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Communication from the 4MOST consortium on March 14, 2021.

Go live on Friday, March 26, 2021 at 9:45 a.m. for the 1st session of the French Chemists’ Tournament (TFChim).

After seven months of travel, the NASA's Perseverance Rover landed on Mars on Thursday, February 18, 2021. Its mission is, among other things, to search for traces of ancient life on the Red Planet.

Updated on February 17, 2021.

On January 18, 2021, IRICE, an NMR platform of excellence for innovation in chemistry and health, was inaugurated.

You are a future student, phD or researcher from ENS de Lyon, use the dedicated housing platform from our partner Studapart.

Lockdown has led to increased anxiety and isolation for many students in higher education. Students have created a Forum flyer with contact details for services to help other students in need of equipment or psychological support. Please share this information with anyone who could benefit from these services.

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Scientific news - CNRS - Institute of Physics - November 6, 2020.

To improve the internationalization and attractiveness of higher education in France, it is vital that the country's international students be welcomed in the best possible manner.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, France is ready to welcome international students and researchers. Depending on your country of origin, the steps to follow are different. Campus France published a flyer with useful information to prepare your arrival in France. 

Communication from SAAFE, by Michael Rose, on July 1, 2020.

Turbulent flows, like planetary atmospheres, oceans, or flow around an airfoil or a wind turbine, undergo strong fluctuations. Sometimes, the system may even undergo abrupt transitions between entirely different flow configurations. Such transitions seem to occur at random times, in an unpredictable manner.

With regard to international mobility, the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior have indicated that travel can resume in Europe from June 15 (possible restriction for England and Spain) and outside Schengen from July 1, subject to favourable health conditions.

On June 12, 2020, the seventeenth edition of one of the most consulted university rankings in the world was published.

Call for applications for international doctoral students - 2020/2021
Deadline: June 19, 2020, 12:00 noon (French time)

On April 10, 2020, ANR announced the funding of 86 projects concerning Covid-19. Six are associated with ENS de Lyon laboratories.
Image credit ©Institut Pasteur

Since 1922, the Louis Ancel Award is granted every year by the French Society of Physics. It rewards a French physicist for his/her work in condensed matter physics.

On past March 26, a little Soay sheep was born in the garden. In order to choose a first name for it, the members of ENS de Lyon were invited to vote.

The Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO in French) has set up a blog focusing on the current epidemic.

The decree of March 27, 2020 authorizes ENS de Lyon to permit you to organize a defense, in this particular period of the Covid-19 epidemic, with a full jury in videoconference.

A CIRI project, in collaboration with HCL, has united CIRI immunologists to work on understanding the immune response to Coronavirus in patients.

From the room known as the "Café des sports", one of the virtual videoconferencing rooms of the biology department accessible from the Study portal, François Roudier, Director of the department and Nathalie Alazard, Assistant Director, tell us about almost 4 weeks of intense remote work. Four weeks, three phases, a first assessment and a constant optimism despite the complexity of an ever-changing situation.

The research laboratories of ENS de Lyon are continuing to support hospitals and public services that are on the front line of the health crisis.

On March 26, a little Soay sheep was born in the garden of ENS de Lyon. Now it has to be named. What name are you going to vote for?

A birth in our garden is good news.

The European Research Council (ERC) has just communicated the list of beneficiaries of the Advanced grants. Each recipient will have up to €2.5 million over five years for his or her research project. Among the 185 projects funded is the LDRam project by Alice Guionnet.

The ENS de Lyon is continuing to support hospitals and public services that are on the front line of the health crisis.

The research laboratories of ENS de Lyon are helping support hospitals and public services that are on the front line of the health crisis.

• Updated 22 January 2021 : Face-to-face teaching is gradually being resumed within the framework of ministerial instructions and compliance with the health protocol.
• Updated 19 November 2020: On-site work rooms for ENS de Lyon students.

Updated on February 11, 2021.

Following the announcements of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister, some information and instructions about the functioning of ENS de Lyon.

The selection committee met on January 23, 2020 and announced the six winning projects from the Tech4Earth call for proposals. Two of them are carried by ENS de Lyon.

For the second edition, the CNRS call for projects '80 Prime' has once again given special emphasis to interdisciplinarity and risk-taking.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions support researchers at all stages of their careers, regardless of age and nationality. Researchers working across all disciplines are eligible for funding. The MSCA also support cooperation between industry and academia and innovative training to enhance employability and career development.

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.

Thierry Dauxois, CNRS Research Director at the Physics Laboratory, was appointed Vice President in charge of Research (VPR) on February 3, 2020, taking over from Yanick Ricard.

"Studies and Research at ENS de Lyon: what will you remember about your time spent with us?"

The international Times Higher Education (THE) ranking remains innovative and offers this year a new global Top 100 of institutions with an international vocation.

Together with a collaborator from Kew gardens, two researchers from ENS de Lyon mobilize the plant genetics community to the political challenges associated with the social and environmental crisis, in a featured review in Trends in Plant Science.