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21 November 1996
Full-length versions of Keynote Addresses and Sub-Plenary Session Papers as well
as abstracts of Inter-Divisional Session Papers have been added to the documentation.
They can be accessed from Papers and Abstracts page directly or through keyword
search. How Internet was utilised in IUFRO'95 has been reported to congress professionals
in severall events. You may wish to have a look at the ESAE
presentation outline.
1 September 1995
The congress web information has got a new home page for the post-congress
use. It is a merge
between the pre-congress home page and the on-site home page. We
have designed the new home page with the purpose of helping both the
people who attended the congress and those who did not.
21 August 1995
The congress web information change to post-congress state has been started. The
congress abstracts can now be read and searched.
Expect later more features that were available in the congress.
28 July 1995
Regrettably two Keynote Speakers have informed IUFRO of not being able to
attend the Congress.
Ms. Elizabeth Dowdeswell's paper "People, Forest and the Environment" on
Tuesday, 8 August at 8:30 in Room T1 will be delivered by the Deputy
Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme, Prof. Reuben
Olembo.
Dr. Jean-Pierre Troy will be replaced by Dr. Andrew
Bennett, Chief Natural Resources Adviser at the British Overseas Development
Administration. The title for the Keynote Address on Wednesday, 9 August at
8:30 is "Sustainable Land-Use: The Interdependence Between Forestry and Agriculture".
Registration Update 28 July (hotels 10 July). Excursions
6, 8 and 13 are fully booked, and no more participants can be accepted for Excursions
15 and 17 due to special arrangements for entry to Russia. Some tips regarding
the hotels and new Congress Statistics may also be found in the document.
Arrival Information letter for a final check
about practical matters.
14 July 1995
Registration Update 13 July (hotels 10 July). Excursions
6, 8 and 13 are fully booked.
12 July 1995
A Stamp Booklet will be issued in honour of the Congress.
The Booklet, First Day Cover and the First Day of Issue cancellation will be available
from the Congress Post Office. You can also order them by fax, phone or mail -
see < A HREF="stamps2.htm">Ordering information.
10 July 1995
Preliminary daily programmes for most Post-Congress excursions
have been added today [1, 2, 3,
4, 6, 7,
8, 10, 11,12,
13, 14, 17].
CONGREX had to reduce the quota in some of the hotels. Registration
Update gives information on the available rooms within the CONGREX quota
as of 10 July. The Congress Organisers cannot guarantee the accommodation for
those maki n g the reservations after this date. If you are planning to register
on-site, please bear this in mind.
3 July 1995
Registration Update 30 June. The scientifig programme
has been fully updated (but not tested thorouhgly). The list of posters by Division is also available. Please let us have
your comments regarding the documentation.
15 June 1995
Registration Update 15 June. Please note that we had
to cancel Excursions 5, 9 and 16 due to lack of participants. You might also want
to check the Satellite events some of which are new.
8 June 1995
Registration Update 8 June. The page now provides the
exact number of vacant seats on excursions as well as hotel vacancies by room
type.
6 June 1995
The session information has been fully updated. Please note that there are several changes in the times and places of the sessions. There are, however, still some changes to be made in the programme, but these are mostly related to papers and speakers.
The mounting of posters will take place on Tuesday morning from 07:00 (7 am) onwards (NOT during Monday as announced earlier). The poster exhibition will be opened on Tuesday at 13:00 (1 pm).
12 May 1995
Registration Update 12 May. Please note that hotels
Rantasipi Tampere, Cumulus Hämeenpuisto, Kauppi and Victoria are fully
booked. If you wish to stay at hotels Cumulus Koskikatu, Arctia Tampere, Tammer,
Villa or Pinja you should find someone to share the room with or reserve a double
room for individual use since there are only double rooms available. There is
new information available for golfers.
The documentation on Opening and Closing Ceremonies has also been updated.
8 May 1995
Search the online congress information using keywords!
Simply type keywords of your choice into a text field, click the "search" button,
and follow the list of links. You can use the boolean operators and/or between
your keywords to form more specific searches. You can also truncate keywords with
an asterisk, e.g., silvicultur*.
7 April 1995
Registration Update 7 April. Please note that hotels
1, 6, 12 and 13 are fully booked.
30 March 1995
You may already have noticed that the Congress Programme can now be accessed via
a clickable schedule. The number of registered delegates
and accompanying persons and those participating in the In-Congress Tour as well
as booking situation for hotels and excursions can be checked on Registration Update page (normally accessed through Post-Congress Excursions, Accommodation or Registration page.
23 March 1995
Some 260 Delegates and 40 Accompanying Persons have already registered in
the Congress. Hotel Kauppi and Hotel Victoria are already fully booked.
In-Congress Tour seems to be very popular, we have close to 200 bookings by
now. The excursions are also well received. The Baltic Excursion is
leading: almost half of the seats have been reserved.
All the detailed information on Divisional and Congress
Group sessions which has been made available for the Congress Secretariat
has been included in the WWW documentation. Please note that there may still
be changes in the programme, especially regarding the meeting rooms.
The accommodation information published earlier
as a separate Hotel Guide has also been included in the WWW documentation.
10 March 1995
The first registration form was returned on Friday, 17 February, 1995. About
100 participants and 30 accompanying persons have already registered.
The pictures of Congress Organising Committee have been
added. Divisional and Congress Group Sessions can
now be viewed chronologically and by Division. The detailed information on most
sessions will appear shortly. Please provide us with comments and useful links.
17 February 1995
The printing of the Congress Registration Package was finalised on
Wednesday, 15 February, 1995, and all the 15 000
copies are currently being
mailed to both the member organizations of IUFRO and the individuals who
have indicated their
interest in participating the Congress earlier.
The home page has been updated and most of the Registration Package
material has been incorporated in the WWW documentation.
The current documentation is still partly in testing phase, so please bear
with us. All comments regarding the WWW documentation are most welcome.
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