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Centrale Digital Lab at École Centrale de Lyon

École Centrale de Lyon, France

Programme overview

A one-year Centrale Lyon institutional degree training professionals in the digital transformation of companies for Chief Digital Officer missions. It builds digital skills and innovation methods through three full-time company projects.

Faculty: Centrale Lyon  |  Department: Institutional degree (Diplôme d'établissement)  |  Duration: 1 year  |  Study mode: full-time; taught in French  |  Intake: September  |  Location: Écully, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

What you will study

Three intensive weeks of training in artificial intelligence, big data and the web, then one 4-week and two 7-week full-time projects (3 to 5 students, 260 hours per project) with sponsoring companies on IoT, big data, AI and web topics, with design thinking and Scrum support, and a six-month development internship.

Career pathways

Chief digital officer, data scientist or data analyst, business intelligence manager, web and mobile developer, IoT engineer.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Student engineers on a gap year or after graduation; holders of a validated scientific Bac+4; professionals with a higher-level diploma and experience in computer science, mathematics, statistics or econometrics. Applications by portfolio on the dedicated platform in two phases (phase 1: 8 December 2025 to 12 May 2026; phase 2: 13 May to 30 June 2026, reserved for European students for visa reasons).

Intake: September

Duration: 1 year

Apply through the official page: https://candidature.ec-lyon.fr/

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