Participant Information

Meeting of Advisory Group “International Cooperation”

Berlin, 16th of October 2017

1.  Venue

The conference is taking place at the VKU Forum, close to the Hauptbahnhof (central station) at Berlin-Mitte.

Address and Contact

VKU Forum

Invalidenstraße 91

10115 Berlin

Tel.: +49 (0) 30 58580-580

Fax: +49 (0) 30 58580-585

Email:

Web: www.vku-forum.de

2.  Getting to the venue

Walking Distance from the main central station is approximately 10 to 15 minutes:

• exit „Europaplatz“

• turn right to Invalidenstraße

• walk 600 meter straight ahead

By public transportation:

From the main central station to the stop “Invalidenpark“ you can take several busses or trams (2 minutes):

• Tram M5 direction „Zingster Straße“

• Tram M8 direction „Ahrensfelde/Stadtgrenze“

• Tram M10 direction „S+U Warschauer Straße“

• Bus 120 direction „Märkisches Viertel"

• Bus 123 direction „Robert-Koch-Platz"

• Bus 142 direction „S Ostbahnhof"

• Bus 147 direction „S Ostbahnhof"

• Bus 245 direction „Robert-Koch-Platz"

From the airport Tegel (35 minutes)

• Bus TXL direction „Alexanderplatz" to the main central station

• see central station directions

From the airport Berlin-Brandenburg (Schönefeld) (45 minutes)

• Regional train RB 7 direction „Dessau“ to the main central station

• Regional train RB 14 direction „Nauen" to the main central station

• Regional train RB 19 direction „Gesundbrunnen“ to the main central station

• S-Bahn S9 direction „Pankow“ to „Ostkreuz", then S5 direction „Spandau“ or S7 direction „Potsdam“ or S75 direction „Westkreuz“ to the main central station

• see central station directions (see page before)

From U-Bahnhof Naturkundemuseum U6 (2 minutes)

• Tram M5 direction „S+U Hauptbahnhof"

• Tram M8 direction „S+U Hauptbahnhof"

• Tram M10 direction „S+U Hauptbahnhof"

Travel information of the VBB: http://www.vbb.de/en/index.html

3.  Start of the Meeting

The registration opens at 09.30 am on 16th of October 2017.

4.  Venue

The conference will take place in room I at the ground floor.

5.  Hotel recommendations

TRYP BERLIN MITTE
Chausseestr.33

10115 Berlin

Website: https://www.melia.com

Tel. +49 (0) 30 4147230

Email:

Price: P. p. ca. € 117 incl. breakfast

Ibis Berlin Hauptbahnhof

Invalidenstraße 53

10557 Berlin

Website: https://www.accorhotels.com

Tel: +49 (0) 30 7109600

Email:

Price: P. p. ca. € 86 incl. breakfast

MotelOne Berlin-Hauptbahnhof

Invalidenstraße 54

10557 Berlin

Tel: +49 (0) 30 36410050

Email:

Price: P. p. ca. € 78.50 incl. breakfast

6.  Useful links

Berlin Tourist Info

Tegel-Airport

Rewe Touristik Flughafenservice GmbH

Gate 2

13405 Berlin

Schönefeld-Airport

Tourist-Information Berlin-Brandenburg

Terminal A

Main hall, ground floor

12521 Berlin

Hauptbahnhof/Central Station

Berlin Tourist Info

Ground floor/ Entrance Europaplatz

10557 Berlin TIERGARTEN

Tel.: +49 (0) 30 25 00 25

Email:

More information here: http://www.visitberlin.de/de

Emergency: 112

Taxi numbers in Berlin:

Taxi Berlin: +49 (0)30 20 20 20

Würfelfunk: +49 (0)30 21 01 01

TaxiFunk Berlin: +49 (0)30 44 33 22

Quality Taxi: +49 (0)30 26 300 0

City-Funk Berlin: +49 (0)30 21 02 02

Funk Taxi Berlin: +49 (0)30 26 10 26

Talixo: +49 (0)30 346 497 360

7.  Contacts at the DAAD

NA DAAD – Erasmus+ National Agency “Higher Education”

Section Erasmus+ Policy Support – EU04

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Katrin Fohmann +49 (0) 30 20220843

Jasmina Nikolic +49 (0) 228 882-8980

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