General planning

• Sunday April 6th, starting 18.30: Meeting of the Executive Committee
• Monday April 7th, 9.00-13.00: Meeting of the Governing Board at the PEGE
• Monday April 7th from 14.30, Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th: 1st DIME Scientific Conference at the PEGE

How to reach Strasbourg

Strasbourg can be reached by train and by plane (and course also by car).

By plane: apart from Strasbourg-Entzheim airport, you can also consider other possibilities :

• If you fly to Paris-Charles De Gaulle airport, there are now TGV connections a few times a day directly from the airport.
• From Karlsruhe- Baden Airpark: Take Bus line 205 to Baden-Baden Train station and take train to Strasbourg Gare Centrale. Shuttles are also available from Baden-Baden Airpark to Strasbourg - Place Austerlitz (see http://www.flightliner.de).
• From Basel-Mulhouse Airport or Frankfurt International Airport with train connections or shuttles to Strasbourg

If you travel by train, you will arrive at Strasbourg Central Station. From there you can either walk (15mn) to the centre of town where all proposed hotels are located or if you prefer you can take the tram in various directions according to the location of your hotel. Taxis are also available

If you arrive at the airport, take the shuttle bus (Navette: 5,20 euros including the tram ride and 9,70 euros for a return ticket), which takes you to the tram line and from there into town: take the tram (Tram Line A Direction Hautepierre) and get off at the stop Place de l’Homme de Fer or other stops according to the location of your hotel.
There are also trains from the airport to Strasbourg station : they are quite convenient (15mn into town with frequent trains) but the station is not easy to find.
Be aware that taxis are quite expensive (between 25 and 35 euros according to the time of day) in Strasbourg.

How to reach BETA where the meetings of the Governing Board and the Scientific Conference will take place

The meetings will take place in our building
BETA/PEGE - Pôle Européen de Gestion et d’Economie
61 avenue de la Forêt Noire

Within the building the meetings rooms will be sign posted.
From the centre of town you have a direct tram line to reach us: take the tram on the place de l'Homme de “Neuhof-R.Reuss”(Tram Line C). Be careful NOT to take the tram going to Hoenheim . Get off at "Observatoire" and walk down the boulevard Leblois (200m) to a big red brick building across the street called the Pôle Européen de Gestion et d’Economie.

You can look at the map on our web site (under “Home”): http://cournot2.u-strasbg.fr/users/beta/plan.php

Tram tickets can be bought at the machines available at each stop (they accept money and credit cards).

Hotels

Here is a list of hotels where we have blocked some rooms (under DIME Conference) but we leave it to you to make your own reservations, except for key note speakers and members of the Executive Committee.
In the very centre of town

• Comfort Hotel Centre (comforthotel.center@wanadoo.fr) (20 rooms): 33(0)388151717 1 quai de Paris 66 €
• Hotel de France Best Western (Hotel.de.France.sa@wanadoo.fr) (19 rooms); 33(0)388323712 20 rue du Jeu des Enfants 85 €
• Hotel Ibis Centre Halles (h0640@accor-hotels.com) (10 rooms): 33(0)39022464 1 rue de Sébastopol 62.00 € on Sunday and 81.00 € during the week
• Hotel Ibis Centre Petite France (h0943@accor-hotels.com) (20 rooms): 33(0)388751010 18 rue du Faubourg national rooms 58 € on Sunday and 71 € during the week

At the station

• Hotel le Grillon (contact@grillon.com) (10 rooms): 33(0)88327188 2 rue Thiergarten
• Hotel Bristol (bristol@hotel-strasbourg.com) (10 rooms): 33(0)388320083 4 place de la Gare 105 €

In case these are full, here is the web site of the hotels in Strasbourg: http://www.ot-strasbourg.com/rubrique.php?id_rubrique=45

Meals

Lunches for members of the Executive Committee and the Governing Board will be served on Monday and for all participants in the Scientific Conference on Tuesday and Wednesday at the PEGE where the meetings will take place.

DIME invites all participants to join the Conference dinner which will take place at the Maison Kammerzell on Tuesday 8th at 20.00.
Maison Kammerzell is located near the Strasbourg Cathedral. If you want to know more about this every old building and its location: http://www.maison-kammerzell.com/maison-kammerzell-article127.html
Access map: http://www.maison-kammerzell.com/maison-kammerzell-article201.html

Financial rules

DIME will refund the travel and local costs of

• members of the Executive Committee
• one representative of DIME member institution to the Governing Board meeting
• key note speakers to the DIME Scientific Conference
• participants in parallel session on “Communities and incentives” (coordinated by Helena Lopes) and parallel session of the STRIKE WG1 (coordinated by jacques Mairesse and Michele Cincera)

For all other participants in the cnference we expect them to cover their travel and hotel costs; we will cover meeting and meals. For younger researchers (mainly PhD students) who would not be able to attend without financial support from DIME, please send us a request (flasaquier@cournot.u-strasbg.fr).

In order to help us prepare the meetings, please fill in the attached form and send it back to flasaquier@cournot.u-strasbg.fr

Confirmation of acceptance

Confirmation of acceptance of submitted papers for the conference will be sent directly to the proposers.
Authors are urged to confirm their participation by March 10th (later confirmations will make it impossible to finalise the programme and in particular the parallel sessions in due course).

Full papers should be sent by March 25th.