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Designing life with artificial intelligence

Published:11.02.25 — “Designing Life with AI” is a cross-disciplinary MAKE project in which EPFL students get a chance to explore the research process by designing proteins. A total of eight research labs are involved.

Powdered Soap Dispenser Wins Circular Economy Innovation Prize

Published:28.01.25 — The graduate course “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering” brought together students from various fields of study at EPFL to tackle prototyping challenges focused on developing devices for a circular economy.

RebuiLT project shows it's possible to build differently

Published:13.12.24 — In a real-world example of how construction materials can be reused, a team of 230 EPFL students is building a community pavilion in Ecublens, near the Lausanne campus, through a low-tech, participative approach. This bold initiative entailed overcoming a number of logistical, technical and architectural challenges.

A new platform to boost project-based learning at EPFL

Published:13.08.24 — A student is developing a new platform that will centralize all the resources needed to carry out projects at EPFL.

“I spent all my savings on my first 3D printer”

Published:12.09.24 — Sébastien Martinerie has been an expert in 3D printing for over 20 years. He’s modeled and printed thousands of prototypes in his career, including human organs for training surgeons. Today he coaches more than 500 EPFL students at SPOT.