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MAKE FOR EDU - Roles and responsabilities
Students are usually the driving force behind MAKE projects. However, MAKE projects are strongly related to EPFL and its educational ecosystem, it is therefore crucial to support the students with a proper supervision to ensure:
- The quality of the learnings
- The students safety
- The reputation of EPFL
Even though students are the driving force behind MAKE projects, they cannot be entirely responsible of their project, an EPFL Professor is still holding the main responsability
Three main roles are identified for running a MAKE for EDU project successfully at EPFL:
- A Professor (main applicant)
- A coordinator (employee of the professor supervising the students on a regular basis)
- The student managers
This document describes the different responsabilities associated with each of these roles
The Professor supervising the project
As the main applicant, the Professor is in charge of the project global supervision and have the operational responsibility for it. The Professor must ensure proper scientific endorsement, organization and logistics, legal issues, insurances issues, off-campus activities - or more generally that the project follow-up and the student’s safety - are handled properly.
The coordinator
The coordinator is seconding the Professor in charge with two main tasks. This person is helping the students with
- Administrive and operational questions
- Managing the fund for the projet and ordering consummables for students,
- Handling all operational questions (sponsoring, insurances, legal issues, off-campus activities logistic)
- Academic questions
- Supporting students with technical expertise
- Coordinating with the different EPFL laboratories that will credit the students
The student managers
Most MAKE projects are defining different managerial roles to run their project (CEO, CFO, CTO etc..). The students have the responsability to run the project from A to Z, with the approval of their Professor and coordinator. They can be hold responsible if they lack transparency towards their supervisors. They are therefore required to be completely transparent with their supervisors, especially about important decisions (for example signing a new sponsoring contract, engaging in off-campus activities, ensuring students are insured properly etc..)