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PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Tuesday, 20th May 2014: International ClinicalTrials Day

Wednesday, 21st May 2014: ECRAN Project Meeting

Neumnster Abbey, Luxembourg City, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg

Welcome Desk

Contact persons

Our team is pleased to welcome and inform you in the lobby of the conference room

Jos Ensch during all the meetings. Just follow the signs WELCOME DESK

For any questions including your stay at a hotel or any other information, please

contact:

- Tania Zamboni [email protected] +352 26 970 801 / +352 621 491 800

Registration

To register for the International Clinical Trials Day and / or for the ECRAN

Project meetings, please sign up online: ECRIN & ICTD Registration

Meeting venue Neumnster Abbey

Address: 28,rue Mnster L-2160 Luxembourg (G.-D. de Luxembourg)

Phone: (+352) 26 20 52 1 Fax: (+352) 26 20 19 80 E-mail: [email protected]

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From Luxembourg AIRPORT by bus:

By CAR

From Luxembourg RAILWAY STATION:

Bus line N16 or N9 in direction of Centre - Garehttp://www.vdl.lu/vdl_multimedia/PdfLigne16.pdf

(Mo-Fr: from 5h30 am every 10 min / Su: from 6 am every 30 min)

http://www.vdl.lu/vdl_multimedia/PdfLigne9.pdf

(from 5h24 amMo-Sa: every 15 min / Sunday: every 30 min) This ride takes maximum 30 minutes to Gare Centrale (Central

Luxembourg Railway station)

Take bus line N23http://www.vdl.lu/vdl_multimedia/PdfLigne23.pdf

(Mo-Fr: from 6h49 am every 30 minutes / Su: from 9h29 am until 7h29 pm

every 60 min)

Get off at the bus stop Stadtgronn-Brk

This ride takes max 5 minutes

Walk over the little bridge, turn left twice, and you arrive atthe Neumnster Abbey

If you come by car please contact [email protected]. It will be a pleasure to

tell you where to park and how to come to the meeting venue.

Take bus line N23 http://www.vdl.lu/vdl_multimedia/PdfLigne23.pdf

(Mo-Fr: from 6h49 am every 30 minutes / Su: from 9h29 am until 7h29

pm every 60 min)

Get off at the bus stop Stadtgronn-Brk.

This ride takes max 5 minutes

Walk over the little bridge, turn lef twice, and you arrive at the

Neumnster Abbey

How to reach the meeting venue?

Bus stop

Stadtgronn-Br

Neumnster

Abbey

NeumnsAbbey

Bus stop

Stadtgronn-Br
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HOTELS

We provide you all information regarding the hotels in thesurroundings of the meeting venue here below.

To book your room please contact the hotel directly.

Hotel

Walking

distance to

the meeting

venue

Address Contact DetailsPrice / night

and personWebsite hotel

otel

auban 850 m

10 Place Guillaume II

L-1648 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 22 04 93

Fax: +352 22 04 [email protected] 90 - 140 www.hotelvauban.lu

otel Grand

avat1.0 km

29, boulevard F.D.

Roosevelt

L-2450 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 22 19 75

fax: +352 22 67 11

[email protected]

200 www.hotelcravat.lu

otel Place

armes1.1 km

18 place d'Armes

L-1136 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 27 47 37

Fax: +352 27 47 38

info@hotel-

leplacedarmes.com

205

minimum

www.hotel-

leplacedarmes.com/

en/home

otel Sofitel

ntre-ville1.1 km

35, rue du Laboratoire

L-1911 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 248771Fax: +352 26480223

[email protected]

210

www.sofitel.com/gb

hotel-5555-sofitel-luxembourg-le-

grand-

ducal/index.shtml

otel

anais1.0 km

14, Place dArmes

L-1136 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 47 45 34

Fax: +352 46 42 74

[email protected]

120 - 140 www.hotelfrancais.l

otel

ovotel City

enter

1.1 km35, rue du Laboratoire

L-1911 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 248781

[email protected]

