News - Inside EHL

In its constant quest for excellence, EHL’s aim is to increase its global leadership in high-level management for the hospitality industry. In order to do so, it exploits the synergies between the professional and academic approaches and thereby ensures exceptional professional opportunities for its students.

Students come to EHL from all over the world. They have talent; they are the future leaders of tomorrow who will stimulate economic growth in their professional domain.

The latest promotion for the Master Programme was rewarded on Thursday 26 August at EHL. 30 students have graduated.

Two students from the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne were given the opportunity to represent their school and the City of Lausanne during the Bangkok Sister City Youth Programme 2010 (BSCYP), organized by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).

Creative projects were presented to the jury of “Graines d’entrepreneur”, an original summer camp, organized at EHL in collaboration with the City of Lausanne.

A new project has come out this year in collaboration with the City of Lausanne, a programme of original activities of a unique style.

The latest promotion for the Diploma Programme was rewarded on Wednesday 14 July at EHL. 15 students have graduated.

The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) creates the first F&B Chair with the support of three key players in the food industry to better understand the Foodservice market and assist them with some of the new challenges they face.
Nestlé Professional, Danone Professional and Unilever Foodsolutions who share an interest in promoting sustainable development and bringing healthy food products to the market have committed to supporting an important research project which is to be carried out by EHL over the next 3 years. EHL is to collect data on these topics on a broad scale to observe the evolution of the F&B sector and help anticipate future trends in the restaurant business.

The Grand Chamberlain of the Royal House of Siam, Khwankeo Vajarodaya, visited the campus of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) last Friday where he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor. This title was presented to him by Michel Rochat, General Director of EHL. Khwankeo, who graduated from EHL in 1951, distinguished himself in a very exceptional career at the service of His Majesty the King of Thailand. He has actively contributed to the renown of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne in the world and is very committed to the promotion of education for all in his country.

The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) is very proud to announce that Simone Hess, a student in the Master programme at EHL, has won the prestigious Hyatt Student Prize.

“Parking closed!” warned the sign at the entrance of EHL’s parking lot on the morning of May 17.

A special Forum was held at EHL on May 6 on the theme of corporate social responsibility in the hospitality industry, and the need to implement CSR both as a moral necessity and for sound business reasons.

Kimberly Goins (a student in EHL’s Master programme) and David Setzermann (a student in the Diploma in Hotel and Restaurant management programme) are the winners of this year’s Evian Prize for Young Talent.

On 4 June 2010, Ruud J. Reuland, the departing Director of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), passed on the torch to Michel Rochat, the former General Director of Higher Education for the Canton of Vaud. After eight years spent at the helm of EHL, Ruud J. Reuland is leaving the School and hopes to take a few weeks of sabbatical leave to be spent with his family before becoming involved with new projects and challenges. Michel Rochat is looking forward to taking over the reins of the oldest hotel school and reinforcing its position of leadership on an international level.

There was a huge crowd at EHL last 21 May to celebrate the success of the 197 students who were graduating from the School’s Bachelor programme - a record number of students for a graduating class!

On May 20, Stéphane Raimbault was invited by the student committee Like Eat for a special culinary event in the School’s gastronomic restaurant.

As an inspirational speaker, Jean-Claude Biver, CEO of Hublot Watch Group, is hard to beat. Find your own ethos, he encouraged students during the “Working Lunch” at EHL on April 13, and live by this and prosper.

Since 6 April EHL has once again begun work to extend the campus and improve the work/study environment for everyone.

Hotel World Asia comprises three unmissable events for regional hospitality industry decision makers in June at The Venetian in Macau.

Within the framework of the Alumni Congress – Brasil 2010 – a discussion panel will be organised at the Sofitel in São Paulo on Saturday, 15 May 2010 at 20h00.

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