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ISCN-GULF Conference 2009
Welcome @ EPFL
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World Economic Forum
University Community
GULF – Global University Leaders Forum
-> Community initiated by the World Economic Forum in 2006
-> University Heads from 23 Universities from 9 different countries
-> Current topics:
- Environmental Sustainability
- Capacity building in universities in developing countries
- Digital dissemination of university content
- Middle East: Partnership and challenges
- Faith and Globalization
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Campus Sustainability
Network
ISCN – International Sustainable
Campus Network
-> Aim: enhancing universities commitments to construct, redesign, and
organize their campuses in a sustainable way and to include the
experiences in their education
-> Under the auspices of Novatlantis (promoting sustainability in the Swiss
Institutes of Technology)
-> Approx. 40 participating universities
-> 3rd conference (2007 & 2008 Zurich, 2009 Lausanne)
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Campus Sustainability
Conference @ EPFL
ISCN-GULF Conference 2009
Sustainable Academic and Corporate Campuses:
Time to Implement
-> Organized by Energy Center, EPFL
-> With support of the Foundation “Les Bois Chamblard”
-> Challenges:
- bring together ISCN and GULF communities (“doers” and leaders)
- bring together university and corporate campuses
- achieve convergence of purpose regarding campus sustainability issues
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EPFL Today
Facts & Figures 2008
EPFL in numbers
6’746 students
248
faculty
2139 staff
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*
(CMS excluded)
(FTE)
** (FTE)
Budget Confederation
554 Million CHF
Third Party
194 Million CHF
*
**
Full, associated and assistant professors
1624 PhD students not included
EPFL Today
A Responsibility Towards Society
Our missions
Educate and train future scientists, engineers and architects
Conduct cutting-edge research
Innovate and transfer knowledge to create jobs and companies
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EPFL Today
Core Competences
An orthogonal organization
Schools
Basic Sciences
Engineering
Computer and Communication
Sciences
Architecture, Civil and
Environmental Eng.
Life Sciences
Social Sciences and Humanities
Management of Technology
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Educational programs
Sections
Physics
Chemistry / Chemical Eng.
Mathematics
Material Sciences
Electrical Engineering
Microtechnology
Mechanical Engineering
Computer science
Communication systems
Architecture
Civil Engineering
Environmental Science & Eng.
Life Sciences & Technology
Management of Technology
EPFL Today
Increase in Size
EPFL has been growing rapidly!
number of students
8000
7000
6’746
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Nombre total d’étudiants (non compris CMS) – évolution 1853 - 2008
EPFL Research
Synergies
Stimulate transdisciplinarity
Hydroptère
Center for
Neuroprosthetics
Space Center
Transportation
Center
Alinghi
Montreux Jazz
Festival archives
Energy Center
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Solar
Impulse
EPFL Today
An International Campus
One of the most international campuses
in the world (The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2004)
>110 Nationalities
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EPFL Campus
Create a True Campus
Infrastructure: Main projects
Conference Centre
Rolex Learning Centre
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Sport centre
Message 2009
Hotel
Students Housing
Innovation Square
EPFL Strategy
Sustainability
Sustainability @ EPFL
-> Sustainability integrated in all curricula
-> Numerous research activities in the fields of energy,
mobility, environmental sciences, material sciences, etc.
-> Development of green technologies
-> A Charter for Sustainability
-> A sustainable campus
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EPFL Strategy
Sustainability
Education and research
-> Numerous educational offers in energy and
sustainability
-> Center for Research in Plasma Physics (CRPP)
-> EPFL Energy Center
-> Roundtable on biofuels
-> School projects
Solar Impulse
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EPFL Strategy
Sustainability
A sustainable campus
The right decisions in the 70’s and 80’s
-> Heating the campus with a thermo pump using the water
of Lake Geneva (70% of the heating)
-> A sustainable architecture
-> National award for natural campus environment and
landscaping
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EPFL Strategy
Sustainability
A sustainable campus
Commitments towards soft mobility
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Mobility Car Sharing
30 km/h on all campus roads
Hundreds of secured parking places for bicycles
Helpdesk for bicycles
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EPFL Strategy
Sustainability
The largest solar plant in Switzerland
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A partnership with “Romande Energie”
20’000 m2, 20 Mio CHF, 2 Mio kWh/year
Construction 2009 – 2011
Integration of a research infrastructure around solar energy
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EPFL Sustainability
Today and Tomorrow
EPFL: aiming at sustainability
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Renewable energy use on campus (thermo pump
Switzerland’s largest photovoltaic centre in 2009-2011)
since
-> Education of sustainability integrated in curricula
-> Numerous research activities in the fields of energy, mobility,
environmental sciences, material sciences, etc.
-> Development of green technologies
-> Flagship projects (Solar Impulse, Hydroptère)
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1970’s,
EPFL Campus
Create New Spaces
Rolex Learning Center
Today ...
... and tomorrow
A place to study, work, interact, live, ...
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by SANAA, Tokyo
Education
Undergraduate/Graduate
Overall picture
Number of students
2008
7'000
6'000
PhD
5'000
Graduates
49%
Master
4'000
3'000
2'000
Undergraduates
Bachelor*
51%
1'000
0
1999
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2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
* CMS excluded
Campus durable
Pompes à chaleur
Campus EPFL: des choix responsables
•
70 % de la production de chaleur est assurée par deux
thermopompes alimentées en eau du lac
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150’000 tonnes de C02 économisées en 20 ans
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