A book by APML, the Association of Moroccan Polytechnic Students of Lausanne
Foreword
This book is written as the year goes on: each event adds a chapter, with its photos, as soon as it has taken place. Come back and leaf through it: it grows with us.
The year got off to a strong start: an info session for new students, our first football tournament and a stand at Associations Week, all in September.
The team
The 2026-2027 committee
22 student volunteers, in teams, keep the association going all year.
- Executive committee
- Mohamed Ilias Jari (President), Ismail Moudden (Vice-president), Yahya Zaidi (General secretary), Chaimâa Ouchicha (Treasurer)
- Events
- Mohamed Iraqi Houssaini (Head), Kenza Alami Sounni, Selma Mkinsi, Ali Bendaoud
- Sponsorship
- Moad Dalaoui (Co-head), Lina Assia El Abkari (Co-head), Hamza Benrazzouk, Omar El Amraoui
- Marketing
- Sofia El Mrini (Head), Chama Olfi, Rayane El Kasri
- Logistics
- Hatim Sbai (Head), Adnan Sekkal
- Internal life
- Maryam Harakat (Co-head), Hamza Zoubayri (Co-head), Youssef Ismaili Alaoui, Ghali Elouahdani
- IT
- Othmane Housni (Head)
September 2026
Info session: new students at EPFL
Everything we wish we had been told when we arrived at EPFL, in one evening.
On Tuesday 1 September 2026, before the start of term, APML welcomed new students in room MA B1 11: everything we wish we had been told when we arrived at EPFL, in one evening.
On the programme: passing first year, with advice subject by subject, life in Lausanne, housing and transport, driving licences, health insurance, associations and opportunities at EPFL.
The room was full, and the questions carried on in the hall, over pizza.
September 2026
World Cup by APML
APML’s first football tournament: sixteen teams and a day of matches facing the Alps.
On Saturday 19 September 2026, sixteen teams met at the Dorigny sports centre for the first World Cup by APML: group stage in the morning, quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final in the afternoon, facing Lake Geneva and the Alps.
Flags mixed on the pitch: Egypt, Poland, Serbia, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Lebanon and, of course, Morocco. The day ended with the trophy and the medals.
A second edition is planned for the spring semester.
September 2026
Associations Week
Moroccan tea, msemen and a quiz on Morocco: the APML stand under the Rolex Learning Center.
On Tuesday 22 and Thursday 24 September, over lunch, APML ran its stand under the Rolex Learning Center for EPFL’s Associations Week.
On the menu: mint tea poured from high up, msemen, sellou and Moroccan pastries, à la carte or as the Discovery and Gourmet deals, and a quiz on Morocco with prizes to win. Behind the stand, under the Moroccan flag, plenty of new faces.
Coming up
Still to come
The year’s next events. Times and rooms on our Instagram.
- The Finance Games
- Wednesday, 14 October 2026, EPFL, room SG 1138. Four candidates, ten minutes each to win over a jury. A finance competition co-organised with TFA.
Advice
Making the most of your year at EPFL
What older students tell new ones, every autumn.
Working
Everything happens in the first weeks: don’t wait for the exams to get to work. An hour a day beats an all-nighter.
Past exams are your best friends. Do them under real conditions, timer in hand, then compare with the solutions.
If a subject is slipping away from you, say so early: to the assistants, to other students, to APML. Someone has been through it before.
Living
Join an association, ours or another: that is where you make friends for all the years that follow.
Come to the talks: asking a minister or a business leader a question is a rare opportunity, and a fine memory.
Do some sport: the Dorigny sports centre offers dozens of activities, and the lake is a stone’s throw away.
And call your parents. They will be glad.
To be continued
This book is not finished, and neither is the year. See you at the next event to write what comes next together.
All the year’s photos are also on the event pages.