ELLS General Assembly and Forum 2023

What is the ELLS General Assembly & Forum?

The management, researchers, lecturers and university staff of the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) network meet one day before the Scientific Student Conference for the yearly General Assembly & Forum (GAF). This year's theme of the GAF is the Communicating (about) Biodiversity

The GAF 2023 will take place on 16th and 17th of November 2023

Who can participate at the GAF?

The Board members, Task Force members, Subject Area members and Support Team members and their colleagues from the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) network will receive an email invitation with instructions on how to register and participate at the GAF 2023.

Schedule

Thursday, 16 November 2023

10:00 - 14:00
Overview of venues will be provided

Time for meetings of Subject Areas, Support Teams and ELSA

Lunch at the Mensa (canteen of the university)

8:00 - 13:00
Hohenheim Palace, entrance hall
Registration for ELLS General Assembly and Forum

8:30 - 13:00
Hohenheim Palace, Green Hall

Board meeting

9:00 Signing of the MoU with new ELLS members

09:00 - 10:00Task Force meeting
Hohenheim Palace, Aula
IRO meeting
Hohenheim Palace, Blue Hall
10:00 - 10:15
Hohenheim Palace, Foyer 1st floor
Coffee Break
10:15 -12:00
Hohenheim Palace, Aula

Joint Task Force/IRO meeting
12:00 - 13:00
Hohenheim Palace, Foyer 1st floor

Lunch for Board, TF and IROs

13:00 - 14:00
Hohenheim Palace, Balcony Hall
Joint Board/TF/IRO meeting
moderated by ELSA
13:30 - 15:00
Euroforum, Foyer
Registration for ELLS General Assembly and Forum
14:30 - 14:45
Euroforum, Katharinasaal
Official opening of the ELLS General Assembly & Forum
Stephan Dabbert, President of the University of Hohenheim
Artur Mol, Chair of the ELLS Board


14:45 - 16:00
Euroforum, Katharinasaal
Chairperson: Ludwig Hölzle
Presentation of the application within the European University initiative (ELLS-LIFE)
(Frank Bakema, Geir Löe, Stéphane Follain)
Short overview of plans and activities of Subject Areas and support teams (Tjallie Botden-Scheltinga)

16:00 - 16:30
Mensa

Coffee break and group photo
16:30 - 17:45
Euroforum, Katharinasaal

Panel discussion with ELLS representatives
"Transitions of ELLS during LIFE"
Moderator: Ludwig Hölzle, ELLS Task Force

18:00
Bus stop Heinrich-Pabst-Str.
Busses to dinner

19:00
Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Rosenstein Castle
Dinner
Welcome by Andreas Pyka, Vice President UHOH
Welcome by Lars Krogmann, Scientific Director of the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
23:00Bus transfer to hotels/university campus
Friday, 17 November 2023
8:30 -18:00
BIO II, Garbenstr. 30; Foyer
Registration SSC

9:00 -  9:15
BIO II, Garbenstr. 30; Audimax

Welcome and official opening of the 15th ELLS Scientific Student Conference
Stephan Dabbert, President of the University of Hohenheim
Annemarie Jung, Chair of the Euroleague Student Association

9:15 - 9:30
BIO II, Garbenstr. 30; Audimax

Welcome from the State of Baden-Württemberg
Grit Puchan, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Food, Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection Baden-Wuerttemberg
9:30 - 10:00
BIO II, Garbenstr. 30, Audimax
Chairperson Georg Petschenka

Introduction of KomBiota
Basic research and education on integrative taxonomy and biodiversity
Lars Krogmann, Scientific director and head of the State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart; Professor for Systematic Entomology, University of Hohenheim

10:00 - 12:00
BIO II, Garbenstr. 30, Audimax
Chairperson Georg Petschenka

Panel discussion
Food production in times of mass extinction - starving for biodiversity  

12:00 - 13:30
Mensa
Lunch

Registration

Registration for the ELLS General Assembly & Forum is closed. For urgent late registrations please contact ells2023@uni-hohenheim.de

Deadline for registration was 13 October 2023.

(Attention: This registration form is only for ELLS representatives and ELSA students!)


We made room reservations for GAF particpants in the following hotels:

Motel One Stuttgart-Hauptbahnhof

Kriegsbergstraße 32, 70174 Stuttgart

  • Location: next to Stuttgart main station
  • Distance to Stuttgart Airport: about 30 min by tram U6 or sub-urban train S2
  • Distance to conference venue: 30 min by tram U7 and bus 70
  • Reservation of 70 single rooms from 15/11 - 18/11/2023
  • Prize per night 109 €  (without breakfast)
    Prize for breakfast: 15,90
  • Complete this booking form and send it by e-mail to stuttgart-hauptbahnhof@motel-one.com

Booking deadline: 4 October 2023

Hotel Gloria

Sigmaringer Strasse 59 • 70567 Stuttgart-Möhringen

  • Webpage: www.hotelgloria.de
  • Location: South of Stuttgart
  • Distance to Stuttgart Airport: 15 min by tram U6
  • Distance to Stuttgart main station: 16 min by tram U5, U6 or U12
  • Distance to conference venue: 20 min by tram U3
  • Reservation of 40 single rooms from 14/11 - 18/11/2023
  • Prize per night 89 €  (breakfast included)
  • Book by mail to info@hotelgloria.de with booking reference ELLS2023

Booking deadline: 16 October 2023

We recommend this hotel particularly to the participants of the EUI-LIFE meeting on 15/11/2023

Airporthotel Filderpost- only for ELSA students

Schoellstr. 4-6 70599 Stuttgart

  • Webpage: www.filderpost.de
  • Location: Stuttgart-Plieningen
  • Distance to Stuttgart Airport: 7 min by bus 65 or 122
  • Distance to Stuttgart main station: 30 min by tram U7 and bus 70
  • Distance to venue: 7 min by bus 65, 70, 74 or 76
    25 min walk through Hohenheim park
  • Reservation of 9 double rooms from 15/11 - 19/11/2023 only for ELSA members
  • Prize per night 84 € per room and night (breakfast not  included)
  • Prize for breakfast: 15 €
  • Confirm your room reservation by sending a mail with your name, home university, arrival and departure date to ells2023@uni-hohenheim.de
  • Deadline for confirmation: 27 October 2023

 

Further hotel options near the university campus (without pre-reservation)