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2019: International students

The ENS de Lyon has welcomed 90 new international students

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Training through research

ENS de Lyon was ranked 7th of the World's best small universities (THE, 2018)

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Multidisciplinary research

30 research structures and high-tech equipment, from archaeology to quantum physics

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An urban campus in the heart of Europe

The city of Lyon was ranked best student city in France (L’Étudiant, 2018)

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The Diderot Library

More than 1.2 million reference documents and electronic resources

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2020 CNRS Talents: bronze medals for Antoine Venaille and Daniel Jost

The Bronze Medal is awarded to early work of researchers who are specialists in their field. This distinction represents an encouragement from the CNRS to pursue research that is well underway and already fruitful.

Research

The ENS de Lyon is home to numerous research laboratories in the fields of exact sciences, social sciences and the humanities. Research activity at the ENS de Lyon is reflected in the number of publications and citations of its researchers, projects funded by the ERC and Horizon H2020, numerous scientific events, etc.

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Metal–Metal Synergy in Well-Defined Surface Tantalum–Iridium Heterobimetallic Catalysts for H/D Exchange Reactions

Publication by CRMN in the American Chemical Society journal on November 11, 2019.

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Pattern Formation in Low-Pressure Radio-Frequency Plasmas due to a Transport Instability

Publication by Laboratoire de Physique in Physical Review Letters on December 23, 2019.

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Get randomly lost, get home sooner

Publication by LBMC on PLOS One on Novembre 21, 2019.

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RsaC sRNA modulates the oxidative stress response of Staphylococcus aureus during manganese starvation

Publication by CIRI on Nucleic Acids Research on October 10, 2019.

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Larvae on the run: focus on the neurons that orchestrate movements in Drosophila

Publication by IGFL in Nature Communications on October 22, 2019.

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Diverse conjugative elements silence natural transformation in Legionella species

Publication by the International Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (CIRI).

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Collective behaviour 480 million years ago

Publication by Laboratoire de géologie de Lyon in Scientific Reports on October 17, 2019.

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Observation of the Resonance Frequencies of a Stable Torus of Fluid

Publication by Laboratoire de physique in Physical Review Letters on August 30, 2019.

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Thursday, February 27, 2020

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Monday, March 02, 2020

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EcoNomicSday at ENS de Lyon: Health Economics

Friday, March 06, 2020

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A Material History of Medieval Medical Book

Monday, March 23, 2020

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Recent approaches to Graph Convolutional Networks, Graph Representation learning and Reinforcement Learning

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Studying at the ENS de Lyon offers the opportunity to pursue a degree from L3 to doctorate with individualized courses.

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What does the École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon) stand for? Key figures, international rankings and why study at the ENS de Lyon.

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How to apply

Applying for a Master's degree

Information to apply for all masters' degrees for any international students (applications for scholarships of excellence and upon academic profile). Read more

Admission through competitive entrance exam

The vast majority of Normaliens are French but the competition is also open to international students. Read more

Applying for a student exchange program

Students can join the ENS de Lyon for one or two semesters as part of an exchange program with their home university. Read more

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