Latsis Symposium Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL Polydôme ,avenue Piccard, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

How to find EPFL – Latsis Symposium

By plane

Visitors planning to arrive by plane will have to land at Geneva airport (the closest - 40 mins by train or car to Lausanne), Zurich (the largest), or Basel (Bâle in French), and from there proceed to Lausanne either by train or by car (see below). To see the location of the above airports in relation to Lausanne, have a look at this map of Switzerland. One possible alternative is to land in Paris, France, and take the high-speed TGV train directly to Lausanne (see the train section of this document below).
 

By train + metro

• Take the "M2" metro from "Gare CFF" to "Lausanne-Flon"
• Take the "M1" metro from "Lausanne-Flon" to the station "EPFL"

By taxi

Tell the driver you would like to go to the "EPFL, building Polydôme”. The trip takes between 10 and 20 minutes depending on traffic, and normally costs around 25 CHF.

By car

Highways are labeled by green signs in Switzerland. You must buy a 40 CHF windscreen sticker (one year validity) at the border or petrol stations. On the motorway always follow Lausanne Sud and exit the motorway at "Sortie UNIL-EPFL"

When you are at the EPFL, follow the signs “Latsis Symposium”