you get coronavirus-Covid 19.

During the lockdown, the Université de Lyon’s Science Shop program has adapted its activities in order to maintain contact with the associative sector, as well as with students involved in ongoing projects.

On March 13 2020, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon will kick offer a brand new lecture as part of the Digital Transformation University Diploma. This lecture will focus on artificial intelligence.

The Université de Lyon met with Isabelle Cohen, an alumnus of the March 2020 Digital Transformation University Diploma graduating class.

The fifth edition of the Digital Transformation University Diploma program will take place from March 2 to July 7, 2020. Applications are already open for students in initial or continuous training.

The Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa Do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) and the Université de Lyon are launching a joint call for projects for researchers and professor-researchers in support of the most innovative and ambitious areas of research.

The Université de Lyon is organizing the second support and accompaniment scheme for student art creations. This scheme is designed to provide students and young graduates working on an artistic project with support from professional cultural organizations in the Lyon and Saint-Etienne areas.

Are you a doctor who’s been looking for work for at least five months? Would you like to join the corporate world? Do you need a helping hand? If so, then Doc’ to Job is for you!

This was the 11th annual French-Japanese engineering sciences workshop, which brings together the entire ElyT community (IRP ElyT Global and IRL ElyT MaX). This year featured an opening based on the subject of oncology.

The Université de Lyon’s Science Shop is organizing a research seminar entitled “Understanding poverty with those who live it”. This event will take place on Wednesday, February 12, 2020, from 6:30 PM to 8 PM at the Université de Lyon.

Following the success of its first three sessions, the Université de Lyon’s RESETIS platform is launching its MOOC’s fourth session. Registration is open via the FUN-MOOC platform until May 5, 2020.

The 100 projects selected to join the Lyon Start Up 10 program were unveiled on February 12, 2020.

Over 45% of students say they have sleep problems, which are often due to study-related stress. 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 10 to 21, 2020.

As part of the IDEXLYON project, the Université de Lyon’s 12 Laboratories of Excellence (LabEx) will co-organize a science day on February 6, 2020 based on the theme of “Artificial Intelligence: Transformations and Challenges”.

The Université de Lyon, with the support of IDEXLYON, is launching a call for applications to support the development of existing and sustainable research collaborations with Canada.

Students committed to building a more inclusive and sustainable society.

The UdL Sports Association (AS UdL) teams shone during the French Indoor Athletics Championship held in Rennes on Thursday, January 30, 2020.

The DeepTech Tour is a Bpifrance event that brings together 20 university campuses, local economic players and innovation support structures. The Université de Lyon is set to host the event in Lyon on January 30, 2020.

For the second year running, the École urbaine de Lyon is organizing its major multidisciplinary event “À l’École de l’anthropocène” (At the Anthropocene School), from January 27 to February 2. This week-long festival will provide many opportunities to learn, debate and build upon ideas alongside scientists, thinkers, artists, politicians and organizations, with a variety of presentations and activities.

On January 24 and 25, the entrepreneurs selected for the 2020 Accelerated Young Companies (JEA – Jeunes Entreprises Accélérées)* pre-acceleration program came together for a weekend to take part in the Winter Session.

As part of its training courses for student organizations, the Université de Lyon has partnered with the Métropole de Lyon to provide the “Establishing, managing and running an organization” training program which will be hosted by the CREF on January 23.

After competing in the French University 2nd Division Judo Championships on Thursday, January 23, 2020 in Rouen, the AS UdL judokas came back with no fewer than eight medals, including one gold medal.

On January 23, 2020, the Université de Lyon (UdL) and the Canadian University Dubai (CUD) signed a memorandum of understanding encouraging UdL member institutions to develop specific collaborations.

The Université de Lyon has joined forces with the Nightline organization and the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to offer a listening, support and information service for students with psychological difficulties from the Lyon and Saint-Étienne institutions.

As part of its training courses for student organizations, the Université de Lyon has partnered with the Métropole de Lyon to provide the “Sustainable development and citizenship” training program which will be hosted by the CROS Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Are you a professor, professor-researcher or curriculum developer? Would you like to develop your teaching skills? The Université de Lyon is launching a series of meetings: “Mondays dedicated to teaching in higher education”, whose introductory afternoon will focus on “Learning spaces, resources and practices”.

