Community, volunteering, and initiatives

[Boyaw]

Beyond research itself, there are people who do research, and people who help the people do research... We all interact with, get support from the community (EPFL, IC, EDIC office, peers, etc) and naturally we feed back to them

This section could include:

• different representations and their responsibility
  • IC reps
  • EDIC reps
• if you see something does not really make sense and you have suggestions, or you just have an amazing idea
  • talk to corresponding reps
  • get input from mentor (if relevant)
  • EPFL-wide things maybe polydoc/ACIDE
  • EPIC also supports student inititives, go to a meeting
• if you would like to raise/report a misconduct
  • a misconduct of research
  • witness some misbehavior at EPFL (during TA, in a lab, ...) and would like to speak up
  • the different level of protection you can get and the ones you cannot, i.e., an IC mentor and a Trust person are different
• recommend active participation in
  • mock job talk: help seniors get the positions they deserve!
  • faculty talk: always good to learn something cutting-edge
  • mock candidacy examination: help each other sharpen the report, presentation, and Q&A
  • regular mentor meeting: always nice to get suggestions and mentorship. mentor-mentee trust needs cultivation, as all other kinds of relationships. See this as an input-output process: no input, hard to get any output

[SolalPirelli]

A bunch of this is in https://epic-guide.github.io/life/well-being but perhaps that page should be in a different category, especially since we updated the category titles.

[SolalPirelli]

It's now in https://epic-guide.github.io/middle/well-being after the restructuring. There are still bullets from this issue that could be added though.