Explore more international organizations and the following institutions: British Council Wall Street Institute Speaking Agency My French Lifeguard Expat Agency France.
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Connecting professionally and setting up business: Women’s Professional Networking Group – WPNG (also offers job alerts for expats in Lyon) The American Club of Lyon Franco-British International Business Association (FIBA) Aderly – support businesses to set up their operations in Lyon, as well as provide premises, recruitment and schooling services.Business Incubators: EMLYON Incubator, Crealysand Novacité.Connecting online: Forums, Facebook Pages, Bloggers, Online Magazines, Informative Resources, Communities, Expats Websites etc.Taking part in language events: Franglish (French / English language exchange event, once a week in Lyon) Polyglot Club (free international language exchange event, twice a week in Lyon).The biggest one is Internations, which actively organizes events for expats But are others very good ones like: Anglo Info Lyon International Meetup Association Lyon International Families Network English Speaking Families Group just to name a few Meet up with others who also want thanks to the MeetUps in Lyon – the groups of expats, Lyonnais, professionalists who organize meetings according to their interests: sport, reading, clubbing, walking etc.Learning more about France through the tourism organizations, taking part in City Tours oraganized by.Attending events happening in the city – for the info you can check at: MonWeekend and GirlsTakeLyon Weekly Recommendations.Work/School/University – this is the best way of meeting new people.Have a look at those ideas and give me a shout if you can add any others so I am pretty sure I didnt covered all…but My Favourite and The Top Tips to Meet People & Socialize & Improve your French/ English and simply not feel lonely in Lyon are: So there are few tips I would like to share with you and recommend and in this way we can make sure you will never feel lonely here in Lyon. And so far I have learned a little bit on how you can you can meet other people, how you can become a part of its community. I didn’t want to force any friendships, have ‘going out’ as a chore…and fortunately my settling here started to come naturally as Lyon is actually a very welcoming place….I have been nicely surprised on how big the community of expats is in France and how helpful ONLYLyon is. Therefore those are my main goals when I search for others to spend time with…and those were my aims on how I wanted to get settled here in Lyon. I felt happy as I knew I made a good decision but at the end of the day you need other people to survive…I need anyway! I am not crazy about going out and doing parties but I like to be surrounded by people who I respect, like and love. I could not speak French and it was just about so crazy as it sounds. Once i arrived to Lyon I didn’t know anyone.