Fax: +352 26480224

120

www.accorhotels.co

m/gb/hotel-5556-

novotel-luxembourg

centre/index.shtml

otel

olden Tulip1.2 km

Avenue De La Liberte 28

L-1930 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 489 911

reservations@goldentuli

pcentralmolitor.com

115 - 135www.goldentulipcen

tralmolitor.com

ark Inn by

adisson1.1 km

Avenue de la Gare 45-

47

L-1611 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 268 91 81

Fax: +352 2689 1899

info.luxembourg@rezido

rparkinn.com

149 - 165www.parkinn.com/h

otel-luxembourg

roupoeres -

ark Plaza

1.6 km5 avenue Marie-Thrse

L-2132 Luxembourg

Tel. : +352 45 61 411

Fax : +352 45 61 41 222reception.plaza@goeres-

group.com

100 - 130www.parcplaza.lu/u/index.php
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HOTELS

We provide you all information regarding the hotels in thesurroundings of the meeting venue here below.

To book your room please contact the hotel directly.

Hotel

Walking

distance to

the meeting

venue

Address Contact Details

Price /

night and

person

Website hotel

Hotel Victor

Hugo 1.9 km3 avenue Victor Hugo

L-1750 Luxemburg

Tel: +352 2627440

Fax: +352 26864730

[email protected]

western.de

140 - 160

http://www.bestwestern

.de/hotels/Luxemburg/B

EST-WESTERN-PLUS-

Grand-Hotel-Victor-Hugo

Htel Le

Chatelet1.6 km

2, Boulevard de la

Ptrusse

L-2320 Luxembourg

Tel: + 352 40 21 01

Fax: +352 40 36 66

[email protected]

115 - 125 www.chatelet.lu/en

Alvisse Parc

Hotel4.1 km

Route d'Echternach

L-1453 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 43 56 43 0

Fax: +352 43 69 0389 - 107 www.parc-hotel.lu

Hotel-

Restaurant

Sieweburen

4.0 km

36, rue des

Septfontaines

L-2534 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 44 23 56

Fax: +352 44 23 53

105 www.sieweburen.lu/en

Hotel Double

Tree by Hilton4.8 km

12 Rue Jean Engling

L 1466 Luxembourg

Tel: +352-43-781

Fax: +352-43-6095175

http://doubletree3.hilto

n.com/en/hotels/luxem

ourg/doubletree-by-

hilton-hotel-luxembourg

LXMHIDI/about/index.ht

ml

Hotel Melia

Kirchberg2.7 km

10 Rue Fort Thuengen

L-1499 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 27333-1

Fax: +352 27333-999

melia.luxembourg@m

elia.com

150

www.melia.com/en/hot

els/luxembourg/luxemb

ourg/melia-

luxembourg/index.html

Hotel

Campanile

Luxembourg

Airport)

7.2 km

22 ROUTE DE TREVES

SENNINGERBERG

L-2633 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 34 95 95

Fax: +352 34 94 95

Luxembourg@campani

le.com

Single

room: 105

Double

room: 116

www.campanile-

luxembourg-

airport.lu/en/index.aspx

BIS

Luxembourg

Airport

6.0 km

Route de Trves

L-2632 Luxembourg

Findel

Tel: +352 438801

Fax: +352 438802

[email protected]

78 - 100

www.accorhotels.com/g

b/hotel-0974-ibis-

luxembourg-

aeroport/index.shtml

NH HotelFindel (Airport)

7.0 km1 Route de Treves

L-1019 Luxembourg

Tel. +352 340 571nhluxembourg@nh-

hotels.com

120 - 160

www.nh-

hotels.com/nh/en/hotel

/luxembourg/luxembour

g/nh-luxembourg.html
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Tuesday, May 20th 2014

International ClinicalTrials Day

09h30 Registration and coffee

10h00 10h15 Welcome and why are we here? Dr Christian Gluud, Denmark

10h15 10h30 What are ECRIN and ECRIN-ERIC? Director Jacques Demotes-Mainard, France

10h30 11h00 Relaunch of The James Lind Library. Sir Iain Chalmers, UK

11h00 11h30 Clinical studies with group sequential designs or adaptive designs: a user

perspective. Prof Philip Hougaard, Lundbeck A/S, Denmark

11h30 11h45 Coffee break

11h45 12h15 Approaches to adaptive designs. Prof Peter Bauer, Austria

12h15 12h45 When are adaptive designs really needed? Prof Christopher Jennison, UK

12h45 13h15 Round table discussions on adaptive trial designs

13h15 14h45 Lunch and coffee

14h45 15h30 Credibility and bias in the results of clinical trials. Prof John P.A. Ioannidis, U.S.A.

