Season's greetings...

ENROLL NOW! MOOC on Science & Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction

Published:30.09.16 — 28.09.16 - Discover how science and technology help us reduce disaster risk and increase resilience Starting November 5th, the Cooperation & Development Center (CODEV) at EPFL will launch its first collaborative MOOC: A Resilient Future - Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction.

New Master Course in Development Engineering

Published:30.11.16 — A new Master Level Course on Development Engineering (ENV-470) will be offered from February 2017 by the Environmental Engineering Section at the Environmental Engineering School. This is an optional course open to students from other Schools with the agreement of their home section.

Congratulation to Abigaïl Kern for her PhD thesis!

Published:16.12.16 — Abigail’s thesis on "Crisis and Governance. Urban Governance in a Context of Crisis: Trajectories of Haitian Intermediate Cities after the 2010 Earthquake " under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Claude Bolay and Dr. Christine Lutringer was accepted WITHOUT RESERVATION !

Swiss scientific collaboration with Latin America

Published:05.12.16 — The Seminar on Seed Money projects with Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru held on 17th November 2016 at EPFL, revealed high interest to intensify research partnerships in the region.

“Encouraging collaboration with partners from the Global South”

Published:11.12.16 — On 15th November 2016 was held the bi-annual CODEV Seed Money Conference. EPFL researchers and their partners discussed their collaboration experiences with participants and presented their results achieved and impact generated. They also talked about the opportunities and challenges to take their seed money projects to the next level.

Workshop on Skilled Migration, Diasporas & Digital Technologies

Published:16.11.16 — Main questions and tools for studying and supporting diasporas

Brazilian-Swiss entrepreneurship programme

Published:25.11.16 — A thriving economy, a huge market, top-level universities and a host of innovation start-ups: this reality is highly interesting for Swiss researchers attracted by the entrepreneurship challenge. The third Academia-Industry Training Camp was held in early October in Rio de Janeiro, as well as in Bangalore, India.

JUST PUBLISHED! Open access article from Info4Dourou2.0

Published:13.07.16 — Research project Info4Dourou2.0 is releasing its brand new article on “Optimizing drip irrigation for eggplant crops in semi-arid zones using evolving thresholds” by Tom Müller, Clémence Ranquet Bouleau and Prof. Paolo Perona, published in Agricultural Water Management, Volume 177, November 2016, Pages 54–65. Available online now!

EPFL hosts the General Assembly 2016 of the Swiss Water Partnership

Published:30.06.16 — The General Assembly 2016 of the Swiss Water Partnership took place on 18 May 2016 at EPFL, hosted by the Cooperation & Development Center (CODEV).