Welcome Letter & Onsite Information

Practical Information for Participants

The online registration is now closed; onsite registrations are welcome for cash or credit card payment. Limited availability of all items included in regular registration package may occur.

If you are travelling from a country requiring visa, please make sure to have all your documents with you before you travel.

Weather Forecast

The weather in Prague is said to be a little unstable but generally warm – with some cloudy days and showers expected an umbrella may be useful. Average day temperatures are expected to be 18 to 24°C, rising to 27°C in clear days. Night temperatures may be as low as 7°C and as high as 12°C.

Getting to the Venue

In Prague, the Congress venue (Prague Congress Centre) is within easy reach of the public transportation – on metro line C, exit at Vyšehrad station – the venue is located just outside the station.

Please use Entrance No 4, the registration is located on the ground floor near the Entrance.

Registration Desk Contact

Should you need any assistance, please contact us at our Registration Desk direct line +420 724 545 565

Registration Opening Hours

Presenting Authors – Oral Presentations

If you are a presenting author within the oral programme of the Congress, please make sure to  deliver your presentation to the Speakers’ Preview at your earliest convenience but no later than 2 hours prior to your lecture. Please refer to Information for Oral Presentation Authors for technical information on your presentation. For detailed schedule of presentations, please refer to Sessions in Detail list.

The Speakers’ Preview room is located on the second floor of the venue (signposted onsite) and open as indicated below.

Presenting Authors – Poster Presentations

Poster presentation authors are kindly requested to mount their poster on Monday, June 6. The poster area is located on the second and third floor. Please follow the signage for the location of your allocated poster number. If you have not received your poster number information, please check the List of Posters. For further information on poster preparation, please refer to Information for Poster Presentation Authors.

All poster authors are encouraged to be present at their poster(s) during the poster presentation times:

Welcome Reception

Sunday, June 5 (from 19.30)

All Registered participants and their registered Accompanying persons are invited to the Welcome Reception; the Welcome reception is to be hosted in the Exhibition Area at the Prague Congress Centre.

Opening Ceremony

The Opening ceremony will be held in the Congress Hall.

The Eminent Scientist Award is to be awarded during the Ceremony; the Award is  presented on the occasion of each International  Rapeseed Congress held once every fourth year under the auspices of the GCIRC.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Prague and wish you a safe journey!

Yours,

13^th GCIRC Congress Secretariat
CZECH-IN s.r.o.
Tel.: +420 261 174 304
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Welcome Letter

Ladies and Gentlemen,

As announced during the last GCIRC Congress held in Wuhan, China, the 13th International GCIRC Rapeseed Congress will take place in 2011 in the Czech Republic.

It is my pleasure to cordially invite you on behalf of the Groupe Consultatif International de Recherche sur le Colza (GCIRC) to our small but beautiful country in the heart of Europe and especially to its Capital of Prague. Life is usually full of contrasts. The last congress held in China - one of the worlds‘ biggest countries - will be followed by another one in a country which is not huge at all.

There are many oilseed crops grown in the Czech Republic – sunflower, poppy, mustard, soybean, linseed - but oilseed rape is the most important on the whole. Its total area exceeds 300 thousand ha and an average yield of the three last years amounts to 3.1 t/ha.

The Prague congress will give us the opportunity to meet for the first time after the „Velvet Revolution“ in a post-communist country. I wish to extend a special invitation to „rapeseed people“ from all over the world to exchange the latest information from all sectors of rapeseed breeding, growing and processing.

Prague possesses an uncommon beauty, both due to its location on several hills surrounding the Vltava River and due to its preserved heritage of over one thousand years of coexistence and interaction of Czech, German and Jewish cultures. Finally, the congress venue – Prague Congress Centre is special place by itself.

Dear colleagues, welcome to Prague in early June 2011.

Petr Baranyk
President of the 13th International Rapeseed Congress