Excursions
Take the opportunity to see more of the engineering in Switzerland. See the largest train tunnel of the world, get an impression of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the gigantic scientific instrument of CERN, or see the spectacular architecture of the recently opened learning center and library at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.
Besides sessions and workshops WEC 2011 offers various thematic excursion to technical facilities, Swiss companies and research institutes.
Geneva area
CERN, small hydro project, biogas from conversion of green waste, heat-pump district heating and cooling, photovoltaics (Mont Soleil), wind (Mont Crosin), hydro pump-storage (Hongrin), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL (Lausanne), wood cogeneration (Bière), biodiesel production (Etoy), waste incineration coupled with combined cycle cogeneration
Alps
longest train tunnel (57 km),
hydro power plants
Zurich area
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH (Zurich), Paul Scherrer Insititute PSI (Villigen)
France
ITER–Fusion: project to design and build an experimental fusion reactor based on the "tokamak" concept (Cadarache) nuclear power plant (Flamanville) recycling plant (La Hague)