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Date of the final conference

The final conference will be from April 12-13, 2012

Arrival: Wednesday afternoon/evening 11^th of April 2012

Leave: Saturday morning 14^th of April 2012

Venue

The final conference will take place in Kerkrade, The Netherlands. Kerkrade is located close to Belgium and Germany and can be easily reached by public transport or car (for directions see travel information below). From Schiphol airport (Amsterdam) it is possible to travel by train to Kerkrade. Near Kerkrade are Maastricht–Aachen airport, Liège airport, and Düsseldorf airport.

The venue for the final conference is “Conference Centre Rolduc”.

Travel information:

The address of the Conference Centre is:  Heyendallaan 82, 6464 EP Kerkrade. The directions you can find on the website of ‘Rolduc’.

When you travel from one of the airports to Kerkrade by train the website of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen or OV9292 can be useful. In case you come by car the website of the ANWB can be of help (this site is in Dutch). 

Programme

The programme for the final meeting will be finalised in late 2011-early 2012 and announced here.

Costs

The accommodation costs for 100 people at the conference centre will be covered by the WP9 budget. For all beneficiaries the accommodation costs and travel costs will be settled from the available WP9 budget. The costs for non-beneficiaries will be further discussed case by case and, again, will be settled by the WP9 budget.

Invitations

Invitations for the final meeting will be sent out in September and October 2011.

The GP-TCM congress will be a public meeting and will be organised to present the work and findings from the GP-TCM project after the final conference (closed meeting).

For more information please visit the Congress Website

Date of the GP-TCM congress

The GP-TCM congress will be from April 15-18, 2012

Venue

The GP-TCM congress will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands. Leiden is located close to Schiphol airport (Amsterdam).

The venue for the final conference is “Gorlaeus Laboratories” at Leiden University.

1.3     Programme

To be announced.

1.4     Congress registration:

Registration starts at November 1^st, 2011. You can register yourself by filling in the registration form. All participants at the congress

are obliged to pay the registration fee. For students there will be some grants available covering (part of) the registration fee.

Registration fee includes:

Admission to all scientific lectures and poster sessions of the Congress

Congress package

Coffee breaks and lunches

Welcome reception in ‘Naturalis’

Historical walk through Leiden and reception in town hall.

Congress dinner is not included in the registration fee.

For both the reception in the town hall and the congress dinner is place for a maximum of 200 people. When you register yourself you can register yourself for one or both of these activities. People will be registered for these activities based on the order of registration, first come first served.

GP-TCM special issue of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology:

The special issue about the GP-TCM project will be open access. It is possible to order a hard copy of this issue for 60 euro.

Congress Registration Fees:

*For students there will be some grants available covering (part of) the registration fee.

For grant application we need:

A letter of confirmation, Students have to present a poster, early registration.

Registration form:

Registration form

Payment:

Online payment

Confirmation of a place in the congress shall be effective only upon payment in EURO of the registration fee.

Cancellation Policy:

Delegates cancelling before 1^st January 2012 will receive a refund minus  20%  administration fee. No refunds can be made for cancellations from 1^st January 2012.

Your opinions might well make a big difference to shape the future funding prospects in this important field of research/science. The GP-TCM Consortium is currently conducting an online survey in order to bring out a consensus on the “grand issues” in the context of the broadest field of TCM and its research. Your selections will collectively represent the wisdom of the Consortium and will determine what will come up in the final lists of “Top Priorities”, “Top Challenges” and “Top Opportunities”, which will be published in peer reviewed articles and will be included in the official report of the GP-TCM Consortium to the European Commission. Further dissemination to other stakeholders and outreach to the public are also foreseen. In order to achieve this, we would like to invite you to complete survey via the link given below:

To complete the survey in ENGLISH, please visit the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/G8DHYWW

To complete the survey in CHINESE, please visit the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XPNFFJF

The deadline to complete the survey is 26^th September 2011, after which the survey will be closed for data analysis and publication.

If you are stakeholders of a relevant organisation and think that your members might be interested in participating this survey, please encourage your members to complete this questionnaire. We welcome your comments to help us to identify any appropriate links to be contacted from main Chinese/European professional bodies for questionnaire dissemination (please contact Prof. Thomas Efferth (efferth@unimainz.de) and Dr. Halil Uzuner (halil.uzuner@kcl.ac.uk)).