ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON (ECL)

École Centrale de Lyon (Centrale Lyon) is a public scientific, cultural, and professional institution (EPSCP) founded in 1857. Since 2021, École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Saint-Étienne (ENISE) has been integrated into École Centrale de Lyon as an internal school. Centrale Lyon has campuses in Lyon-Écully and Saint-Étienne. In 2024-2025, the institution had 3,094 enrolled students (undergraduates and apprentices) and 583 staff, including 220 teachers and teacher-researchers and 107 research staff. The educational offering covers a continuum from post-baccalaureate to doctoral level. Research in engineering and information sciences and in the exact sciences is conducted within six joint research units with the CNRS, in partnership with industrial players, major public organizations, and international partners to provide relevant responses to current societal challenges.

Centrale Lyon's scientific policy addresses nine SDGs in the following areas: transportation, energy, environment, AI, materials, construction, smart factories, and clean processes.

- Training of general engineers (at the Lyon-Ecully campus) and specialists (Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Sensory Engineering at the Saint-Etienne campus, and Energy at the Lyon-Ecully campus)
- Master's level training (Nanotechnologies, Materials, Mechanics, Aeronautical and Space Propulsion, Environment, Acoustics, Data Science, etc.)
- Doctoral level training (Materials, Mechanics, Civil Energy Engineering, Acoustics, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Automation, Computer Science, Mathematics)
- Research in the following disciplines: tribology, surfaces, materials, acoustics, fluids, vibrations, mechanics, civil engineering, nanotechnologies, bioengineering, electronics, signals, electrical engineering, automation, data science, machine learning, mathematics, computer science, robotics, virtual reality, perception, innovation, uses, sociology, and management.
- Transfer of innovations resulting from research work with SATT PULSALYS / PUI IMPULSE