Information about the academic school year can be found here - with all important dates and holidays.

Since 2021, HSLU has a joint student representative body OneHSLU. Independent of that, each school has its own student organization. Here you can find the links to the respective student organizations:

Since 2018, Lucerne has its own Erasmus Student Network (Shortversion: ESN) section. Don’t miss their diversified program. They offer an Welcome week prior to the start of each semester as well as many different events during the semester. Join their Whatsapp Group or Facebook group “ESN Luzern: Incoming Students” to get in touch with them. 

ESN Luzern Website
ESN Luzern on Instagram
ESN Luzern on Facebook

The buddy program promotes the intercultural exchange between international and local students. Furthermore, it aims to make your start into the exchange semester or degree as comfortable as possible. As from the autumn semester 2019, the buddy program will be managed by ESN Luzern (Erasmus Student Network).

Your buddy might assist you with the following:

If you would like to have a local buddy from Switzerland, please have a look at the instructions for signing up here.

Your buddy will contact you before your arrival in Switzerland. The amount of interaction is flexible and dependent on how much support is needed or how much interaction is wished.

There are various contact points for study-related advice and personal counselling for students and staff. Professionals are on hand with advice on matters including studies and career planning, job application coaching and CV writing, as well as psychological counselling. 
Here you can find their contact details:
https://www.hslu.ch/en/lucerne-university-of-applied-sciences-and-arts/campus/advice/