Four new fixed congress bookings for 2012
The HOFBURG Vienna has secured fixed bookings from four larger-scale conferences in 2012. “These new events alone will generate as many as 16,700 overnight stays for the Austrian capital. Overall we expect to contribute somewhere in the region of 32,500 bednights for the city in the coming year,” says HOFBURG Vienna managing director Renate Danler.
Science sets the tone when it comes to the latest crop of acquisitions. From 3–7 July the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research will bring together about 1,000 delegates in the staterooms of the HOFBURG Vienna. “This annual conference is one of the leading international plant biology congresses. Discussions will centre on the latest developments in cellular and developmental biology, evolution and biosystems,” explains the conference organizer Dr. Geoffrey Clarke.
The Third International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering will put the spotlight on a hot economic topic from 3–6 October. “The conference is organised by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, and looks into all aspects of the life cycle – from assessment and design to maintenance and rehabilitation to monitoring natural and man-made engineering structures,“ reveals conference president Prof. Alfred Strauss.
The 15th Congress of the European NeuroEndocrine Association (11–15 September) will be a forum for transferring specialist medical knowledge. Around 1,000 scientists from 20 different countries are expected to attend. “This congress is a major highlight for anyone with an interest in central hormonal control. It brings together clinicians and basic researchers from all over the world with the leading international experts in this area,” explains Prof. Anton Luger, congress president, and head of Endocrinology and Metabolic Science at the Medical University of Vienna and Vienna General Hospital.
The HOFBURG Vienna is particularly pleased to have scooped the European Resuscitation Council’s international conference. This specialist Belgian medical conference on resuscitation and emergency medicine will bring about 1,900 physicians to the imperial conference centre from 18–20 October 2012. “We have heard that we are going to be the biggest conference at the Hofburg this year,” reports ERC conference organiser Joeroen Janssens.
In addition to the four new arrivals, a further twenty conferences and meetings have already confirmed their bookings for 2012, proving once again that the Austrian capital is in demand as a destination for scientific and research conferences.
