Newbie Weekend Austria

Introduction

Servus fellow EGEAns!
You want to dive into the life of an real EGEAn? Then the Newbie Weekend is a great event to start from! For three days, we offer you many great activities to do and surely a great time! 😉

Accomodation & Arrival to the Event

The Newbie Weekend Austria takes place in Tauchen am Wechsel, a cozy little village in the Austrian Alps, with the federal states border of Lower Austria & Styria going straight through it! The accomodation where we staying is called The Blue Whale Education Center, a former Gasthaus (“Inn” in English) which got turned into a seminar house, run by the non-profit association called Generation Europa.

To get to the accomodation, you can take the train to the station Tauchen-Schaueregg, from there you only need to walk 6min to arrive at the accomodation! 😉
It takes around 1h30min from Wien Hauptbahnhof (Hbf, “Vienna Main Station”) to the accomodation.
You can look up the trains going to the accomodation from Vienna on ÖBB Scotty! (<– click here, it’s an info site from the Austrian Railway, where you can get all the relevant information quickly, even available as an app!)

Alternatively, you can also get there by car! Just type in the address of the accomodation and you’re good to go! But if you’re going to drive by car, we suggets you to try to pick up some people and do car-sharing, so you have someone with you on the trip, a lot of fun and even help the environment by not just driving alone 😉

And if you want a challenge, you can also try to get there by bike or even by hiking! But we suggest you not to.

Program

Beside being together for a weekend, we also planned many different activities for you!

• A Newbie Area, where we introduce you to EGEA
• Welcome Games to get to know each other
• Two themed evening, where one is about our beautiful country of Austria, and the other is inspired by the traditions of EGEA
• Two excursions, one is a hike around the beautiful Alps, the other one is still in the planning, but surely will be something less physically challenging as the hike 😉 (you will get more info!)
• A bigger presentation about EGEA and
• some small trainings, which also is part of the EGEA experience! 🙂

(This program is only approximately and will probably change a little.)

PartiCipant Fee of the Newbie Weekend Austria 2024 & Registration

Your Questions Answered

Q: How do I know if this is something for me?
A: If you like meeting people and/or viewing geography from different stances and/or like travelling, then this is definitely something for you! Every EGEA experience is different, some people like certain aspects more than others and that’s totally okay, because an EGEA event (like this one) has a lot of aspects to offer!

Q: My English is not that good, will I be able to fit in?
A: The key to learning a language is practicing, and most EGEAns don’t have English as a mother tongue, so everybody will make an effort to understand you and be patient. Besides, we’re sure your English is better than you think 😉

Q: I have some information I need the orgateam to know, how do I tell them?
A: Some time after you register for the event, we will sent a participant form for more information about you (eg. allergies, if you want to sleep in a same-gender room, …) so you can let us know there. We will also make a whatsapp chat for everybody. Otherwise feel free to contact us on Instagram (egea_vienna) or e-mail (vienna@egea.eu), we’re happy to help!