SwissCommunity Holiday camps in 2024 for Swiss Abroad aged 15 or over With wonderful memories of this year’s summer camps, we at the Youth Service of the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA) are now preparing our camps for 2024. As always, we look forward to starting the registration process for the next set of summer and winter camps in Switzerland. A wealth of experiences, adventures, fun and encounters with fellow young Swiss Abroad from various continents awaits. We look forward to seeing many new and familiar faces next year. Here is an overview of our holiday camps in 2024: 6.7.24 – 19.7.24 Sport and leisure camp in Flüeli-Ranft (canton of Obwalden), including a visit to the 2024 Congress of the Swiss Abroad 6.7.24 – 19.7.24 “Swiss Challenge” covering various Swiss regions, including a visit to the 2024 Congress of the Swiss Abroad 20.7.24 – 2.8.24 Sports, leisure and language camp in Flüeli- Ranft (canton of Obwalden), including German or French course 3.8.24 – 16.8.24 “Swiss Challenge” covering various Swiss regions 27.12.24 – 5.1.25 New Year ski camp in Davos (canton of Grisons) For further information, visit revue.link/events. You can sign up online from 9 January 2024, 2 p.m. (Swiss time) to 15 March 2024 for the summer camps, and by 30 September for the New Year ski camp. (FS) Summer camps for children aged 8 to 14 Swiss children living abroad will have an opportunity to get to know Switzerland and its culture – and have a great time with around 40 other children from around the world – at a series of two-week summer holiday camps from the end of June to the end of August 2024. Registration for these camps begins on 9 January 2024. Here are the camp dates: Saturday 22 June – Friday 5 July 2024: Two holiday camps for 12 to 14-year-olds – one in Flühli (canton of Lucerne); one that crisscrosses Switzerland (“Swiss trip”). Saturday 6 July – Friday 19 July 2024: Three holiday camps – one for 8 to 11-year-olds; one for 12 to 14-year-olds; one that criss-crosses Switzerland (“Swiss trip”). Saturday 20 July – Friday 2 August 2024: Two holiday camps – one for 8 to 11-year-olds; one for 12 to 14-year-olds. Saturday 3 August – Friday 16 August 2024: Two holiday camps – one for 10 to 14-year-olds; one that criss-crosses Switzerland (“Swiss trip”). Further details on the various offers (locations, age groups, etc.) will be available online from mid-December 2023 at www.sjas.ch. The registration deadline is 15 March 2024. The Foundation for Young Swiss Abroad (FYSA) aims to give all Swiss children living abroad the chance to get to know Switzerland in this way at least once. We therefore offer price reductions whenever these are justified. The relevant fee reduction application form is available to fill in when you sign up to a camp. For further details, please do not hesitate to contact the FYSA. (DR) Foundation for Young Swiss Abroad (FYSA) Alpenstrasse 24, 3006 Berne, Switzerland Tel.: +41 31 356 61 16 Email: info@sjas.ch / www.sjas.ch/en Youth Service of the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad, Alpenstrasse 26, 3006 Bern, Switzerland youth@swisscommunity.org www.swisscommunity.org Tel. +41 31 356 61 24 Making new friends, enjoying the scenery, and experiencing lasting memories – camp participants sitting near a Roman bridge by the Verzasca river. Photo: Leonie Eyer, “Swiss Challenge” 27 Swiss Review / December 2023 / No.6
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