For the 20th time, the Diplomatische Akademie Wien – Vienna School of International Studies and ClubDA had the pleasure of welcoming more than 270 alumni and friends back at the Academy on the occasion of the annual alumni homecoming weekend. On Friday, 29 June 2018, ClubDA's General Assembly was followed by the presentation of a record-setting donation of EUR 21,500 raised by the DA's students to St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute. Afterwards, more than 700 guests enjoyed the traditional DA Sommerfest. On Saturday, 30 June, a group of 28 alumni boarded an historic Badner Bahn tram which took them to the lovely city of Baden bei Wien, where they enjoyed guided tours of the city itself as well as the Arnulf Rainer Museum. The 20th International Alumni Meeting was concluded with a dinner at Casino Baden.

Since 2010, DA’s Alumni Association ClubDA has been organising annual hiking or biking trips to scenic regions of eastern Austria. This year, we finally went a little further to Upper Austria to cross the province from west to east along the Danube. On Thursday, 31 May, we started our Donauradweg tour via Obermühl, Schlögen, Aschach, Linz all the way to Enns.

During the traditional meeting with DA alumni on the occasion of the annual DA study trip to Ukraine, participating alumni founded ClubDA's 20th local chapter. MAIS-8 alumnus Miladin Bogetic, spokesperson for the ICRC Delegation in Ukraine, was appointed chapter president.
The event took place at restaurant 'Pervak' in downtown Kyiv and was attended by eight Ukraine-based alumni and the visiting group of students and faculty led by Ambassador Emil Brix. For the students the meeting came at the end of a full day of briefings including two by DA alumni Ian Bateson and Miladin Bogetic – both organised by another DA alumnus, Florian Kohlfürst.

On the occasion of the first study trip of 15 DA students and staff to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, the Austrian Ambassador and former DA Deputy Director, Gerhard Sailler, invited local DA alumni, officials and the study trip group to a reception at his residence.

Im Rahmen der siebenten Veranstaltung der ClubDA-Reihe "Frauen im Gespräch" erzählte die Tropenmedizinerin Pamela Rendi-Wagner, ehemalige Bundesministerin für Gesundheit und Frauen und nunmehr Nationalratsabgeordnete und Bereichssprecherin Gesundheit der SPÖ, interessant, spannend und offen aus ihrem Leben und ihrem beruflichen wie privaten Werdegang.

On 27 January 2018, the Diplomatische Akademie Wien - Vienna School of International Studies and ClubDA invited to their 16th Ski and Snowboard Championships organised in cooperation with the Austrian Foreign Ministry and CDW at Stuhleck.