Social Programme

We would like to welcome all summer school students to Aarhus and share a couple of hours with you. We will also take this opportunity to pass on some practical information. We hope you will join us at Campus C for this event and get to know the other summer school participants as well as the summer school team.

Dates:

29 July

Time:

15.00 - 17.00

Place:

Campus C

2-hour guided walking tour in downtown Aarhus. On this tour you will learn all you need to know about Aarhus in 2 hours.  You will discover the authentic Aarhus with a local guide.

Dates:

31 July

Time:

16.00 - 18.00

Place:

We will meet at the main entrance at Aarhus Town Hall, Rådhuspladsen 2, 8000 Aarhus C

Maximum number of participants:

22 people

Experience some of the world's largest and most beautiful sailing ships back in Aarhus. Come aboard the old sailing ships, try your hand at the sailors' life or enjoy the atmosphere and music on land. We will meet in the morning and walk to the harbour together. Here we will see the ships and the other events that are going on.

Date:

1 August

Time:

16.00

Place:

Aarhus Harbour. We meet at Dokk1, Hack Kampmanns Pl. 2, 8000 Aarhus and walk to the harbour together. If anyone would like to walk together from Campus, we will go together around 15.30.

We will meet at the green houses in the Botanical Gardens in Aarhus. We will visit the green houses and take a walk in the Botanical Gardens.

The Greenhouses let you explore four different climate zones – each zone featuring beautiful flowers, fascinating plants and stories of nature’s wealth and influence on our daily lives.

The Botanical Garden is a beautiful place for a run or a stroll, and the park offers lots of experiences for everyone. The garden is situated in a hilly area. Here are extensive lawns with grand, impressive trees, and small, intimate rooms in the midst of the greenery. A stream runs through the entire garden, forms three lakes.

We encourage you to bring your own lunch, which we will enjoy in the garden after our visit to the Green Houses.

Date:

3 August

Time:

10.00

Place:

Botanical Garden and Greenhouses
Peter Holms Vej
8000 Aarhus C

We would like to welcome all summer school students to Aarhus and share a couple of hours with you. We will also take this opportunity to pass on some practical information. Everyone will be invited to join a campus tour during the event. We hope you will join us at Campus C for this event and get to know the other summer school participants as well as the summer school team.

Dates:

5 August

Time: 

15.00 - 17.00

Place:

Campus C 

2-hour guided walking tour in downtown Aarhus. On this tour you will learn all you need to know about Aarhus in 2 hours.  You will discover the authentic Aarhus with a local guide.

Dates:

7 August

Time:

16.00 - 18.00

Place:

We will meet at the main entrance at Aarhus Town Hall, Rådhuspladsen 2, 8000 Aarhus C

Maximum number of participants:

48 people

The Old Coal Bridge – the circa 160 meters of bridge structure – and the adjacent area is what we today call the Coal Bridge.

For a long time, the South Harbor district has been a prominent cultural environment; home to a mix of artists and creative businesses, established and upcoming companies as well as shelters for vulnerable persons and the homeless.

Furthermore, many conservation-worthy buildings and cultural remnants still stand tall in the district. They give the district its particular character and have led to projects which can give the cultural remnants a new importance and create vibrant life in the area.

On this tour you will get the chance to look 'behind the scenes' of one of the most creative and innovative hotspots in Aarhus.

Date:

8 August

Time:

16.00

Place:

We will walk from Campus Aarhus C at 15.30. If you wish to meet us there at 16.00, the address is: Kalkværksvej 5G, 8000 Aarhus C

We will finish the week as Danish students typically do - in the Friday bar. We have arranged for the campus Friday bar to be open for you. We will enjoy a couple of cozy hours together with beers and games.

Dates:

9 August

Time:

15.00-18.00

Place:

Campus C - Ceres cafeen (the Friday bar of the students at Campus C)

Cost:

Drinks will be at students own expense

With a total of 20,700 square metres distributed on ten storeys, ARoS is one of the largest art museums in Northern Europe. Each year, ARoS has about one million visitors, making it the most frequented art museum in Scandinavia.

On Wednesdays the museum is open in the evenings, and you will have the chance to browse through the different exhibitions on your own, and enjoy the museum when it is a little more quiet than usual. You can also experience Aarhus through the colours of the rainbow in Olafur Eliasson’s famous Your Rainbow Panorama on top of the museum.

Dates:

10 August

Time:

We meet at the lobby of the museum at 11.00.

Place:

Aros Art Museum, Aros Allé, 8000 Aarhus C

Maximum number of participants:

60 people

We will meet at Campus C and enjoy an evening where we will eat typical Danish food from a buffet. The menu will be a surprise, but we promise you, it will be delicious. 

Remember to let us know if you have any dietary requirements.

Date:

12 August

Time:

18.00-20.00

Place:

Campus C canteen

We will go to a traditional bodega style pub where we will join an international pub quiz played in teams - in everything from general knowledge to sport. There will be prizes. 

Dates:

14 August

Time:

We will meet at 19.00

Place:

Cockney pub 
Maren smeds Gyde 8
8000 Aarhus c

Cost:

Drinks at own expense.

Maximum number of participants:

50 people

We would like to take the opportunity to say a proper farewell. We would like to invite you for an event at Campus C. Here you can celebrate the successful completion of your course and get a chance to say farewell to all your new friends from VIA Summer School.

Dates:

16 August

Time:

14.00 - 16.00

Place:

Campus C canteen

The Old Town is an open-air town museum. In 1914 the museum opened as the world's first open-air museum of its kind, concentrating on town culture rather than village culture, and to this day it remains one of just a few top rated Danish museums outside Copenhagen, serving more than 400,000 visitors pr. year. Today the museum consists of 75 historical buildings collected from 20 townships in all parts of the country. This place is a living picture of life in Denmark in the last 300 years. 

Dates:

18 August

Time:

10.00 - 14.00

Place:

We will meet in front of campus and walk to The Old Town.

South of the Aarhus city, in the Thors woods which are part of the larger Marselisborg-Moesgaard forest, lies the Deer Park. The area houses a wonderful population of sika and fallow deer which you can get really close-up to. The wild boars live in their own enclosure. We will enjoy a sandwich in the park. Afterwards we will walk to Mindeparken, where the Royal Castle is located. The walk is app. 1,5-2 km.

Date:

20 August

Time:

16.00 - 18.00

Place:

We will meet at the at the entrance on Ørneredevej 6, 8270 Højbjerg. You can take a bus to the busstop Mindeparken/Oddervej and walk from here. It is a 1,1 km walk.

We would like to take the opportunity to say a proper farewell. We would like to invite you for an event at Campus C. Here you can celebrate the successful completion of your course and get a chance to say farewell to all your new friends from VIA Summer School.

Dates:

23 August

Time:

15.00 - 17.00

Place:

To be decided