Equality and Diversity

Equal opportunities are an integral part of EPFL’s development and excellence policy. The Equal Opportunity Office is attached to the Vice Presidency for Human Development (VPH).

EPFL’s equal opportunity policy is based on federal legislation, ETH Domain specific legislation, as well as on EPFL’s Development Plan and the agreement on objectives between EPFL and the ETH Board.

On this basis, together with its steering committee and in cooperation with faculties and services, the Equal Opportunity Office draws up action plans to foster equal opportunities.

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Projects

Task Force Harassment, Respect @ EPFL, Inclusive Language, Safe Space & LGBTIQ+, Inclusive Name Change, Women in Science, etc.

Family and work-life

Child Care solutions, Financial Help, Parents Network and Legal Advice During Pregnancy

Equality and careers

Courses, coaching, mentoring, events, for women. Dual Career Support, Implicit Bias Awareness Seminars,…

Equal Opportunity & Diversity News

Maléna Bastien Masse - 2025 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

“Plenty more women deserved to be in this exhibition!”

15.05.25Events

"Queens of Structure" is a traveling exhibition celebrating the work of over 20 leading women in civil engineering. Here, we talk to Maléna Bastien Masse, who spearheaded the initiative at EPFL and in French-speaking Switzerland more broadly.

Suliana Manley in the lab with her super-resolution and smart microscopes. © 2025 EPFL / Alain Herzog

One of the biggest skills I've been developing is developing others

28.04.25EPFL

Suliana Manley has a brilliant career as a biophysicist, being the first to visualize some of the smallest building blocks of life in action and explain their mysterious behavior. Now she helps shape the community by developing others.

“Masculinity transcends cultures”

24.02.25EPFL community

Quentin Delval hails from Belgium, although you wouldn’t know it from his accent. He holds a PhD in philosophy of science, works as a diversity, equity and inclusion project manager at EPFL, and has written a gently persuasive book about masculinity – or, to be exact, about the “free pass” afforded to men in today’s society.

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Equal Opportunity & Diversity Events

REGARD: Design your future: How to make professional choices (day 1/2)

Prerequisite Participants are required to participate in the two days of the workshop, that will be held on September 1 and September 15 Target audience Female PhD candidates and advanced researchers Content In all…

01.09.2025 09:0017:00

Speaker: Afi Sika Kuzeawu,certified systemic coach & psychologist
Location: BI A0 448
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

Banner of the 2025 edition of Showcase - theme: Innovating for the Wellbeing of Humans and Ecosystem

Showcase: Innovating for the Wellbeing of Humans and Ecosystems

10.09.2025 09:0017:30

Speaker: Jean-Marc Jancovici, Founding Partner, The Shift Project – Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, President, EPFL – Bruno Abhishek Jain, Director of Green Economy & Impact Innovations, CEEW Maria Neira, Director of Environment, Climate Change & Health, WHO Sophie Bacq, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, IMD Bastien Sachet, CEO, Earthworm Foundation
Location: STCC -1 9101
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

REGARD: Design your future: How to make professional choices (day 2/2)

15.09.2025 09:0017:00

Speaker: Afi Sika Kuzeawu,certified systemic coach & psychologist
Location: BI A0 448
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

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Exhibition opening! Crossed Histories / ARCHIZOOM

23.09.2025

Speaker: Léa-Catherine Szacka Cyril Veillon, Pier Vittorio Aureli
Location: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events
Target audience: General public

H Hour: What is a good innovation?

24.09.2025 12:1513:15

Speaker: Lara Gervaise, ingénieure et cofondatrice de Virtuosis, start-up qui analyse la voix grâce à l’IA et Dominique Vinck, sociologue des sciences et de l’innovation.
Location: Rolex Learning Center & Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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Crossed Histories. Gae Aulenti, Ada Louise Huxtable, Phyllis Lambert, on Architecture and the City / ARCHIZOOM

24.09.202528.11.2025

Location: Archizoom
Category: Exhibitions
Target audience: General public

Night of the Museum / ARCHIZOOM

27.09.2025 14:0023:59

Location: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events
Target audience: General public

Crossed Histories Guided tour / ARCHIZOOM

30.09.2025

Speaker: Léa-Catherine Szacka
Location: SG 1212
Category: Cultural events
Target audience: General public

Public lectures during EPFL-UNIL Health Days

30.09.202510.10.2025

Speaker: Raphaël Cohen, Tiffen Raffray, José Haba-Riubo, Gabriel Pitt, Julie Dachez, Alexandre Berney, Roman Tschäppeler, Mikael Krogerus, Thomas Insel
Location: Rolex Learning Center
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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REGARD: Self-empowerment: Discover how to build your power to act

02.10.202503.10.2025 09:0017:00

Speaker: Nir Zalts, expert for leadership and professional development
Location: GC C2 413
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public

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