Plazi Meeting Berlin 2012
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Date and venue
The dates will be Monday to Wednesday, July 23 to 25. Arrival would be on July 22, and departure early on the 26th.
The meeting will take place at the JKI biological research center
- Julius Kühn Institute
Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants
Königin-Luise-Str. 19
14195 Berlin, Germany- Google Street map of the vicinity
- JKI instructions including subway and bus lines
- The location is only 500 m away from the Berlin Botanical Garden and Museum (see both JKI and BGBM on Google Maps).
The JKI was founded 110 years ago the "Kaiserlich Biologische Anstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft" (Empires Biological Research Station). It is an interesting historical building that also has some large experimentation fields - I hope we can take a stroll if the discussions are becoming too heated.
Before the meeting
Hotels
On the hotel map, C (Hotel Ravenna, Family style) and B (Best Western Premier Hotel Steglitz) are recommended, D Hotel Eckstein has its drawbacks (noisy street, poor entrance area; however the rooms are OK, especially if you can get a room away from the main street). A Happybed is a hostel.
Airports
Berlin was supposed to have closed its two old airports and opened a new one in June, but it has just been delayed for another 9 months. For those who have been in Berlin everything stays the same: you can choose freely between Tegel (TXL, slightly more convenient when taking public transport to the hotel) and Schönefeld (SFX). When searching for flights, you can enter the code BER into the search, this will find any flights to Berlin regardless of airport. Public transport transfer time from TXL to Rathaus Steglitz will be around 35 Minutes (X9 Bus + U9 subway), from SFX it will be around 40 Minutes.
AGENDA
To be elaborated
At the meeting
Public transport
The JKI is situated between the subway station "U Dahlem-Dorf" (left) and subway and city train station "U + S Rathaus Steglitz"; see this map. You can walk in about 7 minutes from "U Dahlem-Dorf", from Rathaus Steglitz it would be a 20 Minute walk, but a convenient Bus (Line X83) should transport you much faster. The Bus stop is "Arnimallee".
To search for public transport connections within Berlin in English use: fahrinfo-berlin.
You can buy tickets which can be used in any of the public means of transport (bus, tram, local railway, "S-Bahn", underground ("U-Bahn")). There are, for example, daily tickets, 7-day tickets and other offers. Information about tickets (prices, range, etc.) can be found here. Tickets can be bought at the Central station ("Hauptbahnhof") and many other S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations.
There are also special offers for visitors.
Lunch
Throughout the meeting we can have lunch and coffee at the JKI facilities.
