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The University of Lausanne is a higher teaching and research institution composed of seven faculties where approximately 14,300 students and 3,000 researchers work and study. UNIL is focused on several academic disciplines, especially Medicine, Life Sciences, Geosciences, Environment, Business, Humanities, and Social Sciences. An emphasis is placed on an interdisciplinary approach, with close cooperation between students, teaching staff, and professors. The UNIL represents: An international atmosphere. One-fifth of the student population and one-third of the teaching staff come from abroad. Up-to-date facilities and technology. State-of-the-art laboratories for researchers: spacious, well-equipped lecture halls for teaching staff and students. Three faculties are unique in Switzerland. Law, Criminal Justice, and Public Administration Biology and Medicine (FBM) Geosciences and Environment (GSE). Innovations require new synergies. Close collaboration with the University Hospital of the Canton of Vaud (CHUV) to remain at the forefront of advances in medical knowledge. The University and Cantonal Library - Lausanne (BCUL), with its two million documents, modern research tools, and an ideal working environment overlooking Lake Geneva. A philosophy and work ethic expressed in a Charter of Values and precepts. An exceptionally green and spacious lakeside setting. In just a few minutes, an excellent public transport network links the university campus to Lausanne, Vaud's capital, noted for its varied cultural activities. A wide range of continuing education and interdisciplinary courses, as well as countless sporting and cultural activities in fields as varied as language and IT courses, football (soccer), capoeira, fitness or underwater diving at the Sports Centre societies, cinema, exhibitions or theatre at the Grange de Dorigny. The UNIL offers a vast range of courses in both the human and natural sciences. Following the Bologna recommendations, central university studies are at two levels: first, a three-year Bachelor's degree course, followed by three to four semesters leading to a Master's degree, either by specializing in a specific domain or by undertaking interdisciplinary studies. For those wishing to complement their training, post-graduate courses are available (Masters of Advanced Studies, and Doctoral Schools), which enable graduates to perfect their knowledge in targeted disciplines in their sphere, or related subjects, thus facilitating their entry into a chosen career. Finally, the University offers a program of complementary and refresher courses designed for adults already professionally active but who wish to update their knowledge in their particular domain or enlarge their competence to change their career direction. To ensure the rapid renewal of knowledge and respond to a growing demand for flexible and practical education, the UNIL encourages the appropriate use of technologies of information and communication (TIC) and MOOCs. The University of Lausanne comprises more than 175 research units working in fields as diverse as genomics, aesthetics of cinema, environmental law, and criminalistics. In institutes, laboratories, and libraries, 3,000 researchers, including 558 professors, work every day on national and international projects, thereby increasing the institution's research capital. The UNIL seeks, in particular, to encourage a cross-disciplinary approach to research. View full university

EPFL is Europe’s most cosmopolitan technical university. It welcomes students, professors, and collaborators of more than 120 nationalities. EPFL has both a Swiss and international vocation and focuses on three missions: teaching, research, and innovation. EPFL collaborates with a virtual network of partners, including other universities and colleges, secondary schools and gymnasiums, industry and the economy, political circles, and the general public, to have a real impact on society. EPFL is one of Europe’s most vibrant and cosmopolitan science and technology institutions. View full university

