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Launched in 2020, the CER-UdL will hold its first blue-ribbon committee on January 20, 2022. The committee’s main task is to provide an advisory opinion on research protocols (both for basic and applied research) to researchers and research professors at the Université de Lyon.

The Université de Lyon congratulates the two young researchers from the Lyon Saint-Étienne site who have received prestigious “Starting Grants” from the European Research Council (ERC) for their research projects.

On March 30, the Ministry of Culture named Villeurbanne as the “2022 French Capital of Culture” for its “Place aux jeunes” project. In 2022, Villeurbanne will host a total of 700 events, 30 festivals, 200 concerts, 14 minimixes, 300 shows, 22 heritage tours, 4 major exhibitions...

For its article series on animal well-being, Pop’Sciences met with scientists from different disciplines involved in animal welfare research in Lyon and Saint-Étienne. Eight articles are available on the Pop’Sciences website, in a free and open format.

The fourth edition of the “À l'École de l'Anthropocène” (Anthropocene School) festival will be held from January 24 to 30 and will offer an open, sensitive, citizen-based program focusing on global change as part of “Villeurbanne 2022, the French Capital of Culture” event, and will be hosted in one of its iconic venues: Le Rize.

The MANUTECH-SLEIGHT Graduate School organized its seventh interdisciplinary week. The event took place from January 10 to 14 and focused on the theme of light-surface engineering.