Being an EPFL student is an exciting adventure rife with opportunity. It comes with its fair share of ups and downs, achievements and frustrations, and surprises good and bad. You have so many stories worth telling! To help you, EPFL has launched ALTER, a website managed by a student editorial committee, and SUPERBOOM, a magazine created by ArtePoly. Two media where you can share content about day-to-day life both on and off campus.
The magazine contains movie, music, and book reviews, announcements of upcoming events, and articles on offbeat topics. It explores EPFL student life from a societal and cultural standpoint.
The student-voice website, ALTER promotes science and engineering in all their forms, provides a behind-the-scenes look at EPFL, gives tips on studies and housing, suggests fun activities, and takes a humorous look at the (extra)ordinary student experience at EPFL – all within the framework of the School’s three core missions: education, research and innovation.
Both of these media channels are geared towards students and feature their contributions. Content is shared between the two channels.
ALTER is currently managed by a seven-person editorial committee, all highly motivated EPFL students. This student-voice website linked to an Instagram account, operates alongside EPFL’s official website. It provides a user-friendly platform for publishing profiles, interviews, special reports, feature articles, videos, pictures and podcasts about life at EPFL and our School’s core missions of education, research and innovation. All types of content is encouraged – funny, satirical, offbeat and creative – provided that it complies with our editorial guidelines.
The Associate Vice Presidency for Student Affairs and Outreach (AVP-SAO) initiated the project ALTER and supports it. Editors of the editorial committee (all EPFL students) provide website and Instagram content (text, videos, pictures and podcasts), select the topics to be covered, handle issues related to producing and publishing content, and select which contributions from other students to post. Anyone interested in participating in this new media can submit a contribution, in French, Italian, German or English. Members of the editorial committee and other contributors are paid at the student assistant rate.
If you would like to take part in this initiative and join the website’s editorial committee (for a minimum of one semester) or submit a contribution, send your motivation to us at: [email protected]
The ArtePoly magazine, called SUPERBOOM, is an A5 size printed magazine distributed on the Lausanne campus starting fall 2021. It contains personal profiles, interviews, special reports and feature articles as well as illustrations and cartoons – all written and drawn by students. Superboom is intended to serve as a forum for students to share their interests in movies, music, books, pop culture and culture in general, or to take a lighthearted or even edgy look at day-to-day life on the EPFL campus.
SUPERBOOM is managed by a group of six editors, each one in charge of managing and selecting content for a specific section.
The magazine is issued monthly and distributed free of charge. However, so that we can recycle used copies, you can return the magazine to collect points on campus.
If you would like to contribute, or if you think the magazine is a great idea and would like to join the team of lead editors, send your content, ideas and motivation, to us at: [email protected].