It is because of this that there are two aspects to the internationalization of Lyon University. The first is cooperation with world-famous academic institutions for the benefit of academic exchange; the second is to build up relations with universities in France's former colonies so as to shore up the French-speaking world.
因此，里昂大學的國際化做法也分兩方面，一是與世界知名學府加強合作，以利學術交流；一是增進與阿爾及利亞、摩洛哥、象牙海岸、幾內亞、塞內加爾、剛果等前殖民地國家大學的關係，既協助他們發展，也鞏固法語世界的基石。