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Venue
Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent |
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 | The meeting will be held in the cultural and conference centre of Ghent University, known as Het Pand. This facility used to be a Dominican monastery (founded in the 13th century), and is now one of the oldest historical buildings of the university. The building was recently completely restored in its old grandeur. At this moment the University uses the complete building. It houses a university (staff) restaurant, conference facilities, museums (e.g. medicine and holography), a magnificent ancient library (with numerous manuscripts) and a few university departments, e.g. the International Relations Office. It is located close-by Ghent's most important historic (mainly) medieval buildings. This area of Ghent is magnificent, especially by night. several low or medium budget hotels are present in the direct vicinity (50 – 80 Euro per night for a single room), all within walking distance The facility has several meeting rooms available. |  |
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Accomodation |
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There are two hotels very close to Het Pand and are reasonable cost:
These hotels tend to get full, so please book early. Alternative hotels may be found through the following links:
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Sessions |
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We plan to hold the sessions in the ‘Rector Vermeylen’ room. The facility has full catering services operated by a special unit of Ghent University. |
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Getting to Het Pand |
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Transport |
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Ghent is easy to reach by plane, train or car. |
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By Plane |
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Fly to Brussells airport then travel by train to Gent. The Airport City Express leaves from within the airport building (floor 2) and takes you to one of the main stations in Brussels, where you can switch to one of the many intercity trains(IC) to the Ghent-Sint-Pieters station, Ghent's main railway station. [For UK participants, British Airways do flights from London to Brussels for about 90 GBpounds return with advance booking.] |
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By Train |
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Travel to the Gent St-Pieters station. Take tram number 1 (every 6 minutes), get off at the Korenmarkt. [For UK participants, Eurostar do the return trip to Gent from Waterloo for about 60 GBpounds on early bookings.] |
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By Bus |
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Get a bus/coach to Gent Zuid busstation. Then take the local bus (any of numbers 16, 17, 18 or 19), there is one every 15 minutes, get off at the Korenmarkt |
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By Car |
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Follow parkingroute signs to parking P7, Sint-Michiels. This car park is located 50 metres from Het Pand. Follow the car park exit sign Onderbergen and you will leave the garage in the Wilderoosstraat, directly opposite Het Pand. |
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