Vice Presidency for Innovation (VPI) Vice Presidencies EPFL

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Web Name: Vice Presidency for Innovation (VPI) Vice Presidencies EPFL

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Vice Presidency for Innovation (VPI) The VPI the interface with industrial milieus, in particular through the EPFL Innovation Park, a place of interaction and proximity between companies and the campus. Innovation Park © DR IntroductionFor more than 20 years, EPFL has been a key player in innovation in Switzerland. The Vice Presidency for Innovation is dedicated to this role and, in particular, to the development of platforms for interaction between EPFL researchers and students, and business and industry.The VPI is in charge of the deployment of the Switzerland Innovation Park Network West EPFL, which is closely linked to the expansion of EPFL’s other campuses. It is the interface with industrial milieus, in particular through the EPFL Innovation Park, a place of interaction and proximity between companies – start-ups and large enterprises – and the campus.To promote technology transfer and the commercialization of its research, the Vice Presidency for Innovation has put in place a set of instruments and measures to encourage entrepreneurship as well as students’ entrepreneurial spirit.And finally, the VPI has recently launched a social entrepreneurship initiative to address the most pressing challenges faced by our society. The initiative includes the creation of the Yunus Social Business Center – the only one of its kind in Switzerland. Our partner in this initiative is none other than Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and the father of microfinance.Organizational structureUrsula Oesterle © Christophe Senehi / EPFL 2021Vice PresidentUrsula Oesterle Links Documents VPI-Team Download the organisation chart (PDF) EPFL promotes the rapprochement of industry towards cutting-edge research in order to best meet the scientific, technological and societal challenges of the 21st century. The teams of the Vice Presidency for Innovation encourage and support any company interested in collaborating with EPFL.EPFL researchers put technology to work for the global SouthPublished:04.06.21 — Tech4Dev, an EPFL program to develop technology that addresses the specific needs and living conditions of communities in the developing world, has announced four new winning projects for its research grants. Contact-tracing apps prove that they save livesPublished:12.05.21 — A study published today in Nature shows that the NHS COVID-19 app for digital contact tracing, based on the DP3T protocol, averted between 300,000 and 600,000 COVID-19 cases in England and Wales. The researchers used data from the NHS to show and quantify the epidemiological impact of such privacy-preserving apps, which are now available around the globe to help control the pandemic.

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