At the conference participants discuss topics and experience a broad cultural exchange.
The week includes big-ticket lectures by distinguished personalities, the most well-known speakers are until this day Robert Jungk, Joseph Weizenbaum, Helmut Schmidt and Konrad Zuse.
These events mostly organized in collaboration various organisations based around the Ilmenau University of Technology.
ISWI e.V is the primary organiser of the International Student Week in Ilmenau.
[2][3] In addition to the main project - the International Students Week in Ilmenau (ISWI) - their activities range from organizing lectures on political education and readings to conducting international work camps and enriching campus life - be it the Kitchen Run or Professors Reading Christmas Stories.