Lyon Saint-Etienne Engineering Alliance

LYON SAINT-ÉTIENNE Engineering Alliance is currently the only educational and scientific project to have emerged from the joint efforts of four leading public engineering schools.

Since 2022, Centrale Lyon, ENTPE, INSA Lyon and Mines Saint-Étienne have decided to pool their resources and join forces to address three transition challenges: decarbonised industry and society, the circular economy and responsible digital society.

In other words, the Lyon-Saint-Étienne Engineering Alliance is the realisation of an ecosystem of expertise enabling the training of engineers and scientists, innovation and research, and the production of knowledge and solutions, with one goal in mind: to meet the challenges that lie ahead so that tomorrow’s society is more virtuous for all its stakeholders.

Lyon-Saint-Étienne Engineering Alliance is based on five core values: excellence, knowledge transfer, collective action, diversity and a keen sense of the common good.

The main idea behind this set of values is that it is the responsibility of prestigious universities to have a positive and lasting impact on society.

This is why the College of Engineering works for the common good with major commitments:

• Engaging in dialogue with socio-economic actors to anticipate their needs in terms of both training and research.
• Making our knowledge, resources and technologies available to support major transitions.
• Increasing the number of graduates in the region, in particular by creating new training programmes, diversifying student recruitment methods and strengthening the validation of prior learning.
• Supporting companies in their industrial transformations.
• Supporting public transition policies.

1.Education

• Creation of new educational programmes from Baccalaureate to Master’s level.
• Enhancing the appeal of international Master’s programmes.
• Lifelong learning opportunities.
• New pathways to engineering qualifications through accreditation of prior learning.

2.Research and innovation

• Support for research laboratories in responding to European calls for projects.
• Cross-financing of thesis packages to address societal challenges.
• Support for corporate R&D.

3. Scientific culture

• Production of scientific content.
• Meetings/events.
• Scientific mediation.

4.Entrepreneurship

• Strengthening links between students and local businesses.
• Support for technological entrepreneurship.