MAKE FOR SOCIETY - Requirements and evaluation criterias

This document is providing information regarding the evaluation criteria used by the MAKE committee to select MAKE for Society projects. It also provides information on the financial support projects are elligible to request based on different criteria.

Everything about the selection process is documented here MAKE - submission process including all the important documents. This page is summarizing all the important deadlines

Project related criteria’s

• (mandatory) An EPFL Professor taking in charge the project (see roles and responsability for more information)
• A coordinator (EPFL employee ideally under the responsility of the Professor in charge) to coordinate the project and follow up regularly with students and stakeholders around the project. For MAKE for Society projects, it is allowed to have a the Professor endorsing the role of coodinator.
• To be elligible, the project must start as an embryo project and receive coaching by Michka Mélo and Julien Delisle. Only after an embryo phase the project is allowed to request funding to the MAKE committee.

Pedagogical criteria’s

• Sustainability: the project must offer the opportunity to students to tackle a sustainable issue. Sustainability must be at the center of the project. The project must allow students to take into account the planetary boundaries. Students must question non-technical dimensions of the project as well, see more about the learning objectives in the table down below.
• Open ended: the project should offer the possibility for students to develop their creativity and to look for many different potential solutions
• Interdisciplinarity: favoring interdisciplinarity by allowing students from different backgrounds to contribute to the project.
• Transversal skills: the project must allow transversal skills development (group/human management, project management, knowledge management etc..).

As there are multiple criteria, it is important to clarify that a project will be evaluated in its globality. A project can be very strong regarding a given criteria and less developed in another.

The MAKE committee will evaluate the global picture of every project in their selection process.

One of the important objective of MAKE for Society projects is to tackle a sustainable issue by questionning multiple dimensions of the problem (including non-technical). The MAKE committee decided to allow for a maximum a 10'000 chf.- per academic year. The funding must be requested based on the requirements of the prototype to be built and validated at the end of the embryo phase with Michka Mélo and Julien Delisle.

The figure here under is providing a summary of important information

Another project category is elligible for funding, MAKE for EDU projects. The table here under is making a comparison between both categories of MAKE projects for your information.