Get-Together Party

On Monday evening, after the first workshop day, a Get-Together Party will be the first major social happening. Ample of tasty delicacies will await you, and a glas, or more, of excellent wine (among other beverages). The party is planned to take place at the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, in its beautiful garden (great place to work and party!).

Excursion and Dinner

In the middle of the week (Wed afternoon) we invite you to a bus trip into a beautiful country-side and will show you round a few spots in Eastern Styria only about one hour from Graz. We start with a special guided tour into the secrets of chocolate making (and tasting) by now world-renowned chocolatier chef Sepp Zotter and his team (zotter chocolates). From that we move on to old Kornberg Castle, founded in medieval times back 1284, where we first enjoy its cultural highlights and then feast over a genuine knight's meal, fully in in the style of such sumptuous banquets centuries ago (tasty and true fun!).

Besides the above events, it is certain that the appeal of the large variety of restaurants and cafes in the workshop (University Campus) and downtown area will invite each one of us to organize or join ad hoc further informal scientific-social-or-whatever events during lunch breaks and in the evenings.

...if you are already in Graz on Sunday, why not join a guided City Tour? Every Sunday at 14:30 there is the chance to find out more about the beauty and charme of Graz with a professional guided tour (different languages; meeting point Tourist Information Herrengasse downtown). Experience the  European Cultural Capital 2003. Meet history and future. Explore the city′s narrow lanes and picturesque courtyards with Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, modern architecture...and you are in it, in the center of one of Europe′s best-preserved cities with an unique blend of centuries of tradition and modern way of life.