POP' SCIENCES

Every two years, the Pop'Sciences Festival, organised by the University of Lyon and all its establishments, takes place in the heart of the city, offering to bring together a wide public around science's answers to the questions and issues facing society.

During these two days, knowledge is disseminated, science is debated and meetings take place between the world of research and the inhabitants in formats that favour exchange and discussion.
This event is free and open to all.

The Pop'Sciences Festival is back for a 5ᵉ edition, to be held in Belleville-en-Beaujolais, on the territory of the Communauté de Communes Saône-Beaujolais (CCSB), on May 16, 17 and 18, 2025.

THE MAIN STAGES :

- From now until the end of November 2024: respond to the call for participation

- Up to March 2025: construction of the festival program

- From March 2025: communication with the general public and schoolchildren

Information: click here

Registration: click here

 

Co-organised with the city of Villeurbanne, the Pop'Sciences festival was held on 12, 13 and 14 May 2023, at the Raphaël De Barros sports complex, the Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son (MLIS) and the Centre Culturel et de la Vie Associative

Once again this year, LabEx CeLyA took part in the Festival through various workshops offered to students from schools in the region and to the general public.

Find the program here

The last Pop'Sciences Festival took place on Friday 9, Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 July 2021 on the site of the Gallo-Roman Museum of Saint-Romain-en-Gal, as well as in various places in the city of Vienne.
180 exhibitors - 3,500 visitors

back to the event in pictures

2021 review
 

On this occasion, the LabEx CeLyA proposed various activities :

 

COURT OF THE KING BOSON -Vienna
WORKSHOP: Journey to the centre of the musical brain

Using a mannequin-tablet device and musical instruments, the workshop participants discover hearing and the brain mechanisms that allow us to perceive music.
Nicolas Grimault and Fabien Perrin, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre - LabEx CeLyA
Etienne Parizet, Acoustic Vibration Laboratory - LabEx CeLyA

DEDICATION in partnership with the Librairie Luciole

 
Signing of the book "Les animaux parlent, sachons les écouter" by its author Nicolas Mathevon
Sensory Neuro-Ethology Team - Lyon Neurosciences Research Centre - LabEx CeLyA

CONFERENCE: Animals speak, let's listen to them !

  Nicolas Mathevon, Sensory Neuro-Ethology Team - Lyon Neurosciences Research Centre - LabEx CeLyA
 Conference organised by Biophonia

 

MEDIATHEQUE LE TRENTE -Vienna
WORKSHOP : Draw your sound

Several interactive experiments will allow us to discover the applications of Fourier analysis developed more than two centuries ago. We will use the "Spectroid" application on a digital tablet to analyse the composition of a wide variety of sounds.
Didier Vray and Emmanuel Roux, Centre de Recherche en Acquisition et Traitement de l'Image pour la Santé - LabEx CeLyA

 

MUSEUM AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF SAINT-ROMAIN-EN-GAL
WORKSHOP: the mechanics of gears

We'll be doing some mechanical work at the festival! The shapes of gears, movements, mechanical forces, everything to know through demonstrators and a model gearbox.
Pascal Fossat, and the doctoral students of the Laboratory of Tribology and Systems Dynamics, LabEx CelyA

 

GARDEN OF THE FESTIVAL HOUSE
POP SCIENCE CONFERENCES - Jazz à Vienne - The terrace of the Maison du Festival

Mechanics, acoustics and instrument making of the piano
Discover the scientific research carried out in recent years at the LVA (INSA Lyon), the LMS (École Polytechnique), the Navier laboratory (Ecole des ponts) and the IMSIA (ENSTA) on the vibro-acoustic behaviour of the piano soundboard. In a second part, the work carried out in collaboration with the piano maker Stephen Paulello will be presented, with the aim of considering the replacement of spruce soundboards by composite structures.
Kerem Ege, Vibrations Acoustics Laboratory, INSA Lyon, LabEx CeLyA
Pierre Margerit, Navier Laboratory, Ecole des ponts

All information on the website Pop'Sciences

The Pop'Sciences 2019 Festival Pop'Sciences took place on 17 and 18 May in the heart of La Duchère, on the market square. The district became the time of these 2 days, a real open-air research laboratory!

With 1,800 visitors for the 2019 edition, the challenge of bringing science closer to the citizens has been met.

Visitors were able to meet researchers, experiment, play and debate on scientific advances and science's responses to societal challenges. 150 researchers, as well as 80 mediators and associative and educational players, took over the district to debate with the public about the choices that our societies have to make for the future between what is possible and what is desirable.

BACK TO THE 2019 EDITION HERE