EPFL holds a giant hackathon on sustainability

With its Solutions4Sustainability initiative, EPFL aims to channel its community members' knowledge and skills towards the goal of promoting more environmentally friendly lifestyles. To that end, projects selected under the initiative will be granted a hefty chunk of funding. It's a community initiative unlike any other. Solutions4Sustainability is a project-funding program that goes well beyond typical initiatives of this type because it's open to the entire EPFL community - students, scientists, and technical and administrative staff alike. "We saw during the pandemic that research labs can achieve great things when they unite their efforts around a common goal," says Gisou van der Goot, EPFL's Vice President for Responsible Transformation. Given the scale of the challenges facing the next generation - whether in terms of climate change, the environment or social equality - it's become even more important to think outside the box. And that's what Solutions4Sustainability is designed to do.