NEWS

Last Wednesday, ONLYLYON Tourism & Conference Office launched a website devoted to the inhabitants of Lyon and the Rhone-Alpes region, it offers novel ideas for activities in Lyon at the weekend...   Four current or new activities are suggested to visitors to the site, as well as the weather for the next 48 hours and the complete events listings for the weekend in Greater Lyon. The site is easy to use and the information is clear and easy to access with pre-defined search words. It is available to every one.   A syndication feed is also available for visitors who wish to subscribe to the website and receive the week's articles via e-mail every Wednesday. Other smaller and more subject-specific sites may soon be created too, so as to keep developing in an ever-evolving market.

A delegation from Lyon led by Gérard Collomb, Senator-Mayor of Lyon, travelled to Frankfurt on 10 June to celebrate the anniversary of the German city's twinships. As the longest standing partner, Lyon was guest of honour throughout this event.   During the inauguration, some 200 guests attended the illumination of the monumental fountain in the Palmen Garten Park team coordinated by a team from Lyon. 100 roses and 100 brochures were distributed at the event.

IAE Lyon and the University of Pavia signed an agreement for a double masters degree program, boosting cooperation between the Rhone Alpes region and Italy and providing a great opportunity for masters students in International Management.   This agreement enables French and Italian students studying for a Masters in international management at IAE Lyon and in Laurea Magistrale in International Business and Economics at the University of Pavia's Faculty of Economics to obtain a double masters degree over two years, it is based on an exchange between students during the second year of the Masters course. This is one of IAE Lyon's main international programmes; implementing double degree courses is a great way of boosting the careers of future international managers.

The second edition of the Lumière cinema festival, entirely devoted to the history of cinema, is open to all and will take place on 4-10 October 2010 across Greater Lyon. There will be 70 films shown over 170 screenings.    The opening event, including the ‘surprise' program, which has not yet been revealed, will take place in the Tony Garnier Concert Hall on 4 October at 8 pm. Tickets sales start tomorrow and will be priced at 10 euros. Some 5000 people attended the launch of the 2009 Lumière Festival.

The 8th edition of the Electronic Music Festival took place in Lyon on 12-16 May and attracted a little over 81, 000 spectators; 39, 100 of whom attended paying gigs, and some 42, 000 visited free sites. This was the greatest attendance in the event's history.     For the first time since the festival began in 2003, these paying events, which took place at the Marché Gare, at the Rhone swimming pool and the Celestins theatre, were booked up before the doors even opened! Faced with this overwhelming enthusiasm, the organizers plan to redefine certain logistical aspects for the next festival.   The artistic talent of this 8th edition also included some of the best in this festival's history, with amazing performances that delighted crowds throughout the event.