Events for students in Europe

Earlier by five days than those countries celebrating Mardi Gras, the Poles go food crazy on Tlusty czwartek ("Greasy Thursday") before Ash Wednesday.

The glamorous Vienna Opera Ball, held at the State Opera, is a tête-à-tête for some 5000 international socialites, and the highlight of Vienna's long ball season. If you can't waltz, there's also a swing, foxtrot and Opera Ball disco.

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Rome welcomes the spring season with Primo Maggio, a gigantic music festival in Piazza San Giovanni. The line-up is only released a few days before the event, but you can expect performances by the likes of Hard-Fi and Marlene Kuntz.

Following rave successes in London, New York and other major cities, Brussels gets its very own Affordable Art Fair.

Liberamente, meaning freely, is a lifestyle expo held at Ferrara Fiere Congressi.

Solemn wreath-laying at Moscow's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the walls of the Kremlin, commemorate Russia's Defenders of the Motherland Day, always held on 23 February. Afterwards, the monument is surrounded with a spectacular carpet of flowers.

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Treat your whippersnappers and come to Barcelona for the Justin Bieber concert at Palau Sant-Jordi. You might find the 16-year-old pop star cheesy, but little girls around the world love him - hence his six million albums sold worldwide.

Stockholm's Globen arena hosts this high-profile indoor athletics event, and it's a sell-out every year. GE Galan attracts top athletes from all over the world, with competitions for both men and women which include long jump, hurdles, sprinting and more.

Blazing beacons burn on the Fresian Islands along the North Sea coast of Germany each year to mark the end of winter. This tradition is known as Biikebrennen and Sylt is one of the best places to see it.

Are your chakras wonky? If so, then head to Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall for the quarterly Body & Soul Fairs.

With four annual editions - three at the Atahotel Executive and one at the Palaforum di Assago, Fumettopoli is Milan's most popular animation event.

La Soffitta Sotto i Portici is Rome's bargain market, held twice a month in Piazza Augusto Imperatore.

At the Leicester Comedy Festival, the laughter is guaranteed to end in tears (but only of the hilarious kind). Now the longest-running comedy festival in the UK, it always has a packed programme.

Scottish Opera opens Harry Fehr's new production of Handel's Orlando at home at the Theatre Royal, conducted by Paul Goodwin. Tim Mead stars in the title role with Sally Silver (Angelica), Andrew Radley (Medoro), Claire Booth (Dorinda) and Andreas Wolf (Zoroastro).

Adelboden's Horäschlittä-Renä is no ordinary sled race. It revives the Alpine custom of storing hay on mountain pastures in Finneln containers, which farmers brought down to the valley on large sledges.

More than a celebration of carnival rites, la Sartiglia in Oristano is a festival linked to luck, praying for fertile ground and abundant crops. It re-enacts a medieval tournament of horsemanship where riders charge at a suspended star-shaped ring.

Organised by the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique (CDC), Toulouse's annual Modern Dance Festival, C'est de la Danse Contemporaine, takes place at theatres and studios across the city. For full programme details please visit the CDC website.

If you still sleep with your favourite teddy, visit this exhibition and trade show at Wiesbaden's Rhein Main Hallen, only 45 minutes from Frankfurt.