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Transferable Skills Courses

A set of courses for transferable skills, approved by the EPFL Doctoral Commission (Cdoct), is open to all doctoral programs

Cours Transferable skills 2022-23

EDOC General and external courses

Cours
Langue
Examen
Crédits
Academic Writing for Doctoral Students (1) (Registration via Language Centre EPFL (UNIL) CdL only )
ENG-627 / Section EDOC-GE
Various lecturers
EN
Written
2
Academic Writing for Doctoral Students (2) (Registration via Language Centre EPFL (UNIL) CdL only)
ENG-628 / Section EDOC-GE
Various lecturers
EN
Written
2
Coaching for Communicating in English in an Academic Context (Registration via Language Centre EPFL (UNIL) CdL only)
ENG-635 / Section EDOC-GE
Various lecturers
EN
Written & Oral
1
Communication for Research Engineers (Next time: Fall 2023)
CIVIL-607 / Section EDOC-GE
Smith
EN
Written & Oral
2
Communication in science and technology
ENG-616 / Section EDOC-GE
Bischofberger,Various lecturers
EN
Written
2
Entrepreneurial Opportunity Identification and Exploitation (Registration for PhD via IS-Academia, for MA https://go.epfl.ch/registering-courses-exams)
ENG-632 / Section EDOC-GE
Tal Itzkovitch
EN
Oral presentation
2
How to prepare successful Grant proposals (Please fill out this form upon enrollment: https://forms.gle/so4LgKHd8FjefdiH9 .)
ENG-610 / Section EDOC-GE
Gheldof,Irwin,Lalive d'Epinay Kaech,Vandevyver
EN
Project report
1
Innosuisse Business Concept (SPRING) (Next courses and Registration: https://www.science2market.ch/training. Application through link mandatory.)
MGT-642(b) / Section EDOC-GE
Various lecturers
EN
Project report
4
Lecturing and Presenting in Engineering (For PhD via IS-Academia, for Master students https://go.epfl.ch/registering-courses-exams)
ENG-629 / Section EDOC-GE
Isaac,de Lima
EN
Project report
2
Ma thèse en 180 secondes (Next time: Fall 2022 // Registration via: https://go.epfl.ch/mt180 )
ENG-626 / Section EDOC-GE
Various lecturers
FR/EN
Oral presentation
1
MINTT: Management of Innovation and technology transfer (EDOC) (Registration via mintt's website (mintt.epfl.ch) //)
ENG-623 / Section EDOC-GE
Lattuada
EN
Project report
3
Presenting Research in English (Registration via Language Centre EPFL (UNIL) CdL)
ENG-630 / Section EDOC-GE
Various lecturers
EN
Oral presentation
1
Producing evidence that makes sense to policy (More information about the content of the course and its different topics/modules is available at: https://go.epfl.ch/eng_638. Note that new topics are added as IRGC organises new events/projects. )
ENG-638 / Section EDOC-GE
Cardia,Florin
EN
Term paper
2
Science and Engineering Teaching and Learning (Flexible course with both online and on-campus components. PhD register via IS-Academia, for Master students https://go.epfl.ch/registering-courses-exams)
ENG-624 / Section EDOC-GE
Capdevila Tristan,Le Duc,Tormey
EN
Oral
2
SciFilmIt Hackathon (Next time: Spring 2023 TBC Registration via website (https://scifilmit.com/))
ENG-631 / Section EDOC-GE
Salathé,Various lecturers
EN
Oral presentation
1
Supervising Students in Projects (Next time: Spring 2022 // This course REQUIRES that you are supervising students working on a project during the same period as this course)
ENG-633 / Section EDOC-GE
Delisle,Isaac,Kovacs
EN
Oral
1
Teaching problem solving (Teaching assistants in First Year courses are the intended audience for this course - please contact the instructors if you are not currently involved in such a course. Fall & Spring sem.)
ENG-643 / Section EDOC-GE
Deparis,Eigenbrot,Isaac
EN
Project report
2
Technology and Public Policy - (d) Technology and innovation policies for grand and global challenges (For PhD via IS-Academia, for Master students https://go.epfl.ch/registering-courses-exams)
MGT-641(d) / Section EDOC-GE
Foray
EN
Term paper
2
Videomaking for science communication (Next time: Spring 2023)
ENG-608 / Section EDOC-GE
Invited lecturers,Milanese
EN
Oral presentation
1