The European Alliance partner

The Université de Lyon's European strategy, which builds on the wide variety of educational exchanges taking place within the Erasmus+ program and numerous individual researcher collaborations (over 60% of UdL publications), is structured around strong bilateral cooperation with its cross-border partners (Western Switzerland and northern Italy) and large European funding programs (Erasmus+, Horizon 2020 and Interreg).
This strategy will be extensively expanded and solidified through IDEXLYON.

The Université de Lyon conducts ambitious projects to enhance the employability of its PhD students. The "After the PhD" project serves this purpose through its international and multicultural dimension. The project, which began in 2014, has established a cross-border partnership with institutions from 4 regions (Rhône-Alpes, Western Switzerland, Piedmont and Lombardy):

• Switzerland: CUSO (University Conference of Western Switzerland)
• Italy :
  • Polytechnic University of Turin
  • UUniversity of Turin
  • UUniversity of Milano-Bicocca

The first phase of the project (2014 and 2015) was aimed at pooling each partner's territorial data concerning the employability of its doctors.
The 'After your PhD' website (http://apresledoctorat.universite-lyon.fr) was created to provide an analysis of the data collected and to provide a picture of the employability of young PhD students across the four regions.
During the project's second phase (2016), the partners organized a Doctoral Workshop which aimed to improve the employability of PhD students and to improve mutual understanding with the business world.

In 2017, five universities from the Lake Geneva area and the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes teamed up to create the "Rhône Campus Alliance" to strengthen scientific synergies between the Université de Lyon, the University of Geneva, the Université Grenoble Alpes, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland and the University of Lausanne.
The "Rhône Campus Alliance" network is based on the sharing of resources and skills between the five institutions and using their geographical proximity to develop collaborations in four main areas: energy, sustainable development, neuroscience and health. It contributes to the strengthening of world-class innovation within the regions, which has significant local, European and international outreach.