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  • Information: No new registration for people who have no previous knowledge of German

    Information: No new registration for  people who have no previous knowledge of German

    Unfortunately, we cannot take any new beginners in our German courses at the time. New courses and registration beginning 10th of February 2025.

  • Event: Scenes of fleeing

    Event: Scenes of fleeing

    How loved ones get lost in the Mediterranean while fleeing. Or how they lose themselves in the asylum process. Why women* are taking to the streets all over the world – including in Switzerland. But also: how people are joining forces to renovate an important meeting place. How we could restructure the system to empower…

  • Event: The Asylum process in Switzerland

    Event: The Asylum process in Switzerland

    Tuesday, 28. January 2025, 18:30 / Autonomous School Zürich, Dachstock, Sihlquai 125, Zürich Anyone who applies for asylum in Switzerland goes through a procedure with an uncertain outcome. How does the asylum procedure work and which criteria are used to make which decision? Who gets “F” and who gets “B”? What rights and restrictions are…

  • Between us no borders!

    Between us no borders!

    Refugees and migrants, undocumented and illegalised persons, temporarily admitted and rejected persons, precarious and exploited persons, second generation immigrants, and naturalised persons, people in solidarity, grassroots groups and organisations: we are all separated by visible and invisible borders, but we can overcome them together. On 28 September, we will send a strong signal in Bern:…

  • Sommerferien / Vacances d’été / Summer Holidays: 15.7.-18.8.2024

    Sommerferien / Vacances d’été / Summer Holidays: 15.7.-18.8.2024

    The Autonomous School Zürich is on holidays from July 15th till August 18th 2024.

  • Summer party

    Summer party

    The summer holidays are just around the corner. And with that, a semester at the ASZ is drawing to a close that got off to a turbulent start: a record number of German courses challenged the school office and course organisers in the first few weeks of the semester. In the meantime, the number of…

  • Camps are sickening

    Camps are sickening

    Many People in Zürich’s asylum camps are sick. And who isn’t sick yet, will become sick there. It doesn’t matter if in federal asylum centers (Bundesasylzentren, BAZ), transit centers (Durchgangszentren, DZ) or even return centers (Rückkehrzentren), in the camps, it is made impossible to live a healthy and dignified life. Together with those directly affected…

  • Solidarity with Wilson A.

    Solidarity with Wilson A.

    Not an isolated case! 14 years without justice – info-event about the trial of Wilson A. Racist police violence is systematic and is covered up by the authorities in the vast majority of cases. This makes it all the more important that those affected and activists from various cases network with each other. At the…

  • Holidays from 23.12.23 – 07.01.24

    Holidays from 23.12.23 – 07.01.24

    The Autonomous School of Zurich will be closed from 23 December 2023 to 7 January 2024. We will be happy to welcome you again in the new year from 8 January 2024. We wish everyone a good end to the year!

  • Information event on legal issues concerning Afghan refugees

    Information event on legal issues concerning Afghan refugees

    We cordially invite you to our information event on November 30, 2023. The event will take place together with Freiplatzaktion Zürich at the Autonomous School Zürich. Topics of the evening At this information event, we will talk about the new regulations for refugees from Afghanistan. We will go into more detail on legal questions regarding…