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We provide support to expats in Vorarlberg in bureaucratic matters and social integration.

🧠✨ Pub Quiz Night – Who’s the smartest expat team? ✨🧠

This Friday it’s quiz time! 🎉
The Expat V team has prepared a special mix of fun, tricky, and sometimes surprising questions just for you. Gather your friends, form a team, and put your knowledge to the test. 🤓💡

📍 Location Götzis
📅 Date: Friday, 26 September
🕒 Time: 18:30
🏆 The winning team can look forward to a little surprise! 🎁

No matter if you’re a trivia pro or just in for the laughs – everyone is welcome. Let’s play, connect, and have fun together! 🤗🍻

👉 Registration required: please sign up via email at hello@expat-v.at

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🧠✨ Pub Quiz Night – Who’s the smartest expat team? ✨🧠 This Friday it’s quiz time! 🎉 The Expat V team has prepared a special mix of fun, tricky, and sometimes surprising questions just for you. Gather your friends, form a team, and put your knowledge to the test. 🤓💡 📍 Location Götzis 📅 Date: Friday, 26 September 🕒 Time: 18:30 🏆 The winning team can look forward to a little surprise! 🎁 No matter if you’re a trivia pro or just in for the laughs – everyone is welcome. Let’s play, connect, and have fun together! 🤗🍻 👉 Registration required: please sign up via email at hello@expat-v.at

🧠✨ Pub Quiz Night – Who’s the smartest expat team? ✨🧠

This Friday it’s quiz time! 🎉
The Expat V team has prepared a special mix of fun, tricky, and sometimes surprising questions just for you. Gather your friends, form a team, and put your knowledge to the test. 🤓💡

📍 Location Götzis
📅 Date: Friday, 26 September
🕒 Time: 18:30
🏆 The winning team can look forward to a little surprise! 🎁

No matter if you’re a trivia pro or just in for the laughs – everyone is welcome. Let’s play, connect, and have fun together! 🤗🍻

👉 Registration required: please sign up via email at hello@expat-v.at ...

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🇩🇪🇦🇹 Day of the German Language

Tomorrow we celebrate the diversity of German – it connects, opens doors, and creates a sense of home. 🏡💬

For many expats in Vorarlberg, German is the key to daily life, making friends, and becoming part of society. Every new sentence brings them closer to language and culture. ✨

Some fun facts:
1️⃣ Facts
German is the most spoken native language in the EU (90m), has 50+ dialects, and is official in 6 countries.

2️⃣ Longest words
German loves compounds! The longest officially used word had no fewer than 63 letters:
👉 Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz 🐄📜
Don’t worry – you don’t need to memorise it. 😉

3️⃣ Worldwide words
Many German terms are now international:
👉 Kindergarten, Doppelgänger, Rucksack, Schadenfreude 🌍

4️⃣ Vivid words
Typical German and wonderfully descriptive:
👉 Kummerspeck (“grief bacon”) 🥓
👉 Ohrwurm (earworm) 🎶
👉 Fernweh (longing for faraway places) ✈️

5️⃣ Tongue twisters
Even native speakers stumble over:
👉 “Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid.” 👰🥬

6️⃣ Language humour
A cult example of German word monsters is the song “Rhabarberbarbara” by Bodo Wartke 🎶 – a playful piece that piles up endlessly growing word chains.

✨ German is versatile, creative, and always good for a smile.

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🇩🇪🇦🇹 Day of the German Language Tomorrow we celebrate the diversity of German – it connects, opens doors, and creates a sense of home. 🏡💬 For many expats in Vorarlberg, German is the key to daily life, making friends, and becoming part of society. Every new sentence brings them closer to language and culture. ✨ Some fun facts: 1️⃣ Facts German is the most spoken native language in the EU (90m), has 50+ dialects, and is official in 6 countries. 2️⃣ Longest words German loves compounds! The longest officially used word had no fewer than 63 letters: 👉 Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz 🐄📜 Don’t worry – you don’t need to memorise it. 😉 3️⃣ Worldwide words Many German terms are now international: 👉 Kindergarten, Doppelgänger, Rucksack, Schadenfreude 🌍 4️⃣ Vivid words Typical German and wonderfully descriptive: 👉 Kummerspeck (“grief bacon”) 🥓 👉 Ohrwurm (earworm) 🎶 👉 Fernweh (longing for faraway places) ✈️ 5️⃣ Tongue twisters Even native speakers stumble over: 👉 “Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid.” 👰🥬 6️⃣ Language humour A cult example of German word monsters is the song “Rhabarberbarbara” by Bodo Wartke 🎶 – a playful piece that piles up endlessly growing word chains. ✨ German is versatile, creative, and always good for a smile.

