The SwissTech Convention Center is a

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on the

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of EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. The SwissTech Convention Center is one of the largest convention centers in the Lake Geneva region and has served many major events.

Building

The building was designed by the architectural firm Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés of

Lausanne Lausanne ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, city of the Swiss French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway bet ...

. It was financed by two

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real estate funds for 120 million

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."L’EPFL recadrée par le Contrôle fédéral des finances"

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, 27–29 April 2015 (page visited on 11 July 2017). The

owns the building, while the EPFL pays an annual rent of 6 million

. This public-private partnership was criticised by the Swiss Federal Audit Office as "the conditions are unfavourable to the EPFL and favourable to the investor". Nicolas Dufour
"Le Contrôle fédéral des finances accable l’EPFL pour ses bâtiments spectaculaires"
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'', 30 August 2016 (page visited on 11 July 2017). 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

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, also called "Grätzel cells" after

Michael Grätzel Michael Grätzel (born 11 May 1944, in Dorfchemnitz, Saxony, Germany) is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron tran ...

, a physical chemistry professor at the EPFL and the inventor of this technology.

Events

Regular

* Magistrale (EPFL graduation ceremonies)
Planète Santé

Forum EPFL

PolyLAN

The Brain Forum

Applied Machine Learning Days

Other

* 13 November 2015
The Moon Race

European Space Agency - EUCLID

Sport Accord Convention 2016
* 11 July 2017: meeting of the

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about the

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, with delegations including

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"Olympics: IOC prepares to award next two Games to Paris and Los Angeles"
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'', 11 July 2017 (page visited on 11 July 2017). * 24 January 2018: draw for the 2018-19 UEFA Nations League * June 2019: The

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