EPFL VALAIS WALLIS
An associated EPFL campus in the heart of Valais
To meet today’s energy and environmental challenges, the fields of renewable energies, chemistry and the environment need to be closely linked. Our fuel-hungry society wants to limit its carbon footprint, and this major issue, along with health, is at the heart of the concerns of researchers at EPFL Valais Wallis.
In order to develop a relevant response to these issues, they are studying CO2 recovery and its conversion into fuel, the storage of renewable and intermittent energies through hydrogen solutions, and the development of photovoltaic panels based on perovskite cells. On a more global scale, EPFL Valais Wallis is also studying energy systems engineering with a view to developing a CO2-neutral, energy-independent society.
With the inauguration of ALPOLE, its new research center for alpine and polar environments, at the end of 2022, EPFL Valais Wallis now boasts 16 laboratories staffed by highly qualified experts. This number far exceeds the most optimistic projections in just 7 years of existence.
EPFL and the Valais State Council have also signed an agreement in principle to create a national research, innovation and training cluster focusing on the green energy transition. This project will begin with the arrival of 4 new professorships on the Energypolis Campus site.
