Program Overview
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| Tuesday | 20 May 2008 |
16.00 – 20.00 |
Registration at the conference venue (Kaisersaal, Futterstrasse 15/16), posters |
| 20.00 | Guided Tour Landscape Education Park |
| Wednesday | 21 May 2008 |
| 7.30 – 19.00 | Registration at the conference venue (Kaisersaal, Futterstrasse 15/16), posters |
| 9.00 – 10.00 | Opening Ceremony – Welcome note Dieter Althaus, Minister President of the Free State of Thuringia, Erfurt, Germany Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary and conference patron, Montreal, Canada Prof. Dr. Dr. Herbert Sukopp, Honorary President COmpetence NeTwork URban ECology (CONTUREC) and conference patron, Berlin, Germany Astrid Klug, Parliamentarian Secretary of State, Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and representative of the UNCBD COP 9 President, Bonn, Germany Prof. Matthias Herbert, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Leipzig, Germany Prof. Dr. Heinrich Kill, President of the University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany |
10.00 -19.00 |
Scientific program Introduction Keynote Topics 1 and 2 incl. Posters Sessions |
20.00 |
Welcome by the hosting city Erfurt at the city hall Andreas Bausewein Lord Mayor of city Erfurt Masao Yamada, Deputy Mayor of City Nagoya, Japan, Introduction of Aichi-Nagoya - candidacy for COP 10, Japan 2010 |
| Thursday | 22 May 2008 |
8.00 – 13.00 |
Scientific program Topic 3 and 4 incl. Posters Sessions |
14.30 – 18.00 |
Mid conference excursion - Historical city of Erfurt and Petersberg citadel (on foot) |
15.00 |
Possibility for meetings of societies and working groups etc. |
20.00 |
Conference dinner at the Kaisersaal with Thuringian food and classical music Meeting of the Advisory Board and preparation of the “Erfurt Declaration” |
| Friday | 23 May 2008 |
8.30 – 19.00 |
Scientific program Topic 5 incl. Posters Sessions and “ Erfurt Declaration" |
19.00 |
Press Conference |
| Saturday | 24 May 2008 | Thematic parallel excursions |
| 8.30 – 17.30 (Group 1) 9.30 – 18.30 (Group 2) |
Excursion 1 | Historical landscape park "An der Ilm" in Weimar and historical city of Weimar (by train) |
| 8.00 – 18.30 | Excursion 2 | Wartburg Castle by Eisenach and Bachhaus in Eisenach (by coach) |
| 6.30 – 20.30 | Excursion 3 | Nature Park "Schöneberger Railway Area" in Berlin and inner city of Berlin (by coach) |
| Saturday | 25 May 2008 | Post conference excursion |
8.15 – 17.30 |
Post conference excursion to the Hainich National Park (by coach) |
