Extended Interactive Tours for School Groups

Rates

Minimum of 20 tickets per booking; prices incl. online booking fee

School pupils: 11.13€ per person

Accompanying person: 2 free per class (3 for integration classes).

Private tour for small groups <20 people: Flatrate equal to the cost of 20 tickets

Duration

Extended interactive tours take about one and a half hours.

Languages

English or German. Subject to the availability of tour guides, interactive school tours can also be requested in Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Slovak and Spanish.

SDG Tour (10-18 years)

Ending poverty, fighting climate change, equal rights for women and girls - world leaders have committed to reaching 17 ambitious goals to transform our world by 2030. Our interactive tour 'Let's Transform Our World' puts the Sustainable Development Goals front and centre for secondary school groups visiting the UN in Vienna. Choose this interactive format if you wish your class to engage with the work of the United Nations and its Vienna-based organizations.
Tour outline The 90-minute timeframe of this tour allows the tour guide to employ an entertaining mix of show and tell and inter-active games. The guide explains the UN's role in helping reach consensus on global challenges, usually by visiting an actual conference room, and will ask the group to get active in exploring some of the 17 Goals in more detail. Participants will have fun discovering a few of the ways UN organizations in Vienna and around the world are working to help achieve the Goals, and young people will go home with some ideas of how their own actions can help transform their world.

Children's Conference (6-12 years)

A great option for primary school classes, this interactive programme introduces younger children to the way the world’s countries work together at the United Nations. Tour outline During the 90-minute programme, children not only get a chance to discover the many different flags flying on the UN Memorial Plaza, and see the inside of the UN complex where people from so many different countries come to work together. Led by their tour guide, they simulate an international conference in age-appropriate terms, with each child representing a different country. The young delegates discuss how best to solve a tricky problem. They listen to each other, learn to accept different opinions, and finally take a democratic vote. In the process, local children get a chance to pick up a few words of English, one of the working languages of the United Nations.
Tour handout For follow-up at home or in the classroom, each participant will leave with a colourful handout showing the flags and geography of the UN Member States represented during the Children's Conference. The handout can be customized by colouring in one's favourite flag, and can be folded out into a small world map poster decorated with the Sustainable Development Goals in all six official UN languages.

Teaching resources

Teachers visiting with a school group receive a free printed reference guide to on-line teaching resources and other materials at the end of the tour.

Important Information

When preparing for an on-site visit to the VIC, please bear in mind the following:

• You will have to pass a security check requiring a valid official identification document (national ID card, passport or driving licence; a paper copy or a photo of the ID is not acceptable).
• As the security check might get busy, we recommend arriving at the VIC at least 15 minutes before the scheduled starting time of the tour.
• Small bags may be carried on tour. For security reasons there is no possibility to store luggage at the VIC.
• The Visitors Service is closed on weekends and the official UN Holidays and there are no tours during the year-end period. 

Contact

Please email us at tours.vienna[at]un.org in case of any questions about your booking.

More information about visiting the United Nations in Vienna: www.unvienna.org/visit