🇩🇪🇦🇹 Day of the German Language

Tomorrow we celebrate the diversity of German – it connects, opens doors, and creates a sense of home. 🏡💬

For many expats in Vorarlberg, German is the key to daily life, making friends, and becoming part of society. Every new sentence brings them closer to language and culture. ✨

Some fun facts:
1️⃣ Facts
German is the most spoken native language in the EU (90m), has 50+ dialects, and is official in 6 countries.

2️⃣ Longest words
German loves compounds! The longest officially used word had no fewer than 63 letters:
👉 Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz 🐄📜
Don’t worry – you don’t need to memorise it. 😉

3️⃣ Worldwide words
Many German terms are now international:
👉 Kindergarten, Doppelgänger, Rucksack, Schadenfreude 🌍

4️⃣ Vivid words
Typical German and wonderfully descriptive:
👉 Kummerspeck (“grief bacon”) 🥓
👉 Ohrwurm (earworm) 🎶
👉 Fernweh (longing for faraway places) ✈️

5️⃣ Tongue twisters
Even native speakers stumble over:
👉 “Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid.” 👰🥬

6️⃣ Language humour
A cult example of German word monsters is the song “Rhabarberbarbara” by Bodo Wartke 🎶 – a playful piece that piles up endlessly growing word chains.

✨ German is versatile, creative, and always good for a smile. ...

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Pool Quiz

21. July 2025

A wonderful evening at the Poolbar Festival in Feldkirch! 🎶 This festival is not only a valuable contribution to Vorarlberg’s cultural scene – it’s also a place where people from all walks of life come

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Sunset hike

13. July 2025

Expat V sunset hike! 🌅🥾 Last week, a wonderful group of locals & expats from (almost) every continent joined us for a sunset hike to Oberhaggen in Lochau. Together we walked 🚶‍♀️🚶, talked 💬, laughed

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Apprentice Gala

7. July 2025

A night to remember on Lake Constance! 🌊✨ A heartfelt thank you to Wirtschaftskammer Vorarlberg, Sparte Industrie, and V.E.M. for inviting the Expat Service Vorarlberg to the 2025 Apprentice Gala of Vorarlberg’s Industry, held at

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How we can help you

Relocation

You’re looking for a flat, a school for your kids or a job for your spouse? Or you’re simply annoyed by bureaucracy? Get in touch with us, we can help you.

Social

You’re looking for new friends or something new to do? Get in touch with us, we can help you with that as well.