In response to a human resources innovation challenge, the Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory and Alstom have teamed up to organize a PEP’S, a Multidisciplinary Team Project, with the aim of developing one of the winning concepts. They are now looking for two professors to mentor the students taking part in the project.

On August 20, 2019, Lyon was selected to host the 47th edition of the World Skills Competition, which will take place in 2023. Since the early stages of the project, the Université de Lyon has been working alongside the Métropole de Lyon and various other local players in an effort to mobilize the strengths of Lyon's higher education system for this major international competition.

The Foundation for the Université de Lyon has revealed its new website, which is more in keeping with the Université de Lyon’s image.

On the afternoon of Wednesday, January 15, the Académie de Lyon’s Board of Education and the Université de Lyon held an information forum for all high-school juniors and seniors with disabilities (PPS, PAP, PAI) to provide information on higher education and post-baccalaureate studies (universities, higher education institutions, or grandes écoles, BTS – advanced technician’s certificate, CPGE- Preparatory classes for the grandes écoles, etc.).

To mark the launch of the world’s first veterinary public health hub in Lyon, the Université de Lyon, in partnership with La Tribune and other local players, is organizing a conference entitled “Veterinary Public Health: A medical and economic challenge” on January 14 at Boehringer Ingelheim.

On January 10 2020, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon will kick off the New Year by offering a brand new lecture as part of the Digital Transformation University Diploma. This lecture will focus on marketplace platforms.

The [kosmopoli:t] game, designed by researchers from the Language dynamics laboratory (DDL, CNRS / Université Lumière Lyon 2, LabEx ASLAN), is to be revealed in a preview at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 on Wednesday January 8, at 6 PM.

The 13th BEELYS Accelerated Young Companies (JEA) pre-acceleration program was presented in a launch party at Boehringer Ingelheim on Tuesday January 7. This evening was an opportunity for the selected start-ups to pitch their projects and to meet with partners of the Université de Lyon’s Entrepreneurship Center.

In order to satisfy the expectations of international scientists, the Espace Ulys website has been given a new look.

Within its outreach and internationalization policy, the Université de Lyon and its member institutions carried out different activities in 2019 in the United States, mainly in the State of Pennsylvania, with the support of the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

As part of its Energy and Ecological Transition strategy, the Université de Lyon has joined forces with the Crous de Lyon, the Métropole de Lyon and Saint-Étienne Métropole to respond to the Agir Ensemble (Act Together) call for projects.

On December 10, the Université de Lyon and the Métropole de Lyon are co-organizing a lecture as part of the Digital Transformation university diploma, on the theme of digital steering in businesses.

The finals and awards ceremony of the ninth Lyon Start Up program were held on Tuesday, December 10. With four months of training full of discussions and sharing, participants came away from the BEELYS program with a wealth of experience.

As part of IDEXLYON, 24 laureates of the IMPULSION call for projects were announced for amounts of 1.3 million euros.

Since 2017, the Université de Lyon has been working to develop a cultural policy for the whole site. The aim of this policy is to raise awareness of the educational and cultural programs that each institution has to offer, and to host ambitious events involving several Université de Lyon institutions as well as local cultural partners.

IN-SITU, the Université de Lyon’s innovation week, was held from November 26 to December 4, 2019.

PULSALYS and the Université de Lyon wish to invite you to the “PULSALYS celebrates its highlights” event on December 4, which this year will exceptionally host the closing evening of IN-SITU, the Université de Lyon's innovation week.

Following the international jury hearings on November 28, 2019, the IDEXLYON project – 2020 Université de Lyon – received a favorable response.

As part of its policy to encourage international applications, the Université de Lyon held its first Staff Week, which took place from November 4 to 8, focusing on the most important aspects of its international relations. It involved more than forty participants, including at least ten European partners.

Beelys, the Université de Lyon's student-entrepreneur center, has won the “Esprit d’Entreprendre” Call for Expression of Interest launched by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation for the international orientation of young entrepreneurs.

