UNIL+EPFL Health Days 2026 invite you to dedicate some time to your physical and mental well-being from 28 September to 8 October. Over the course of these two weeks, a wide range of inspiring conferences, workshops and activities will take place at various times throughout the day. Some events will be open to the general public and offered in French and/or English.
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\r\nMembers of the university community will be able to take advantage of the health screenings and assessments available at the Health Village, hosted during the first week on the EPFL campus and during the second week on the University of Lausanne campus. They will also have access to information stands run by services and partners committed to promoting a comprehensive, 360-degree approach to health and well-being.
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\r\nThe programme will be available at the end of August on the dedicated website: https://jours-sante.ch/.
Innovation Forum for Regenerative Agriculture & Viticulture is back for year 2, in collaboration with Changins.
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\r\nMeasuring Nature at Work: From Soil Life to Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture
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\r\nThis event will spotlight innovative startup solutions and pilot projects accelerating the transition to regenerative agriculture.
\r\nIt will also ignite discussions on the financial, regulatory, and structural shifts required to scale these innovations and align stakeholders around shared economic and environmental goals.
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The SiDoQu 2027 Conference on Precision Doping for Quantum and Nanoelectronic Devices aims to bring together researchers across disciplines to explore emerging strategies for controlling dopants at the nanoscale, with the long-term vision of enabling silicon-based quantum technologies.
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\r\nIt is a collaboration between the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and ETH Zurich, with three objectives: \r\n
The Swiss Health Valley community comes together once a year to connect, exchange ideas and advance life sciences. In 2026, the BioAlps Networking Day will take place in Lausanne on 19 November at the Palais de Beaulieu.
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\r\nThe morning programme will showcase the strength and diversity of the Canton of Vaud’s life sciences innovation ecosystem. In the afternoon, discussions will focus on this year’s theme: Advancing Healthcare Through Digital Innovation.
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\r\nResearchers, entrepreneurs, investors and industry leaders are invited to explore emerging trends, build new partnerships and help shape the future of healthcare.\r\n
\r\nEPFL Investor Day 2026 brings together leading investors and ambitious deeptech startups from EPFL and across Western Switzerland.
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\r\nTaking place on Wednesday, 25 November 2026 at the SwissTech Convention Center, the event is structured in two parts:\r\n
The brain forms a large recurrent spiking neural network with extremely high connectivity making time-dependent mean-field approaches valuable tools to translate the microscopic level of single-neuron dynamics to the mesoscopic or macroscopic level. In recent years, experimental data as well as simulation studies have highlighted the importance of low-dimensional macroscopic dynamics in large recurrent spiking networks. On the theory side, the notion of low-rank connectivity has shifted into the focus of interest.
\r\nThis meeting will to bring together researchers in mathematical and theoretical neuroscience who address the above topics from different perspectives.
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\r\nPhase 1
\r\nPublic lectures from Monday afternoon – Wednesday end of day
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\r\nPresentations will alternate between speakers with a physics and those with a math background so as to foster links between the two communities.
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\r\nPhase 2
\r\nTutorials for PhD students on Thursday and Friday.