Venue & Information

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Venue on Monday 5th of September

Hotel Campus UAB

Hotel Campus UAB

Vila Universitària Campus de la UAB
08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain
Phone: ++34 93 580 83 53
URL:

Hotel Campus UAB reception hall: Course registration desk, opened during the official registration on Sept, 5th from 11:00 to 13:30

"La Marmita" restaurant: Cold lunch and drinks will be served from 12:30 to 13:30

Lecture hall “Sala Lluis Vives II”: Course opening, lecture 1(opening lecture), coffee break and presentations by participants

Venue on 6-8th of September

Escola d'Enginyeria (School of Engineering

Escola d’Enginyeria (School of Engineering)

Building Q, Campus de la UAB
08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain

Lecture room Q3/0013: Lectures, except for Lecture 5 (webminar), which will take place in “Sala de Graus” lecture hall

Computer room A: Practical sessions.

Coffee Breaks will be served in the Escola d’Enginyeria. Lunch will be served in the restaurant of the UAB’s Faculty of Sciences & Biosciencies.

Venue on Friday, 9th of September

Hotel Campus UAB

Lecture Hall “Sala Lluis Vives II”: Lectures and course closure, coffee breakLectures and course closure, coffee break

"La Marmita" restaurantLunch will be served at 13:00

Course Dinner on Wednesday, 7th of September

300 del Born, Barcelona

20:00 - open end

Internet

On the UAB Campus there is a free wireless internet access (WiFi).

How to arrive

From the Barcelona Airport to Hotel Campus UAB:

Barcelona's el Prat Airport is approximately 35 kilometres from the UAB campus. The Hotel Campus UAB and course venue are located in the UAB campus. If you go from the airport to the UAB campus by taxi, the journey takes about 30 min (motorway) and the approximate cost is around 50 €.

Different public transportation options are also available; all of them go through Barcelona city centre (Plaça Catalunya).

You can find detailed transport information at the UAB’s website:http://www.uab.cat/web/home-1273127135994.html

The easiest way to get to the UAB Campus is the following:

From the Airport to Plaça Catalunya: From the Airport to Plaça Catalunya:

Take the Aerobus service. This is a regular bus service between the Barcelona Airport and the centre of Barcelona (Plaça de Catalunya). There are airport buses every 5-10 minutes and trip takes about 35 min. The single ticket costs 5.90 €.

More information: http://www.aerobusbcn.com/en/

From Plaça Catalunya to UAB Campus / Hotel Campus UAB:

Cross Plaça Catalunya from the Aerobus stop (red dot) to the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) railway station (identified with FGC railways logo logo) located in the corner of Pelai street/Rambla):

Footpath from Aerobus stop to the Railwaystation

Take FGC line S2 (Barcelona Plaça Catalunya, direction Sabadell). To get to Hotel Campus UAB, get off the train at Bellaterra station. To better access the rest of the campus facilities, get off at Universitat Autònoma station.

FGC line S2

Information on the train timetable at: http://www.fgc.cat/eng/cercador.asp (look for Barcelona-Vallès lines, shown in the maps above).

You need to buy a ticket for 2 zones

Walk 6 min from Bellaterra station to Hotel Campus UAB through a paved lane across a green area (500 m) as indicated in the map below. You can also get off at Universitat Autònoma station and walk from there to the Hotel Campus UAB (850 m, 11 min walk):

Footpath from Bellaterra station to the Hotel Campus UAB

From the Hotel Campus UAB to the Escola d’Enginyeria (School of Engineering):

Walk 15-20 min from Hotel Campus UAB (site No. 65 in the map below) to the Escola d’Enginyeria (site No. 4 in the map below) through the Campus (ask for details at the Hotel reception desk or Course reception desk on Sept 5).

Alternatively, take an internal UAB Campus bus –free of charge- (ask for details at the Hotel reception desk or Course reception desk on Sept 5

Footpath from the Hotel Campus UAB to the Escola d'Enginyeria