The role of the co-presidents is to coordinate the association internally and represent it externally. They ensure cohesion within their committee and with the CLIC commissions, and that the association is moving in the right direction, according to the goals set and the vision of the association.

Without going into too much detail, this involves ensuring compliance with the association's official documents, chairing committee meetings and general assemblies, ensuring a good distribution of the tasks, and supporting committee members where necessary.

These are very rewarding, all-round jobs that require a constant global vision!

Administration is one of the pillars of any association. We take care of issuing and paying invoices, reimbursing committees who make purchases for CLIC, drawing up a budget, keeping the association's accounts up to date, etc. We also take care of all insurance matters. We also take care of all insurance matters. Every year, we have to update the insurance policy for our events. As for the budget, our job is to draw up a realistic annual budget for the association. It's voted on each year at the Autumn General Meeting, and is often revised for the second half of the year. Being in the administration department requires constant work. Indeed, it's quite difficult for us to take weeks off without keeping an eye on the accounts, without having to issue invoices to our sponsors or others, without having to pay bills for the CLIC or its commissions, without having to reimburse someone who has made an expenditure for the CLIC or one of our commissions, and so on.

The event is on fire.

We put a smile on ICs' faces first thing in the morning with free breakfasts, hot croissants, coffee and a little contagious CLIC motivation. We also cheer them up after long days at work with mulled wine in winter, sangria in spring and aperitifs of all kinds throughout the year.

CLIC events are also an opportunity to meet other ICs. Not least at the traditional Faculty Dinner, which brings together over 350 students and professors from the IC faculty for a good meal, quality beverages and, of course, entertainment. Every year, CLIC and Coaching IC collaborate to organize CLICoaching, an event designed to integrate first-year students into the rest of the Faculty and show them that CLIC takes over from Coaching IC for the rest of their course. We also organize the Apéro Master in autumn to enable newcomers and established students to meet over good local beers, quality sangria (yes, it's Don Simon) and festive entertainment such as karaoke or JustDance.

Despite our unconditional love for the BC building and the INM hall, the CLIC events team travels from time to time to accompany you to other corners of the campus. For example, we run the friendly BarIC during the Balélec Festival and the gourmet BurgerIC stand during VivaPoly.

Where all the magic happens!

Our role

Our role in the Communications Department is to inform students about everything CLIC has to offer. We also relay information from other student associations on campus that might be of interest to our IC students. And last but not least, if you have any questions or need anything, we're the ones you turn to! We always try our best to help 🫶🏼

Where do we advertise CLIC's events?

To keep in touch with IC students, we keep several social networks up to date! CLIC has 6 networks as of now: an Instagram account, a Telegram channel, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn account, an EPFL Campus channel and, of course, the great website you're reading this on 😉 We'll also send you emails for the biggest announcements.

The fine team

The Communication department operates with 2 people! Both are in charge (because it's a lot of work), dividing up the tasks to be there on all fronts! Depending on the season, we may also recruit team members to help with projects they're interested in, whether that's writing texts or designing posters! Above all, we're in the associative business to have fun and enjoy the atmosphere!

In the sponsorship department, our aim is to contact companies who are interested in our project, and who might be of interest to IC students, in order to find partnerships. These partnerships can take different forms: logistical, material or financial.

At the beginning of the year, we work on our sponsorship file, which summarizes everything we can offer companies in terms of visibility and communication to reach IC students. Then, and this is the most interesting part, we begin negotiations with the companies to find the most suitable partnership for them, for us and for the students of the faculty.

The various services we offer our partners can be the presence of their logo on our posters, a presentation of the company at an event, publications on our social networks or the possibility of offering goodies to students. We also have a Telegram channel "CLIC Bons Plan" where we publish offers and tips. Don't hesitate to follow the channel !

Being part of the sponsorship team allows you to discover the business world, and learn how to make contact, negotiate, sell services and manage contracts with major companies. It also learning how to write and send emails, and not forgetting to answer to emails that we receive :)

The IT department looks after the association's IT infrastructure. It's a department in constant motion, with no shortage of ideas and projects! Its day-to-day work ranges from adding new tools and applications to the CLIC committee's artillery (or even the IC student's), to developing our magnificent website on which you are reading these lines.

System administrator

Often abbreviated to sysadmin, the system administrator's job is to set up, update and, above all, maintain IT services. In the case of CLIC, we have a small server hosted at Infomaniak on which our year-round services reside, whether they be internal tools (Mattermost, Nextcloud, etc.) or external (website) to the committee. Generally speaking, the management of this server is a very basic set of tasks, and above all an educational one for anyone interested in IT.

Web development

The association's website contains information on CLIC, its commissions, committees and team members. In the near future, we'd like to extend these functionalities to services for IC students, such as an equipment loan system, a registration system, a shared calendar for IC associations and commissions, etc. The possibilities are infinite...

The logistics department is responsible for all equipment aspects of CLIC. This role acts as a link between every other CLIC department and insures everyone has the stuff they need.

Internal logistics

CLIC has a lot of equipment, and the Logistics department is in charge of all of it! We keep an inventory, repare the broken equipment and replace the stuff we can't use anymore. We're also in charge of buying new items if we need them, as well as crafting things if the CLIC committee so desires. We oversee the basement and the office (INM 177, drop by to say hi sometime!), so it requires keeping track of all of CLIC's activities and a bit of inventiveness to come up with the best solutions to smoothe everyone's experience at CLIC.

Event logistics

The heart of CLIC is organizing events! This is the most fun part of the Logistics department: our role is to prep and organize everything equipment-related: think about what equipment we need to comply with the Animation department's vision for the event, draw up plans, supply electricity, etc etc. This is done by getting stuff from our basement, but also by grabbing equipment from other associations on campus, or looking around Lausanne for companies that will lend us what we need. We are also in contact with the campus concierges for part of the equipment, and getting advice on part of the organizing.

The logistics team

But none of that would be achievable without the wonderful logistics teammembers. They are IC students, like every one at CLIC, and they are the Logistics manager's responsabiliy. The manager organizes meetings with them to assign tasks: repairs, inventory-keeping, loans to other associations etc. They also help organizing the events: they can volunteer to be co-logistics manager for a specific event, or event take on part of the event (bar manager, catering manager, etc). They are also allowed, after validation from the manager, to have projects of their own like building a coffee table for the office etc. If you'd like to be part of the team, contact the manager! You don't need any qualification to apply, just motivation! Everything you need to know will be taught to you at CLIC!