Events for students in Europe

Cheltenham's huge annual literary festival features talks and workshops with some of the biggest names in the business. There are also creative writing courses, literary walks, performers and special themed events.

Diwali celebrations take place in the heart of London at Trafalgar Square. With festivities, food and performances, floating candles in the fountains, lights and saris draping the square, the square is transformed for this important Hindu Festival of Light.

During the Fiestas del Pilar, the people of Aragon pay homage to the Virgen del Pilar. The best place to get involved with the region's most important celebration is Zaragoza, where the streets and parks buzz with festive activity.

A staggering 68,000 visitors flock to the annual Frieze Art Fair in the vast marquee in Regent's Park. Top galleries from over 20 countries are represented, with work by more than 1000 artists. Start saving, as it's all for sale!

On 13 May 1917 the Virgin Mary reportedly visited three shepherd children in fields near Fatima. Today several million head for the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima to take part in the Pilgrimage to Fatima.

Former music director Paul Daniel returns to the London Coliseum for Fiona Shaw's new English National Opera production of Mozart and Da Ponte's The Marriage of Figaro. Ian Patterson, Kate Vlenetine, Roland Wood and more sing Jeremy Sams' English translation.

Raindance is the UK's largest independent film festival, showcasing world shorts and features and specialising in directorial debuts. Distinguishing itself from other festivals with its swaggering rock and roll attitude, it runs riot in London's West End every autumn.

On 3 October 1990, Germany was officially reunified. Now a public holiday, on the Day of German Unity Berlin throws one heck of a party. Head to the Brandenburg Gate for live entertainment, food, drink and lots of dancing.

The Cologne Marathon crosses the River Rhine at the start, and takes around 27,000 runners past the twin towers of the city's immense cathedral. After that it's three or four gruelling hours of running past Romanesque churches and through green parklands.

A festival tent along Limmatquai and other city cinemas give upcoming filmmakers the chance to show their work to the best in the business as well as a public audience. The best fiction and documentary films are awarded "Golden Eyes".

Fed up with bathtub confinement, around 6000 bright yellow ducks bob along the tree-lined River Neckar during the Tübingen Duck Race. The ducks race from Alleenbrücke to Neckarbrücke in front of cheering crowds who take the event very seriously.

Calvi Polyphonic Singing Festival (Les Rencontres Polyphonique de Calvi) is one of the island's most celebrated events, filling the town with crowds of onlookers. Polyphonic ensembles from as far as Mongolia and Tibet also perform at the festival.

Inspired by finding a wild boar preserved by salt in the Pyrenean foothills, two 11th-century huntsmen founded Salies-de-Béarn. The Salt Festival (Fête du Sel), which commemorates the town's heritage, is its biggest annual event.

Recently extended to include an increasing number of catwalk shows, Milan Fashion Week reinforces the city's importance in the global fashion industry. Hot new styles are sent down the catwalk twice a year at the Milano Fashion Center.

If it flies, you'll find it at Saint-Hilaire du Touvet's Coupe d'Icare. Hang-gliders and paragliders soar skywards, intrepid free-fallers in wing-suits plummet earthwards from helicopters, multicoloured kites dip and sway, and hot-air balloons rise gracefully into the early-morning air.

If you're in Bordeaux in September, don't miss the Marathon du Médoc. Runners pass pretty chateaux and vineyards en route through the Médoc to Pauillac. Find a shady spot, crack open a bottle and cheer along with 55,000 other spectators.

W pierwszym tygodniu września Kopenhaga zostanie zdominowana przez design, styl i architekturę. Sześć dni konferencji, seminariów, wykładów, wystaw i imprez poświęconych designowi sprawia, że Kopenhaski Tydzień Designu jest wydarzeniem, w którym uczestnictwo jest obowiązkowe dla wszystkich jego miłośników i osób zajmujących się nim zawodowo.

The Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) - now programmed by Jonathan Mills - is the original centerpiece of Edinburgh's hotbed of artistic excellence every August. Around it cluster the Fringe, Military Tattoo, Jazz and Blues, Book and Edge festivals.

Paris' summer American Jazz Festival continues into September with its younger sibling, the Pianissimo Jazz Festival. Both are held at the legendary Sunset/Sunside club, where world-class jazz-men from across the globe (especially America) jam on tiny stages.

Thousands of fruit-flingers invade the tiny village of Bunyol in the Comunidad Valenciana for an almighty tomato fight. La Tomatina is the opportunity of a lifetime - let battle commence!