Voices of our members

I have lived abroad for some time myself and I assist expats during the onboarding process at Blum, so it is a personal and professional concern of mine to help people settle in the company and in Vorarlberg. From my own experience, I know how many issues expats face and how difficult the decision-making, relocation and arrival process is for the entire family. The Expat Service provides additional sparring partners that help me support internationals. All of this promotes networking and above all contributes to making everyone feel at home in our family-owned business.
Kim Kügler
Kim KüglerBlum Group, International HR
Expat Service Vorarlberg for us – as family and individually – is a community where we’ve found friends to spend time with and also to participate in exciting events. These events help to explore and get to know better Vorarlberg, the local people and their habits. We are so grateful that people from Vorarlberg are welcoming and helping the expats with creating this community – we all see, how passionate the Expat V team is dedicated to this project.
Adam Krizsan
Adam KrizsanAlpla
The first time I came across Expat Service was for a mountain hike, and I was immediately impressed: by the amazing organisation, the discovery of beautiful places I did not know, the chance to meet people from all over the world, but, most of all, the feeling of being at home and surrounded by a group of friends. And the wonderful feeling was repeated every subsequent time I participated in other events they organized, whether it was a museum visit, a German language course, or a performance at the theatre.
Nicola De Felice
Nicola De FelicePhoteon Technologies, Engineer
Connecting with other families in the area who are also getting to know a new culture and school system is a great source of support. Understanding all the different education paths through networking using the Expat Service has been a huge benefit to our family.
Sarah Toward
Sarah TowardBlum Group, Data Modeller
The Expat Service has the advantage for me to meet other foreigners at regional events, in cultural centres, or simply in bars, restaurants, etc. I enjoy this 'informal' exchange with some colleagues or employees from companies in Vorarlberg about our experiences. Expats then have the opportunity to expand their circle of friends, integrate into the culture and traditions, and appreciate their experiences in this beautiful region.
Nicolas Roy
Nicolas RoyHIrschmann Automotive, Process Development
I enjoy participating at the events organizsed by the Expat Service to meet new people and discover new places. I think this is a great opportunity for new-comers as well as long-term expats in Vorarlberg in order to integrate easily, build mutual assistance, being aware of local events,  and connect with other expats. I am in Vorarlberg for almost 4 years and I am happy that there is this service now, supported by local companies, where I can find dedicated support on expats specific concerns and a network between expats.
Céline Mader
Céline MaderZumtobel Group
For us as employers, it is important and valuable that our employees also feel comfortable and well-supported in their private lives. The Expat Service Vorarlberg helps our expats to navigate various aspects of life in Vorarlberg, whether it's dealing with authorities or leisure activities. Networking and exchanging with others facing similar challenges, help them feel understood and at home.
Enrico Steinlechner
Enrico SteinlechnerLiebherr, HR
We very much appreciate the incredibly varied and great programme for our expats - especially the possibility of also being able to take their partners with them. This helps our employees from abroad to get to know Vorarlberg, to network socially and also contributes to Vorarlberg becoming more and more their "home".
Uwe Breuder
Uwe BreuderHead of HR, Alpla
Relocating to a new place can be daunting, especially when faced with diverse cultures and traditions. Fortunately, the Expat Service has been a valuable resource in helping me connect with both fellow expats and locals. Their exciting events like hiking, barbeque and city trips created a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere.
Pranav Venkatesh
Pranav VenkateshLiebherr
The Expat Service has become an important enrichment for me. Through its events, it provides opportunities for new employees and families, especially those from abroad, to connect and ultimately feel comfortable. But it's also a great platform for me as an employer to exchange experiences and needs.
Martin Sandholzer
Martin SandholzerHead of HR, Doppelmayr
As an international company with more than 75 different nationalities, we highly value the newly established expat community in Vorarlberg. By connecting our new colleagues from abroad with like-minded, we offer the opportunity to make new friends get to know the country, people, and culture.
Julia Mosselman
Julia MosselmanHead of People Services, Zumtobel
As an international, English-speaking company with over 50 nationalities, our expats are particularly close to our hearts. Over a decade ago at OMICRON, I personally founded an 'Intercultural Network' to facilitate smoother onboarding for our employees. This is why we especially value the additional support from Claudia and Jakob, as we complement each other perfectly, creating an even better offering and greater value for our expats and their families. A heartfelt thank you for your consistently outstanding efforts!
Michaela Plangg
Michaela PlanggOMICRON

Discover Vorarlberg

Sounds of the Ländle

Places of Vorarlberg

Feldkirch City
Feldkirch City
Landscape shot of Bregenzerwald
Landscape shot of Bregenzerwald
Art installation in Bregenz
Art installation in Bregenz
Alpine Forest 
Alpine Forest 
Lake „Körbersee" in Schröcken 
Lake „Körbersee" in Schröcken 
House of Montfort in Feldkirch
House of Montfort in Feldkirch
Lake stage of the Festival of Bregenz
Lake stage of the Festival of Bregenz
Night shot of the Rheintal 
Night shot of the Rheintal 
Rappenloch gorge in Dornbirn
Rappenloch gorge in Dornbirn
Ruine Alt-Ems
Ruine Alt-Ems
Highway of Rheintal  
Highway of Rheintal  
Jetty at Lake of Constance
Jetty at Lake of Constance
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Claudia Neumayr

Head of Expat Service
Vorarlberg

Jakob Sieber

Community Manager

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EXPAT V
Expat Service Vorarlberg
Spinnergasse 1
6850 Dornbirn
Austria