EPFL takes steps to better equip students with transversal skills

Tamara Milosevic, Head of the new Transversal Skills and Career Center. Alain Herzog 2023 EPFL EPFL is moving forward in its effort to teach professional skills - like project management, entrepreneurship, ethics and sustainability - in its degree programs more effectively. To that end, the School has opened a new center on transversal skills and combined it with its career center. While it's essential for scientists and engineers to have solid technical skills, that's not enough if they're to make a real positive impact on society. Today's challenges are increasingly complex and require a cross-disciplinary approach, excellent adaptive capacity and highly developed notions of social and environmental responsibility. That's why EPFL is making transversal skills a key element of the education it provides. "Transversal skills are skills that can be applied in just about any situation, whether socially, at school or on the job," says Tamara Milosevic, previously an advisor at EPFL's Teaching Support Center (CAPE) and now head of the new center.