The GBIF European Nodes Meeting 2012 will take place in Berlin, organized by the GBIF-D teams of BGBM and MfN.

Dates: 27. - 29. March 2012
(starting noon Tuesday the 27th, ending Thursday the 29th also at noon).

NEW: Participants Information  pdf [1] (as of 22.03.2012)
Agenda: pdf [2](as of 27.03.2012)

NEW: List of Participants: pdf [3] (as of 26.03.2012) & xls [4] (as of 21/03/2012 incl. hotel information)

Please keep in mind: The ppt [5]summarizing the European regional Nodes meeting 2011 in Paris & the Link to the GBIF work programme 2012-2013 [6]

Venue:
at  BGBM (27.+29.3) and MfN (28.3.) Berlin, Germany.

• Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem [7], Königin-Luise Str.6-8, 14195 Berlin, Travel-Info BGBM [8]
• Museum fuer Naturkunde [9], Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin
  Travel-Info MfN [9]

Timetable/Overview:
Tuesday, 27.03.2012 (BGBM)
13.30 – 14.00 Welcome Coffee, registration
14.00 – 16.00 Meeting
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00 Meeting
option: 18.30 – 19.30 guided tour in the BGBM's greenhouse
19.30 Dinner (in the BGBM)

Wednesday, 28.03.2012 (MfN)
9.00 – 10.30 Meeting
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-13.00 Meeting
13.00-14.00 Lunchbreak
14.00-18.30 Meeting
option: 19.00 guided tour in the MfN
20.30 Dinner (in the MfN)

Thursday, 29.03.2012 (BGBM)
9.00 – 10.30 Meeting
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break, Group picture
11.00-13.00 Meeting & wrap up
13.00 Lunchbreak & Good Bye
(option: 14:00 guided tour in the Botanical Garden or visiting MfN or Bot. Museum of BGBM)

Conceptual Agenda: doc [10] / pdf [11] (as of 02/2012)

Purpose/Focus: to be announced

Registration:
Please send the registration form [12] back until 15th prolongued until 27th February 2012 to Maren Gleisberg m.gleisberg@bgbm.org [13]

Hotels close to the venues:

**** Best Western Premier Hotel Steglitz International [14] (close to BGBM)
Schloßstr./Albrechstraße 2, 12165 Berlin
(56 - 75 EUR per night / Singleroom / no breakfast; not blocked yet)

*** Ravenna [15] (close to BGBM)
Grunewaldstr. 8-9, 12165 Berlin
Email: info@ravenna-hotel.de [16], Tel: +49 30 790910, please mention "Botanical Garden" (59 EUR per night / Singleroom / incl. breakfast; 10 rooms blocked until 14.02.2012)

Seminaris - CampusHotel [17](close to BGBM)
Takusstr. 39, 14195 Berlin
Email: berlin@seminaris.de [18], Tel. ++49-30-557797200, please mention "Botanical Garden"
(79 EUR per night / Singleroom / "Botanical Garden" / 40 rooms blocked until 09.03.2012)

The subsequent hotels are close to MfN and to Berlin Hauptbahnhof (main train station):

**** Mercure Hotel Berlin City (close to MfN)
Invalidenstr.38, 10115 Berlin
(approx. 79 EUR per night / singleroom / not blocked yet)

Motel One [19] (close to MfN and close to main train station)
Invalidenstr. 54, 10557 Berlin
Email: res2.berlin-hauptbahnhof@motel-one.com [20], Tel. +49 (30) 364 10 05-0, please use the hotel-registrationform [21] for booking.
(69 EUR per night / singleroom / breakfast included) (20 rooms blocked until 06.03.2012)

Have a look at HRS [22] for further hotels and accomodation.

Public transport in Berlin:
For a one way trip in the inner city you usually need an AB-ticket (2.30 EUR) valid in busses, underground and S-Bahn. Alternatively a 4-trip-AB-ticket (8.20 EUR) or AB day ticket (6.30 EUR) might be cheaper, just depends on the number of trips you do per day (details single-ticket [23], 4-trip-ticket [24]).

You might need ony short trip fare for trips less than (max. 3 underground and/or s-bahn-stations or max. 6 bus and/or tram-stops). Price: single-ticket 1.40 EUR (details [25]).

BVG [26] (underground, busses, trams)
S-Bahn [27] (urban rail)
interactive Map of public transport [28]

From Airport Schönefeld to the venue (BGBM, Königin-Luise-Platz/Botanischer Garten) you might need a good hour, from Airport Tegel you might need about an hour by public transport (...if the public transport works properly).

 [21.03.2012]