congress venue

Venue

The venue is the Palais des Congrès de Dijon, conveniently located near the centre of town. The main Lecture theatre will house the morning plenary sessions and some of the afternoon sessions. Two additional large lecture theatres and a number of smaller rooms will house the parallel sessions, workshops and round tables. Poster sessions will be held in the same building. Free wifi access is available in the conference building.

Palais des Congrès of Dijon

Travel

City maps of Dijon: Please visit these webpages for a map on the Dijon city center

Travel by train. Dijon is a lively small City situated 310 km (186 miles) south east of Paris. With easy travel on the TGV high speed train which only takes 90 minutes from Paris

from Paris: 1h35, one train every hour, i.e. 20 TGV in each direction every day
from Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport: 1h45, 2 times a day
from St Pancras International: Eurostar
from Lille: 2h30
from Lyons with TGV connection from Geneva: less than 2h
from Marseilles and Nimes (3h20), from Montpellier (3h: Mediterranean TGV
Rhine-Rhone TGV: Dijon 1 hour away from Mulhouse and Belfort, 1h40 from Strasbourg, 1h30 from Basle and 2h10 from Zurich.

From the train station to the congress venue, there is a direct connection by bus with bus no 7: from bus stop "Sévigné" (Boulevard Sévigné not far away from the train station) to bus stop "Auditorium/Congrès" (place Jean Bouhey). About 1 euro per ticket.

Travel by road:

from Paris: A6, A38 (2h45)
from Lyon: A6, A38 via Mâcon, Chalon sur Saône, Beaune (1h45)
from Calais, Lille and Reims: A26, A5, A31 (3 hours)
from Luxembourg, Metz (2h45) and Nancy (1h45): A31
from Melun, Sens and Troyes: A5, A31
from Strasbourg (3 hours) Mulhouse (2 hours): A36
from Geneva, Bourg-en-Bresse and Dole : A39
from Barcelona: A31, A6