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Yin Yang, 7 key ideas

The Yin Yang project aims to create, in the logics of savings and power, a structured and communicative single campus where each school can maintain its own identity and independent programmes.

Having analysed the environment as well as the expectations of society and businesses, teams from EMLYON Business School and CENTRALE LYON are determined to seal their strategic alliance around 7 key ideas:

  1. Ideas
  2. Innovations
  3. Evolution
  4. Sharing
  5. Openness
  6. International
  7. Synergies

  • Mutual strengthening of learning activities

    Professors from both schools will teach courses in each programme, teaching materials will be shared, student exchanges will be greater and mixed groups of students will be established (for the Creating a Company project, the Industry project and internships (case studies). Each school will benefit from the other’s international relationships with companies and recruitment agencies, joint career days will be organised and EMLYON’s campuses abroad will be made available to CENTRALE LYON.

  • The shared creation of a new school

    The professors have called IDE a School of Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship issuing manager/innovator and engineer/entrepreneur, degrees, mixing students from both existing schools with recruitment opportunities coming from the world over, an academic community from all social backgrounds and wide-ranging areas of study (scientific, literary, legal and more.). The educational approach is based on “learning by doing,” where students will work throughout their academic experience on a project they have initiated and that they will lead until the day it arrives on the market.

  • Construction of a “projects factory"

    A workplace is planned for fostering information exchanges, experimentation and learning that allows students to rub shoulders with professors, researchers, executives, entrepreneurs, developers and outsourced development teams. Serving as an incubator, a meeting place and crucible for innovative projects all at the same time, the facility will promote the emergence of new marketable products and new businesses. It will be built in a bold architectural space that embodies creative ferment for the emergence of future technologically dominant leaders.
    The projects factory will become the landmark meeting point for the new centre.

  • A new approach to executive education

    Housed in a “Learning Village” unique in Europe, the centre will reduce operating costs, enhance offerings and expertise and expand business targets in order to offer a more rapid return on the housing infrastructure and upscale restaurants necessary for the development of these activities.

  • An organisation to manage common resources

    Several shared activities will be pooled to improve their efficiency and greatly reduce operating costs: computer labs, libraries, security services, maintenance, housing, food services, language courses, sports facilities, student services, career counselling and international exchanges.

  • Formation of selective international alliances

    The desire to establish a new European and international centre implies a few and highly selective alliances with foreign centres with the same type of project and the same level of ambition.

  • Progressive construction of a landmark campus

    A green campus, spacious, open 24 hours, offering a place for living, experimentation and study. Easy to navigate and safe, yet invigorating with many centres of attraction: the construction of new classrooms for the IDE School, the “Learning Village,” additional shared student housing and the renovation/expansion of existing buildings at both schools. The campus will be self-sufficient campus and boast a sports facility including a swimming pool and fitness trail, plus food services, stores and more.