Parseme @ IasiCOST project meeting proposal

Proposed dates

• September 7-8, 2015 OR

•Any other suggestions, so that the PARSEME majority could come

Location and the available meeting rooms

3. Unirea Hotel 1. UAIC – building A

2. UAIC – building R

UAIC – A: available meeting rooms, fully equipped

• Aula Magna: 250+ seats

• Senate Hall: 70 * 2 seats, U-disposal, 35 mics, video-conference

• Ferdinand Hall: 60 seats, theatre disposal, video-conference

• Hall of Lost Steps – 600 m2 – for posters display

Aula Magna

Senate Hall

Ferdinand Hall

Hall of Lost Steps

UAIC, building R

Aula Magna

Access by public transport

• Direct flights: Bucharest, Viena, London, Tel Aviv, Rome, Bologna, Torino, Bolzano, and others to come

• Connected flights with all major European cities

• Access by train and bus

• public transport in Iasi is assured by trams, buses and minibuses

Estimation of hotel room prices

• Unirea (4*, 10’ walking distance from UAIC A) – 45-50 € (+ conference rooms, discount)

• Traian (4*, 10’ walking distance from UAIC A) – 45-50 €

• Ramada (3*, 50’ walking distance from UAIC A) – 55-60 €

• Astoria (3*, 10’ walking distance from UAIC A) – 30 €

• Select (4*, 10’ walking distance from UAIC A) – 45-50 €

Why Romania?

• Conveniently located near the center of Europe

• A country at the crossroads -- cultural, historic, geographic, and even linguistic crossroads. Participants can discover a unique combination of tangible Medieval past and modernity, Orthodox and Catholic culture, recent Soviet influence and new European realities.

• A country of legend: country of dragons and dark forests at the edge of the inhabited world, country of knights and castles, of Dracula and vampires…

Why Iasi?• The first Romanian university

• The National Theatre “Vasile Alecsandri” is the First National Theatre in Romania

• The First Botanical Garden in the Romanian Principalities (Iasi, 1856)

• The First Jewish Theatre in Romania and in the World

• The First Romanian Medical School, University-like, The Surgery School

• The Great Synagogue, the First Jewish Praying House, in Romania (Iasi, 1659-1670).

• The First Romanian Woman, Owner of the Title of a University Professor

• The First Romanian Surgeon Woman

• ….

• (possible) collocated with – 10 years, annually - ConsILR 2015 (International

Conference on Linguistic Resources And Tools For Processing The Romanian Language)

More information

• Romania • http://romaniatourism.com/

• Iasi• http://www.turism-iasi.ro/?id=101

• http://thor.info.uaic.ro/~corinfor/00-parseme/ - for some movies

PARSeME-rs, coME to Iasi!