Foreign students in exchange programs

If you have a mobility project at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, please first contact your own university international mobility service. Any request has indeed to pass by your own university who will select files and then transmit them to us.

After the study of your registration form, the International Office of the component which will receive you will send you a letter of acceptance.

According to your exchange program, you will then follow the modalities of registration indicated below (and also described in your mail of acceptance).

Please check the list of  and Non-Erasmus+ agreements to see if your home university is a partner of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University.

Exchange programs and cooperation agreements

Erasmus+ exchange program

The Erasmus+ agreements are signed by discipline with the European partner universities, holders of the Erasmus university charter. This charter is opened to the 28 member states of the European Union to which are added Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and Croatia. In this framework, the Lyon 1 University holds more than 450 active agreements with 260 partner universities in 25 countries of the European Union.
 

Other exchange programs

Other specific exchange programs exist between Lyon 1 and other universities outside Europe. In every case, your file has to pass by the service in charge with the international mobility of your own university. Follow the indications below according to the exchange program involved in your mobility.

BCI is an exchange program which links a group of 7 Quebec universities to several French universities. It does not concern the Medicine department. If your university participates to this program, you can submit an application form in order to study in Lyon 1.

The student exchange program ORA Program (Ontario-Rhône-Alpes) exists due to privileged agreements 9 between universities of Ontario (Canada) and 10 higher education establishments of the Rhône-Alpes Region. It does not concern the Medicine department. If your university participates to this program, you can submit an application form in order to study in Lyon 1. See the ORA program participants list and the application process on the official ORA website or get information from your own university international mobility service. 

The exchange program Oregon links universities of Oregon (USA) to universities of Lyon. It does not concern the Medicine department. Check with your own university international mobility service to see if your university participates and to know more about the application process.
 

Double-degrees

Lyon 1 proposes specific courses programs allowing to obtain, at the end of a mobility path, 2 diplomas : the Lyon 1 diploma and the partner university’s diploma.

Delocalised Degrees

The Lyon 1 University is present "outside its wall" and offers the opportunity to obtain one of its diplomas though studying abroad. It is the "delocalised degree".