CONFERENCE VENUE

The symposium will be held at the Mercure Hevelius Hotel in Gdansk, Poland.

Hotel Reservation

Reservations will be done depending on availability and actual prices

Reservation should be done under:

rez.mer.hevelius@orbis.pl
or by tephone: +48 58 321 00 29
person responsible for reservation: Grzegorz ZAWIASA

Information on transport from and to Airport in Gdansk

By bus, take route B or No.117 in the direction of Gdansk Gtoung. A 24-hour ticket, valid on all forms of transport, costs around 9 EUR.

Taxi rank is located in front of the main entrance to the passenger terminal. A taxi should cost approximately 15-20 EUR to the city centre. All prices are subject to change.

By car, from the south take the E77 highway in the direction of Gdansk Centrum, from the west take the E28 highway in the direction of Gdansk Centrum. From the main railway and bus station, the hotel is a 5 minute walk away.

Airport Gdansk- Transfer to city

About Gdansk

Gdansk, where the Conference will be held, is a city of more than half a million inhabitants, a strong economic, scientific and cultural centre locatedin the north of Poland, at the Baltic Sea (http://www.en.gdansk.gda.pl/). With over a thousand years of history and its Hanseatic tradition, the city has always played a major role in the commercial relationships between the Northern and Western Europe on the one hand and the countries of the Central and Eastern Europe on the other. It is also the cradle of "Solidarity", Eastern Europe's first Independent Trade Union which triggered the historical changes in this part of the Continent in 1980.

Gdansk celebrated its millennium in 1997. Over the centuries it has had periods of prosperity but also a period of destruction during World War II which started in Gdansk on 1st September 1939 at Westerplatte. After the war the historical centre of Gdansk has been carefully reconstructed and is now one of the most picturesque old towns in northern Europe.

Today Gdansk Old Town is famous for the craft and trade of amber, numerous museums, long beaches and beautiful parks and excellent Polish cuisine that attract tourists from all over the world.