Social Programme

Date: May 4th, 2011

Time: 03:15 pm – 06:30 pm (including bus transfer from and to Braunschweig, conference venue)

Meeting/starting place: Stadthalle Braunschweig, main entrance

Charge: 0 €

Limitation: max. 30 persons / binding registration

Salzgitter AG is one of Europe's leading steel, tubes and technology companies with 24,000 employees. It produces more than 7 million tons of crude steel a year. The excursion takes place at the main company site in Salzgitter and provides an insight into steelmaking with highlights like the blast-furnaces.

Date: May 4th, 2011

Time: 03:30 pm – 06:15 pm (including bus transfer from and to Braunschweig)

Meeting/starting place: Stadthalle Braunschweig, main entrance

Charge: 0 €

Limitation: max. 30 persons / binding registration

The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. In 2009, the group increased the number of vehicles delivered to customers to 6.336 million (2008: 6.257 million), corresponding to a 11.3 percent share of the world passenger car market.

Date: May 4th, 2011

Time: 03:15 pm - 06:30 pm (including bus transfer from and to conference venue)

Meeting/starting place: Stadthalle Braunschweig, main entrance

Charge: 0 €

Limitation: max. 60 persons / binding registration

Solvis is one of Europe's leading companies in the area of solar collectors and has about 300 employees. A central part of the enterprise philosophy is to reach a “Zero-Emission-Factory”. Corresponding measurements are the reduction of the energy demand via ecological design and construction of industrial buildings and the fulfillment of the remaining energy demand via own (solar-) plants.

Date: May 1st, 2011

Time: 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm

Duration: 2 hours

Meeting/starting place: Haus der Wissenschaft, Pockelsstraße 11, 38106 Braunschweig

Charge: 5 €

Limitation: minimum 10 persons, maximum 60 persons / binding registration

On this walk you will see much evidence of the history of Braunschweig’s buildings dating from the Middle Ages through to Modern Times. Your tour will take you to the Burgplatz (castle square) with Dankwarderode Castle to St. Blasii Cathedral and the bronze lion statue. You will continue through the city centre to the historical Alstadtmarkt (old town market square) with the Gewandhaus (cloth hall), Altstadtrathaus (old town hall), Martinikirche (Martini church) and the Marienbrunnen (Marien Fountain). This is an exciting city walk that shows you many different aspects of Braunschweig.