China Hardware Innovation Camp

Transform your idea into a connected device by working within an interdisciplinary team of students with business, design, and engineering background and travel to China to manufacture it

The new edition is on its way - Find out about the new teams

LATEST POSTS

Brainstorming and time mana...what?
Zhu Zhu
November 12, 2018

Dear readers, Last Friday night we had our first meeting with the team. 📝💡 To better understand everyone's motivations, we all introduced our personal project portfolio and interests. After self-introductions, [...]

Workshop #2 / 1st team meeting
T-Ψ
November 9, 2018

[embed]https://vimeo.com/299935574[/embed] Hi everyone! Last weekend we had a workshop at EPFL that was about team working and we focused on the difficulties of collaborating with different persons on the same [...]

Workshop 2+
Unum+Solum
November 9, 2018

Hi Everyone! It is only the beginning of our CHIC journey and we already have a lot to manage and to do! Last weekend, we had a workshop on team-building, [...]

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CHIC BY NUMBERS:

+125
Members

24
Projects

6
Editions

10
Institutions

FEATURED PROJECTS

Hibachi

Hibachi is the first self-heating lunchbox that warms your homemade meal to the perfect temperature, everywhere at any t [...]

2015 - 2016

ToyGether

A plush toy for kids that connects to their parent’s smartphone.It enables parents to interact and play games with the [...]

2017 - 2018

Livelo

A low-priced & connected probe engineered for easy water level assessment.

2016 - 2017
Discover all projects

AT CHIC, YOU EXPERIMENT

To collaborate in a cross functional team

To build a product that people want

That no manufacturing plan survives the first contact with factories

That failure is a necessary path to success

That communication and culture are inseparable

To manage a project across geographical and cultural boundaries

That innovation starts and ends with people

A lot of things about yourself

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By attending CHIC, I learned so many things about the industry and the world of start-ups, but also about myself and the way I wish to be working in the future. I created amazing bonds with people from diverse fields in a way that would never have been possible without this experience.

Manon Membrez - Team Todoo - CHIC 2016-2017
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I have discovered a new world and a range of exciting jobs that seemed either unreachable or that I had never imagined before CHIC

Florian Lemarignier - Team FiMi - CHIC 2014-2015
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CHIC is a take off to a new land of opportunities where design meets innovation.

Elise Migraine - Team Livelo - CHIC 2016-2017
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It starts with an idea lying on paper but after one semester only you and your team built a prototype ready to be pitched in front of investors in China.

Mikhail Vorobiev - Team Okeep - CHIC 2015-2016
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I wish every day could be as full of learning, challenge and fun as a day with CHIC

Florian Lemarignier - Team FiMi - CHIC 2014-2015
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CHIC teaches you to keep an open mind and expect the unexpected

Jean-Baptiste - Team Aimo - CHIC 2015-2016
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CHIC is not only a great opportunity to practice and learn technical competencies, but also a really rewarding human experience where different people from different background become a team.

Lucie Houel - Team Todoo - CHIC 2016-2017
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You can experience things during CHIC that you would never be able to do in conventional educational settings.

Chenyue Xu - Team Hibachi - CHIC 2015-2016
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Pitching and networking during CHIC help you exercise your soft skills and urge you to build a solid story for your product that you will use to influence people's response to it

Adrien Born - Team Okeep - CHIC 2015-2016
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CHIC is absolutely a fantastic experience for me. I learned much more than I expected, from technology to start-ups incubation, commercialisation, and even some manufacturing procedures... Also, we became good friends."

Ziyu Zhao - Team Dory - CHIC 2014-2015
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CHIC is not only a semester project: it is a human and cultural experience

Dina Elikan - Team Vesta - CHIC 2014-2015
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CHIC has been a unique experience, giving me the opportunity to take away more than just a grade from a project at EPFL.

Florian Maushart - Team Fimi - CHIC 2014-2015
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CHIC was a combination of a large number of discoveries, making contacts, knowledge sharing, an extraordinary teamwork facing a number of surprises and obstacles. In short : challenging! I couldn’t have asked for a better experience at this stage of my studies!

Mélanie Zufferey - Team Dory - CHIC 2014-2015

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