General Information
Symposium venue:
The 5th Eurolag will take place in the Rectorate building of the University of Aveiro The reception desk will be open from Monday morning onwards. The opening session is scheduled for Monday, 25th at 2.00 p.m.
Oral communication presentations:
The basis for oral communications will be Microsoft Power Point (.ppt files) and the
presentation hall will have PC computers. Your personal computer cannot be used in
the rooms. If you work with Mac OS X, please make sure to export it so that it will be
compatible with Windows-based PowerPoint.
There will be a room for presentation preview.
Please check your communication before
delivering it to the symposium secretariat.
The powerpoint file with your oral presentation must be supplied to the secretariat the
day before your presentation. If it is scheduled to take place on Monday, 25th, please
supply your file Monday morning the soonest possible.
Each symposium topic will start with a 40 minutes keynote speaker presentation. All
the other oral communications will have a total of 20 minutes, including the time for
discussion.
Posters:
Posters should be no more than 90cm wide x 120cm height.
Posters will be on display during the whole symposium. Authors are kindly requested to
put up their posters as soon as possible and to take them down during Friday morning.
Poster sessions are previewed in the programme.
There will be a prize for the student best poster offered by the Euro-Mediterranean
Federation on Coastal Lagoons. Students who want to participate should ask at the
secretariat the identification cards for their posters.
Social Programme:
All registered participants are invited to join the social events proposed by the 5th Eurolag
Icebreaker: Monday afternoon in the Rectorate building hall
Lunches: from 25th to 29th July
Lunches are offered at the University Restaurant (see the campus map on the
symposium website), near to the Rectorate building. Meal vouchers will be distributed
with the Symposium material at the registration and information desk. Accompanying
people can buy meal tickets until 12.00 h of the previous day.
There wil be tea/coffee breaks the morning and afternoon sessions, from 25th to 29th July
and these are included in the registration fees.
Symposium dinner:
The symposium dinner will take place on Wednesday evening. A voucher will be distributed to all participants and accompanying people who have pre-registered and paid. On-site registration is still possible but only until Tuesday morning.
Symposium trip:
On Saturday morning a trip will be arranged along one of the main channels of Ria
de Aveiro on the traditional boats “Moliceiros”. These boats were used to collect the
“Moliço”, a mixture of algae and seagrasses, used some years ago as a soil fertilizer.
We will stop for about 1.30 h to visit “Costa Nova”, a small fishermen town (nowadays a
tourist place), near Aveiro and located between the Atlantic and the Ria.
The traditional
wooden houses are a “must see” before you leave.
This trip is included in the registration fee but it is necessary to confirm your intention
to participate until Wednesday morning.
Photographic Exhibition:
Photographs by Victor Quintino under the theme “Revelações. Vida na Areia, Vida na Rocha” (Revealing. Life in the Sand, Life on the Rocks) will be exhibited in the Hall of the Rectorate building during the symposium.
Puppet Shadow Theatre
With the collaboration of Fábrica, Centro de Ciência Viva de Aveiro, the puppet shadow theatre “Diopatra, Lady of the Rings” was produced to promote public awareness of a lagoon ecosystem biodiversity, species relationships and needs for environmental protection. The theatre will be presented on the final day of the Symposium, in Portuguese and will be of interest to all the symposium participants but is mainly directed to young pupils audience.
