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Sustainability in Austria, Slovenia and Italy

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11 days

Vienna, Bled, Ljubljana, Trieste, Venice

Program description: Designed to provide a local snapshot of exceptional initiatives across key areas of sustainable development, including human, social, economic and environmental pillars. This program will prompt critical thinking on how these initiatives might serve to inspire further development across the globe. Parallel to this focus is an ideal opportunity to experience three distinct regions, steeped in rich culture, significant historical landmarks and natural beauty.

Cultural highlight: A better kept secret than its stunning natural beauty, Bled’s cream cakes are renowned as the best in the country and a must while visiting Slovenia.

🔹 Curated experiences: Every program is intentionally designed to feature guided learning, cultural engagement, and independent exploration experiences to drive global competency development, denoted on each itinerary with a blue diamond. Learn more about these experiences.Image displaying map describing the itinerary of the Sustainability in Austria, Slovenia and Italy tour

Day 1: Fly overnight to Austria

Day 2: Vienna

Meet your Field Director at the destination airport

Take a walking tour of Vienna

With your Field Director you will see:

  • Opera House, one of the leading opera houses in the world
  • Kärntnerstrasse, Vienna's main boulevard
  • St. Stephen’s Cathedral, central to Austrian history and iconic for its tiled roof

Enjoy dinner in Vienna

Day 3: Vienna

🔹 Cultural engagement: Take a guided tour of Vienna 

With your expert local guide you will see:

  • Ringstrasse, a circular boulevard around the Inner Town district
  • Parliament, a columned building that serves as Vienna's center of government
  • Rathaus, Vienna's flower-adorned city hall
  • Hofburg, the presidential residence and former imperial palace

Visit Schönbrunn Palace, an elegant palace with beautifully landscapes gardens where Marie Antoinette spent her childhood 

Day 4: Vienna

🔹 Guided learning: Take a sustainability-focused guided tour of the United Nations Headquarters

🔹 Independent exploration: Enjoy free time in Vienna

Day 5: Vienna • Bled

Travel to Bled, a picturesque Slovenian lake town located at the foothills of the Julian Alps 

Tour Bled with an expert local guide and see why it's one of Slovenia's most popular destinations

Visit Bled Castle, built on a precipice overlooking Lake Bled and the oldest castle in Slovenia

Enjoy dinner in Bled

Day 6: Bled

🔹 Cultural engagement: Learn about sustainable farming practices at a local farm in Bled

Day 7: Bled • Ljubljana

Travel to Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia 

Take a guided tour of Ljubljana, known as one of Europe's greenest and most livable capitals

Visit Ljubljana Castle, a Medieval fortress where you can learn about the history of the city and take in beautiful views of the city

Enjoy a traditional Slovenian dinner and cultural performance

Day 8: Ljubljana • Trieste

Visit the Postojna caves and see the 5-meter tall stalagmite called Brilliant and the first cave railway system

Travel to Trieste, an Italian port city with Italian, Austro-Hungarian, and Slovenian influences 

Enjoy dinner in Trieste

Day 9: Trieste • Venice

Travel to Venice

🔹 Cultural engagement: Learn about organic wine production at a local vineyard

Day 10: Venice

🔹 Guided learning: Take an ecology-focused guided tour of Venice

🔹 Independent exploration: Spend time exploring Venice on your own

Enjoy dinner in Venice

Day 11: Depart for home

Learning outcomes on this program

Confidence • Curiosity • Global perspective • Empathy • Adaptability • Relatability • Self-Awareness

Academic resources

With this program, you get access to our Global Learning Resources, which include:

  • Discussion questions

  • Sample assignments

  • Journal prompts

  • Webinars

  • EF's Global Competency Assessment, a pre- and post-program assessment to measure competency development

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Your experience includes

Transportation
Accommodations
Select meals
End-to-end support
EF Global Learning Toolkit
Field Director
Guided exploration
Field Visits

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