ANNOUNCEMENT! - FINAL IRON CURTAIN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

We kindly invite you, dear Readers, to participate on the Final Iron Curtain International Symposium, which will be held in Vienna, Austria, November 3rd to 5th of 2004.
The registration form and the details of the symposium can be found here.

Project meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece
22.09.2003 - 27.09.2003

The 6th project meeting was held on the Greek/Bulgarian reference area in the last week of September.
The first day of the meeting was a kind of modelling workshop to introduce the use of the Vensim model for project partners by the OKOSYS from the point of view of Iron Curtain Project. In the next two days the planum meeting was arranged, the main themes were related-to the second year status report, the method and technical issues, and the project planning for the next half year. The planum meeting was followed by the board meeting. In the next three days the consortium was taking a fieltrip on the reference area, in the valley of Mesta/Nestos river (Bansko, Bulgaria, Thesaurus Dam, Nestos delta, Greece).
The host of the meeting was the Aristotele University of Thessaloniki with the leading of Prof., Dr. Yannis Mylopoulos, who ensured all conditions for the consortium to get to know well the true Greek hospitality and lifestyle.

Downloadable documents:
Agenda of the meeting in Greece(pdf)
Agenda of the modelling workshop(pdf)

The next project meeting will be held in Miskolc, Hungary, 7-12, March, 2003.

Bicycle trip through the Reference Area Austria-Czech Republic
27.07.2003 - 03.08.2003

A very interesting bicycle trip was organized on the Austrian-Czech Reference Area, between St. P�lten and Cesk� Budejovice (Budweis). In the course of trip the participants visited the most significant natural and cultural sights and met the experts of the local organizations. The description of the trip is available on this site:
www.geo.sbg.ac.at/projects/ironcurtain/BikeTripTrebon/

Project Workshop in Rh�n Mountains and Jena, Germany - April 2003

The reason of the selection for the meeting place was that the third, German/German reference area is situated here. By this means the project partners can get impressions beside the updated information, which help to extend theirs knowledge about this area.

On the first day the coordinator, Mr. Hans K�rzl, presented the project for the local interested parties, later the collaborators of the Biosphere Reserve Rh�n gave an introduction to the hosting reference area. On the second day the partners participated on a field trip, where they could look at a sheep farm, a test site of the self-replantation of the typical local vegetation, a part of the former iron curtain and the Schwarzes Moor. The further two days of the meeting was organized in Jena-Friedrich Schiller University, namely in the Department of the Geography. Where the participants dealt with the project planning and important specific issues.

Downloadable documents:
Agenda of the meeting in Germany (pdf)