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. View full university

PFL is Europe’s most cosmopolitan technical university with students, professors, and staff from over 120 nations. A dynamic environment, open to Switzerland and the world, EPFL is centered on its three missions: teaching, research, and technology transfer. EPFL works together with an extensive network of partners, including other universities and institutes of technology, secondary schools and colleges, industry and economy, political circles, and the general public, to bring about real impact for society. Working for the Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) means being part of a prestigious school that consistently ranks among the top 20 universities worldwide. As a public university dedicated to improving the world around us, we have three missions: training, research, and technology transfer. We boast one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and employ more than 6,000 people. Our employees perform high-value-added work in teaching and research and the School’s administrative and technical services. Between our main campus in Lausanne and our satellite campuses in Geneva, Neuchâtel, Fribourg, and Sion, our workforce comprises more than one hundred different professions. At EPFL, we foster a culture of respect and inclusion in the workplace. We promote a healthy work-life balance through flexible working hours and on-campus daycare and sports facilities. Our employees also benefit from belonging to a diverse community of 16,000 people – including over 10,000 students and 3,500 researchers – from 120 different countries. Our planet faces multiple challenges to the environment, some of the major ones being - climate change, depletion of resources such as drinking water, increasing pollution, human population growth, and the loss of biodiversity. The problems related to the environment are not only varied but are also becoming increasingly complex. While the solutions to these problems involve human, economic, and social dimensions, they cannot be resolved without reference to the latest technological and scientific progress. At ENAC, four scientific communities come together under one roof: environmental engineers, civil engineers, architects, and social scientists. Combining disciplinary depth and interdisciplinary breadth, our teaching and research activities in architecture, civil and environmental engineering share the common goal of improving the environment we use, create, and live in. From fundamental to applied science, engineering, and practice, research at ENAC aims to be immediately relevant to society at large, offering solutions to meet a wide range of challenges: mitigating and adapting to global warming accommodating a growing population dealing with increasing land-use pressures and meeting the increasing demand for energy and transportation continually improving and maintaining the built environment preserving ecosystems managing natural and human-made risks These multi-faceted fields require long-term, multidisciplinary research at an international level, carried out as a creative interaction between art, science, and engineering. Since its creation, ENAC has demonstrated how the proximity between architects, civil, and environmental engineers, and the fundamentally interdisciplinary approach that characterizes the School support the emergence of new research domains at the interface between these traditional disciplines, uniquely positioning it to be a leader in these fields. View full university

At Business School Lausanne, we approach business education differently. Building a new generation of leadership has become essential to create learning programs that address the fundamental changes of working in the 21st century. This includes focusing on how digital transformation, current economic trends, societal structure changes, and environmental concerns have transformed the business landscape. Based in Switzerland, we are a truly global learning lab. Students from sixty nationalities with diverse backgrounds join our experienced faculty in a co-creative approach to learning, focusing on topics as broad as leadership, systems thinking, economics, and business-driven sustainability. Our faculty comprises individuals who have run successful businesses and have practically applied what they teach in real-world situations, ensuring our students are taught the most cutting-edge business thinking. BSL is committed to creating a personalized and focused learning experience for each of our students. This is why we insist on keeping our classes small. So each student has the opportunity to truly participate in seeking new ideas for measuring the role and impact of business in today's society. We endeavor to create a space where all of our students, professors, staff, researchers, and stakeholders, feel free to come together to ask courageous questions and maximize solutions through values that matter because the connection is key to tackling issues for the common good. We teach our students big picture thinking to develop innovative cross-sector solutions, which we believe will help them realize their true potential in whatever avenue of business they choose to pursue. Pursuing a BSL degree gives you the chance to live and study in Switzerland, a multilingual country with a culturally diverse population and a growing ex-pat community. You will have the opportunity to meet people from all over the world, enhance your cross-cultural skills, learn new languages, and develop a global mindset. BSL students benefit from the school's proximity to many international organizations and large corporations in the Geneva Lake region. With its banking, commercial, and tourism infrastructure, Switzerland ranks among the world's 20 largest economies and hosts 15 Fortune 500 companies. We are committed to creating and maintaining a civic business school with an international reputation for shaping responsible management behavior. Our Mission is to provide a learning platform that enables individuals and organizations to thrive by co-creating viable business solutions for our planet and its people. We aim to: Deliver teaching and learning opportunities of the highest quality. Be recognized internationally as an innovator in responsible business education. To be relevant to industry so that they value our opinion and our graduates. Our six values support our three cornerstones and allow us to measure our intentions, behavior, and actions. These commonly developed values have been guiding the collaboration among all our stakeholders – from students to professors and administrative staff and our business partners, parents, and friends of our students, our suppliers, and partners in society. BSL's student council is responsible for organizing events and cultural activities on and off-campus throughout the year to bring students together to build relationships and network. You can look forward to welcoming parties for new students, our much-loved Culture days, BBQs, and many other exciting social events. Our council is also dedicated to giving back, so they have some humanitarian projects they are involved in, and we encourage our full student body to get involved. BSL offers a dynamic and enthusiastic team of professors. In line with the school's pragmatic approach, they have been carefully selected based on their abilities to combine real-life experience with classroom learning. All are current and accomplished business professionals, incorporating today's issues and challenges into their lectures. As seasoned business professionals, BSL professors live in a world of bottom-line responsibility and effective management. They originate from many cultural backgrounds, and most have practiced business in two or more countries. This level of diversity and multicultural experience provides BSL students with unique perspectives on problem-solving. BSL professors are excellent communicators and mentors, often working one-on-one with students. Their goal is to see students succeed, and they provide a continuous assessment of students' development. Students are trained and assessed based on their ability to be successful in today's business environment. At BSL, we are all bound by our shared passion for conducting our business (and indeed our life) in a way that does good in the world. Through these stories, we discover the infinite number of different ways that diversity can make this typical goal manifest itself. Humans of BSL celebrates this diversity and commonality and slowly reveals through its wonderfully unique Humans, the Soul of BSL. View full university

