Acces to Sycamore Laboratory

 

We are located in the centre of the EPFL campus. For an interactive map, click here

By Public Transports. Take a train to Lausanne main station (Lausanne Gare). You may want to avoid local or regional trains; the fastest train connections are the IC trains (from Zurich, Bern, or Geneva), ICN trains (from Basel and Germany), TGV trains (from France), or EC trains (from Italy). Check the connections and timetables for trains to Lausanne. From Lausanne main station, the fastest way to get to EPFL is the local train to Renens (one stop). From there, you take the Metro M1 toward “Lausanne Flons”, and get off at the stop “EPFL”. Alternatively, you can take Metro M2 at Lausanne station, go to “Lausanne Flons” (one stop), and then switch to Metro M1 toward Renens, and get off at the stop “EPFL”.

 

By Plane. The closest airport to EPFL is Geneva Airport (about 45 min by train). Depending on your itinerary, however, it will be more convenient in many cases to fly to Zurich Airport instead which is further away (about 2 h 30 min by train) but has more international connections so that you will not have to change planes, and your total travel time may be shorter. Both Geneva Airport and Zurich Airport have Swiss Railways (Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, SBB; Chemins de Fer Fédérale, CFF) stations inside the airport, and there are direct trains to Lausanne main station (Lausanne Gare) in both cases. Check the SBB timetables from either Geneva Airport SBB Station or Zurich Airport SBB Station to Lausanne.

By Car. Whether you come from the north (Zurich or Bern) or west (Geneva), take the highway A1 to Lausanne. In either case, follow the signs “Lausanne Sud” when you approach Lausanne. Exit the highway at “EPFL, St.-Sulpice”, take the “Route Cantonale N1”, and follow the signs to “EPFL”. Please note that most navigation systems will find a route to the EPFL at its actual geographic location in Ecublens. Parking is available close to the institute but the central parking lot close to “Rolex Learning Center” is probably more straightforward to find.