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The Swiss Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai organized a talk focusing on the three key pillars of innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development at the thematic Global Goals Week of Expo 2020,

Alain Herzog © 2021 EPFL The Durabilis Awards, introduced in 2007, are open to all Bachelor’s and Master’s students at EPFL and UNIL, and are awarded

© 2020 EPFL / Fred Merz 2020 was a year unlike any other. Here at EPFL, COVID-19 upended our plans in the areas of education, research and innovation. And while we will remember this past year for its pandemic-related headlines, our ten most-read news articles once again reflect the wide diversity of science. A transparent surgical mask to keep smiling The fully transparent surgical mask, called HelloMasks, combine transparency, resistance and porosity. They are small enough to filter out viru...

EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Red Cross team up to bolster humanitarian aid with science The Engineering Humanitarian Aid initiative, officially launched on 10 December 2020, will harness the expertise of Switzerlands two federal institutes of technology to benefit humanitarian aid programs. The effort will focus on the areas of energy and the environment, data sciences and digital technologies, and personalized health and related technologies. Photo: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...