Venue
VaMoS 2008 will take place in Essen, Germany and will be hosted by Software
Systems Engineering
of the University of
Duisburg-Essen.
Workshop Location
The workshop will take place at the Pädagogische Hochschule (PH), Henri-Dunant-Straße 65 in Essen.
Timetables for Essen public transport can be found here.
Host City
The city of Essen, the European Capital of Culture 2010, is situated in the middle of the Ruhr Metropolitan Region, a multicultural megalopolis with over 5 million inhabitants.
For further information on the city of Essen and the cultural opportunities the city offers, please visit www.essen.de.
Travel
Essen can be easily reached from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) by train, which takes about 25 minutes from the railway station to Essen main station ("Hauptbahnhof" / "Hbf.").
There are also frequent train connections between Essen and Köln-Bonn airport (CGN), which takes about 70 minutes, and Frankfurt airport (FRA), which takes about 2 hours.
Below you can find a few suggestions for hotels and how to reach the workshop location from those hotels:
- Best Western Ypsilon Hotel - http://www.hotel-essen.de
in walking distance from the workshop location
- Hotel Arosa - http://www.hotel-arosa-essen.de
workshop location can be reached via bus lines 160 and 161
- Hotel im Giradet-Haus - http://www.hotel-girardet.de
in walking distance from the workshop location
- Hotel Sheraton - http://www.starwoodhotels.com
workshop location can be reached via bus lines 145 and 146

