SwissTech Convention Center

<h2 id="building">Building</h2>
<p>The building was designed by the architectural firm Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés of <a href="/facts/Lausanne/HwlVEYGN">Lausanne</a>. It was financed by two <a href="/facts/Credit_Suisse/uzwg4qM1">Credit Suisse</a> real estate funds for 120 million <a href="/facts/Swiss_francs/W7XSc3UQ">Swiss francs</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> The <a href="/facts/Credit_Suisse/uzwg4qM1">Credit Suisse</a> owns the building, while the <a href="/facts/EPFL/IBPANwjM">EPFL</a> pays an annual rent of 6 million <a href="/facts/Swiss_francs/W7XSc3UQ">Swiss francs</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> This <a href="/facts/Public-private_partnership/b4RAUT2j">public-private partnership</a> was criticised by the Swiss Federal Audit Office as "the conditions are unfavourable to the EPFL and favourable to the investor".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
</p><p>Financial support from the Swiss electricity supply company Romande énergie allowed the west facade of the building to be covered with panels made of organic <a href="/facts/Dye-sensitized_solar_cell/yJsvA64H">dye-sensitized solar cell</a>, also called "Grätzel cells" after <a href="/facts/Michael_Gr%C3%A4tzel/dKg1Uf3j">Michael Grätzel</a>, a physical chemistry professor at the <a href="/facts/EPFL/IBPANwjM">EPFL</a> and the inventor of this technology.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="events">Events</h2>

<h3>Regular</h3>
<ul><li>Magistrale (EPFL graduation ceremonies)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.planetesante.ch/Salon">Planète Santé</a></li>
<li><a href="http://forum.epfl.ch/en">Forum EPFL</a></li>
<li><a href="https://polylan.ch">PolyLAN</a></li>
<li><a href="http://thebrainforum.org">The Brain Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.appliedmldays.org">Applied Machine Learning Days</a></li></ul>
<h3>Other</h3>
<ul><li>13 November 2015: <a href="http://www.swissapollo.ch/index.php/en/press/photo-gallery/the-moon-race">The Moon Race</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sci.esa.int/euclid/">European Space Agency - EUCLID</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sportaccordconvention.com">Sport Accord Convention 2016</a></li>
<li>11 July 2017: meeting of the <a href="/facts/International_Olympic_Committee/yX4MhHXk">International Olympic Committee</a> about the <a href="/facts/2024_Summer_Olympics/lo0czN5R">2024 Summer Olympics</a>, with delegations including <a href="/facts/Emmanuel_Macron/baeIYHUo">Emmanuel Macron</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li>
<li>24 January 2018: draw for the <a href="/facts/2018-19_UEFA_Nations_League/nD7e8DYe">2018-19 UEFA Nations League</a></li>
<li>June 2019: The <a href="/facts/134th_IOC_Session/UHcqzHqo">134th IOC Session</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Lausanne_campus/TzxMHwVH">Lausanne campus</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>(in French) "L’EPFL recadrée par le Contrôle fédéral des finances", Radio télévision suisse, 27–29 April 2015 (page visited on 11 July 2017). <a href="https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/6735642-l-epfl-recadree-par-le-controle-federal-des-finances.html" target="_blank">https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/6735642-l-epfl-recadree-par-le-controle-federal-des-finances.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>(in French) "L’EPFL recadrée par le Contrôle fédéral des finances", Radio télévision suisse, 27–29 April 2015 (page visited on 11 July 2017). <a href="https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/6735642-l-epfl-recadree-par-le-controle-federal-des-finances.html" target="_blank">https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/6735642-l-epfl-recadree-par-le-controle-federal-des-finances.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>(in French) Nicolas Dufour, "Le Contrôle fédéral des finances accable l’EPFL pour ses bâtiments spectaculaires", Le Temps, 30 August 2016 (page visited on 11 July 2017). <a href="https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/2016/08/30/controle-federal-finances-accable-lepfl-batiments-spectaculaires" target="_blank">https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/2016/08/30/controle-federal-finances-accable-lepfl-batiments-spectaculaires</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"The SwissTech Convention Center, a lab for conferences of the future", press release, 3 April 2014 (page visited on 3 October 2014). <a href="http://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-swisstech-convention-center-a-lab-for-conferen/" target="_blank">http://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-swisstech-convention-center-a-lab-for-conferen/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"Olympics: IOC prepares to award next two Games to Paris and Los Angeles", The Guardian, 11 July 2017 (page visited on 11 July 2017). <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jul/11/ioc-olympic-games-paris-los-angeles-2024-2028" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jul/11/ioc-olympic-games-paris-los-angeles-2024-2028</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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