Travel assistance and travel insurance

Travel Assistance

As an employee or student of ETH Zurich, you can use the following services of external page GardaWorld Travel Security free of charge:

Detailed country and city information with a focus on
- security
- the environment
- infrastructure
- politics
- medical care
Country-specific travel information (such as plug type, public holidays)
Country-specific risk counselling and medical advice
Country-specific contact persons
Current country/city-specific warnings and situation assessments
Fact sheets on various topics
By enabling push notifications, you can receive up-to-date alerts on topics such as the weather, strikes, flights and terrorism at any time.

You must register with Garda when travelling (to high-risk countries) in order to ensure rapid intervention and support in the event of an emergency or crisis, and to ensure insurance cover.

Click external page here to register.

Download Instructions for registering with GardaWorld Travel Security (PDF, 993 KB)

Country Briefings

Under "Country Briefings" on the home page, you will find information on the following topics:

security
the environment
infrastructure
the political situation
the medical situation

In addition to further information on specific cities, under the "Travel" tab you will find a fact box or advice, for example:

My Subscriptions

You can enable individual push notifications under "My subscriptions". We recommend that you do this as precisely as possible for your destination (region, zone of the country or neighbourhood of a city) when you start your planning, so that you do not miss any security-related changes between then and your departure, as well as en route.

Trip Registration

Thanks to your registration, GardaWorld can inform you about potential risks before and during your trip.
When registering your trip, please enter your current travel and contact details (mobile phone number, email address).

Download How-To Guide - New Trip Registration Forms (PDF, 810 KB)