EURING General Assembly
24-25 August 2005, Strasbourg, France

Detailed Information

(Updated 27 April 2005)

1) Programme

We will circulate the agenda of the General Meeting a few weeks before the meeting by e-mail. Please let me know before end of May 2005 if you have any special wishes concerning agenda topics or if you want to offer any contribution to the programme. Please note that time for scientific presentations will be very limited at our General Meeting and consider giving those presentations to a wider platform at the EOU conference (see http://www.eou.at).

Preliminary time schedule:

20 August (09:00) – 23 August (18:00) EOU Conference
23 August 18:00 – 22:00 Board Meeting
24 August 09:00 – ca 19:00 General Meeting, then dinner and informal evening
25 August 09:00 – 12:30 General Meeting
25 August 14:00 – 16:00 Board Meeting

2) Registration

To register for the EURING General Meeting (alone or in combination with the EOU conference) please follow the registration procedure at the EOU conference homepage.

3) Conference Fee

On proposition and calculation of our local hosts the conference fee for the EURING General Meeting is 70 € per person. You can book participation in the EURING general meeting alone or in combination with the EOU conference:

Full registration for EOU conference and EURING general meeting:

150 Euro for delegates from high income countries (see below)
110 Euro for delegates from low income countries (see below)

This includes: participation in EOU Conference and in the EURING general meeting, abstract volume of EOU conference (Alauda), excursion, social evening, coffee breaks (or cold drinks), conference materials, lunch on 24 August, dinner on 24 August, lunch on 25 August.

Reduced registration for EOU conference and EURING general meeting:

120 Euro for delegates from high income countries
95 Euro for delegates from low income countries

This includes: participation in EOU conference and in the EURING General Meeting, abstract volume of EOU conference (Alauda), coffee breaks (or cold drinks), conference materials, lunch on 24 August, dinner on 24 August, lunch on 25 August, but not the social evening (EOU) and not the excursion during the EOU conference.

Registration for EURING General meeting only:

70 Euro per delegate

This includes: participation in the EURING General Meeting, lunch on 24 August, dinner on 24 August, lunch on 25 August and conference materials, but not the participation in the EOU conference.

For the EOU conference countries have been divided into high and low-income categories according to World Bank criteria.

High-income countries are: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K., USA.

Low-income countries are: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine. For countries not listed, please contact the local organisers.

4) Accommodation

Here are three proposed addresses for housing during the EOU conference which are also recommended for the EURING general meeting. However, you may find many more options to stay in nice places in Strasbourg, depending on your demands and budget. Please visit www.strasbourg.com.

Hotel Ibis "Aux Ponts Couverts", 7 rue de Molsheim, 67000 Strasbourg. Tel ++33 / (0)3 90 22 48 70, Fax ++33 / (0)3 90 22 48 60.
The hotel is 5 minutes walking distance from the congress place. The price is 49 Euro for a room for 1 or 2 people, the price of the breakfast is 7 Euro per person (on registering please indicate "EOU Congress", also if you only stay there for the EURING meeting).

CIARUS (Centre International d'accueil et de rencontre unioniste de Strasbourg), 7 rue Finkmatt, 67000 Strasbourg (tel : ++33 / (0)3 88 15 27 88).
The hotel is within 15 minutes walking distance of the congress place (also public transport available). There are rooms for 1, 2, 4, 6 or 8 persons - the prices range between 16.50 Euro and 39.50 Euro per person including breakfast. Registration: www.ciarus.com

Youth hostel "René Cassin". 9 rue de l'Auberge de jeunesse, 67200 Strasbourg - Montagne Verte.
The youth hostel is within 20 minutes walking distance of the congress place (also public transport available). There are rooms for 3, 4 and 6 persons - the price is 17.40 Euro per person with breakfast and sheets. Registration: www.hostelbooking.com. To stay in a youth hostel you must be a member of the "Fédération Unie des Auberges de jeunesse" (membership in your national youth hostel organisation might be possible as well, please ask there or see: www.fuaj.org).

5) The Meeting Location

We will meet at the faculty of medicine of the University of Strasbourg (see map or aerial photograph on the EOU conference homepage at http://www.eou.at). This building complex is 10-15 minutes by foot from the main railway station, the centre of Strasbourg and the area where most hotels are.

On the pages of the Université Louis Pasteur (also linked from the EOU conference page) there is travel information available (please click on "Medical campus") which gives you further information about travelling by car, train or airplane to the conference location.

If you need an invitation to get a visa for France please contact our French local organisers. Unfortunately, I cannot issue an invitation to France from Germany, so this has to be done by the French colleagues.

Invitation Letters (posted 27 April 2005)

Those of you who need invitation letters to get required visa please contact the head of the local organising committee of the EOU conference soon. To be accepted by the French embassies these invitation letters need to be sent from a French host and cannot be issued by me from Germany. Contact: Yves Muller y.muller@ac-nancy-metz.fr

6) Lunch and Dinner

Lunch will be served at the "restaurant universitaire Pasteur" which is 5 to 10 minutes walking distance from the meeting hall. Each meal will compose of a first course, a main course, a cheese and a dessert with water, wine and coffee. It is possible to have a meal without meat (with vegetables, fish) each day. If you want to use this option please indicate it clearly on your registration e-mail!

In the evening of 24 August we will have an informal "conference dinner" together in the Restaurant Pax, 24-26 rue du Faubourg National at Strasbourg. This is nearby the meeting location.

7) Important Addresses

Chairman of the local organising committee of the EOU conference: Yves Muller (Ligue pour la protection des oiseaux; France); e-mail: y.muller@ac-nancy-metz.fr

Address for conference registration: e-mail: alsace@lpo.fr
Contact person at the inviting Paris ringing scheme: Laetitia Marouze, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre de Recherches de Biologie des Populations d'Oiseaux; e-mail: marouze@mnhn.fr

Secretary of EURING (for all issues concerning the agenda): Wolfgang Fiedler (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Vogelwarte Radolfzell; Germany); e-mail: fiedler@orn.mpg.de

Homepage of the European Ornithologists' Union with conference info (also relevant for the EURING general meeting): http://www.eou.at

The EURING board generally decided that grants for travelling to the EURING general meeting can be given to participants from low income countries. More details about this will be available in April.

Support for travel costs (posted 27 April 2005)

The EURING board agreed to offer a fixed amount of 3000 Euro to support those schemes who will have difficulties in covering the travel and registration costs for the EURING General Meeting. A maximum support of 375 Euro per Scheme is possible. Applications from the schemes must be sent to me before 15 May 2005. If the sum of money applied for is larger than 3000 Euro the board will have to decide upon the acceptance of applications. Notifications about the acceptance will be sent out early June giving you 3 remaining weeks until the early registration deadline.

Applications must contain the name of the scheme and a rough estimation of the total costs: travel costs, housing in Strasbourg (max. between 23 and 26 August), EURING conference fee. The money will be reimbursed in cash in Strasbourg (copies of tickets and coupons about all costs must be handed in there). Please indicate, if this procedure will cause a problem to you, so that we can find another solution.

Please remember the deadline for applications (15 May!) and do consider that we will be able to support more schemes if you do not apply for the full sum of 375 Euro but only for a part of it. Unfortunately the upper limit of 3000 Euro for the support of all schemes cannot be raised. For this reason we also cannot support any costs resulting from a participation in the EOU conference directly before the EURING meeting (EOU conference fee or meals or housing during the EOU conference). The board principally tends to give preference to EURING member schemes before guest representatives of other schemes.

Hope to see you all in Strasbourg.

Wolfgang Fiedler
Secretary of EURING
e-mail: fiedler@orn.mpg.de

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