HUM-471: Economic growth and sustainability IThis course examines growth from various angles: economic growth, growth in the use of resources, need for growth, limits to growth, sustainable growth, population growth. Although grounded in economics, it takes up elements from many other disciplines. ...
EE-740: ELLIS Summer School on AI for HealthThe EPFL AI Center and the ELLIS EPFL unit are organizing the AI for Health Summer School, taking place on the EPFL campus from 7th to 11th July, 2025. This intensive week will delve into how AI is transforming biomedicine, with a focus on the intersection ...
HUM-423: Digital health & social psychology IDoes more data mean better health? Drawing on health and social psychology, this course questions the biomedical model as socially situated, questioning whether the promises of digital health to improve wellbeing are supported by the research behind them.
HUM-424: Digital health & social psychology IIDoes more data mean better health? Drawing on health and social psychology, this course questions the biomedical model as socially situated, questioning whether the promises of digital health to improve wellbeing are supported by the research behind them.
ENG-436: Food biotechnologyThe course will deliver basic knowledge on the principles of food fermentation and enzyme technology. The course will also present benefits that food biotechnology can bring in terms of Nutrition & Health and Sustainability. ...
HUM-412: The ethics of engineering IThis course provides engineers entering the workforce with a hands-on approach to figuring out what to do in ethically challenging professional situations. ...
ENG-410: Energy supply, economics and transitionThis course examines energy systems from various angles: available resources, how they can be combined or substituted, their private and social costs, whether they can meet the energy demand, and how the transition to a renewable energy system can be foste ...
BIO-498: Entrepreneurship in food & nutrition scienceStudents will learn how nutrition science & food technology is applied to develop food products & diets to optimize health. Examples & case studies will cover novel food technologies, nutrition research on diet, macronutrients & bioactive ingredients, and ...
CS-523: Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologiesThis advanced course will provide students with the knowledge to tackle the design of privacy-preserving ICT systems. Students will learn about existing technologies to prect privacy, and how to evaluate the protection they provide. ...
AR-532: Urban green spaces and blue-green infrastructuresUrban green offers a variety of services and thus plays an important role in the transformation of our cities. The course provides an overview of various innovative approaches to the planning and design of multifunctional green spaces, focussing on how to ...
ENG-474: Environmental impact assesmentPrésentation des bases des études d'impact, du contexte et des outils d'évaluation de chacun des sujets et des chapitres. Illustration par de nombreux cas réels, et par un travail de groupe. Discussion des limites des EIE et des nouveaux outils tels que le ...
CIVIL-438: Risk analysis and managementLe cours vise à former les étudiants aux méthodes et outils permettant d'appréhender de manière fondée et scientifique la question de l'analyse et de la gestion des risques technologiques et naturels, avec une attention portée au domaine du Génie civil. ...
MATH-421: Evolutional partial differential equationsTechniques et théories de base pour les équations aux dérivées partielles d'évolution. Etude d'exemples fondamentaux: équations du premier ordre, équation des ondes, équation de la chaleur. Théorème de Cauchy-Kowalevsky, problèmes abstraits d'évolution. ...
BIOENG-320: Synthetic biologyThis advanced Bachelor/Master level course will cover fundamentals and approaches at the interface of biology, chemistry, engineering and computer science for diverse fields of synthetic biology. This class requires critical and analytical thinking at the ...
HUM-275: Human evolutionary biologyLa psychologie évolutionniste est une discipline située au carrefour de la biologie, de la psychologie, de l'anthropologie, des sciences sociales et naturelles qui examine les traits psychologiques et les comportements humains dans une perspective évolutio ...
ENV-471: Environmental economicsIntroduction to economic analysis applied to environmental issues: all the necessary basic concepts, including cost-benefit analysis, for environmental policy making and its instruments (examples: climate, waste, mobility). Introduction to financial calcul ...
NX-423: Translational neuroengineeringThis course integrates knowledge in basic, systems, clinical and computational neuroscience, and engineering with the goal of translating this integrated knowledge into the development of novel methods, technology for the clinical application for patients ...
PHYS-105: Advanced physics II (thermodynamics)Ce cours présente la thermodynamique en tant que théorie permettant une description d'un grand nombre de phénomènes importants en physique, chimie et ingéniere, et d'effets de transport. Une introduction à la physique statistique renforce les notions acqu ...
HUM-226: Wellbeing and Planetary BoundariesCe cours approfondit les acquis d'ENV-101 pour mieux comprendre et mettre en œuvre la durabilité : comment transformer la société vers le bien-être pour tous dans les limites écologiques, avec des approches et solutions sectorielles (énergie, bâtiments, mo ...
HUM-125(a): Health A: Innovation, Equity, SustainabilityLe cours propose une approche interdisciplinaire des grands enjeux de santé mondiale, axée sur les innovations biomédicales, la durabilité, les médicaments, la santé mentale et les politiques de santé. Il développe des compétences de recherche critiques es ...
