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EuroTech Partner Days: How Strategic Alliances Benefit Education

Published:23.09.19 — The first edition of the EuroTech Partner Days was hosted September 22nd and 23rd 2019 by EPFL in the Framework of the 50th anniversary of the school. The event, organized by the Education Outreach Department, brought together the EuroTech Alliance (DTU, EPFL, l’X, Technion, TU/e and TUM), its partners as well as students, and fostered rich discussions on topics such as education and student exchange.  Prof. Pierre Vandergheynst, Vice President for Education at EPFL and Prof. Philip John Binning, Senior Vice President, Dean of Graduate Studies and International Affairs at DTU talk about the benefits of a strategic alliance for education. 

MARVEL summer school: the pleasure of learning new things

Published:18.07.19 — MARVEL Summer Camp students “had a lot of fun, while working and learning new things”. This year’s Summer Camp “Des atomes aux ordinateurs” organized by MARVEL in collaboration with the EPFL Education outreach department attracted 21 high school students — 10 women and 11 men — for a full week of lectures, exercises and lab visits built around the theme of scientific programming.

Two MINT-classes from Gymnasium Lerbermatt Köniz dive into EPFL

Published:11.07.19 — Last week about 40 Swiss German high school students had the chance to visit various modules developed by EPFL laboratories. This immersion week, organized by the Education Outreach Department in close collaboration with the high school representatives since many years, allowed the students to approach the engineering sciences in an interdisciplinary way. For the MINT-classes (the students follow a specific program fostering Maths, Informatics, Natural sciences and Technique), this week at EPFL is a particular highlight in their curriculum.