What is Switzerland? Workshop with Ariane Curdy

Monday 29.09.2025, Room A11 (red building), 5:30 pm

Studying and doing research abroad is an exciting, enriching and often life-changing experience. Yet, it can also be a challenging one to start with, until one identifies and understands the cultural particularities of the host culture.
Why are shops closed on Sundays? What is all this recycling about? Do the Swiss follow the rules by the book? Some Swiss habits may, indeed, seem strange or even unreasonable, until one recognizes the reasoning behind them.
The workshop aims at helping students and researchers make sense of some of the first impressions about Ticino and Switzerland.

Ariane Curdy is a management training consultant, brings decades of international experience covering four continents. She specialized in working successfully across cultures.

The event will be held in English.

All participants will be gifted a sweet tipically swiss souvenir!

Registration is mandatory through the form ll Mondo in USI 2025.

Event part of the "Il mondo in USI" initiative.