The Métropole de Lyon has just unveiled its new Regional Climate Air and Energy Plan (Plan Climat Air Énergie Territorial – PCAET). The Université de Lyon and the Crous de Lyon are once again PCAET co-signatories, and together with the other partners, pledge to work towards a carbon-neutral and climate-friendly area by 2050.

The Université de Lyon welcomed a delegation of students from the Tongji University’s “Tongji’s Engineers of Excellence in France and French-speaking countries” (TEEF) program.

As part of its development initiatives in Japan, the Université de Lyon organized a consultation between its academic players and the Science and Technology Department of the French Embassy in Japan with a view to improving the university’s profile and attractiveness.

The 28th Science Fair, held in the Rhône County and organized by the Université de Lyon, took place from 3 to 13 October, 2019 under the theme “Telling the story of science, imagining the future”. Let's take a look back at this unforgettable scientific event.

The FAPESP Week, organized jointly by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Université de Lyon, was officially launched in Lyon on November 21 and 22, 2019. This two-day symposium is a testimony to the site's scientific potential, as well as the importance the alliance between the Université de Lyon and the State of São Paulo.

Since its launch in 2015, the Université de Lyon's anti-plagiarism campaign, entitled “Fantastic plagiarists and how to spot them”, has been a great success amongst the university community. Thanks to this guide on how to prevent plagiarism, students, university staff, and even the professors, researchers and administrative staff, have no excuses for misquoting their sources!

As part of IDEXLYON, five projects were announced as the winners of the Scientific Breakthrough Program call for projects, for amounts of up to 1.2 million euros per project.

The Université de Lyon is co-organizing the 2019 Europe Ambition Day, which will be held on November 18. This will provide an opportunity for many local companies and research centers to obtain European funding.

In 2018, the Université de Lyon and its member institutions built a Career Center to promote the professional value of the doctorate experience. As part of this project, the Université de Lyon has launched a group for PhD students and doctors on LinkedIn, the professional social networking website. This group also includes recruiters and partners linked to the PhD program.

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

On November 14, 2019, the Université de Lyon and the Kuwaiti Embassy’s Cultural Office in France signed a collaboration framework agreement.

From November 13 to 28, 2019, the third edition of the Pop’Sciences Forum, entitled “What inspires athletes”, will adopt scientific approaches to study sport and physical activity, in order to better understand the bodies and minds of those involved. A wide range of kinds of meetings aimed at passionate sportsmen and women, professionals in the field or mere science enthusiasts!

The Université de Lyon and entrepreneurs from Beelys and Lyon StartUp look forward to welcoming you to the Entrepreneurship Center Programs’ launch party at the Université de Lyon on November 12, 2019.

An exhibition on the new global landscape of infinite places to discover will be on display at the Halles du Faubourg until December 29. An exhibition co-produced by the Lyon Urban School and Encore Heureux Architects.

The Foundation for the Université de Lyon is organizing the twelfth Economy Days on November 5, 6 and 7, in collaboration with the ENS de Lyon. This event is entirely free and accessible to all. Registration is mandatory.

You are invited to take part in various sessions based on a wide range of subjects (international student and researcher reception facilities, international programs, the professional integration of students and doctors, and the Erasmus program) with professors and administrative staff from the Lyon Saint-Étienne site (the Université de Lyon and its member institutions).

Take part to the Staff Week organized in Lyon and Saint-Étienne by the Université de Lyon and its members insitutions, from 4 to 8 November 2019.

Supporting the position of caregivers, supporting female victims of gender-based violence and sexual abuse, citizen-supported energy transition projects, inclusive housing for senior citizens, etc.: find out more about the 14 internships proposed by the Science Shop program in 2020!

In conjunction with the Entretiens Jacques Cartier, which were held from November 4 to 6, 2019, the Université de Lyon and the University of Ottawa renewed their partnership by amending the framework agreement which they signed five years ago.

Players from the UdL Sports Association (AS UdL) were welcomed by China in Zhuhai for the fifth French-Chinese University Sports Week, from October 26 to November 3, 2019, as part of relations between the French University Sports Federation (FFSU) and its Chinese counterpart (FUSC).

