The Lyon Saint-Etienne Engineering College (which includes Centrale Lyon, ENTPE, INSA Lyon, and Mines Saint-Étienne), in partnership with Jean Monnet University Saint-Étienne and the CNRS, is a winner of the “Acceleration of Higher Education and Research Institution Strategies” (ASDESR) call for projects for the E@SELY SKILLS project, which will receive over 5 million euros in funding over 10 years. Its ambition: to create a Shared Skills Centre bringing together dedicated resources to increase access to European funding on one hand and to create a new continuing education offer on the other, with the goal of supporting and accelerating transitions.
Through the establishment of a Shared Skills Centre bringing together dedicated resources, the project is at the heart of the France 2030 objectives, prioritizing the following three themes: decarbonized industry and society, the circular economy, and a responsible digital society. In these key areas for industry, pooling expertise and strengthening know-how regarding access to European funding and continuing education will create a center of excellence around engineering for the Lyon-Saint-Étienne site.
Increasing access to European funding
In terms of research, the challenge is to increase the involvement of institutions in the European Research Area and their contribution to the four pillars of its strategy in order to respond more quickly to societal, economic, and environmental challenges. In this regard, increasing the success rate of projects within the Horizon Europe programme is the key objective of our project.
Creating a new continuing education offer to support companies
Regarding skills, current developments in training do not yet provide sufficient responses to companies, either in terms of timeframe or volume. The challenge is therefore clearly to accelerate responses to the growing and urgent expectations they express, allowing them to quickly access new skills and to train active executives to empower them. In a region that asserts its desire to develop a “territory of engineers and technicians,” this center will make it possible to better target and adapt the skills expected by companies for the implementation of their transformations through modules and training blocks designed in the schools.
The four schools of the Lyon Saint-Etienne College of Engineering, Jean Monnet University-Saint-Étienne, and CNRS are pleased with this result, which is part of the strong momentum in education and research developing at the site. This project represents the first operational lever of the Lyon Saint-Etienne College of Engineering.
Announced by the government on Thursday, April 13, 2023, the E@SELY SKILLS project is a winner of the “Acceleration of Higher Education and Research Institution Strategies” (ASDESR) call for projects. As part of the France 2030 plan and its lever “Supporting the excellence of our higher education, research, and innovation ecosystems,” the ASDESR programme aims to support the implementation of a policy for the sustainable development of internal resources, aligned with the strategy of higher education and research (ESR) institutions.
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The Lyon Saint-Etienne Engineering College, an alliance of the 4 major engineering schools on the site
Collectively providing a response to the challenges of major transitions is the main objective of École Centrale de Lyon, ENTPE, INSA Lyon, and Mines Saint-Étienne. Through new cooperation models involving private economic players, local authorities, and innovation stakeholders, the Engineering College is committed to launching collaborative projects and developing common actions in the fields of training, research, innovation, entrepreneurship, and the dissemination of knowledge.
This alliance is structured around three priority societal challenges: decarbonized industry and society, circular economy, and responsible digital society.
