22-24 January 2014 PARTICIPANT MANUAL Dear Delegates of the third Europe+Asia Event Forum! This guide contains comprehensive information to help you plan a successful event, to avoid problems and to enjoy a smooth, trouble free run up to the forum. Please note that all the time specified in this manual as well as programmes of the Forum, corresponds to the local time in St. Petersburg. Contact information The Organisers’ office will be opened during the whole period of the Forum preparation. If you have any questions prior to your participation please contact: Project Manager Ms. Anastasiya Karaman by phone +7 812 320-63-63, internal 6049 or by e-mail: [email protected], for travel and accommodation services to travel manager Olga Nikolaeva by phone +7 812 303 9569 or e-mail: [email protected]. Also at the time of the Forum launched a special phone hotline +7 (981) 828 46 48 – the contact person is Sofia Mezentseva. The entrance to the venue is organized by badge of delegate. You have been registered to the Forum as participant. You can receive your badge at the registration desk at the PetroCongress Congress Center (22nd January – from 10 am till 4 pm, 23rd January – from 8 am till 6 pm, 24th January – from 8 am till 11 am) or in the Hotel Vvedensky (at the special desk for registration EFEA participants). Dates and Time on January, 22 (Wednesday) - from 10 am to 4 pm on January, 23 (Thursday) - from 8 am to 6 pm on January, 24 (Friday) - from 8 am to 4 am The Venue Innovative project – Congress Centre PetroCongress is a new unique venue in St. Petersburg that offers high-level international congress events arrangement services. Address: 5, Lodeynopolskaya street Location St. Petersburg The convenient location – the administrative and business www.petrocongress.com center of St.Petersburg – is one of the most attractive features of PetroCongress: 10 minutes to get to the historical center of the city, 5 minutes to get to Chkalovskaya metro station and recreation area of Krestovskiy Island, 20 kilometrs to get to the airport. Location 22-24 January 2014 PARTICIPANT MANUAL Free Wi-Fi network in the Congress Centre "EFEA 2013". Password: 2014efea Follow us on Twitter: @EFEAforum #efea We invite you to take part in the contest for the most active twitter writer! Mobile App. During the event you can use the Mobile Application provided by the Technological Partner of the Forum - Ungerboeck Systems Int. GmbH QR-code for the downloading the Mobile Application 22-24 January 2014 PARTICIPANT MANUAL Travel and accommodation services The Organisers will help you with: – Hotel accommodation – Visa support services – Transfer and transport services – Welcome meetings at the airports, VIP-arrangements – Air and train tickets – Individual and group entertainment programs – Booking services for theatres, restaurants, museums, concerts – Guide services For more details please contact Ms Olga Nikolaeva: Tel.: +7 812 303-95-69; e-mail: [email protected] Forum Express Travel Desk will give information and assist on all the tour programmes scheduled in the forum programme. Delegates who wish to book dinner venues, airport transfers or tours can seek assistance at the desk. For the participants and guests of the Europe + Asia Event Forum we offer accommodation at new 4* business class VVEDENSKIY Hotel - 15 min by foot or 5 min by car to the Forum venue! For the convenience of delegates the registration will be open in the lobby of the Vvedenskiy Hotel. Standing out among trendy restaurants, bars and great shopping, Vvedensky hotel is an ideal place for business and leisure. The hotel provides gym and steam sauna facilities for guests, as well Hairdressing saloon. For the convenience of the participants, who live in the hotel, registration point will be open in the lobby. During the Forum for the participants’ convenience from 22 – 24 January will be organised transfers from the hotel to the venue. 22-24 January 2014 PARTICIPANT MANUAL Time of Transfer – 22nd January: From 10 am till 12.30 pm two Hotel Vvedenskiy - Petrocongress From 5:30 am till 20:30 pm Petrocongress - Hotel Vvedenskiy – 23rd January: From 8 am till 11:30 am Hotel Vvedenskiy - Petrocongress From 4 am till 6 pm Petrocongress - Hotel Vvedenskiy 6 pm – Petrocongress - Gala Dinner 6 pm – Hotel Vvedenskiy - Gala Dinner – 24th January: From 8 am till 11 am Hotel Vvedenskiy - Petrocongress From 3 am till 4 pm Petrocongress - Hotel Vvedenskiy Delegates’ registration Forum registration in the Congress Centre PetroCongress will be open: – 22nd January (Wednesday): from 10 am till 4 pm – 23rd January (Thursday): from 8 am till 6 pm – 24th January (Friday): from 8 am till 1 pm Registered congress participants will receive their conference bag, name badge and the final congress programme. Dress Code Meetings, round table and sessions – 23-25 January: business casual – 23 January (official opening of the Forum): business attire