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VU building
The main building of the VU is a typical Dutch 1970’s office building: a lot of concrete, spacious and efficient. In itself it is, however, a pleasant working environment and an efficient and compact congress venue.
The congress venue is a multi-level area. Stairs and elevators connect the different levels. We apologize for the inconvenience this may create to wheelchair users, since the routing to the different locations is not always very efficient. We have supplied the area with additional routing information. If you need any assistance, however, please do not hesitate to ask one of the student assistants or organizers!
The congress activities are situated at the first floor of the hall of the main building. The congress desk is located right from the main entrance (where you enter the main building from the Boelelaan) at the ground floor. Also at the ground floor is the restaurant, a bookshop and you will find rest rooms and public telephones there. Dinner takes place in the restaurant, right from the congress desk. The preview room with PC’s and Powerpoint is situated behind the congress desk.
On the first floor you will find the auditorium and the foyer at slightly different floor levels. In the foyer the exhibition and poster area are situated. This is also the area where coffee & tea breaks and the ‘walking’ lunch will take place.

Congress Desk
The congress desk is open from Tuesday 8.00hr till Thursday 17.00hr. Apart from final registration and the purchase of the congress material and bag, Femke Hoekstra and Kirsten Bijker will be there for all your other questions.
During the congress, the official congress Polo-shirts will be sold here. Patricia Nieuwenhuizen will be available for (late!) payments and/or reimbursements. Behind the desk is the Powerpoint preview room. A student assistant will be available for your questions and to collect your digital material and the transportation of your presentation to the auditorium.

Auditorium
The oral program will take place in the auditorium. This is a well-accessible and well-equipped conference room. This room also has an internal balcony level that allows overall some 280 participants. The balcony is accessible for those who arrive later in a session by two additional entrances at the level of the external balcony of the foyer, the location where the poster-sessions take place. Student assistants (blue polo’s, blue dots on their name tag) will be available in the room for any questions of the presenters, chairs or participants.

Powerpoint
Keynote speakers and free oral presenters must check their Powerpoint presentation prior to presentation in the preview room on the ground floor, behind the congress desk. Laptop/PC’s are available there full-time. Powerpoint files/presentations (DVD/CD-rom or memory stick) must be delivered to one of the student assistants in the Preview Room personally and at least 2 hours prior to your presentation (but better: as soon as possible!). The student assistants will transfer the material on one of the two 2 portable harddisks to the auditiorium and will take care of transferring your presentation onto the projection computer. Please check any video prior to the presentation on each new medium that you will use (transfer and re-direct video clips to the final location on the medium). Co-ordinator: Sonja de Groot.

Posters
During the full three days of the congress posters are presented on the balcony area, left from the auditorium and looking over the foyer. They are to be positioned in portray format. Posters are to be fixed onto the designated boards (see your poster number in the abstract book) with velcro that is available at the congress venue. Designated poster sessions are held on the Wednesday and Thursday 11.30-12.30hr following a scheme of odd and even numbers given to each poster; please see the program.
The poster presenters are asked to be with their poster during these special poster sessions.
Only use velcro tape for the posters. Do not use pins! The velcro tape is available with the organisers. Co-ordinator: Thomas Janssen

Exhibition
The exhibition area is on the first floor in the foyer and is open between Tuesday 8.00hr and Thursday 17.00hr. The exhibition area is set up according to the map with designated sites for each of the companies. Co-ordinator: Han Houdijk

Connectivity
You can be reached during the congress by telephone (00 31 20-5985973) which connects to the congress desk.
During the conference internet connected PC’s are available at the congress desk. Participants may check their e-mail there. If you have any questions please ask Sonja de Groot

Financial issues
Please refer to the congress desk for any financial questions.
To obtain cash money at any time from your bank account with your pin-coded bank card, please see the money machine outside the VU Main building, to your left in the wall. In most shops in the Netherlands you can pay with a pin-coded bank card.

Accreditation
This conference is accredited by the Dutch Society of Rehabilitation Medicine and The Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy (KNGF) is applied for accreditation. Participants who require a statement from the organization can apply for it at the conference desk. Co-ordinator: Rienk Dekker, Peter van Aanholt.

Badge Identification Code
Please, wear you badge at all times. The Main Building is open to the public, as is the congress venue. Badge identification is important, both in the Auditorium as well as in the poster, lunch and exhibition area. A badge identification code is used for you to identify relevant others in the organization. The badge code uses the following key:
Orange: Organization committee (Sonja de Groot, Kirsten Bijker, Femke Hoekstra, Thomas Janssen, Han Houdijk, Rienk Dekker, Peter van Aanholt, Lucas van der Woude)
Green: Conference desk (Femke Hoekstra and Kirsten Bijker) and financial administration (Marijan van Neck, Patricia Nieuwenhuizen)
Red: Scientific Committee & session chairs
Blue: Student-assistants
Purple: Keynote speakers
Yellow: Presenters of posters and oral material
Different persons can and will have multiple colors on their badge.

Dinners
Dinners will be served on Tuesday and Wednesday from 19.00hr until 21.00hr in the Restaurant, right from the Congress desk. Entertainment will be provided during the dinners.

Night in town
On Wednesday April 9, a pub tour to ‘De Wallen’ will be organized. This area in central Amsterdam is the largest and best-known red-light-district of Amsterdam. You can visit typically Dutch pubs and discover the nightlife of Amsterdam guided by our own student-assistants. At 21.00hr the student-assistants will be waiting for you at the congress desk. If you have any questions about the pub tour you can ask one of the student-assistants.

Bus tour
On Friday April 10, a bus tour will be organized to two rehabilitation centers in the area (Rehabilitation Center Amsterdam and Heliomare Wijk aan Zee). Maximally 48 persons can participate. A bus will leave at 9.00hr from the VU University and will return at 17.00hr. The costs for this tour are Euro 25 (lunch included). Registration is possible at the congress desk.