The Compliance Guide contains the essential rules, practices and values in force at our School. It offers each and every one of us a frame of reference on which to rely in order to study or work at EPFL in complete freedom, i.e. knowing the basic principles that govern our institution, how to apply them and who is available to answer any question.
Last modified: July 25, 2025 (version 2.0).
Contents
- Animal Experimentation
- Ancillary Activities
- Communications
- Document management and archiving
- Data Protection
- Doctoral School
- Equality, Diversity and Respect
- Export Laws
- Finance
- Human Resources
- Harassment
- Help & Support
- Invitations and Benefits
- IT Security and Data Protection
- Instructions concerning contracts
- Philanthropy: sponsorship and patronage
- Procurement
- Publications
- Quality Assurance
- Research Ethics
- Research & Funding
- Research Data Management
- Research Involving Human Beings
- Risk Management and Insurance
- Real Estate and Infrastructure
- Safety, Prevention and Health
- Teaching
- Travel & Expenses
- Valorisation & Technology Transfer
Editors-In-Chief
Simon Brunschwig, David Gozel and Géraldine Guédon.
We would like to thank ETHZ for allowing us to draw inspiration from their Compliance Guide.
For reasons of user-friendliness, the wording of this Compliance Guide does not always correspond precisely to the legal wording of the respective acts and ordinances. Only the provisions set out in the original acts and ordinances and in EPFLâs internal rules and regulations are legally binding and enforceable. You will find these enactments on the Polylex website and in the Classified Compilation of Federal Law (RS).
This Compliance Guide is updated regularly. We thank you for sending your comments, suggestions, and proposals to: [email protected]