Social Programme

The organizing Committee has set up a social programme:

Sunday April 13, 2003
OPENING CEREMONY & WELCOME RECEPTION
Come and hear a special lecture and welcome from the Presidents.
All participants, speakers, exhibitors and registered accompanying persons will have the opportunity to meet in an informal atmosphere and enjoy a taste of what is in store for them during the coming congress.
Monday April 14, 2003
FACULTY DINNER
This typical and enjoyable dinner will give the faculty the opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, create collegiality to favor commitments and motivation.
Tuesday April 15, 2003
OFFICIAL GALA DINNER - Dinner cruise on a Bateau Mouche
Board one of the famous Bâteaux-Mouches vessels for a relaxing "Paris by night" dinner cruise on the River Seine. This gala will feature fine French dinning and entertainment on a typical Parisian Cruise Ship.
Price per person : 90 € (limited attendance)

Accompanying Persons’ Programme
Cityrama Panoramic coaches offers special tours in and around Paris at special rates. All tours take place in English.
Departure office: 4, place des Pyramides – Paris 1°
Metro station: Pyramides
For any further information, please check the web site: http://www.cityrama.fr/
Please mention the congress “in address1”
Special Tours available (English or French speaking)
• Paris in 2 hours: Discover the beauty of Paris in the comfort of our famous yellow double decker buses: Grand Louvre - Ile de la Cité - Notre-Dame Cathedral - Hôtel de Ville - Bastille Square - Sorbonne - Panthéon - St-Germain-des-Prés - Champs-Elysées - Arch of Triumph - Eiffel Tower - Invalides - Concorde Square - Madeleine Church - Opera Square - Place des Pyramides.
• Paris illuminations (1h30): Magical and magnificent by night, a drive through Paris and its beautiful illuminated buildings should not be missed by any visitor to the capital.
• The Grand Louvre Museum (3h): Our famous Grand Louvre walking tour begins with a stroll through the commercial area of the Louvre museum. The visit continues inside the museum where our guide presents various areas such as the medieval fortress, the modern pyramid, the Egyptian department and the most reputed works such as the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
• Orsay Museum (3h): This magnificent museum, located in the old Orsay railway station built in 1900, is dedicated to all forms of artistic expression: painting, sculpture and photography of the 1848-1914 period. The era of the impressionist painters is particularly well represented with the masterpieces of Manet, Monet, Renoir, and Degas... Admire the delicate brush strokes of Renoir, the serious self-portrait of Van Gogh, the radiance of a Monet landscape amongst other artisitic marvels.
• Versailles Palace and Trianons (Full day): Versailles is more than a palace surrounded by beautiful gardens. It also has a huge park where one can discover two small castles named Grand and Petit Trianons, former summer residences for the Kings who loved to rest and forget about the "Etiquette" of the Court.
• Fontainebleau and Barbizon (5h): The Fontainebleau palace, lavishly built and furnished in the Renaissance style style, was a favorite hunting residence of the French kings. The apartments occupied by Napoleon have recently been restored and are included in our tour. Barbizon has been known as an artistic center since the l9th century when Jean-François Millet and Robert Louis Stevenson lived there.

Partners are invited not to organize social events at the same time of these official events, and generally to ask the Secretariat for all information related to the social programme.

For all information on excursions and visits in and around Paris:
Paris Tourist Office
Cityrama