Practical details

Practical information

Summer School Location

All workshops and other Summer School related activities will be held at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano Campus:

Università della Svizzera italiana
Centrocivico
Via Giuseppe Buffi 13
CH-6900 Lugano

Click here to find information on how to get there. Location on Google Maps . There is also a fully clickable map on the Website of the City of Lugano.

When you arrive at the University...

When you arrive at the University main building, you should go directly to your workshop's teaching room; there is no formal registration. Your instructor will give you a sheet with further information, as well as directions on how to use the computing facilities. There will be a Welcome Reception on Monday evening.

Teaching rooms

The room numbers for the workshops will be sign posted at the main entrance, as well as at the entrance of the Informatics building.

Preliminary workshops

Visual Thinking: Room SI004. Informatics building, number 4 on this map. From the main entrance walk down the stairs to the other side of the building through the sliding doors, then turn left and enter the building. The room is located on the ground floor.
The SPSS/Statistics Refresher will be held in room 156 (computer lab in the main building)[Location], located on the first floor. When you walk into the building through the main entrance you will be on the second floor!): take the stairs down, turn left and then, in the central corridor, turn right; you will find lab 156 some 50m down the hallway on your left. (It has two entrances, take the second as the first is normally locked).
Alternatively you can take the side-entrance, located some 50 meters to the left of the main entrance; then within the building, turn left.
The Visual thinking for researchers will be held in room SI 004 in the Informatics building

Regular workshops

All teaching rooms, with the exception of workshop 2.3 are located in the Informatics building.

The Informatics building is behind the main building. (Number 4 on this map). To reach it, enter the main building, take the stairs down, leave the building (open space below the cafeteria), then enter the building to your left. All teaching rooms are on the ground floor and will be sign-posted.
Workshop 2.3 is held in the main building; turn left at the main entrance.

First week: 21 to 25 of August
1.1	Kernbach	Design thinking for research	SI 003
1.2	Schmidt/Davidov	Structural Equation Modeling	SI 006
1.3	Horber	Statistics with SPSS for Social Scientists	SI 008
1.4	Jones	Multilevel Analysis	SI 004
1.5	Guest	Analysis of Variance	SI 013
Second week: 28 of August to 1st of September
2.1	Schlüter	Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling	SI 003
2.2	O'Reilly	Ethnographic Methods	SI 004
2.3	Gibbert	Case Studies	251

Events and Schedules

Friday, August 18, 10h15-18h: Preliminary workshops (day 1)
Saturday, August 19, 8h30-18h: Preliminary workshops (day 2)
August 21 - 25 (Monday through Friday): 8h30-18h00: Workshops Week 1
Monday, August 21, 17 h 30: Opening reception (1st week)
August 28-September 1 (Monday through Friday): 8h30-18h00: Workshops Week 2
Monday, August 28, 17 h 30: Opening reception (2nd week)

Daily schedules are specific to each workshop; the instructor will inform you at the beginning of the course.

When to arrive, when to leave

As workshops start at 8 h 30 on Monday, you should arrive on Sunday evening; plan to leave on Saturday, unless you can reach home when leaving Lugano Friday, late afternoon. Preliminary workshops start at 10h15 on Friday.

Accommodation

If you need to reserve accommodation, see here for further information and advice on how to find a hotel or pension.

Travelling to Lugano

If you are travelling from a foreign country, you will find information on how to get to Lugano here.. If you wish to visit the area during the weekends between the workshops or before/after the Summer School, you will find some useful links at the end of the same document.

Contacts

FORS

FORS (Mrs. Denise Bloch) takes care of the administration; she will be able to answer general questions about the Summer School. [ ]

Lugano: Some links (getting around, tourism)

Academic organization

For questions regarding academic aspects of the Summer School, contact:

Summer School Evaluation

After Summer School ends you will receive an e-mail, asking you to fill in an on-line evaluation questionnaire. Please help us make a better Summer School by filling it in. If you have suggestions, ideas etc for future Summer Schools please use the link provided on the home page and use the corresponding form to transmit them. If you prefer, you can also send an e-mail to the Summer School director. Thank you very much for your collaboration.