Defending champions Canada have been drawn in Group A, alongside Spain, Estonia, South Korea, Poland and Russia. 

Hosts Switzerland, Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany and Hungary will play in Group B, while Group C is set to feature France, Britain, Norway, New Zealand, Slovenia and Turkey. 

In Group D, the Czech Republic face Italy, Japan, Latvia, Sweden and the United States. 

Competition is due to take place 63 kilometres south of Lausanne in Champery at the Champery Curling Arena. 

A total of 24 mixed teams are set to compete, an increase from the 16 teams at Lillehammer 2016.

The traditional four-person mixed event is scheduled for Friday (January 10), before athletes play in the 48-team mixed doubles discipline from January 18. 

This will see one female and one male athlete from different National Olympic Committees playing together, a concept unique to the Youth Olympic Games. 

The mixed doubles teams are determined by the athletes' position within their team and their nation’s overall ranking following the mixed competition.

As well as the competition on ice, athletes will have the opportunity to take part in workshops and team building activities that explore Olympic values and other cultures to their own. 

They will also have the chance to learn skills for becoming ambassadors of their sport and ways to improve their training and performances.

The curlers will be afforded the opportunity to learn from Canada's two-time Olympic gold medallist John Morris and Switzerland's Marlene Albrecht.

Canada, skipped by Mary Fay, won the mixed event at Lillehammer 2016, with United States winning silver, and Switzerland bronze.

In the mixed doubles competition, Japan's Yako Matsuzawa alongside Switzerland's Philipp Hoesli won gold, with China and Britain earning silver and China and Norway receiving bronze.