Happy New Year fellow EPFL CI members!

We hope you had a great start into 2025! With the new year, we would like to introduce ourselves to all new colleagues that joined while keeping the rest of you updated on our work.

ELSA, the EPFL Scientific Staff Association, is the official representation of YOU at EPFL.

We support you here at EPFL to further your scientific journey.

Next Seminar :

Tax Declaration Made Easy

TLDR: Seminar on Tax Declaration Wed. 05-Feb. @ 5pm. sign up here
 
We are organizing a seminar “Tax Declarations Made Easy” with Mr. Johan Lobmeyer.  
Topics of this seminar:  

Main topics:  

•  Conditions for the full tax declaration   
•  Is it worth it to apply the full declaration ?   
•  What income must be declared ?   
•  What expenses count as deductions ?   
•  How to fill out the tax declaration (With tips & tricks to go faster) 

When: Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025, 17:00-18:30, networking apero ? ? ? after 18:30!  
Where: online + in-person (EPFL main campus, (SG 1138))  
Sign up: register here
Questions? contact Giannis Savva or Clemens Wöllhaf

Future Events

If you want to stay updated on all upcoming events, join our Slack channel (its for free!) and check out elsa.epfl.ch.

Salary Increase

The salary negotiations resulted in a 1% inflation compensation for Scientists covered under the Personnel Ordinance of the EPFL domain. The EPFL Direction decided to apply this also toPhD students, Postdocs and scientific assistants as of January 2025.

Membership Fees

We had a productive 2024 and we have an even better 2025 planned.

The events we organize throughout the year, seminars like the above mentioned Tax Declaration Event, workshops and social gatherings wouldn’t be possible without the contribution of our members !

So if you like our work, consider becoming a member of ELSA. This supports our continuous work with information sessions, aperos, workshops and annual events that support your personal and professional life.

If you’re already a member thank you! Please pay your dues via TWINT, credit card, Apple or Google Pay for 2025 here

See you soon!

Your ELSA Committee