Equality and Diversity

Equal opportunities are an integral part of EPFL’s development and excellence policy. The Equal Opportunity Office is attached to the Vice Presidency for Human Development (VPH).

EPFL’s equal opportunity policy is based on federal legislation, ETH Domain specific legislation, as well as on EPFL’s Development Plan and the agreement on objectives between EPFL and the ETH Board.

On this basis, together with its steering committee and in cooperation with faculties and services, the Equal Opportunity Office draws up action plans to foster equal opportunities.

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Task Force Harassment, Respect @ EPFL, Inclusive Language, Safe Space & LGBTIQ+, Inclusive Name Change, Women in Science, etc.

Family and work-life

Child Care solutions, Financial Help, Parents Network and Legal Advice During Pregnancy

Equality and careers

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Equal Opportunity & Diversity News

Maléna Bastien Masse - 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

“Plenty more women deserved to be in this exhibition!”

15.05.25Events

"Queens of Structure" is a traveling exhibition celebrating the work of over 20 leading women in civil engineering. Here, we talk to Maléna Bastien Masse, who spearheaded the initiative at EPFL and in French-speaking Switzerland more broadly.

Suliana Manley in the lab with her super-resolution and smart microscopes. © 2025 EPFL / Alain Herzog

One of the biggest skills I've been developing is developing others

28.04.25EPFL

Suliana Manley has a brilliant career as a biophysicist, being the first to visualize some of the smallest building blocks of life in action and explain their mysterious behavior. Now she helps shape the community by developing others.

“Masculinity transcends cultures”

24.02.25EPFL community

Quentin Delval hails from Belgium, although you wouldn’t know it from his accent. He holds a PhD in philosophy of science, works as a diversity, equity and inclusion project manager at EPFL, and has written a gently persuasive book about masculinity – or, to be exact, about the “free pass” afforded to men in today’s society.

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Equal Opportunity & Diversity Events

Queens of Structure – Signatures d’ingénieures civiles

Are you aware of the crucial importance of civil engineers in the development and transformation of our environment? Did you know that the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, the Saint-Jacques Tower in Basel or the Rolex Learning…

12-05-202509-06-2025

Place and room: Place Ada Lovelace
Category: Exhibitions

Sexual Harassment Awareness Day 2025 (2)

27-05-202527-05-2025

With: Specta(c)tor
Place and room: Forum Rolex – Table de Vallotton
Category: Miscellaneous

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Call for projects: CROSS 2026 (Collaborative Research on Science and Society)

11-03-202517-06-2025

Category: Call for proposal

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Assistive Technologies Challenge – prototype show case

26-05-202526-05-2025

With: Alice Bruel ATC coordinator, ATC students
Place and room: DLL EL atrium
Category: Miscellaneous

REGARD: Pitching myself for Industry: My strategy for Success

27-05-202527-05-2025

With: Romaine Johnstone, coach facilitator & trainer
Place and room: BI A0 448
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Wisdom in Silence: Meditation and Ancient Eastern Wisdom for Modern Life

27-05-202527-05-2025

With: Venerable Homagama Rewatha Thero
Place and room: CO 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Workshop week – series on meditation, mind and modern science

02-06-202506-06-2025

With: Venerable Homagama Rewatha Thero
Place and room: BC 410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Workshop on Meditation, Concentration, and Ancient Eastern Wisdom for Modern Life

02-06-202506-06-2025

With: Venerable Rewatha Thero.
Place and room: BC 410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

HALOS

05-06-202529-06-2025

Place and room: ART A0 100
Category: Exhibitions

CAS "Dramaturgie et performance du texte”

The body on stage in light of improvisation

14-06-202514-06-2025

With: Simon Henein (professeur in microengineering, EPFL) and Joëlle Valterio (performer and teaching assistant, EPFL)
Place and room: Arsenic Lausanne
Category: Cultural events

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