On October 10, 2019, the University of Ottawa and the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 concluded a research collaboration in the legal sector: the “Ottawa/Lyon Joint-Chair – Individual avatars and modern-day issues concerning liability under private law”. This collaboration is supported by the Université de Lyon as part of the IDEXLYON project.

The graduation ceremony for the second and third graduating class of the Université de Lyon’s innovative program, the Digital Transformation University Diploma (DU), was held on October 21. 27 students graduated in the 2018/19 academic year.

The Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory and Lyon Parc Auto are organizing an ideation challenge on October 17 and 18, with a new challenge for students: “Redesign your neighborhood parking lot”.

Following the success of the first Inter-University seminar, the four universities of the Lyon Saint-Étienne site organized a second event in the spring, this time highlighting new educational approaches. On October 17, the Université Jean Monnet invites the entire higher education and research community to present a summary of these collective works.

On October 17 and 18, the Université de Lyon hosted the second edition of the Knowledge Summit, a joint French-Indian summit dedicated to higher education, research and innovation. 300 people from both countries gathered for the occasion, in the company of Minister Frédérique Vidal, to draw up a common strategy to tackle the major future societal challenges.

The ARQUS European University Alliance project was presented on October 18, as part of a public event at the University of Granada. This presentation followed the constitution of the ARQUS Presidents’ council, the governing body responsible for establishing the general policies, strategies and the main objectives of the consortium. The partnership agreement was subsequently sanctioned by representatives from the seven universities.

The ‘Rendez-Vous de l'Emploi’ Forum in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, organized by the Université de Lyon, is a unique opportunity for local recruiters to advertize their employment offers and select applicants from a pool of more than 800 doctors on Wednesday, October 16 at the Hôtel de Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, in Lyon.

The Université de Lyon’s celebration of the new academic year was held on October 15, 2019, in the Université de Lyon’s Grand Amphitheater, based on the theme of Europe.

From October 15 to December 23, 2019, students will give their opinions on major societal issues as part of the new National Student Consultation launched by the French Student Network for Sustainable Development.

As part of his visit to the VIASM governance at the ENS de Lyon and Labex MILYON, Ngô Bảo Châu will give two presentations on “The geometry of the Hitchin fibration”.

The French Consulate General in São Paulo has teamed up with São Paulo’s three State universities, the University of São Paulo (USP), the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho University (UNESP), to launch the tenth call for applications for professors or researchers from French institutions for research and of higher education.

The Digital Transformation University Diploma began its fourth year at the Université de Lyon on September 16, 2019.

Are you a student in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes who wants to change the rules? Do you have what it takes to build a world based on your values? Take part in the regional challenge for the best student Idea, co-organized by the Beelys PEPITE.

On October 8, as a celebration of the 2019 Biennale de Lyon, the Université de Lyon is organizing an Art(s) in Research seminar entitled “creative research in higher education”. Professors, students, researchers and artists are getting involved with the Anciennes Usines Fagor-Brandt in Lyon, and invite participants to reflect on transmission, experimentation and recognition.

The Université de Lyon has issued a call for 2020 CURSUS+ projects, as part of CURSUS+ winning the call for “New university programs” projects.

To further its aim of promoting research and the transfer of knowledge to civil society, PULSALYS, the Technology Transfer Acceleration Office (SATT) in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, is launching the second edition of its program for local young doctors. This program will give them an opportunity to further develop the results from their thesis or during their post-doctorate careers for a year, while receiving funding and personalized support.

This year’s Science Fair in the City of Lyon and the Rhône County looks promising, with a rich program focusing on digital technologies, space, health and the environment. Through over 300 activities organized within laboratories, research institutions, organizations, libraries, businesses, museums, communities, and many more… Come and discover science, question it, experience it!

On Thursday, October 3, researchers, the public and officials gathered at the Musée des Confluences to mark the launch of the Science Fair in the City of Lyon and the Rhône region.

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

According to its policies: international mobility during the doctoral studies and post-doctoral career development, the Université de Lyon will finance, in collaboration with Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the attendance of interested doctoral Students at the Nature Careers Live expo, which is organized in London on October 3, 2019.

