Switzerland: Renewable Energy Resources and Technologies

Depart Home for Geneva, Switzerland

On-ground Briefing & Orientation Walking Tour - The group will become oriented with their neighborhood, the public transportation systems, nearby pharmacies, markets, ATMs, etc. Additionally, an in-depth safety briefing will be provided for what to do in case of an emergency.

Welcome Dinner - The group will be taken for an authentic dinner with a wide variety of menu options to cater all diets.

Visit from the outside the Biotech Campus

CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research - The European Organization for Nuclear Research is one of the world's largest and most respected centers for scientific research. At CERN, they probe the fundamental structure of particles that make up everything around us. They do so using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments.

Interview with CERN Researcher

Train to Bern (approx. 2 hrs)

Bern Walking Tour

Einstein House - Albert Einstein house is the same place that he discovered photoelectric effect (received 1921 Nobel Prize for it) and the relativity E=mc2.

Coffee and lecture on photovoltaics

Visit Bern University and follow Einstein’s footsteps through the city of Bern

Lecture/Discussion

Full Day Chartered Bus

Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe - See the Sphinx terrace, Alpine Sensation, Ice Palace, glacier plateau, and Lindt Swiss Chocolate Heaven. Icy air streams across your face, snow crunches under your feet, and the view nearly takes your breath away: on one side the view of the Mittelland up to the Vosges, on the other the Aletsch glacier, bordered by four thousand metre peaks. Standing on the Jungfraujoch 3,454 metres above sea level, you can feel it with your first step: this is a different world. It's one you have to experience.

Continue to Grimsel Power Plant - One of Switzerland’s alternative power sources.

Continue to Lucerne

Lucerne Walking Tour

Free Rest of the Day in Lucerne

Full Day Chartered Bus to Entlebuch

Entlebuch Biosphere - No other region in Switzerland possesses as many natural treasures as this one. Some of Switzerland’s most extensive and numerous moorlands are found here, as are flora and fauna of (inter)national importance. It is no wonder that Entlebuch was designated by UNESCO in 2001 as a biosphere reserve. Within the worldwide network of biospheres, Entlebuch represents pre-Alpine moorland and karst landscape.

Full Day Chartered Bus

Repower Power Plant - Repower AG (Repower), formerly Ratia Energie AG, is an energy company that produces, transmits, and distributes electricity. The company’s services include trading, market access, and sales support services. It generates electric energy from hydropower, wind power plants, and combined-cycle gas power plants.

Romantik Hotel - One of the most beautiful vantage points in the Engadin, St. Moritz region and can claim being the first energy positive hotel in the Alps. From here you have an incomparable view over the lake-filled plateau of the upper Engadin.

Continue to St. Moritz

Train to Basel (approx. 5 hrs)

Basel Walking Tour

Free Rest of the Afternoon in Basel

BASE - BASE is a not-for-profit that develops business models which help people to access renewable energy, and more.

Free Afternoon

Train to Freiburg (approx 1 hr)

Innovation Academy Full Day - A non-profit academy concentrating on future innovations in renewable energy, solar power, low-energy buildings, and ecological agriculture. Activities planned: Introduction: Solar Region Freiburg; Visit to one of the most ecological hotels of the world; The new city hall and modernization of a social housing neighborhood.

Lunch time in an old mill of the Black Forest - A Black Forest Community that exports electricity where you will learn more about: Farms, Wind power, and sustainable energy production in a farm.

Train to Basel (approx 1hr)

Farewell Dinner & Program Closing

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Airport Transfer

Depart Basel, Switzerland for Home