International Relations Office

The Office is responsible for coordinating the international activities of the 4 services, the administrative and financial management, and the promotion and communication of the office. It also supports the vice-president in performing his functions.
Since the vote of the new statutes of the University during the Board of Directors of April 27, 2017, the General Service of International Relations has become the International Relations Office. The Office still has an International Relations Committee (CORI).

This office ensures, within the framework of the guidelines defined by the Board of Directors, the international opening assigned to the university, as defined by the Education Code.
It provides the decision-making bodies with the analytical elements necessary to set the institution's international strategy.
It implements and coordinates the institution's international policy actions.

Thus, its role is to:


Coordinate and promote international student and staff mobility

 

To achieve its objectives, the management is structured around 4 distinct Offices:

International Student Office (BEI)

The International Student Office was created to be as close as possible to the concerns of international students at the University Lumière Lyon 2. It is the place where they can open up in confidence to the Office staff and ask about any question regarding their administrative, academic and integration concerns. These staff members are qualified to offer them support in their various endeavors, in collaboration with partners from Lyon 2 and the Lyon metropolitan area.
The BEI offers the welcoming program Alter Ego in order to help international students integrate into society. Additionally, Alter Ego launches a mutual aid program called “Operation Binôme” every semester, putting French students in contact with international students.
The BEI equally consists of the International Mentoring Center (CMI) which aims to improve the French language and academic methodology of international students. The Center offers thematic workshops online and on-site as well as individual tutorials led by CMI tutors.

This office also welcomes international students coming to our university for a semester or a year as part of an exchange program. The students are welcomed and supported administratively and pedagogically by the mobility members of staff who will ensure their success. The BEI also sets up courses specially created for international exchange students (specific courses) in order to facilitate their integration within our university.

Partnerships and Outgoing Mobility Office

Partnerships and Outgoing Mobility Office is the administrative contact for outgoing mobility projects, whether for students or university staff, to destinations in Europe or beyond, within the framework of various programs. It accompanies users from the beginning of their project to its implementation: before, during and after. It supervises the various application processes for mobility, ensures a daily monitoring of the mobility and actively participates in the promotion and enhancement of international mobility.

This Office also manages the various mechanisms for granting financial aid for all types of mobility (studies, internships, teaching, training, prospecting).
In order to implement framed mobility (outgoing but also incoming), this department is in charge of the instruction and management of international cooperation agreements, whether they are mobility agreements or international partnership diplomas (an action that requires more advanced support in the setting up of agreements), ensuring that the legal, administrative and financial framework is respected.
The staff of this Office work in close collaboration with the international actors of the institution (teachers in charge, agreement holders, school departments, DRED, COSIE) as well as with the international partners (Agreements and Incoming service) and the financing organizations (Region, Ministry, Erasmus+ Agency).

International Trainings Office (SFI)

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Steering and Project Management Office

The main mission of this office is to seek funding to support and develop the international projects of research professors while ensuring that the legal, administrative and financial framework of our public institution is respected.

They monitor calls for projects and disseminate funding opportunities in a targeted manner. They assist the teacher-researchers in setting up their projects and, in particular, in drawing up the provisional budgets. Once the project has been accepted, this service also carries out the administrative and financial management of the project in order to relieve the component. The department's staff ensures that the grant is used efficiently, while respecting the deadlines imposed by the donors. They support the project leaders in the drafting of intermediate and final reports.

The main funding bodies to which we submit projects are: the European Commission (Erasmus+), the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the Franco-German University, the Franco-Italian University, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region and the City of Lyon.
Thanks to the work of the Finance Coordinator and the referent of the mobility software, this department contributes to the management of the institution's international activities.