A dynamic community life
Community life enlivens the campus with nearly 1,600 student-engineers taking part in a variety of cultural, social and sporting activities. Among them, 150 students are actively involved in organizing key events such as the Integration Weekend (WEI), the Centrale Lyon Challenge, the Perspectives Grandes Écoles Forum and the Eclyps Gala.
Associations also offer services benefiting the entire Centrale community, enriching the student experience.
A complement to training
Associative life enables students to develop skills that complement those acquired through their academic curriculum. It fosters personal fulfillment through the realization of collective projects, thus preparing students for working life while offering an entertaining and stimulating setting.
Diversity of associations
Campus associations cover a wide range of interests and specialties:
- Students' association
- Sports association
- PhD students' association
- Alternating students' association
- Cultural and artistic associations
- Entrepreneurial associations
- Independent and mixed associations
Highlights of Student Life
- QI (Quinzaine d'Intégration) and WEI (Week-End d'Intégration): Two weeks of activities to welcome newcomers, help them discover the campus and integrate into the community. They culminate in the Week-End d'Intégration, a great opportunity to practice sports.
- Gala Eclyps : The most eagerly awaited evening of the year, organized in November to celebrate the end of the curriculum for third-year students.
- Challenge Centrale Lyon : Sports event bringing together more than 40 leading engineering schools to compete in 20 disciplines.
- Intercentrales : Tournament bringing together the five Écoles Centrale around five team sports and a pompom tournament.
- La CommuZ' : Collaborative musical with emlyon business school, featuring diverse artistic talents.
- Le Raid : Pair orienteering race in the Vercors, combining mountain biking and trail running in a magnificent natural setting.
