Bavarian Newbie Weekend 2024

What to expect

Your fourth option to choose from the newbie weekends 2024 brings together three Bavarian entities and is therefore named the BAVARIAN NEWBIE WEEKEND 2024! The entities of Bamberg, Augsburg and Würzburg will introduce you to our glorious association (that’s what the G in EGEA stands for ;)) and will turn EGEA newbies into EGEA ultras! You will learn about the history and structure of EGEA, our funniest traditions, how to engage yourself in EGEA teams and institutions and most importantly – why EGEA is the greatest student’s organisation in the world! We are the smallest of all Newbie Weekends with only 19 attendees, but that means you will only form even closer bonds in a cozy social environment.

Home of the Event will be the historical city of Augsburg in the center of Europe. Augsburg is among the oldest cities in Germany and was home of Jakob Fugger. By some experts, he is considered to be the wealthiest man of all time, having erected a trading empire all over Europe in the beginning of the 16th century. He founded the Fuggerei, the world’s oldest public housing complex still in use. Our scientific excursion will lead us into the the geologically unique impact crater of the Nördlinger Ries, where we will have a closer look into the the medieval town of Nördlingen. Nördlingen is among the best preserved historical cities in Germany and surrounded entirely by a city wall, on which you can walk one time around the town. From the city’s main church clock tower Daniel, you can have a 360° view over the impact crater.

In the evening, of course the most important EGEA tradition named cultural fair, a geo quiz and a motto party are awaiting you. We are glad to welcome you in Augsburg!

How to get there

Public transport in Augsburg itself works quite well and you can use Google maps to navigate. The offical site of Augsburg public transport is https://www.avv-augsburg.de/.

Located in a central metropolitan area, you can easily reach the accomoadtion by train, what we definetely recommend. For booking, you might use https://www.bahn.de/.

Flixbus is a good possibility to reach Augsburg as well. If you book via the EGEA sponsors page, EGEA gets a small benefit from it. Just use the following link and then select Flixbus! https://egea.eu/sponsors-partners/

We also have a parking lot in the yard, meaning that you can as well arrive in Augsburg by car. In that case, we recommend to form car sharing groups. You can do so by just sending a quick message into our WhatsApp group which will be formed a few weeks before the event.

If you come from further away, you might need to come to Augsburg by plane. The best airports available are Memmingen, Nürnberg (Nuremberg) and München (Munich).

The accomodation

Our accomodation is a youth house (Stadtjugendring Augsburg (sjr-a.de)) in Augsburg. We will provide for ourselves, which means that the Orga Team will take over cooking. The house has space for a total amount of 25 guests of which 19 will be Newbies and 6 will be Orga team . You will sleep in two bedrooms, one with 13 and one with 8 beds. Bed sheets are provided, you will just have to bring towels for yourselves. The total costs of the event will be 60€, beverages not included.