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23‒25 September 2013, Bonn, Germany

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How to reach Gustav-Stresemann-Institute (GSI) conference centre in Bonn

Street address: Langer Grabenweg 68, Bonn. Phone: +49 (0) 228 81070

Website: www.gsi-bonn.de/en/tagungszentrum/index.htm

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By airplane: You will most likely arrive at either Cologne Bonn airport (CGN, many low-cost carriers, e.g. Germanwings, Air Berlin, etc.) or at Frankfurt airport (FRA, for many international connections)

From Cologne Bonn airport to GSI conference center

Cost: Approximately €40

Travel time: Approximately 30 minutes (depending on traffic)

Cost: € 7.40 (tickets can be purchased from the bus driver or from the vending machines, Preisstufe 4 )

Bus number: Take No. SB 60 first to Hauptbahnhof Bonn (Bonn central station); the airport bus leaves every 30 minutes (e.g. 14:10, 14.40 etc.) until 00.10 a.m.

Then from Bonn Central Station: take U- Bahn (underground/tram) Line 16 or 63, direction Bad Godesberg.

Exit at "Max-Löbner-Strasse" station (13 min.), turn left and cross the tracks and walk down "Max-Löbner-Strasse", away from the ARAL gas station. Cross “Holbeinstraße” and “Riemenschneiderstraße” (small streets turning to the right). At the T junction turn left on “Langer Grabenweg”; after 30 meters there is a bus stop and the entrance to GSI is on your right.

Cost: Taxi to Bonn will cost approximately €250 (additional costs if taken at night)

Travel time: trip will take almost 2 hours

Where: Follow the signs “Fernbahnhof” (Long-distance train station, about 5 min. from the airport arrivals hall). There you have a choice of regular train or high speed train.

Tickets: You can purchase tickets from the vending machines or from the friendly staff in the Travel Center ( Reisezentrum ) at the station.

Cost: €40 to Bonn Hauptbahnhof (Bonn Central Station)

Departures: leaves two minutes to the hour (e.g. 10:58, 11:58, etc.)

Important note: You may have to change trains in Mainz; the connecting train leaves from the same platform, opposite track.

Travel time: 1:44 h, along the river Rhein which during daytime is quite picturesque.

From Bonn central station proceed as above (you will have to buy a ticket from the vending machine: Preisstufe 1B at 2.70).

Cost: 65.70 €

Departures: leaving at various times, to Siegburg/Bonn.

Travel time: between 1:10 to 1:30 h, mostly through tunnels and trenches.

Then from Siegburg/Bonn station:

Walk to the tram station below (7 min.) and take U-Bahn (underground/tram) Line 66, direction Bad Honnef / Königswinter. Please note, if arriving by train there is no need to buy an additional ticket!

Exit at “Robert-Schumann-Platz” (35 min.), walk across the square until you reach “Kurt-Georg-Kiesinger-Allee”, turn right. Before you reach the Maritim Hotel turn left on “Jean-Monnet-Straße”. At the T junction turn left on “Heinemannstraße”, after about 100 m turn right on “Langer Grabenweg”; the entrance to GSI is at the bus stop on your left.

The Science Forum series is a flagship event that was initiated by the Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) in 2009 under its remit of Mobilizing Science. It serves as a means to reach out to scientists and scientific communities largely external to the CGIAR, but who have potentially important contributions to make to the CGIAR research portfolio and its system level objectives of improving food security, human nutrition and health, alleviation of poverty and environmental sustainability.

Science Forum 2013 Summary: The 2013 Science Forum summary of the Plenary and 10 Breakout sessions is now available . A distillation of the key messages from the Science Forum will be published shortly as an ISPC Brief.

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