Social events
GET-TOGETHER PARTY
19:00-21:00 on Sunday, 23 August 2015 (Pátria Hall)
The organizers planned to welcome the attendees of GA 2015 with a welcome reception, including a surprise program. The aim of this event is to get known each other, greet old friends and get some new. The tentative duration of this reception is 2 hours. The party will take place at the Pátria Hall (plenary hall) , in the Budapest Congress Center, address: H-1123 Budapest, Jagelló u. 1-3.
Price: free of charge (preliminary registration is required)
Registration is available in the main online database
after the registration category selection you will be able to select this event in the “Optional programs” menu
CONCERT IN MATTHIAS CHURCH
20:00-20:30 on Monday, 24 August 2015
The organisers are cordially inviting you for an organ concert (cca. 30 minutes long) in the unique building of the Matthias Church, in the heart of the castle district of Budapest.
Matthias Church (Hungarian: Mátyás-templom) is a Roman Catholic church located in Budapest, Hungary, in front of the Fisherman’s Bastion at the heart of Buda’s Castle District. According to church tradition, it was originally built in Romanesque style in 1015.
The current building was constructed in the florid late Gothic style in the second half of the 14th century and was extensively restored in the late 19th century. It was the second largest church of medieval Buda and the seventh largest church of medieval Hungarian Kingdom.
Price: free of charge (preliminary registration is required)
NO ORGANISED TRANSPORTATION!Registration is available in the main online database
after the registration category selection you will be able to select this event in the “Optional programs” menuPROGRAM:
G. Pierné: Prelude
F. Liszt : Adagio
J. S. Bach: G major fantasy
Choral from the cantata nr. 147
Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Performed by : Bertalan Hock, the organ artist of the Matthias Church
CONGRESS DINNER
17:30-22:30 on Wednesday, 26 August 2015
After four days filled with science, presentations, discussions and networking we will celebrate our guests and the conference with a congress dinner in the Lázár Equestrian Park, Domony Valley, about 30 km from Budapest.
Programme:
Guests will be offered salty snacks, pálinka (Hungarian brandy) and soft drink after arrival.
Typical Hungarian menu will be served in the Csárda.
After the dinner the Equestrian Show will start:
Equestrian show
- Four-hand driving, pony carriage driving
- Nomad horsemanship show – shooting arrows from horseback at stationary and flying targets, show of nomad weaponry, jumping over a fire
- Range men’s stunts: Making the horse lie down and “sit”
- Whip snapping , range men’s competition,
- Fun competitions with the involvement of the guests:
- Knocking down bottle using a whip,
- Wagon drawn by four oxen
- Humorous show with trained donkey
- Hungarian Post with five horses
- Queen Elisabeth’s (Sisi’s) equestrian show in contemporary attire, riding on a side-saddle
Price: The programme can be registered separately, as the part the registration fee upgrade (120 EUR incl. 3x lunches, congress dinner), the package includes all transfer costs for the dinner.
Tickets are available only for the congress dinner, too: 60 EUR
Registration is available in the main online database
after the registration category selection you will be able to select this package in the “Optional programs” menu
EXCURSIONS
We hereby wish to invite you for an exciting excursion to Transdanubia. We offer two different excursions for the last day, Thursday, 27 August 2015.
(Gathering at 8:15 in the parking lot, in front of the congress center)
Pannonhalma
Pannonhalma, a town in western Hungary, is famous for its ancient monastery and a source of Hungarian medicinal plant culture. The participants of this excursion will have the opportunity to visit the recently renovated monastery, which is a World Heritage site, and the botanical and medicinal plant garden, where the tradition of benedictine medicinal plant cultivation is still preserved.
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The monastery became an archabbey in 1541, and as a result of Ottoman incursions into Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries it was fortified. During one and a half centuries of the Turkish Occupation, the monks, however, had to abandon the abbey for shorter or longer periods of time. Only later were they able to start the reconstruction of the damaged buildings.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, rich Baroque adornments and extensions were added to the complex and much of its current facade dates from this time. It received its present form in 1832, with the library and the tower, which was built in classicist style. The 18th century, the era of the Enlightenment also influenced the life of the monasteries. The state and the monarchs judged the operation of the communities according to immediate utility, by and large tolerating only those orders which practised nursing and education.
After 1945 Hungary became a communist state and in 1950 the properties of the Order and the schools run by the Benedictines were confiscated by the state, not to be returned until after the end of communism in Hungary. In 1996, “the Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment” was elected among the World Heritage sites.
Price: 80 EUR
incl. lunch, refresher, all transfer costs and tickets.Registration is available in the main online database
after the registration category selection you will be able to select this event in the “Optional programs” menu
The Tihany peninsula
The Tihany Peninsula, where cultural heritage and medicinal plant culture meets, with its unique microclimate and magnificient view to the Lake Balaton, is a perfect destination for a one-day trip.
The Benedictine Tihany Abbey, founded in 1055 AD, is a landmark building of the peninsula. The church itself was rebuilt in baroque style in 1754. The still functioning abbey is a popular tourist attraction due to its historical and artistic significance.
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Balaton, the largest shallow lake in Central Europe, was formed by tectonic sagging around 25,000 years ago. Tihanyi-félsziget (Tihany peninsula) divides the lake into two basins. The characteristic view of the Mediterranean landscape was formed by volcanic europtions millions of year ago as shown today by two giant calderas. The remains of these craters form two little lakes, without outlet, higher than the water level of Balaton: Belsõ-tó, which is popular with anglers, and Külsõ-tó, a paradise for aquatic birds. As a result of volcanic follow-up activity, thermal springs created more than one hundred geyser hills in the peninsula. Beside geological features, the peninsula is famous for its exceptional wildlife: the area became the first nature reserve of Hungary in 1952. For those who are interested in medicinal plants, apart from the diverse flora of the peninsula, the remainders of lavender plantations from the middle ages provide a memorable botanical excursion.
The ancient Tihany village was founded in the Middle Ages when King Andrew I founded here in 1055 a burial-place for the royal family and built a monastery, where Benedictine monks were settled. During the Turkish times, in the 16-17 th century, the monastery, which had been transformed into a fortress, was demolished. It was rebuilt in baroque style in the 18th century and became a symbol of Tihany. Tihany is a jewel of not only the Balaton but also Hungary.
Price: 80 EUR
incl. lunch, refresher, all transfer costs and tickets.Registration is available in the main online database
after the registration category selection you will be able to select this event in the “Optional programs” menu
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