Useful Information

1. LOCATIONS

  • WORKSHOP VENUE

+++ Due to the ongoing construction work in front of our building, we suggest to walk through the car park.+++

Our workshop will take place at the Center for the Humanities (KWZ) at the University of Göttingen, room number 0.602.
University of Göttingen
KWZ, Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum
Heinrich Düker Weg 14
37073 Göttingen

  • HOTEL

All speakers are accommodated at GHOTEL hotel & living Göttingen.
Bahnhofsallee 1a
37081 Göttingen

All the other participants are kindly requested to arrange their own accommodations (max 100€ & breakfast per night).

  • GETTING AROUND

The train station, the hotel and the workshop venue are conveniently located within a walking distance of 6-18 minutes.

Train station – Hotel (walking distance 6 mins)

Hotel – Workshop Venue (walking distance 18 mins)

2. TRAVEL, ACCOMMODATION & REIMBURSEMENT

Arriving by plane and train to Göttingen
The nearest major airport from Göttingen is Frankfurt (FRA). From Frankfurt Airport you can take an intercity express train directly to Göttingen, it takes about 2h to get to Göttingen. Other airports within 2-3h from Göttingen are Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig and Hannover. For all topics regarding timetables for train connections, online tickets, and seat reservations, please refer to the German Railway website: https://www.bahn.com/en/view/index.shtml

 

Accommodation & Travel Expenses
Our guests will be reimbursed for travel expenses and accommodation in Göttingen. We will cover accommodation costs in Ghotel for two (max three) nights.
To this end, please keep all your receipts (including e-tickets, boarding passes, receipts, and others). We cover economy-class flights and second-class train travel.  We kindly ask you to book early and check for saver-airfare offers. Money can only be transferred to (either private or institutional) accounts.

Visa
In case you need a visa for Germany, please kindly send us your travel information: Name, address, passport number, birth date and place of birth, and travel dates. We will then issue an invitation for you.

Reimbursement
In order for us to reimburse your travel expenses and transfer the honorarium, please fill out and sign the reimbursement form (page 1), and attach your original receipts and tickets.
We cover economy-class flights and second-class train travel. Money can be transferred to private or institutional accounts.

The University of Göttingen can reimburse travel expenses that are directly related to the trip to our event. If you are planning a longer visit or want to attend other conferences/events as part of your trip, please let us know as early as possible. If this is the case, Uni Göttingen usually reimburses the trip to Göttingen or back home. In such a case, please obtain a separate receipt for each flight or otherwise submit a statement that another institution/another party provides 50% of the costs for your return flight. If you need assistance, have questions, or need an official statement for your travel to Göttingen, feel free to contact us.

Please send the signed form together with your original receipts and tickets as pdf-scan and then via post to:

cemeas@uni-goettingen.de

CeMEAS, Centre for Modern East Asian Studies
University of Goettingen
Heinrich Dueker Weg 14
37073 Goettingen
Germany