Study Visits | ELSA Innsbruck

Description

Located in the heart of the Alps Innsbruck (130 000 inhabitants) is the capital city of Tyrol and a famous destination for skiing, hiking but also for cultural visits. As just 20 minutes away from the city center you can reach the „Nordkette“ and enjoy amazing views all over the city (when the air is clear you can even see till Italy) or take a hike, go skiing or party whole night at 2.334 m above sea level.

With more than 28 000 students living in Innsbruck the city offers also appropriate nightlife.

The University of Innsbruck is very popular with students from all over the world. Thus, 40% of the students and teachers come from abroad. The quality of study programmes, as well as the location in the beautiful natural heart of the Alps and Europe, contribute to its popularity.

The Law faculty is one of the oldest and most traditional faculties of our University and is home to 9 institutes and 4500 students.

As special feature there is even an own University degree for Italian law. About ELSA Innsbruck: We are a team consisting of about 44 active members. Every two weeks we have our team meeting followed by a getting together at our regular haunt, the „Unicafé". We are organizers of the famous ELSA Winter Law School on Sports Law and since 2018 the ELSA Summer Law School on Medical and Health Law. As our relation to the Faculty of Law is very good we have our own office and lots of events in cooperation with the University.

City, Country

Innsbruck, Austria

Accommodation Options

Hotel Altpradl

Methods of getting from the airport(s)/train-station to the City Centre/Hotel

As Innsbruck is quite small you can reach almost everything on foot or by bike. The airport is located 2km in the west of the city center. You can reach it by using the busline F of our local public transportation company IVB. The main train station is directly in the city center and can be reached on foot or with various bus lines. There is a cable car directly in the city center to reach the mountain area.

Maximum number of participants that can be hosted

10 - 20

Ideal length of Visit

2 - 4 days

Draft Academic Programme

You can visit our local Court or our prison. We can also organize „Lawyers@Work“ Events with law firms or lectures with professors or other legal experts.

Draft Social Programme

We can do a Pub Crawl through the city, go to the Iglu Party at the mountain in Winter or relaxing and partying at the river Inn close to the University. We also organize our own ELSA „Law me harder“ parties.

For sightseeing you can visit the famous “Goldenes Dachl“ (golden roof), the Bergisel – Ski jump, the Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Volkskunstmuseum, Hofkirche, Schloss Amras, or go up the mountain to the Patscherkofel, Nordkette or Axamer Lizum. In winter you can enjoy the lovely Christmas markets.

Other information

As we have our exams spread all over the year please just contact us to find the best date. Just June and end of May is quite busy as we’re having surely a lot of exams and are busy with the final organization of our Summer Law School. Please note that the possible activities vary a lot depending on the time of the year.

Contact information

vpsc@elsa-innsbruck.org