Since our founding in 1926, Lausanne has continually evolved for the better. But our founders’ emphasis on challenging the status quo, commitment to small classes, inspiring teachers, and highly individualized instruction are values we hold dear today. Lausanne Collegiate School offers students a distinctive learning community through an established tradition of educational innovation. We forge meaningful relationships and embrace global mindedness. We learn from one another and honor and celebrate our differences and our likenesses. We have graduated generations of alumni empowered to forge their path. And our students learn to respect and consider others' viewpoints as they work through complex problems today, just as they have for 90 years. That desire for different thoughts and opinions has steadily grown our campus's diversity over the decades, giving our students the ability to form meaningful relationships across stereotypical, socio-economic, and global divides. While we are proud of the history that we have built together, we challenge ourselves to be better tomorrow than we are today. We continually look for ways to serve our students and community further. Lausanne will continue to adjust to fully prepare our graduates for college and life in a global environment. However, our consistent core values will continue to guide us into the future just as they have for the past 90 years. Our school has an incredible history. It has long been a place that helps students find their passion in an environment of tolerance and empathy, and real community support. At Lausanne, the artist, the academic, and the athlete can be celebrated for their interests but not be typecast into a role because of them. At Lausanne, we prepare all our students for life in a global environment. As we look at the world they will encounter when they begin to seek their journeys in college and beyond, preparing them to work, interact, and collaborate with a diverse mix of people is essential for their future success. With girls and boys from 55 different countries and 47% of color students, Lausanne truly is a microcosm of the world. The diversity allows students to learn from each other, giving them better cognitive abilities and improved social skills. Teaching girls and boys how to learn and work together from an early age allow students to see beyond stereotypes and grow their respect for viewpoints different from their own. In a child’s early, formative years, they acquire the building blocks of their education and their perceptions of the world. Under Lausanne’s expert faculty's guidance, students are given a safe environment to learn from people different from themselves. As they mature, they grow in their appreciation of other perspectives, approaches, and responses. This interaction across gender divides promotes more thoughtful students prepared to engage in meaningful discussion and debate. Lausanne develops the individual talents, intellects, creativity, and character of girls and boys through innovative teaching strategies and passionate and engaged learning within our diverse Pre-Kindergarten-12th grade setting. Empowering students to seek their journey is key to the Lausanne Way, and by providing an environment that mimics the world they will encounter, our students are prepared to succeed. Contact our Admission office to schedule a tour and see the Lausanne Way first-hand. Regardless of their gender, each student learns differently, and teachers at Lausanne work to ensure that the right educational approach is used for each student. Our faculty look deeper than stereotypes to ensure that each child is taught most effectively within their co-educational experience. "We live in a mixed-gender, fast-paced, and competitive society. We chose to have our daughters study at Lausanne because we believe that a co-ed school structure will help them build confidence and become used to partnering competing with peers regardless of race or gender. Lausanne offers this perfect balance of skills that will prepare them for the diverse academic and work environments in our society." The unique research- and inquiry-based educational process for boys and girls at Lausanne Collegiate School includes small class sizes inspiring and supportive faculty, and the advantage of sharing diverse cultures, experiences, opinions, and interests. The renowned International Baccalaureate Programme and wide range of extra-curricular activities give Lausanne students a competitive edge in the college admission process and the skills and attributes necessary to explore and find success in a global environment. View full school