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Congratulations to Marvin Merkel, graduate of ECAL's Bachelor Photography, and Noa Epars on the selection of their film Always Wanted to Be God, Never Wanted to Do Good for the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.
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Congratulations to the ECAL alumni nominated for the 2026 Swiss Design Awards.
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Congratulations to Sebastian Renga, ECAL graduate of MAS Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship, for winning the March 2026 Frame Award for his project "Materia Futura".
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Congratulations to Léa Favre, Julietta Korbel and Yan Ciszewski, ECAL Bachelor Cinema graduates, for winning the Swiss Film Award 2026 in the "Best Graduation Film" and the "Best Short Film" categories.
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Congratulations to the ECAL members featured in the Swiss Art Awards 2026 exhibition, from June 15 to 21.
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Congratulations to Simone C. Niquille, ECAL resident at La Becque in 2020, for winning the Swiss Design Grand Prize 2026.
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Congratulations to Lena Heinrich ECAL alumna of MAS Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship, for winning the John Ruskin Prize themed Patience in Looking, Truth in Making.
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The Jan Michalski Foundation and ECAL highlight the most outstanding Bachelor final-year thesis projects.
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Congratulations to BIG-GAME – Augustin Scott de Martinville, Elric Petit and Grégoire Jeanmonod – who have been awarded the 2025 Grand Prix by the Fondation vaudoise pour la culture.
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Congratulations to Nicolas Le Moigne, head of the MAS in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship at ECAL, for winning the Design Preis Schweiz 2025 in the In Between category.
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Congratulations to Marvin Merkel, graduate of ECAL's Bachelor Photography, and Noa Epars, winners of the 2025 Best Swiss Film Award presented by SUISSIMAGE and SSA (Société Suisse des Auteurs) at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur.
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Congratulations to ECAL Bachelor Industrial Design graduates Lena Bernasconi, winner of the FIT Impact Grant 2025, which rewards innovative projects at the intersection of design, sustainability, and social relevance.
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Congratulations to Peilian Li, a graduate of ECAL's Bachelor and Master Fine Arts, who has been awarded one of the Leenaards 2025 Foundation's 2025 Cultural Grants for her remarkable career and unique creative approach.
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A dozen personalities with links to ECAL - graduates, professors or lecturers - were honoured at the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2024" awards
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Argentinian filmmaker and artist Jazmín López is an ECAL resident at La Becque during the fall semester.
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The graduation ceremony held on 27 June 2025 was also an opportunity to highlight many diploma projects through the awarding of Grants and Prizes. Congratulations to all the graduates and award winners!
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Sara de Brito Faustino and Aline Savioz, respectively a graduate and student of the Bachelor's programme in Photography at ECAL, are among the winners of the 2025 edition of the prestigious Dior Prize for Photography and Visual Arts for Young Talents.
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Following the nomination of 28 of its graduates as finalists for the Swiss Design Awards 2025, ECAL is proud to announce that 13 have been awarded this prestigious distinction by the Federal Office of Culture. This strong representation once again demonstrates the quality and diversity of the talent trained at the university
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The animated short film Qui part à la chasse by ECAL graduate Léa Favre has been selected for the official competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
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Congratulations to artist Lucas Erin, ECAL graduate, who has been awarded the 2026 Manor Cultural Prize for the canton of Vaud. The jury was impressed by his approach, both precise and poetic.
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Klaudia Reynicke and Mégane Brügger win the ‘Best Feature Film’ and ‘Best Graduation Film’ awards respectively.
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Congratulations to ECAL graduate artist Alfatih, who was awarded the Prix La Mobilière 2025 at the recent Salon Art Genève.
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Congratulations to photographer Sara De Brito Faustino, ECAL graduate, who wins the Prix Françoise Champoud 2024, an award that will support the development of her promising artistic career.
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Congratulations to Thibault Walter, ECAL teacher and co-programmer of the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (LUFF), on his award at the Swiss Music Awards 2024. This special award recognizes his unwavering commitment to the underground music scene and his central role within LUFF.
