European students meet at Fribourg party

This year there are around 100 foreign exchange students at Fribourg University, a bilingual university with 10,000 students in western Switzerland. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)

This content was published on September 27, 2012 - 11:00

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A documentary and animation filmmaker from Bern, Michele studied film at Zurich University of the Arts. He's been a swissinfo.ch video journalist since 2004 and has a special interest in developing new video formats for mobile viewing, mixing animation and documentary styles.

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