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IAAS / IAESTE Farming Weekend, july 20th to 22nd
Thanks to our partnership with IAAS Switzerland (exchange association for agricultural students), we can announce the first weekend of IAESTE Switzerland on a real Swiss farm!
Be a farmer: You can test your skills in mowing by hand and milking.
Why participate?
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Get to know the IAAS exchange organisation
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Discover Switzerland finest baroque town
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See, touch, smell and feed real cows (the animal on the IAESTE T-shirts and on the image on the right side)
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See mathematics from a different point of view: 33, 11 explanation will follow on the trip
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See the Alps from the Jura
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Producers market in Solothurn
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Sleep for two nights in the nicest youth hostel in Switzerland
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See the hotel, where they used to bath in milk
Links
The finest baroque town in Switzerland
Our lodging for the weekend (select "Solothurn")
IAAS home page
Programme
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Friday evening, july 20th
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Travel to Solothurn with G7 ticket for those who have it
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Check in in youth hostel
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Late night sighseeing in the old town of Solothurn, a drink if you like to.
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Sleeping in the youth hostel
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Saturday morning, july 21st
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Breakfast in youth hostel
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Guided sight seeing tour in Solothurn, in English
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Saturday afternoon, july 21st
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Travel to Bolken, a village near Solothurn (Not sure yet, but alternative will be provided)
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Cows, hay, milk, cheese, fresh bread, honey: Get to know a real swiss farm. Snack is included!
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Return journey to Solothurn
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Saturday evening, july 21st
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Dinner all together in the youth hostel
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"IAESTE-IAAS" Evening
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Going out in Solothurn or enjoy the youth hostel
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Sunday morning, july 22nd
(for bad weather there will be an alternative)
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Breakfast in the youth hostel
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Leaving the rooms, bagage can be left there for the day out.
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Bus to the foot of the entry of the Valley of Verena
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Walk up through the Valley of Verena and up to the Weissenstein
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Sunday afternoon, july 22nd
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Lunch on the top of the Weissenstein
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Descent by antique chairlift to where we came from
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Picking up the bagage in the youth hostel
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Individual return journey
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What is IAAS?
The members of IAAS are student associations or groups of students in an (agricultural) university, the so-called 'Committees'. IAAS Headquarters (HQ) is the name of the administrative center of the association. It is an office at the Faculty of Agriculture and applied biological sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Here all the information about IAAS is gathered and spread out again.
their homepage
Costs
Costs will be around 110 CHF for guests and about 70 CHF for IAESTE people.
Included
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two nights in a only seven year old youth hostel, situated near the river Aare as seen on the right side
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two breakfasts
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a guided tour in English through Solothurn
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the visit on the farm
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a dinner on saturday evening, either with meat or vegetarian
Not included
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No travelling tickets are included, as everybody has different tickets. Approximate costs:
Travel to Bolken 0 to 12 CHF, travel to the beginning of the Valley of Verena CHF
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Lunch for Saturday and Sunday, but can be bought on the producers market in Solothurn. There is time enough for it and the products are all fresh.
Train connections to Solothurn
The train connections below all leave after 7pm, so you can travel for free, if you are a proud owner of the G7 ticket. If you don't have it, check www.sbb.ch
for price information.
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Leaving in...
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Arrival in Solothurn
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Basel, 19.24
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20.43
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Berne, 20.04
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20.46
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Lausanne, 19.27
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20.48
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Lucerne, 19.54
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21.08
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Zurich, 20.07
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21.08
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Contact
In case that your questions are important and not answered yet on this page, you might contact Matthias Cavigelli. Details like meeting points and weather forecast will follow.
Application form
Apply through our web form like usual (closed, mc 2001-07-20). Thanks for filling it out carefully!
Already applied?
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