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Use infrastructures and technological resources

Benefit from Centrale Lyon's resources and facilities at the heart of the Lyon-Écully and Saint-Étienne campuses.

Scientific platforms

The research activities proposed by Centrale Lyon are based on first-rate platforms that have benefited in recent years from major investments linked, for example, to the Plan d'investissement d'avenir (PIA) and European funding.

NanoLyon

Local technology platform focused on micro and nanotechnologies, it brings together the resources and expertise of the Lyon Institute of Nanotechnologies (INL) in the following fields:

Materials growth,
Micro and nano manufacturing technologies,
Bioengineering for healthcare,
Multiscale characterization from material to device and numerical computation.

Plateforme macHines tournantes pour la mAîtrise des Risques Environnementaux (Rotating macHines platform for environmental risk management)

The Equipex PHARE is a unique project for research laboratories at international level. Its ambition is to design the rotating machine of the future to control environmental risks. The platform is equipped with an innovative architecture, non-polluting bearings and intelligent on-board systems, enabling it to meet the criteria of ultra-compactness, operation over a wide speed range, while offering robustness to withstand tests under extreme stress.

The project is unique at international level.

Atmospheric Wind Tunnel

Built in 1977, in collaboration with EDF, Centrale Lyon's large atmospheric wind tunnel enables us to study dispersion in the atmospheric boundary layer on reduced-scale models.

Shared platforms

Centrale Lyon has joined forces with industrial and academic partners to develop and make available cutting-edge technology platforms, financed thanks to substantial public funding, such as:

Manutech USD: laser platforms
SuperGrid Institute: high voltage, transmission, energy conversion and direct current
SURFAB: 3D printing platform, surface treatment and texturing

Other platforms

Computing center
Civil engineering and thermo-mechanical analysis platform
Virtual reality and multi-sensory platform
Robotics platform
Ultra-high vacuum tribology platform

Spaces for creativity and innovation

COOKING LAB: a place for training, experimentation and culinary innovation
FABLAB: a place to accelerate creativity and innovation through tools and training in rapid prototyping techniques
SKYLAB: a place bringing together new collaborative workspaces designed to foster creativity and entrepreneurship

Find out more about these spaces

Transition Lab

The Transition Lab is a physical and virtual ecosystem that supports the Etablissement's strategy on major transitions for all its missions. The aim of this place, where research, initial and continuing training initiatives converge, is to support socio-economic players in major transitions.