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Second meeting done: we have our opportunity space!

Heptabox
December 3, 2018

Hello everyone! Today we had our second team meeting to define our opportunity space. We choose to focus our attention to the health system in Switzerland. In order to define our human, [...]

MS1 Bites the Dust

Tengo
December 2, 2018

[embed]https://vimeo.com/304046196[/embed] Dear CHIC Community, This week was very important for us since we had our first big step as a team: Milestone 1. It was quite an intense (read, insane) [...]

Milestone 1 is done!

CARING
December 2, 2018

Hi everybody! The first Milestone lies now behind us. Between the kick-off weekend in October and last Friday’s milestone, TΨ was able to further explore the opportunity space “Stress”. By [...]

This is only the beginning: meet the friteam!

Heptabox
December 2, 2018

Dear readers, This is our first post for this big community! Let's start with the presentation of our FRITEAM (name might be change) composed by: -Stefania Sergi HEG - Business [...]

Milestone 1 – Done !

NOX
December 2, 2018

The first Milestone presentation is done! Last Wednesday, our team had to present our opportunity space with our human, physical and data space. We worked a lot all the weekend [...]

Time’s up for MS1!

Hapstick
December 2, 2018

Hello to everyone! The last few weeks have been tiring but fun to say the least! We explored various physical spaces such as nightclubs, hospitals, train stations, grocery stores etc. Also, [...]

Decision Decisions!

Tengo
November 25, 2018

Dear CHIC Community, as others have already said, time is ticking. Next week is already time to present our opportunity space and decisions have to be made. During the last [...]

Time is ticking…

Hapstick
November 25, 2018

Dear CHIC community, since the article of last week, a lot happened. We started by going back to town last Saturday to interview more people and we captured a broad [...]

Time to sprint

NOX
November 24, 2018

Last Research Sprint! Hi everyone! These last days have been intense, REALLY intense. As you know, next week we have our first milestone and have to present our opportunity space. [...]

Shooting Day for The Zhu-Zhu Team !

AKANE
November 24, 2018

Dear readers, Last Wednesday evening we had our first photoshoot with the team, which was a first for some of the team members.  While being challenging to pose in front [...]

Jagui’s contribution to the Opportunity Space

CARING
November 22, 2018

Dear CHIC members, This week was pretty fruitful for TΨ: We gathered various insights to refine our opportunity space, interviewing different kind of people in their own environment. Working as [...]

Pitching, metting and green olive !

AKANE
November 19, 2018

Dear readers, All the team is really busy, but we finally find a moment to write you about our progress! Last week stand the pitching workshop which was a great [...]

Divergent Tacos

Tengo
November 19, 2018

It's friday night, it's VUKOVI day, it's cold, and Ethan welcomes us at home. Up in his tower, the young man has got all the ingredients to treat us like [...]

Pitching workshop and brainstorming session

CARING
November 18, 2018

Hi everyone! On Monday, we had a pitching workshop with Benedict Stalder (CTI coach) in our usual BC building at EPFL. This evening was really helpful to prepare ourselves for [...]

Week 3 + Workshop 3

NOX
November 16, 2018

Another week, another workshop! This week has started with a new workshop to prepare us to pitch our opportunity space at the end of the month. The difficulty in these [...]

SUCCESful pitch on the way

Hapstick
November 13, 2018

  Hello everyone, welcome on this week's blog post. Do you know what SUCCES stands for? We didn't either before having attended this monday's (November 12th) pitching workshop. As Benedict [...]

Brainstorming and time mana…what?

AKANE
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

CARING
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+

NOX
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, [...]

First meeting with mentors

Hapstick
November 8, 2018

Hello everyone, On Monday this week, after our brainstorming session reflecting on the information gathered by each member of the team, we held our first meeting with our two mentors: [...]

Re-START again: pitching, pitching, pitching…

ToyGether
November 7, 2018

Hello dear friends, during this third semester of our CHIC-experience you received less constant updates from your team Toygether. However, when you do, you already know it's only for positive news! [...]

Entering the matrix

AKANE
November 6, 2018

My dear readers, What a pleasure to write you about last CHIC friday night and last CHIC saturday. For our second kick-off meeting, we spent this Saturday in our, now [...]

Looking for the Holy Opportunity Spacez

Tengo
November 4, 2018

Hi guys!   Conflict. Coordination. Communication.   These are only a few of the keywords of an intensive workshop on the topic of teamwork. We set up the basis of [...]

The first week after kickoff!

Hapstick
November 4, 2018

  Hi everyone! This Saturday (3rd November) we all gathered to attend the team working workshop which was really productive and was a fun way for all of us to [...]

Another busy Saturday

ecal, EPFL, HEAD, HEG-GE, HEPIA, UNIL, Workshop
November 3, 2018

Only a handful of days have gone by since the CHIC 2018-2019 kick-off. This time, teams gathered for one day to explore teamwork. On the agenda, leadership, decision-making, conflict management [...]

A wonderful first week

CARING
November 3, 2018

Hi everybody! This week, on Thursday, we could develop the team spirit needed for a successful (we’re confident) CHIC-project! We went out, mentors included, to try an initial Chinese culinary [...]

Brainstorming 1+

NOX
October 31, 2018

A few days after the kick-off weekend of CHIC, and having the time to reflect all the new information we received, we met to organize our work for the coming [...]

Energy footprints

Tengo
October 29, 2018

  Our opportunity space is  energy footprints which results of a combination of several different spaces. Data spaces. Pretending to be the target of your data collect can help you to gather [...]

Team Presentation

AKANE
October 29, 2018

Dear CHIC community, Kick-off weekend is done! After 2 days of meetings new people and brainstorming, we now have a team : Zhu Zhu. Zhū Zhú (zhū which means “pig”, [...]

CHIC 2018-2019 on its way!

ecal, EPFL, HEAD, HEG-GE, T-Ψ, UNIL, Zhu Zhu, вукови
October 28, 2018

Exhausted from a very intensive week-end but very glad to have launched a new edition of CHIC full of promises and with very motivated participants. While the kick-off gave us [...]

Consumption

Tengo
October 28, 2018

Hi! For some reason, we've identified ourselves as Vukovi - a pack of good intentioned wolves. Antoni, Tomas, Vuk. Engineers. Antoine, Ethan. Designers. Alicia. Economist. This is the structure of [...]

Project kick-off

Hapstick
October 28, 2018

Hi CHIC community! Team Snooze is composed of 6 members from really different backgrounds : 3 engineers, 2 designers, and 1 business student. Jonathan Robotics student @EPFL interested in product development [...]

Let’s start!

NOX
October 28, 2018

  1st step Done ! The kickoff weeekend of the CHIC was really intense and full of thinking, ideation, brainstorming and of course fun! We started the kickoff weekend working [...]

T-PSY is born

CARING
October 28, 2018

Hi everybody! We are the T-Ψ team... The 28th of October, six students from different fields met up and came up with the idea to help people yo deal with [...]

Let’s all go “toygether” at Forum EPFL

ToyGether
October 8, 2018

Dear CHIC followers, if you recall the last couple of posts from this summer, we left our story hanging between pitches, prototyping and culture-exploring activities in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. We [...]

Behind the scenes of “Lost in construction”

ecal, Media
September 28, 2018

Thanks to the support from the Canton de Vaud two students from ECAL's movie school joined us for the trip to Shenzhen and Hong Kong. A few words from Korlei Rochat [...]

Border ecologies – Innovation Parks

Guido
August 2, 2018

First of all what is an innovation park ? According to the EPFL an Innovation Park is devoted to housing start-ups, SMEs, research teams and innovation cells from major companies [...]