Open to economic players and local authorities, the College of Engineering, created in 2022, has the objective of meeting the challenges of major transitions. It aims to be the demonstrator of a new model of territorial cooperation between academics and socio-economic players. Within this framework, the schools are committed to driving collaborative projects, open to other academic players on the site, and to developing joint engineering actions enabling the implementation of synergies in the fields of training, research, innovation and technology transfer, entrepreneurship and knowledge dissemination.

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Pooling resources and actions
Priority societal challenges
- Decarbonized industry and society,
- circular economy,
- responsible digital society.
Major commitments
- dialogue with social and economic players to anticipate their training and research needs;
- provide knowledge, resources and technologies to support major transitions;
- increase the number of graduates from the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region;
- accompany companies in their industrial transformations.
Mutualized actions
- creation of new Bac+3 courses, new specialty engineering degrees and intensification of the attractiveness of international masters;
- development of lifelong learning;
- strengthening links between students and local companies and support for technological entrepreneurship;
- increasing research and innovation with companies;
- strengthening the presence of research laboratories in European projects.
Promoting engineering within the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region
The Collège d'ingénierie takes its part in the dynamism of regional industry and contributes to the Plan Région des ingénieurs et techniciens 2023-2028 adopted by the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Thus, the Collège d'Ingénierie complements the actions carried out by each of its member institutions.fr/">Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Thus, in addition to the actions carried out by each of its member establishments, the Collège d'Ingénierie proposes actions mutualisées sur les trois volets du plan: augmentation des effectifs des diplômés, accompagnement des entreprises du territoire et promotion des métiers de l'industrie.
In line with corporate strategy
Developing Chels is part of the fourth axis of Centrale Lyon's strategy: "4 academic alliances to go even further".
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