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Innovation and Technology Transfer in our complex world can only be successfully achieved in close relation with industry. The Vice Presidency for Innovation (VPI) is dedicated to enhancing the innovation process towards the market place. The team of Large Enterprises deals with extensive national and international companies interested in strategic collaborations with EPFL, including installing corporate R&D activities on the campus at EPFL Innovation Park.
Tailored partnerships are one very efficient approach to innovation. It encompasses research collaboration, technology transfer, visits, and exchanges of crucial personnel. Universities and companies will need to be even more creative in the future to improve innovation. EPFL is convinced that future breakthroughs will be made by linking transdisciplinary domains and facilitating communication between people with different expertise and backgrounds.
EPFL is willing to bridge the innovation gap by inviting companies on and around its campus to improve the innovation process further. The VPI Network and the Strategic Initiatives will play an essential role in this effort.
We gladly welcome opportunities for our students to work on real case studies. Finding real solutions to real problems is indeed the best training they could have to face the challenges that lie ahead in their professional path. For the first analysis during a 4-month Semester project or a more in-depth study for their Master project, students are enthusiastic to try new ideas with our professors' assistance.
It has been experienced many times that such work can lead to significant developments in further research stages. Furthermore, students may have the willingness and time to explore new avenues of research or promising trains of thought that your staff may not always have the time or the resources to explore.
Students can also complete their education with a 6-month internship in the industry to gain first-hand knowledge and experience in a real working environment. Meanwhile, their presence in your company can be refreshing and positive synergies may emerge from their contact with the company's permanent staff. Hybrid collaborations of this kind are significant vectors towards innovative ways of thinking.
If you are interested in proposing a subject of study or an internship in transportation to our students, please send an email to [email protected] to discuss the various ways our students could bring added value to the research projects that you wish to push forward.
Initiated in 2009, the Transportation Center of the EPFL (TRACE) is an interdisciplinary center attached to the VPI. Its primary mission is to become the interface between EPFL and the outside world for all topics related to transport and mobility of people and goods.
Bringing together close to 40 member laboratories and thus relying on a combined workforce of more than 560 top-notch researchers, the Transportation Center can provide a wide range of competencies and expertise to address the increasingly complex challenges associated with people's mobility and goods.
The transport sector is profoundly transversal, and therefore gathers actors from a broad range of disciplines. In addition to developing multidisciplinary research of high caliber in order to bring added-value solutions to societal problems, TRACE aims to strengthen the visibility of transport research at EPFL and bring out the added-value of existing and new synergies from the joining of very diverse core competencies distributed across a wide range of laboratories throughout the different schools.
The EPFL Transportation Center addresses all issues related to transport and mobility. Its prominent role is to foster technology transfer in this field by initiating partnerships with industrial and public authorities. About forty laboratories from five faculties at EPFL are affiliated and lead interdisciplinary research projects.
Over 110 projects have already been initiated in areas such as robotics, information and communications technology, land use, energy efficiency, urban sociology, or areas such as security and comfort in cars and trains. Discover TRACE.

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