Welcome Back! + 41st GA + Welcome Event #4 ‒ ACIDE ‐ EPFL

2024 #4

WELCOME BACK

ACIDE(l’Association du Corps Intermédiaire de l’EPFL)

officially represents the wider Intermediate body (Corp Intermédiare) at EPFL that comprises PhD students, Postdocs and members of the permanent scientific staff.

We are a member-driven organization that operates based on the volunteered time of its board.

Our initiatives and events are run and driven by YOU our members.

So join us!

Please forward to all your colleagues and friends!

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41st General Assembly

October 18 2024 – 1730 – 1830 – SV 1717

🗳️Voting for the new executive + statute/name changes + discussion with Polydoc/EPDA + 🥤🍷🧀 apero

Vote on Personnel Commission

VOTE – Are you in favor of the creation of a Personnel Commission at EPFL?

(vpn required outside EPFL)

Welcome Event 2024

November 12 2024 – 1700 – 2000 – SV Hall

👥🗣️Meet your colleagues, very very Special guests from EPFL + 🍕🍝hot food and 🍻🥂🍾🧃drinks

Health Insurance (x Polydoc + EPDA)

October 10 2024 – CE 1 2 Auditorium + Online

⚕️🩻 Hear about the new rates, deadline to switch November 30 + 🥤🍷🧀 apero

Negotiation Workshop (x SPAN)

October 17 2024

🤝 Negotiation as Innovation: Skills to Positively Transform Conflicts

3rd Pillar Pension + Investment (x Polydoc + EPDA)

November 13 2024

👵🏻💰💰👴🏻Learn more about your retirement + 🥤🍷🧀 apero

Immigration (x Polydoc + EPDA)

December 5 2024

Focus on Student and Work permits Non-EU/EFTA with Fiorella Deshogues + 🥤🍷🧀 apero

Events supported by the membership fees of paid ACIDE members, the EPFL Associate Vice-Presidency of Research.

🥛🍟 EVENTS 📝🍺

🗳️🗳️ 41st General Assembly – October 18 🗳️🗳️

AGENDA

1. Welcome

2. Approval of the Agenda

3. Approval of the Minutes of the previous GA (08.11.2024)

4. Updates

a) Finances

b) Membership

c) Future plans

d) Statute changes

5. Elections

a) Board members

b) Coordinators

c) Commissions

6. Miscellaneous

Vote on the new Exec

2 x Co-Presidents

Treasurer

Coordinators (Events, Communications, Politics)

Commissions (Food, Disciplinary, Awards)

We Need You! Interested in a position?, announce it to [email protected]

Only Paid members are eligible to vote and to be elected

So join us!

📢🍕🍻 Welcome Event 2024 – November 12 📢🍕🍻

The biggest gathering of the entire Intermediate body on campus

Come meet your fellows PhD, postdocs and scientist

Meet the execs of ACIDE, Polydoc and EPDA

Meet your elected faculty council and school assembly members

Hear from our very special speakers:

Ana Fontcuberta i Morral

(AVP-Centres+Platforms; President-elect 2025)

Andreas Mortensen

(AVP-Research)

Ines Ariceta

(Trust and Safety Network)

Marianne Wannier

(Director of HR a.i.; VP Human Development 2025)

Hot food and beverages will be provided

Not to miss!

💸🧧 MEMBERSHIP FEES FOR 2024 💸🧧

Membership fees have been due since Spring 2024

A reminder email has been sent to all those who didnt pay

As voted upon at our last general assembly to lower our membership fees from 40 CHF/year:

20 CHF/year for PhD candidates

30 CHF/year for postdocs and scientists

Our fees guarantee the financial independence of ACIDE, so we can hold events and workshops proposed by members like yourself.

Sign up here

📢 EPFL – Have an opinion? You get to have YOUR SAY 📢

📥🏋️👩‍💻🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻 Personnel Commission at EPFL 📥🏋️👩‍💻🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻

Following a request from the Staff Association of the Confederation (APC) and a mandate from the EPFL Direction, the Human Resources Direction (HRD) and the School Assembly (AE) are submitting to your vote the principle of creating a PersonnelCommission (CoPe) at EPFL. This future CoPe would represent all professional categories working at EPFL, serving as the internal body representing all employee interests, in particular concerning working conditions. While the CoPe would be independent in its recommendations and positions, its structure would be integrated within the School Assembly.

Your choice is decisive

VOTE – Are you in favor of the creation of a Personnel Commission at EPFL?

Revision of the ETH Domain Fees Ordinance

At the request of the Federal Parliament, the ETH Board has taken note of the proposal to implement art. 34d, para. 2bis of the ETH Law, which provides for a threefold increase in tuition fees for foreign students who take up residence in Switzerland to study, or who are not resident in Switzerland. Another aspect of the revision is the indexation of all tuition fees to the Swiss consumer price index, to take account of the re-benchmarking.

Note: This applies only to Bachelors and Master

Full info Here

(vpn required outside EPFL)

Send your comments to [email protected] before October 28

📣📣 Elections to the School Assembly and Faculty Council 2024-2026

The School Assembly and Faculty Councils provides us an opportunity to voice our opinions directly to the EPFL direction.

It is part of the decision making process.

Elections were held this Summer 2024.

Your New Elected Members

(vpn required outside EPFL)

🧠⛑️ Mental Health 🧠⛑️

Many of your academic colleagues have already participated in the Swiss-Wide Mental Health Survey (SWiMS) 2024! If you haven’t, please consider taking part in the survey and contribute to improving working conditions at EPFL

The goal of this survey is to identify problems and areas for improvement in working conditions and mental health locally and nationally. The survey report with the results for EPFL specifically will help us to foster changes towards a better working culture here. At the same time, combining local and national forces provides a unique opportunity for lasting changes.

Take the anonymous Swiss-Wide Mental Health Survey today:

https://bit.ly/SWiMS24

It will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

Given the sensitivity of the topic, we ensure that your responses will be collected completely anonymously so that you cannot be identified from the data (for details on data protection and privacy, see the first page of the survey).

🎭🎻 Art, Life and Culture 🎭🎻

CDM – Les Culturelles – Music 🎸 – Dance 💃

Twice a year, Les Culturelles offers events that explore, from an artistic point of view, some of the key challenges facing our world. This year’s October cultural week agenda includes performing arts, music, dance, guided visits, discussions and contemporary art.

Cultural Week Fall 2024