Presentation

Interface aims to develop innovative research projects, both in terms of subject and methods of implementation. These research projects will be carried out between members of the UNIL community and people working in the field.

Interface aims to promote research with an identified societal impact, which responds to a societal need and offers accessible results. These collaborations will strengthen UNIL's participation in current and future social, cultural, ecological, economic and political transitions.

Interface is addressed to :

•     Students from all UNIL faculties
•     UNIL researchers and collaborators
•     Actors in the field

1. Catalysis: to ensure the appropriate contacts between partners to promote collaborative research, in the form of a contact point or various exchanges between stakeholders. The aim is also to support the emergence of needs in the field and their possible translation into research questions. Last but not least, we are committed to facilitating encounters between partners and appropriate researchers, or vice versa.

2. Financial support: Making resources available (in cash or in kind) to develop a research partnership, according to the framework conditions and the appropriateness of the budget request. This financial support is conditional on compliance with the 6 framework conditions.

3. Support: To offer any person or project the support it needs to ensure the best possible chances of success. This accompaniment mission also aims to support the collaboration of scientific and field partners to develop partnership research, while taking into account the specific challenges posed by this type of research.

4. Capitalization: Capitalize on the experience developed over time, with a view to further developing institutional know-how and reflexive knowledge, available for all new initiatives. A great deal of work is being done to share the experience developed during the implementation of each project, which could then be made available to the institution and to players in the field. In this sense, it is also a question of proposing a time of exchange that will enable us to develop this research within our community.

5. Institutional integration: integrate Interface's practices into UNIL's DNA, taking particular account of the integration of partnered research into teaching, outreach activities and career support. This mission will enable us to reinforce a culture of collaborative research throughout the institution and across the board.