DISCOVERY LEARNING PROGRAM
Discovery Learning Program
As a world-renowned science and technology university, EPFL must remain at the forefront of teaching practices. It is our duty to equip our students with the cross-disciplinary skills they will need to meet tomorrow’s challenges.
Our Discovery Learning Program (DLP), part of the Make initiative, uses a hands-on approach in which students work together on cross-disciplinary projects, conduct experiments and build prototypes. This work is carried out at our Discovery Learning Labs (DLLs) – state-of-the-art facilities where professors and students design innovative systems for both research and industrial applications.
The DLP also gives students an opportunity to obtain guidance from professional experts and test out their ideas in special prototyping workshops.
Infrastructures
Learning Laboratories
State-of-the-art facilities for student experiments
Prototyping
Resources for building workable prototypes
Programs
MAKE Projects
Interdisciplinary projects supported by the school
FIELD Projects
Open-ended projects and human-centered design
Act for change lab
Realize a sustainable idea, project or initiative
Changemakers
A program designed to support smart, driven, and curious students transform their ideas into reality
Intiative for promoting new student projects
Climate Action and Sustainability Week – CSAW
Design sprint of one week
Resources
For students
Online resources and coaching to support project realization and prototyping
For teachers
A support to an innovative pedagogy promoting hands on training, project based learning and interdisciplinarity
The Discovery Learning Program in the press
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iGEM
The EPFL team of students ViTEST wins the global international iGEM competition in Boston in front of more than 300 other teams coming from all over the world.