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Congratulations to Anna-Marija Adomaityte, ECAL Master of Visual Arts Graduate, who has won the June Johnson Newcomer prize awarded by the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation.
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Congratulations to Stefan Troendle, ECAL Master Product Design graduate, who has won the prestigious national James Dyson Award for his diploma project.
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Congratulations to Francis Baudevin, professor at ECAL, who has been awarded the Prix Leenaards 2024, and to Anna-Marija Adomaitytė and Anjesa Dellova, graduates of the ECAL's Bachelor and Master Fine Arts respectively, who have won one of the Cultural Grants.
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The graduation ceremony, which took place on 28 June 2024, was also an opportunity to reward numerous diploma projects with scholarships and prizes. Congratulations to all the graduates and winners!
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Gabriel Hafner, who graduated from ECAL in 2022, won the prestigious Tectona Prize at the latest Design Parade in Hyères. This international prize celebrates innovation in garden furniture.
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ECAL graduates Hanna Rocherau and Hugo Hectus are the winners of the EXECAL residencies at La Becque for summer 2024.
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ECAL was once again strongly represented at the Swiss Design Awards in 2024: 6 of the 16 finalists were successful.
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Guest of honour and president of the jury for Design Parade Hyères 2024, Fabien Cappello is an alumnus of the ECAL, as are two finalists in the running: Gabriel Hafner and Alex Sinh Nguyen.
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Congratulations to director Klaudia Reynicke, an ECAL graduate, on the selection of her new feature film "Reinas" at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival 2024.
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Romane de Watteville, Gina Proenza and Baker Wardlaw, three ECAL graduates, have been awarded three Artist Residencies abroad by the Etat de Vaud
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Congratulations to all the ECAL-related winners and finalists for their participation in the second edition of the Junge Grafik Award.
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Congratulations to ECAL graduate Charitini Gkritzali, who receives an award at the Global Design Graduate Show 2023, in collaboration with Gucci.
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Congratulations to photographer Thaddé Comar, an ECAL graduate, who receives the Grand Prix du Jury Photographie 7L at the Festival de Hyères 2023.
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ECAL graduate Olivia Schenker is the 2023 winner of one of the cultural prizes awarded by the Fondation vaudoise pour la culture.
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Congratulations to graphic designer Laura Csocsán, ECAL graduate, awarded the Josef Müller-Brockmann 2023 Prize for "the richness and depth of her commitment to the field of typography".
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Congratulations to designer Julie Richoz, ECAL graduate and winner of the Grands Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris 2023.
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Congratulations to artist Romane de Watteville, ECAL graduate and winner of a Leenaards 2023 cultural grants.
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The Rising Talent Awards France 2023 have revealed seven new designers and studios. Among them are Athime de Crécy (studioADC), Sébastien Cluzel (SCMP DESIGN OFFICE) as well as Arthur Fosse and Samuel Perhirin (Passage), all graduates of ECAL.
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THUNDER is in the running for Switzerland for an Oscar nomination in the International Feature Film category. Congratulations to its director, ECAL graduate Carmen Jaquier.
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Congratulations to ECAL graduate artist Gina Proenza, winner of the Manor Cultural Prize Vaud 2024.
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The graduation ceremony, which took place on 30 June 2023, was also an opportunity to reward numerous diploma projects with scholarships and prizes. Congratulations to all the graduates and winners!
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A dozen personalities with links to the ECAL - graduates, professors or lecturers - were honoured at the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2022" awards
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Congrats to Emidio Battipaglia and Augustin Lignier winners of the fourth Art Vontobel Contemporary Photography Prize A New Gaze.
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ECAL strongly represented with 21 finalists including 7 winners at the Swiss Design Awards 2023 and 8 finalists including 3 winners at the Swiss Art Awards.
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On the occasion of the 58th Solothurn Film Festival, which takes place from January 18 to 25, 2023, ECAL Film Department presents several films by students and graduates.
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Every year, the magazine Hochparterre awards the best projects in architecture and design with its Die Besten prize. This year, congratulations to Noémie Soriani, who wins the competition with her Bachelor Industrial Design Matalàs project.