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Welcome Guide for EBEC Final Partners
01.08.-09.08.2014Riga, Latvia
Welcome to EBEC Final 2014 3
Schedule of the event 4
Official opening day 6
Competition days 7
Official closing day 8
Welcome to Riga 10
How to get to Riga 11
Hotels in Riga 12
Tourism in Riga 13
We are waiting for you! 14
Contacts 15
Content
Welcome to EBEC Final 2014
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BEST strives to help European students of technology to become more internationally minded by reaching a better understanding of European cultures and developing capacities to work on an international basis. European BEST Engineering Competition (EBEC) is the largest in Engineering Competition in Europe, conducted by students for students.
This year EBEC Final gathers • 32 countries• 87 leading technical universities • 6500 participants from all over Europe
The purpose of this document is to help company representatives reach a better understand-ing of EBEC and to let them know about the activities which will happen during the event.
Aveiro
Del�
Izmir
Saint Petersburg
Krakow
Wroclaw
Faro
Podgorica
Vinnytsia
Mostar
Prague
Las Palmas
Valencia
Trento
Erlangen
Aachen
Schedule of the Event4
TIMEOfficial
Opening Day (2.08.)
1st Competition day (3.08.)
2nd Competition day (4.08.)
Free day (5.08.)
Case Study by BEST
Team Design by BEST
Case Study by BEST
Team Design by BEST
8:30-9:00 Arriving
9:00-9:45Press
conferencePresenting Task
Task time
9:45-10:00
Task time Task time Task time
10:00-10:30 Opening Ceremony
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
CoffeeBreak
11:30-12:0012:00-12:30
12:30-13:00
13:00-13:30Official Photo Lunch
13:30-14:0014:00-14:30
LunchTask time
Task time
Task time Task time14:30-15:0015:00-15:30 Rules +
introduction15:30-16:0016:00-16:30 Orientation
Presentation and
evaluation of task
Presentation and evalua-tion of task
Presentation and evalua-tion of task
16:30-17:0017:00-17:3017:30-18:0018:00-18:30
18:30-19:00
19:00-19:3019:30-20:0020:00-20:3020:30-21:0021:00-21:3021:30-22:0022.00 -22.3022:30-23:0023:00-
3rd Competition day (6.08.)
4th Competition day (7.08.)
Official Closing Day (8.08.) TIME
Case Study by EPO
Team Design by FIMA
Case Study by DB
Case Study by DB
Team Design by FIMA
Arriving 8:30-9:00
Presenting EPO and its task
Presenting Fima and its task
Presenting DB and its task
Task time
CS presentations
9:00-9:45
Task time Task time Task time
9:45-10:00Škoda Auto
presentation10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
Transportatio to FAUP
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break 11:30-12:00
TD Show
12:00-12:30
12:30-13:00
Lunch13.00.-13.30
13:30-14:00
Task time
Task time
Task time Task time
14:00-14:30Official Photo 14:30-15:00
Lunch15:00-15:3015:30-16:00
Presentation and evaluation
of task
Presentation and evaluation
of task
Presentation and evaluation
of task
Job Fair & Interviews
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:00
17:00-17.3017:30-18:0018:00-18:30
Transportation to the Ceremony
18:30-19:00
Closing ceremo-ny & Dinner
19:00-19:3019:30-20:00
Dinner for EBEC Final Partners Only
20:00-20:3020:30-21:0021:00-21:3021:30-22:0022:00-22:3022:30 - 23.0023.00-
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Press ConferenceDuring the Press Conference, EBEC will be in the spotlight. Media Partners will be there to gather information about the event and share it further for publications.
Official Opening CeremonyEBEC Final 2014 will take place in Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning (FAUP), with address on Āzenes street 18/20. The faculty is part of RTU Creative Industries Centre and it is the first renovated building within the university’s campus project RTU — City within a city. During the ceremony there will be speeches of University Authorities, Special Guests and EBEC Organizers. There will be also introduction sponsors and partners of competition.
