Vice Presidency for Responsible Transformation (VPT)

The Vice Presidency for Responsible Transformation works to reinforce values such as inclusion and sustainability throughout the School’s campus, research and education.

Dessin coloré du Rolex Learning Center, basé sur une photo d'Alain Herzog / EPFL — Colorful drawing of the Rolex Learning Center, based on a photo by Alain Herzog / EPFL

Overview

The Vice Presidency for Responsible Transformation was created to ensure that everyone at EPFL has the opportunity to live up to their full potential, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin or any disability.

Our School aims to give engineers the skills they need to develop sustainable responses to the major challenges facing our planet, conduct cutting-edge research R&D on climate-change related issues, and make EPFL an exemplary campus for green, smart solutions.

To achieve these goals, we need the entire EPFL community to get actively involved. So send us your suggestions and ideas!

Equality and Diversity

Respect

Sustainability

News and events

Impact of air travel: from awareness to reduction

27.06.24EPFL

EPFL's campaign on carbon emissions from air travel has won a prestigious European award. The effects of the new travel policy are starting to be felt, with an 18% reduction in 2023 compared to 2019. But more efforts are needed.

Sonia Seneviratne, ETH Zurich © 2024 EPFL//Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

Exploring solutions to the environmental crisis

27.05.24Research

More than twenty EPFL researchers and three guest speakers contributed to the first EPFL Symposium on Research & Sustainability, highlighting the diversity and complementarity of scientific and engineering approaches.

Baptiste Lecoeur and Johan Rochel - 2023 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

“It's such a great way to design a class”

11.01.24Education

Johan Rochel and Baptiste Lecoeur are a teacher-student tandem tasked with developing a new Master’s class on ethics in artificial intelligence. This is part of a novel approach backed by EPFL’s Vice Presidency for Responsible Transformation.

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