To mark the start of the academic year, the Université de Lyon has teamed up with Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , the Assurance maladie and the Crous, to once again launch its information campaign for students, providing them with a better understanding of the health care system, and to underline the importance of taking care of yourself, even when you are still young.

On September 27, the Université de Lyon and the City of Lyon are co-organizing a lecture on the “Protection of personal data and the GDPR” as part of the Disrupt’Campus training program at the Université de Lyon.

The Université de Lyon met with Constance Robeyns, head of research and development at Robatel Industries and a participant in the first Doc’Talks event held by the Université de Lyon.

Sixteen member and associate institutions of the Université de Lyon took part in the 2019 EAIE international exhibition, bringing together 6,200 higher education and research specialists from across Europe and around the world.

Building on the success of the first two events, which brought together 1,000 French and Chinese figures from the economic and academic worlds, the French-Chinese Confluences Forum returns to Lyon on September 23 and 24, 2019.

The delegation of the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil, historical partner of the Université de Lyon in the framework of the International Alliance, was welcomed on Monday, September 23 by Presidents Khaled Bouabdallah of the Université de Lyon, Jacques Comby from the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and Frédéric Fleury from the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, mentioning a fruitful cooperation.

These programs aim at fostering new research collaborations between France and Canada.

The Delegation of the UNESP in Brazil composed of Sandro Roberto Valentini, Rector of UNESP (center) as part of the presentation of its PRINT program to French institutions was welcomed on Thursday, September 19 by the President of the Université de Lyon, Khaled Bouabdallah (left) and the Université de Lyon Vice President of International Strategy Jacques Comby (right).

The aim of the French Embassy’s “Japan Exploration” program is to encourage researchers to travel to Japan, in order to launch new French-Japanese scientific collaborative partnerships.

National research funding agencies in France (Agence nationale de la recherche), Japan (Japan Science and Technology Agency) and Germany (Deutsche ForschungsGemeinschaft) are joining forces to launch a call for projects to support artificial intelligence research projects of excellence.

The second season of the Lyon Urban School’s “Anthropocene Wednesdays” starts on September 18, with a program which opens up exciting new areas for thought.

IDEXLYON and the PULSALYS SATT, with support from the ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency) are launching a new joint call for projects on September 17: Tech4Earth.

The Université de Lyon met with de Stéphanie Ruphy, Chief Scientific Officer of the Social and environmental responsibility, research ethics and scientific integrity (RESETIS) platform.

To mark the start of the academic year, the Marie Curie library is hosting the Science Shop program’s exhibition until October 4, 2019. This is an opportunity to discover this program which enables organizations and citizen groups to receive expert advice from a team of academics by bringing students from various subject areas together.

The Université de Lyon welcomed the Cultural Attaché from the Kuwaiti Embassy’s Cultural Office in France to discuss possible student mobility collaborations between the Université de Lyon and Kuwaiti universities. A framework agreement is expected to be signed this fall.

The Université de Lyon met with Laura Ferreri, a research professor at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 since September 2018, and winner of the 2019 IMPULSION grant.

Created in 2016 by the Ecofect LabEx and the Faculty of Medicine of Lyon 1, the “Evolutionary Biology” Degree aims to introduce evolutionary thinking in the health professions.

The Université de Lyon congratulates the three young researchers and research professors from the Lyon Saint-Étienne site who received the 2019 ERC (European Research Council) Starting grants.

This guide was written to reassure all international students with reliable information and guide them step by step through all of the administrative hurdles, so that their experience will be a successful one. It is as down-to-earth and practical as possible, answering the most common questions they might ask when organizing their trip and their life in France.

The young rowers of the Université de Lyon’s Sports Association team returned from these European University Championships with a European Championship title, a bronze medal and a nice fifth-place finish.

On August 20 in Kazan (Russia), Lyon’s bid was selected to host the WorldSkills 2023 Competition. Every other year, this international competition celebrates the world’s top young professionals in over 50 technical, technological, artisanal and service professions. The City of Lyon and the Université de Lyon congratulate all the WorldSkills France teams who have applied.

As part of the partnership between the Fondation pour l'Université de Lyon, the Université de Lyon and the City of Lyon, a fund has been set up to enable seven student-entrepreneur projects to fund their prototyping process.

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

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.