Mathworks PresentationAs supporter of the event, Mathworks will and invite students for a challenge parallel to EBEC Final competition.
LunchLunch will take place in Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning (FAUP) on Āzenes street 18/20.
Rules and IntroductionParticipants will gather, in order to have rules of competition explained and to be introduced to all the bodies involved in the organisation of EBEC Final in FAUP on Āzenes street 18/20
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Official Opening Day
Competition Days
Competition
Participants will be working in teams solving their tasks. There will be coffee breaks through-out the day in a room conditioned for this purpose.
Presenting Task
Tasks will take place in FAUP on Āzenes street 18/20 for Team Design and Case Study, start-ing with 9.00 am. Please be there around 8:40 am so that technical matters can be checked before starting.
The company representatives will have 20 minutes to make a presentation for participants to have a better background about the company and 25 minutes to make a presentation about the task they will present. You may be assisted by the Topic responsible, depending how you prepared your task presentation. Logistics such as beamer, laptop, sound will be provided by organisers.
In case you need something else please let the person you are in contact with know what do you need.
Presentation and Evaluation of Task
During this time each team will present their solutions to the jury (both company repre-sentatives and professors from Riga Technical University), which will have also right to ask questions in order to reach a better understanding of the solutions.
Official Dinner
Company representatives will be invited to have dinner with members of BEST in charge of corporate relations. It will take place on 7th of August at 20.00. The place will be communi-cated by your contact person from BEST Corporate Relations.
Please confirm as soon as possible your attendance and the number of representatives join-ing us to make proper arrangements. We aim to have all our partners present so we can share useful highlights for the following day and get to know better.
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The activities during our last day of the event will take place in the FAUP building located at Āzenes iela - 18/20.
Case Study Presentations
Everyone will meet in FAUP on Āzenes street 18/20. The representatives of each company are invited to talk about the solutions of their task and highlight the best or the most curious solutions of the participants. The presentation will last for 10 min per company.
Škoda Auto Presentation
As supporter of the event, Škoda Auto has a chance to present its profile and career oppor-tunities.
Team Design Show
Everyone will meet in FAUP on Āzenes street 18/20. The representatives of each company are invited to talk about the solutions of their task and highlight the best or the most curious solutions of the participants. The presentation will last for 10 min per company. During this part the result is still confidential, no teams should know their place.
Official Closing Day
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Official Photo
Participants, Company and University representatives will gather to take the official picture of the event in front of FAUP on Āzenes iela 18/20.
We would be very pleased to have you there. We kindly invite you to join the Official Closing Day in the morning to follow the tasks presentations of the participants.
LunchThe lunch will take place in FAUP on Āzenes iela 18/20.
Job Fair
During the job fair, you have opportunity to interact personally with all students who are the participants and organisers of this event and come from all around Europe. Furthermore, it is possible to arrange personal interviews with the students you elect in advance. We provide you the BEST CVs of all students who participate in EBEC Final before the event starts. Our intention is to help you to make the most out of your participation during and after EBEC Final.
Announcements & Dinner
A banquet is offered in which the winners of each task and the overal winners of EBEC Final will be announced and granted their diplomas. This dinner and closure ceremony will take place in another location: Rīgas Latviešu Biedrības nams - Merķeļa iela 13
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Latvia is a keystone of Northern Europe’s prosperous Baltic Sea region. Latvia’s political, economical and cultural centre is in Rīga, where more than one third of Latvia’s popula-tion (644 thousand) lives and works. Rīga’s elegant Old Town and distinctive Art Nouveau architecture serve as a stimulating setting for a vibrant modern business and cultural life. Founded in 1201, this former Hanseatic League member is one of the oldest medieval cities in Europe and has been listed by UNESCO as one of the world’s most important cultural and natural sites..
Historically Riga has been a city with rich cultural life, so no wonder, it has earned the honour to become the European Capital of Culture 2014.
