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The Political Economy of Trade in Services UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO http://www.graduateschool.unimi.it http://www.dagliano.unimi.it http://www.cepr.org http://www.sde.unito.it/index.html TENTH SUMMER SCHOOL IN INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS The Political Economy of Trade in Services Sunday 18 to Wednesday 21 September 2011 University of Milan, Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano (BS), Italy Local information Arrival: Sunday, September 18 at 3.15 p.m. (Palazzo Feltrinelli will be closed before 3.15 p.m.) Departure: Wednesday, September 21 at 3.15 p.m. Lecture Venue Palazzo Feltrinelli, Via Castello 3, 25084 Gargnano (Brescia), Italy Tel: +39 0365 72693 - Fax: +39 0365 72832 Palazzo Feltrinelli is a beautiful historical Villa by Lake Garda, which is now owned by the University of Milan and dedicated to Workshop and Meeting activities. The Villa includes a main hall, two lecture halls, a restaurant, single/double rooms (please be advised that, due to room availability, participants might have to share a room with a colleague). A photocopy machine and an overhead projector will be freely available at Palazzo Feltrinelli. Please note, instead, that PCs with emails, internet and printing facilities will not be available during the summer school. Directions The nearest airports to Gargnano are Milan Malpensa, Milan Linate and Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio. People arriving by plane at Malpensa airport (http://www.milanomalpensa1.eu/it and http://www.milanomalpensa2.eu/it), where most overseas flights land, can take the Malpensa Shuttle (http://www.malpensashuttle.it) to Milano Centrale Railway Station (50 minutes, € 7,50) or the Malpensa Express train (http://www.malpensaexpress.it) to Milano Cadorna (36/29 minutes, € 11) and then the underground to Milano Centrale Railway Station (green line, 5 stops, 20 minutes, € 1). People arriving by plane at Linate Airport (http://www.milanolinate.eu/it) can reach Milano Centrale Railway Station in about 20 minutes by bus (€ 3) or by taxi (€ 15/20). People arriving by plane at Orio al Serio airport (Bergamo, http://www.sacbo.it), where most low-cost flights land, can reach either Milano Centrale Railway Station by bus (€ 9,00) or Brescia Railway Station (€ 10) in about one hour. The bus leaves Orio al Serio airport for Brescia only at 5:10, 8:40, 11:15, 12:35, 13:40,16:30,18:00, 19:45, 22:30 (http://www.sacbo.it/Editorial/newsCategoryViewProcess.jsp?editorialID=171). The timetable of buses departing from all airports to Milano Centrale Railway Station can be downloaded from: http://www.autostradale.it/interna.aspx?gr=2&sez=60&sot=2. A bus can be organised from Milano Centrale to Gargnano for at least 20 participants (€ 10 - 25) on Sunday September 18 at 1 p.m. The trip takes approximately 2 hours. Gargnano can be reached from Milano Centrale Railway Station by train + bus, and from Brescia Railway Station by bus. A train should be taken from Milano Centrale to Brescia. A timetable of trains can be downloaded from: http://www.trenitalia.com. A bus should be taken from Brescia to Gargnano. The bus station in Brescia is just outside the Brescia Railway Station, on the left and there is a SIA sign. Buses leave Brescia for Gargnano every hour. The timetable of buses departing from Brescia to Gargnano on Sunday is the following: 7:10, 8:10, 8:45, 9:10, 10:10, 11:10, 12:10, 13:10, 14:10, 14:40, 15:10, 16:10, 17:10, 18:10, 19:10, 20:10, 21:30. The trip takes about one hour and a half. Palazzo Feltrinelli is 5 minutes walking distance from the bus station in Gargnano. When you get off the bus at Gargnano, go strait down the main street until you see a red building which is Palazzo Feltrinelli. Should you need to ask for directions, make sure you ask for Palazzo Feltrinelli and not Villa Feltrinelli, as the latter is not the site of the venue. Map The school is organised as part of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network on ‘Globalisation, Investment and Services Trade (GIST)’ The activities of the Centro Studi The Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Luca d’Agliano are supported by ‘Globalisation, Investment and Services Trade (GIST)’ is funded by the European Commission www.dagliano.unimi.it .
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