15h30 16h00 Did the World Medical Association get their last revision of the Declaration of

Helsinki right? Prof Silvio Garattini, Italy

16h00 16h15 Presentation of the ECRAN project. Dr Paola Mosconi, Italy

16h15 16h30 The ECRAN Film

17h30 19h00 Social Programme: Robert Schuman Circular Guided Walk

http://www.lcto.lu/en/place/toursonrequest/schuman-circular-walk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schuman

19h30 Cultural Dinner @ Neumnster Abbey

PROGRAMME
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Wednesday, May 21st 2014

ECRAN Project Meeting

09:30 09:40 Welcome and introduction by the EU Commission. EU Commissioner.

09:40 09:50 Presentation of the ECRAN film. Dr Paola Mosconi, Italy and Dr Christian Gluud, DK.

09:50 10:10 The importance to promote independent clinical trials: where are the European

researchers? Director Jacques Demotes-Mainard, ECRIN-ERIC.

10:10 10:30 Why evidence-based medicine is so important for designing clinical research and

clinical practice. Editor-in-Chief David Tovey, The Cochrane Library, UK.

10:30 11:00 Transparency: an imperative in clinical research. Professor An-Wen Chan, Canada.

11:00 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 11:40 The ECRAN project: materials and tools. Dr Paola Mosconi, ECRAN.

11:40 12:10 Experiences from participation in design and promotion of randomised clinical trials:

examples from patients organisations.

Chair Brian West, EATG, Tams Bereczky, EATG and invited speakers.

12:10 12:30 Impact of journals, web and social networks in promoting clinical trials.

Clinical Editor Europe, Wim Weber, The BMJ, UK

12:30 13:00 General discussion. Paola Mosconi, Jacques Demotes-Mainard, and Christian Gluud.

13:00 14:00 Lunch

14:00 15:00 What are the bottlenecks in disseminating information on clinical trials and how can we

blow up the bottlenecks?

Consumers and patients organisation. Invited speakers.

The European Network of Health Care Journalists. Senior Lecturer John Lister, UK.

The evidence-based community. Director Gerd Antes, Germany.

The clinical researchers. Professor Silvio Garattini, Italy

Testing Treatments. Sir Iain Chalmers, UK.

15:00 16:15 Five break out groups

16:15 16:45 How, when and who should speak about clinical trials? Report from the five break outs.

Chairs: Jacques Demotes-Mainard, Paola Mosconi and Christian Gluud.

PROGRAMME


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Luxembourg (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) is a country in the western Europe, bordered by

Belgium, France and Germany.

LANGUAGES

National language: Luxembourgish / Other languages: French, German and English

TIME ZONEUTC/GMT +1 hour. Here a link to convert the time depending on your country of origin:

Worldclock converter

CURRENCY: The official currency is the Euro (EUR).

CLIMATE:

Like most of the Western Europe, Luxembourg has a moderate climate. The seasons are

characterized by cool summers and cold, cloudy and humid winters. A nice time of the year to

visit is spring (May to June) and autumn (September to October). For the festive period at the

end of the year, the weather can also become dry, cold or snowy.

ELECTRICITY:

The voltage in Luxembourg is 220v and the standard European two-pin plug is used. North

American and British travelers are advised to bring adaptors with them to Luxembourg as

they are not widely available in the city.

INVITATION LETTER VISA:

For visa application, if you need conference invitation letter, please contact:

[email protected] . Invitation letter will be issued to registered participants only. If

you need more information about visa for your travel to Luxembourg, please see here:

www.mae.luEMERGENCY CALLS:

Police Grand-Ducale: Phone 113 - www.police.lu

Medical and fire rescue: Phone 112

Key facts about Luxembourg and further information as restaurants, please visit these

websites:

National Tourist Board (ONT): www.visitluxembourg.com/en

Luxembourg City Tourist Office (LCTO): www.lcto.lu

www.lonelyplanet.com/luxembourg

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT LuxembourgPreparing your stay

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