RadioNet Board, EVN CBD and JIVE Board Meetings
28th-30th November 2006, The Netherlands
- RadioNet Board meeting: 28 November, Westerbork (village - not the WSRT site), followed by RadioNet Board dinner
- EVN CBD meeting: 29 November, Dwingeloo, ASTRON & JIVE
- EVN CBD Exec. Meeting: 30 November morning, Dwingeloo, ASTRON & JIVE
- JIVE Board meeting: 30 November afternoon, Dwingeloo, ASTRON & JIVE
LATEST NEWS: An Updated Agenda is now available to download.
Registration: please go to the registration page.
Accommodation: For the period 27-30 November, a block reservation of rooms has been made at the Golden Tulip hotel Midden-Drenthe in Westerbork. Meeting attendees are requested to make their own room reservation.
Hotel contact information:
- Golden Tulip Hotel Midden-Drenthe
- Beilerstraat 24a
- 9431 TA Westerbork
- The Netherlands
- Tel. +31 (0)593 331444
- E-mail: info@gtmiddendrenthe.nl
- Booking code: JIVE
- Room rates: luxury rooms 71,00 Euro, superior rooms (4) 86 Euro. Breakfast 12,50.
Transportation:
Transportation from Schiphol airport upon your arrival:
Once per hour, there are direct trains from Schiphol airport to Beilen railway station. These depart every 21 minutes past each hour. Make sure you are seated in the part of the train marked Groningen (the other part will split in Zwolle and go to Leeuwarden!). For train schedule see The dutch train website.
An English option (click at the top of the webpage) is available. From Beilen train station, you can take a taxi to the hotel in Westerbork. Please find hereafter contact details of two taxi companies that you can contact to inform them about your arrival time at the train station and book a taxi:
- Taxi Midden-Drenthe (Beilen), tel. +31 (0)593 540287. Costs of taxi ride (per car): 12,50-15.00 Euro.
- Taxi Ellerie (near Hoogeveen) tel. +31 (0)528 351218. These taxis can be recognized via a sign ASTRON / JIVE. Costs of taxi ride (per car) from either Beilen or Hoogeveen train station: 24,30 Euro.
Transportation for the meetings in Dwingeloo will be arranged centrally on 29 and 30 November, as well transportation for the RadioNet Board dinner on 28 November.
RadioNet Board meeting:
- 28 November 9.00 - 18.00 hrs.
- Venue: Golden Tulip hotel Midden-Drenthe in Westerbork.
- Dinner: 19.30 hrs, Irish restaurant De Turfsteker (Meursinge), Hoofdstraat 48, Westerbork. Phone +31 (0)593 331111.
- Paperwork for the meeting can be downloaded from the usual RadioNet Board Wiki pages (more information will follow via e-mail).
- EVN CBD meeting:
- 29 November 9.00 - 17.00 hrs.
- Venue: ASTRON & JIVE, Dwingeloo.
- Bus departure from hotel Golden Tulip to Dwingeloo: 8.15 hrs.
- Lunch and dinner hosted by ASTRON & JIVE, canteen Dwingeloo.
- Return transportation to the Golden Tulip hotel in Westerbork will be provided.
- Paperwork for the meeting will be provided in the usual way.
- EVN Executive and JIVE Board meeting:
- 30 November
- EVN Executive: 30 November 9.00-12.00/13.00 hrs.
- JIVE Board: 30 November 13.00-17.00 hrs.
- Venue: ASTRON & JIVE, Dwingeloo.
- Departure of local cars/taxis to Dwingeloo: 8.15 hrs.
- Paperwork for the meeting will be provided in the usual way.
EVN webmaster (jive{at}jive.eu)