Get-together at the CC PetroCongress (ground fl.) – 22th January, 18:00-20:00 (cocktails and buffet): business casual Gala Dinner – 23th January, 20:00-23:00 (sit-down dinner): business casual 22-24 January 2014 PARTICIPANT MANUAL Gala Dinner 23rd January, 19:00-22:00 Transfer from the venue to The Nikolaevsky Palace at 18:00. Transfer from the to The Nikolaevsky Palace to the Vvedensy hotel at 22:00. Dress code: black tie. Whatever deep the emotional sensations at the Russian folklore may be, they are certainly emphasized by a magnificent interior of the Palace. It is a fine specimen of architecture of the 19th century built to the design of the famous German born Russian architect Andrey Stakenshneider for Emperor Nikolay I't son, Grand Duke Nikolay. Due to this fact, the current name of the former Grand Duke's residence is the Nikolayevsky Palace. The Palace-is unique not only by its architectural design. It remarkably combines the memories of more than century's history of the city existence. The walls of the Palace remember daily life events of the Grand Duke's family as well as vigorous activities of the new political class representatives roused by the communists to rule the New State. 22-24 January 2014 PARTICIPANT MANUAL City tour (by previous registration) The tour stars on 24th January at 2.30 pm from the Congress Center PetroCongress. - The Russian Museum The Russian Museum is the first state museum of Russian fine arts in the country. It was established in 1895 in St Petersburg by a decree of the Emperor Nicholas II. Its grand opening for visitors occurred on March 19 (March 7, the Old Style) 1898. The Russian Museum today is a unique depository of artistic treasures, a famous restoration centre, an authoritative institute of academic research, one of the major cultural and educational centers in Russia, and a research and instructional centre of art museums of the Russian Federation, overseeing activities of 260 art museums in Russia. - The State Museum St Isaac’s Cathedral Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg is the largest Russian Orthodox cathedral in the city. It is dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, a patron saint of Peter the Great, who had been born on the feast day of that saint. This tour is an introduction to St Isaac’s interior decor that represents a synthesis of various forms of decorative and monumental art. The special lighting design provides a unique opportunity to see the interior decoration as a unified whole, in which each decorative element is related to the architecture to produce a coherent ensemble. 22-24 January 2014 PARTICIPANT MANUAL Business tour to the construction of the new venue EXPOFORUM – convention and exhibition arena (by previous registration) The tour stars on 24th January at 2.30 pm from the Congress Center PetroCongress. The business tour includes the visiting of the exhibition pavilions and Gallery of the passenger, knowing the services and opportunities of the multifunctional halls of the congress center, approach to the front line. The venue will operate from 2014 and become the first international scale venue in St.Petersburg that could hold the major business, sport and entertainment events. Register to the excursion tour or business tour to the EXPOFORUM you can on 22nd and 23rd January (until 1 pm) at the registration desk. 22-24 January 2014 PARTICIPANT MANUAL St. Petersburg in Facts and Figures Location: • Eastern Europe, the Eastern shore of the Baltic Sea (Gulf of Finland) Latitude: Longitude: • 59 degrees 57' North • 30 degrees 19' East Time Zone: • GMT +3, Eastern +8 Founded: • 16 (27) May, 1703 Population: • 4 million 850 thousand (as of 2010) How does St. Petersburg compare? • The most Northern city in the world with a population over 1 million Area: • 1400 square kilometers Main river: • Neva. The city is located in the delta of the Neva River on numerous islands, a fact which prompted some observers to call it "The City on 101 Islands" Help phones of St.-Petersburg Railroad stations and airports of St. Petersburg Pulkovo - 1 Airport Baltiysky railroad station Arrival hall: +7 812 704 36 11 , 704 38 22 (inquiry Naberezhnaya Obvodnogo Kanala, 120 service) Metro station "Baltiyskaya" Pulkovo - 2 Airport Information about train schedule: Phone - 055 Arrival hall: +7 812 704 34 44 (inquiry service) Finlyandsky railroad station Moskovsky railroad station 22-24 January 2014 PARTICIPANT MANUAL Pl. Vosstaniya, 2 Pl. Lenina, 6 Metro station "Ploshad' Vosstaniya" Metro station "Ploshad' Lenina" Information about train schedule: Phone - 055 Information about train schedule: Phone - 055 Ladozhsky railroad station Seaport Zanevsky pr., 73 Pl. Morskoy Slavy, 1 Metro station "Ladozhskaya" Metro station "Primorskaya", "Vasileostrovskaya" Information about train schedule: Phone - 055 Phone: +7 812 322 60 52 Vitebsky railroad station Riverside station Zagorodny pr., 52 Pr.