Travel and Accomodation
 

1. Travel Information

By plane

The first possibility is coming straight in to Erfurt Airport (please see http://www.airport-erfurt.de). Those who fly, for instance, with the cheap airline RyanAir, please keep in mind that the earlier you book the cheaper it is. At the moment RyanAir doesn't fly to Erfurt. RyanAir flies from London (Stansted) to Altenburg (Leipzig, Saxonia). To travel from Altenburg to Erfurt by train takes around 2 hours.


By train

You can reach Erfurt by train from all major German cities by fast trains (Erfurt is an ICE- train station). For further information please see: http://www.bahn.de


By car

You can quite easily reach Erfurt by car from all major German cities, too. For further travel information by car please see: http://www.de.map24.com/.

From Nordhausen (B4) please take the gateway “Thüringen-Park” and follow the sign “Universität” or “Uni”.

From Gotha or Weimar (B7) please follow the sign “Universität” or “Uni”. See map.


In Erfurt

From Erfurt main station you can reach the campus of the University of Erfurt (Conference Secretariat of SLS-IS 2006) as well as the City Centre of Erfurt by tram No 3 (direction “Europaplatz”) and No 6 (direction “Rieth”). The stop “University” is located directly at the main entrance of the campus.


Conference Venue SLS-IS 2006

The venue of the SLS-IS 2006 is located at the City Centre of Erfurt.

You will find the Conference Secretariat of SLS-IS as well as the offices of the Independent Research Group and the Centre for Research on Education at the campus of the University of Erfurt.


2. Accomodation

Accommodation is not provided by the Conference Organizer, but assistance is offered.

We negotiated very cheap rates with some of the hotels. For further information, please inquire about hotel rooms at our website.

For reservation and booking of your hotel room, please use the keyword “SLS-IS 2006” if you write to the hotels yourself (up to the 15th August, 2006; then our contingent will be cancelled automatically).

Download the list of hotels


3. Sightseeing

For information about Erfurt see:
http://www.erfurt.de/ef/en/

For information about Weimar see:
http://www.weimar.com

For information about Thuringia see::
http://www.thuringia-online.de

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