Practical Information for the Participants of the Seminar

1. Registration to the seminar
2. Accommodation
3. Capacity4dev
4. Contacts

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1. Registration to the seminar

If this is not yet done, please register to the Annual Education and TVET Seminar through Syslog (ref. 481005)

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2. Accommodation

All participants are kindly reminded to make their own hotel reservation as soon as possible.

In case you would like to stay at the venue of the seminar (Sheraton Brussels Hotel), thank you for booking your room directly through their website: http://www.sheratonbrussels.com by using the Corporate/SET number 253913 or by sending an e-mail to (Lindsay.Garin@sheraton.com) and upon availability, they will confirm the European Commission corporate rate of  €140.00/room.

Special discount rate is applied for the Seminar participants.

The seminar itself will be conducted in the Sheraton Hotel.

For more information, please contact the event manager: Ms Lindsay Garin – Tel: +32 2 224.39.15

There are other hotel options but we don't have special rates with them:

• Hotel Bloom (near Botanique - Rue Royale) www.hotelbloom.com
• Thon hotel city center (avenue du Boulevard) www.thonhotels.com

TRANSPORT

Getting to the Hotel

Sheraton Hotel, Place Rogier 3, 1210 Brussels (City Centre)

Image	by train - Brussels North	Most trains to Brussels will stop at North station - very convenient from the airport
Image	by metro - Rogier	2 - 6
Image	by tram - Rogier	3 - 4 - 25 - 32 - 55

To view the Brussels transport map, please consult the STIB/MIVB's Network map.

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3. Capacity4dev

All participants have been added or invited to the Annual Education and TVET Seminar Group, a private space where you can consult and download all relevant materials.

In this Group, you will be able to access both Education and TVET agendas, practical information, guest speaker biographies, information on each session, recommended reading, relevant documents, etc. You can also ask questions (via comments or by adding a blog post) and interact with the seminar coordinators and participants.

Session background documents available

A regular consultation of the link http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/education-tvet/ is recommended since you will find the latest seminar agenda and updated background documents of each session of the seminar.

You are strongly encouraged to Download relevant background documents and bring with you to the seminar as no hard copies will be provided.

At the end of the seminar each participant will be given a USB key gathering all presentations and relevant documents of the seminar.

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4. Practical information / Contacts

Please note that on the first day a welcome cocktail for all participants will be organised at the Sheraton (17:15 – 19:00).

Please also note that lunch breaks are scheduled between 12:30 and 13:30. Each participant will need to organise his/her lunch individually (there are plenty of places around). On Thursday you are all kindly invited to a sandwich lunch at the Sheraton.

For further information, your contact for education is katja.steurer@ec.europa.eu (DEVCO B4) and for TVET donatella.gobbi@ec.europa.eu (DEVCO B3).

We recommend participants to ensure they will arrive in time for the seminar and to provide us - via Andrea Valentini andrea.valentini@educationadvisorygroup.eu - the phone number they will use in Brussels.