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

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 has issued new regulations aimed at achieving consistency in the way EPFL’s centers operate and are governed. 

Find out the entire list of centers.

• Bernoulli Centre
• Blue Brain Project
• CLIMACT – Joint UNIL/EPFL Centre
• Centre for Imaging
• Centre for intelligent systems
• Centre for quantum science and engineering
• Cultural heritage & innovation centre
• EPFL Space centre
• EPFL-ECAL Lab
• EcoCloud Center
• Energy Centre
• EssentialTech
• European Centre of Atomistic and Molecular Computations
• Excellence in Africa
• Humain Brain Project
• International Risk Governance Center
• Media Centre
• Swiss Data Science Centre
• lntegrative food and nutrition Centre

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

Find out the entire list of platforms.

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.