Category: EPDA News
EPDA April Town Hall – answers to questions
We are happy to provide feedback to the community in regards to the EPDA Town Hall on “Well-being and Conflict Resolution” held on the 21st of April 2021 on Zoom with special guest prof. van der Goot (VP for Responsible Transformation). Our aim was to raise awareness over the current state of well-being in our community (…)
EPDA Well-being & Conflict resolution Survey Results
The EPFL postdoc association is making the results of its survey covering topics relating to wellbeing and conflict resolution available to the EPFL community. The survey was conducted during March 2021 with a total of 523 responses from the EPFL community. The aim of the survey was to assess the general well-being, experiences of bias/conflict (…)
Peer2Peer Counselling center is open!
Dear EPFL community, We’ve got you covered! Based on the March Well-Being and Conflict Resolution survey you participated in, we noticed that a major way for us to help out the EPFL community is by having a group of trained peers to confide in whenever someone has a problem or conflict. Thus, we are (…)
Internal Leadership Training
As a part of its Capacity building programme, the EPFL postdoc association is organising a free Leadership training workshop for its members. The leadership workshop is done by our member for free and builds upon the established freely available programme provided by Google (re:Work). The leadership workshop is expected to have six modules of about 3h spread (…)
EPDA Town Hall – Well-being and Conflict Resolution
The EPFL postdoc association (EPDA) invites you to its first Town Hall on the topic of “Well-being and Conflict Resolution”. This event is aimed to raise awareness over the current state of well-being. We will present the results of the survey (sent beginning of March) filled out by more than 500 postdocs and PhDs from (…)
Exploring what matters @ EPFL
The course has been developed by Action for Happiness (AfH), a UK-based non-profit organization founded in 2011 by Prof. Richard Layard, Prof. Geoff Mulgan and Prof. Anthony Seldon. It is secular, science-based and open to people of all backgrounds. London School of Economics Professor Lord Richard Layard said:“A good society is one where as (…)
Internal Leadership Training Workshop
As a part of its Capacity building programme, the EPFL postdoc association (EPDA)is organising a free Leadership training workshop for its members (irrespectively if you paid the membership fee). The leadership workshop is done by our member for free and is based on the established freely available programme provided by Google (re:Work) based on project Oxygen. (…)
Post-Academic Career Finding For Postdoctoral Researchers
EPDA is happy to open the registration for a workshop Post-Academic Career Finding For Postdoctoral Researchers.This workshop is for academic professionals interested in transitioning into a post-academic career. Participants will learn how to identity and effectively communicate their unique skills (both hard skills and soft skills). They will be introduced to what options are out there (…)
January 2021 Newsletter
We at the EPFL postdoc association (EPDA) wish you a wonderful year 2021. 2020 was a challenging year for everyone, but besides all negative aspects we have seen again that our efforts in science are the best way to tackle challenges in our days. With this monthly newsletter, we want to inform you about our (…)