News "Innovation and entrepreneurship"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 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’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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.