Education Outreach Department (SPE)

Our mission

Accompanying our various audiences in their curriculum choices requires coordinated actions throughout their education, enabling them to make an informed choice and start their studies in the best possible conditions.

Some future students are motivated by their ambition to take up the scientific challenges that our society faces; others follow their will to achieve a study program that will open up new horizons; some more are driven by science as an intrinsic interest. Whichever motivation these young people show, we commit ourselves to ensure that all of them benefit from quality teaching and opportunities to immerse themselves early in the world of research, expand their network and acquire cross-disciplinary skills.

Therefore, we act at various levels, in order for students to benefit from innovative education and be sensitized to different scientific and technical topics, as well as topics related to diversity, leadership and scientific communication. In parallel, we make sure that they have a good understanding of the study programs that are offered at EPFL and the career opportunities that exist in ever more interdisciplinary fields.