On November 23, 2022, Pascal Ray, Cécile Delolme, Frédéric Fotiadu, and Jacques Fayolle, respectively the directors of École Centrale de Lyon, ENTPE, INSA Lyon, and Mines Saint-Étienne, formalized the alliance between their four schools with the creation of the Lyon Saint-Étienne College of Engineering.
Open to economic stakeholders and local authorities, the Lyon Saint-Étienne College of Engineering aims to address the challenges of major transitions. It intends to be a demonstrator for new models of territorial cooperation between academic and socio-economic stakeholders. Within this framework, the schools are committed to driving collaborative projects, open to other university stakeholders on the site, and to developing joint engineering initiatives to implement synergies in the fields of education, research, innovation and technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and the dissemination of knowledge.
Operationally initiated in 2019, this now-formalized alliance is structured around three priority societal challenges: decarbonized industry and society, circular economy, and responsible digital society.
The College of Engineering intends to expand and structure its collaborations around actions such as:
- The development of international Master’s degrees;
- The coordination of student entrepreneurship tracks, in connection with the I-Factory, on the Lyon Tech – la Doua campus;
- The development of industrial and research chairs;
- The organization of summer schools on cutting-edge topics;
- Creating synergies between research platforms with cross-service offerings for the benefit of companies;
- The joint implementation of actions for the dissemination of knowledge and the promotion of engineering.
The four partner schools have already implemented a number of actions, such as the creation of a Bachelor’s degree to train assistant engineers in industrial transformations, in partnership with six competitiveness clusters and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region.
“By collaborating with other engineering schools, professional branches, and local authorities, Mines Saint-Étienne, a school of the Institut Mines Télécom (IMT), is strengthening its territorial presence within the engineering ecosystem of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Mines Saint-Étienne is delighted with this agreement, which is taking shape through projects contributing to its strategy and that of the IMT on one hand, and to its territorial roots on the other.”
Jacques FAYOLLE, Director of Mines Saint-Étienne.
Through its commitment to openness toward other academic stakeholders in the region, the College of Engineering is fully aligned with the approach of dialogue and consultation led by the ComUE Université de Lyon to contribute to the structuring and dynamics of the site.