Welcome to Riga
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http://www.riga2014.org/eng
BY PLANERiga International Airport (Starptautiskā Lidosta Rīga in Latvian) (RIX) is located 10km south-west of Riga. The following airlines offer service from/to Riga International Airport: Aeroflot, airBaltic, Belavia, Czech Airlines, Finnair, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Norwegian Air Shut-tle, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Uzbekistan Airways, Wizz Air.
To travel between the airport to the city:
• Bus 22 runs between the airport and the old town, with a stop near the central bus and railway stations. The journey to the old town takes 40 minutes. The bus stop is located opposite the entrance of the terminal. There is a ticket machine at the bus stop. • Taxis can be expensive if a meter is used and a fixed price is not negotiated. Charges are as follows: hiring a taxi – €2.00; mileage rate per km €0.64; time rate of min €0.13. The ride to the center takes 15 minutes. We suggest you to take trustable BalticTAXI.
BY FERRYTallink operates a daily ferry service between Stockholm and Riga. Prices start at €28.
BY TRAINLatvian Railways operates service to many cities in Latvia as well as a few cities in Russia, Belarus, and Estonia.Trains depart for Moscow daily at 16:20 ('Latvijas Express') with an additional train departing at 18:10 from May to September ('Jurmala'). One overnight train bound for St. Petersburg ('Baltija Express') departs Riga daily at 18:50.
How to get to Riga
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http://www.hotelcentra.lv 1 Audeju Street Riga, LV-1050 Latvia Tel: +371 67 226441 e-mail: [email protected]
Distance to:Old City 290 m – 4 minutes walkOfficial opening ceremony: 1,8 km – 4 min drive
Hotels in Rigahttp://www.islandehotel.lv/Kipsalas street 20,Riga, LV–1048, LatviaTel: +371 67 608 000e–mail: [email protected]
Distance to:Official opening ceremony: 4,1 km – 7 min driveFAUP building, our location for Competition days and Official Closing Day - 5 min walkOld City: 3,3 km – 8 minutes drive
http://www.radissonblu.com/hotel-riga24 Kugu StreetRiga ,LV-1048, LatviaTel: +371 6706 1111Email: [email protected]
Distance to:Old City: 4,1 km – 8 minutes driveOfficial opening ceremony: 750 m – 2 min drive
Islande Hotel****
**** Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel
Hotel Centra****
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• Freedom Monument, 1 Brivibas iela. Freedom Monument is one of Latvia's national sym-bols. The statue of a woman holding three stars at the top of the monument represents Freedom embracing Latvia's regions.
• Old Riga - Of course, the Old Town of Riga, its heart, is its pearl! While wandering in the Old Town or in the blocks of Art Nouveau architecture, you will find numerous restau-rants and cafés.
• Spīķeri creative quarter and promenade - A 25-minute walk from the Old Town south-ward along the Daugava river takes you to a place with a creative and historic atmo-sphere. Together with the Central market, the place provides for a rather different expe-rience from that of the Old Town.
• The smallest Art Nouveau restaurant in the world Coffee Tower, Tērbatas iela 2f.• The Art Museum Riga Bourse (Rīgas Birža) Doma laukums 6, is located in the Riga Bourse
building that is an architectural monument of national importance. The museum offers to experience interrelation between East and West, as well as a dialogue between the classics and modernity.
Tourism in RigaThe largest Tourist Information Centre is located in Melngalvju nams (House of Blackheads, Rātslaukums 6) in Old Riga.
More information: http://www.liveriga.com/lv/
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Dear Partner of EBEC Final 2014,
Whenever you would like our support during your preparations for EBEC Final or simply have a question, please keep in touch with our colleague - your con-tact person from BEST Corporate Relations.
Once you arrive to Riga feel free to reach us at the contact details provided at the end of this welcome guide. We are here to assist you to make the best out of your EBEC experience!
Kind regards,
Jonathan Ramirez
EBEC Corporate Relations
We are waiting for you!
Jonathan Ramirez
EBEC Corporate Relations Responsible
+31 639 547745
Olcay SarıBEST Corporate Relations Coordinator
+31 62 948 4538
Gunta Meluškāne
EBEC Final Main Organizer
+371 29297519
Contacts
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