International
Campus Community

The vibrant HIF campus community thrives on its diversity, tolerance and a shared sense of belonging. For many months of the year HIF is literally ‘home’ to most of its students: those who live in one of the boarding houses. During the day-in the classroom, on the sports field, in the gym and in the wide variety of out-of-class activities – local students from the village and the valley below learn and play alongside them. It is a melting pot of languages and cultures in which life-long bonds and networks of real friendship are created. This is international education in its purest form, where the local meets the global and both learn from each other, take part in each other’s lives and are enriched by experience.

Sport is at the heart of campus life. After school or at weekends, it feels like a sport and ski resort. There is an unrivalled range of sports to choose from. The campus has direct access to the alpine ski resort of Scuol Motta Naluns (2146 metres asl) with lifts which take skiers up to nearly 2800 metres for thrilling descents all the way down to the valley station.

Learning at HIF goes beyond the walls of the classroom. HIF education is about students discovering and developing their unique talents and individual potential – intellectual, emotional, social, artistic, athletic - which every child possesses. It is also about exploring how knowledge and skills learned in academic subjects can be applied and extended in the real world.