Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENSL) is a world-class academic institute of excellence in higher education and research, and ranked 5th of the World’s best small universities (THE, 2018). ENSL offers an exceptional environment for training through research where students have direct access to laboratories for mentoring and internships. It welcomes 450 doctoral students of which about 12%international. ENSL has incubated 20 start-up companies since 1994 (140 jobs created). ENSL hosts 700 professors and researchers covering Humanities,Letters, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Biology and Chemistry and has well established partnerships with national research organizations such asCNRS, INRA, INSERM, INRIA, leading to 1100 publications per year and 262 partnerships with 26 countries
