Lyon Centre

Characteristics

Located in the city center, this site spreads out on the banks of the Rhône, and the Presqu'île and Manufacture des Tabacs districts, and is structured around the university center, which has some 40,000 students.

It is the cradle of universities, and a center with an international reputation in Human and Social Sciences, with over 100 research teams covering all disciplines.

Key figures

	1975: creation of the "Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen" by Jean Pouilloux.
	7 constituent teams and transversal research topics, 10 common services.
	Staff: a hundred or so researchers, teacher-researchers, engineers, technicians, administrative staff, doctoral students and postdoctorates.
	Library: 50,000 titles including 35,000 freely accessible; 1,069 periodical papers/magazines, including 610 with no missing issue; 1,325 ancient and precious books; access to national and international document databanks; CD-ROM viewing
	Map library: 4,500 references

 Projects

Planning objectives aim to modernize, group or reorganize the various institutes and faculties on new sites, in order to make the Lyon Centre university campus more operational.

The following operations are planned:

	creation of a university campus on the river banks,
	building of a library for Lyon 2 University, in rue Chevreul
	reorganization of courses at the Université Catholique de Lyon, which should take the form of a dual installation: one in the heart of the Presqu'île (Caserne Bissuel), the other in the Gerland science park.

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