Associate Vice Presidency for Centers and Platforms (AVP-CP)

CENTERS & PLATFORMS

Centers create networks, collaborations and synergies between researchers and students around state-of-the-art scientific subjects. They build bridges between researchers at EPFL and other academic institutions, foster innovation and contribute to advance and share knowledge on specific themes within and beyond the academic world.

The Associate Vice Presidency for Centers and Platforms (AVP-CP) has issued new regulations aimed at achieving consistency in the way EPFL’s centers operate and are governed.

Centers under AVP-CP :

1. Bernoulli Centre for Fundamental Studies (CIB) – Video

2. Blue Brain Project (BBP)

3. Center for Climate Impact and Action (CLIMACT) – Video

4. Center for Digital Trust (C4DT)

5. Center for Imaging – Video

6. Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS) – Video

7. Center for Quantum Science and Engineering (Q-S-E)  – Video

8. Cultural Heritage & Innovation Center (CHC)

9. EcoCloud Center – Video

10. Energy Center (CEN) – Video

11. Enterprise for Society Center (E4S)

12. EPFL+ECAL Lab – Video

13. EssentialTech Center (ESSTECH) – Video

14. eSpace Center – Video

15. European Center of Atomistic and Molecular Computations (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire (CECAM) – Video

16. Excellence in Africa (EXAF)

17. lntegrative Food and Nutrition Center (IFNC)

18. LEARN- Center for Learning Science

19. Media Center (Initiative for Media Innovation IMI) – Video

20. Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)

 Platforms under AVP-CP

Platforms provide access to cutting-edge technical infrastructure and knowhow expertise to EPFL scientists and students to perform their research, making optimal use of resources. They are also a place where knowledge and knowhow are shared and where EPFL contributes to the advancement of state-of-the-art techniques.

Equipments & Centers Management Office

The unit coordinates the acquisition of major scientific equipment at EPFL, manages financial aspects of large research projects, and oversees the management of technological platforms and of transdisciplinary and inter-instituional entitites.