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Life on Earth and Beyond |
General | Programme | Venue & Access | Accommodation | Application | Lecturers | Practical infos | Contact |
Venue The meeting will take place at: Backafallsbyn
Conference centre Lectures will be held in the conference room of the hotel. The lecture room is equipped with a PowerPoint projector. If speakers need some other technical devices, they should contact the organisers in good time. The venue of the poster session will be announced in due course.
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Participants will be housed in houses of 4 (2 levels with 2 bedrooms) situated around a small lake. Each unit is 42 square meters with four beds and access to extra beds for children (ages 2-10) if needed. There is satellite TV and private bathrooms in each unit and Wi-Fi is avaliable free of charge during your entire stay. Each unit has its own furnished patio under roof. All of the hotel units are equipped with a kettle, so that you can enjoy a nice cup of tea, or coffee at any time. Breakfast, lunches and dinners will be in the hotel restaurant. |
Access by air Via Copenhagen Kastrup Airport
(CPH) For schedules of the trains check the
excellent web site of the German
Railways (in 6 languages) Arriving in Landskrona walk out to the bus
station (on the left in the direction of the train). From there take a bus
number 1 or 3 to the harbour (direction "Landskrona Skeppsbron"), to the
station "Landskrona Skeppsbron". You will have the ferry teminal on your
right there. From the harbour take the boat to Ven (extra ticket that can
be bought at the harbour or on-line is necessary). The ferry takes 45 minutes to go
to Ven. Timetables and prices are available at the Ventrafiken
website. At Ven harbour you can take the bus "Venbussen" in the direction
"Ven Kyrkbacken" to "Backafallsbyn station".There turn right (seen from the bus direction) on
Norreborgsvägen. After 500m, at a road fork, stay on Norreborgsvägen
(slightly left). After 50m you see the hotel at the left. Via Malmö Sturup Airport
(MMX) Arriving in Landskrona walk out to the
busstation (on the left in the direction of the train). From there take a
bus number 1 or 3 to the harbour (direction "Landskrona Skeppsbron"), to
the station "Landskrona Skeppsbron". You will have the ferry teminal on
your right there. From the harbour take the boat to Ven (an extra ticket that
can be bought at the harbour is necessary). The ferry takes 45 minutes to
go to Ven. Timetables and prices are available at the Ventrafiken
website. At Ven harbour you can take the bus "Venbussen" in the direction
"Ven Kyrkbacken" to Backafallsbyn station. There turn right (seen from the bus direction) on
Norreborgsvägen. After 500m, at a road fork, stay on Norreborgsvägen
(slightly left). After 50m you see the hotel at the left.
Access by train The closest railway station is Landskrona main station. There are frequent trains from Copenhagen and Göteborg to Landskrona. Arriving in Landkrona walk out to the bus station on the western side of the railway tracks. From there take a bus number 1 or 3 to the harbour (direction "Landskrona Skeppsbron"), to the station "Landskrona Skeppsbron". ou will have the ferry teminal on your right there. From the harbour take the boat to Ven (extra ticket that can be bought at the harbour is necessary). The ferry takes 45 minutes to go to Ven. Timetables and prices are available at the Ventrafiken website. Timetables and prices of the ferry are available at the Ventrafiken website. At Ven harbour you can take the bus "Venbussen" in the direction "Ven Kyrkbacken" to Backafallsbyn station.
Access by own car It is not recommended to go by own car to the meeting, since taking your car to Ven by ferry is not cheap (SEK 790,- one way per car exclusive driver). At Ven you hardly have a use of the car. From the North-East
(Stockholm) From the South
(Copenhagen) From the North (Norway,
Göteborg)
By boat During the course time, the ferry from Landskrona to Ven is the only connection from the mainland. Boats leave from Landskrona harbour at 06:50 08:20, 10:00, 11:30, 14:15, 16:00, 17:35, 20:15 and 21:30. Timetables and prices of the ferry are available at the Ventrafiken website. Return We will organize a shuttle bus to Copenhagen Kastrup airport on Thursday 2nd June leaving from the conference centre at 08:45. Arrival at Copenhagen airport (CPH) will be about 11:00 The price for the shuttle is EUR 25,-. This includes both the bus transport and the ferry (the same travel costs about EUR 30,- with public transport). If you take part in the excursion to Stevns Klint on Thursday 2nd June (see the Programme webpage for details), you have the opportunity to step out at Copenhagen Airport at around 18:00. The bus will then continue to the venue of the conference "Astrobiology and Society" (Åkersberg Herrgård in Höör). |
Välkommen till Ven !
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Backafallsbyn hotel | Tycho Brahe's castle Uraniborg | Kyrkbacken harbour |
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