Alternatives to IAESTE Events

Other Summer Programs

The student organisation ESN invites all IAESTE trainees to join their activities and trips. Look at their event program!

Other Ideas

There are 1000 of things to do in Switzerland and it is impossible to mention them all. Here we compiled a short list of possibilities with a focus on music festivals (but even they are not complete). For other ideas just write an email to: e-mail list.

The following list gives you some ideas about what you could do on your "free" weekends in Switzerland:

• Nature and Sports:
  • Mountain Biking
  • Hiking
  • Sailing
• Sights, Visits:
  • Cities: Lucerne, Bern, Geneva, Basel, St. Gallen with Bodensee (Lake Constance), Neuchâtel, Schaffhausen (Rheinfall)...
  • Villages: Appenzell, Werdenberg...
  • Cheese Dairy (Stein AR, Gruyères, Appenzell, late september or early october)
• Open Air Concerts, Music Events, Film Festivals 2007:
  • Greenfield Festival: Interlaken, June 15-17
  • Southside Festival: Neuhausen op Eck (South Germany), June 22-24
  • Caliente Festival: Zurich, June 15-17
  • Openair St.Gallen: St. Gallen, June 29-July 01
  • Montreaux Jazz Festival: Montreux, July 6-21
  • Festival de la cite : Lausanne, July 6-14
  • Moon and Stars: Locarno, July 8-14
  • Open Air Frauenfeld: Frauenfeld, July 13-15
  • Gurten Festival: Bern, July 19-22
  • Paleo Festival: Nyon, July 25-29
  • Locarno Film Festival: Locarno, August 01-11
  • Heitere Open-Air: Zofingen, August 10-12
  • Street Parade: Zurich, August 11
  • OpenAir Gampel: Gampel (Wallis), August 16-19
  • Openair Freaktal: Fricktal, August 2-5
  • Jugendkulturfestival: Basel, August 31-September 02
  • Jungle Street Groove: Basel, Not yet clear

Also have a look at our info pages, you can find more links and tips there.

Planning other things

There are many more things of course! Just browse the internet. This is a good start: Swiss tourist information. If you need some more information ask other IAESTE trainees, people from the Local Committee, most of them show up on the Weekly Meeting. Or write an email to the unofficial mailing list: e-mail list.

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