Summer Camp in Switzerland

Aim:
Discover the essentials of cooking in this hands-on week designed for beginners who want to explore the joy of food. Each morning introduces you to key culinary skills — from knife techniques and basic cooking methods to baking bread, creating simple pastries, and working with chocolate. In the final session, you will design and cook in small groups a complete menu that brings your learning together. Along the way, you will gain confidence in handling ingredients, applying hygiene and safety, and expressing creativity in the kitchen, leaving you with skills to enjoy and share long after the programme ends.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the week, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate foundational culinary skills, including safe knife handling, basic cooking methods, dough preparation, and simple confectionery techniques.

• Apply creativity, teamwork, and kitchen organization to design and prepare a small menu, showing confidence in hygiene, food handling, and presentation.

Aim:
Step into the world of hospitality, travel, and lifestyle to explore how creativity and innovation shape the guest experience of tomorrow. This one-week programme introduces you to the essentials of entrepreneurship, cultural intelligence, event design, branding, and digital transformation. Through interactive workshops, team challenges, and hands-on projects, you will discover how ideas become businesses, how culture influences service, and how technology is redefining the future of hospitality. By working collaboratively in an international group, you will build problem-solving skills, confidence in presenting your ideas, and an understanding of an exciting, fast-changing global industry.

Learning Outcome:
By the end of the week, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate an introductory understanding of key areas shaping hospitality and lifestyle industries, including entrepreneurship, cultural intelligence, event innovation, branding, and digital transformation.

• Apply creativity, teamwork, and communication skills in developing and presenting innovative concepts for future hospitality experiences within an international and collaborative environment.

Aim:
The Living Languages programme offers an engaging introduction to English or German for beginners who want to learn by doing. Across two weeks, students move from everyday essentials — greetings, family, food, and city life — to more advanced topics such as travel, health, shopping, and sharing personal experiences. Morning classes build step by step in a supportive environment, while afternoons provide authentic opportunities to practice through local interaction, cultural discovery, and real-world activities. By combining classroom learning with immersion in daily situations, students strengthen communication skills, gain cultural insight, and develop the confidence to use a new language in practical and enjoyable ways.

Learning Outcome:
By the end of the week (or two-week sequence), participants will be able to:

• Communicate at beginner level in English or German using everyday vocabulary and expressions for introductions, family, shopping, city life, leisure, and travel.

• Engage with local culture and real-life situations with growing confidence, demonstrating improved intercultural awareness, practical language skills, and the ability to interact in simple social and cultural contexts.