2019 marked EPFL’s 50th anniversary as a federal institute of technology. To celebrate this golden anniversary, we put on a series of festivities and events showcasing science, research, education and innovation.
When Maurice Cosandey took over as head of what was then the Ecole Polytechnique de l’Université de Lausanne (EPUL) on 1 April 1963, he didn’t have a strategy but rather a firm goal: “To turn our cantonal engineering school into a federal institute.”
