Welcome Reception
Monday 16 September, 18.30 - 20.30 hrs
Location: Mensa, Paderborn University
Prices: Included for all conference participants
The welcome reception will provide an opportunity to catch up with colleagues and socialize while enjoying appetizers and drinks. All congress participants are invited to attend the Welcome Reception.
Conference Dinner
Wednesday 18 September, 19.30 - 22.00 hrs
Location: Schützenhof (https://www.schuetzenhof.de/)
Prices: 40€
The conference dinner will take place in the Schützenhof (marksmens's yard) which is located in the green heart of Paderborn. The dinner will be in the Andreas-Ferrari-Saal from where you have a look around the area where the yearly marksmen's festival takes place. There are also other events like riding cups, food festivals and open air events. If there are no events, Parderborn citizens like to walk through this area and have a drink and cakes in the beer garden.
Conference Tour Programm
Wednesday 18 September, 14.00 - 18.00 hrs
Location: different places
Prices: Included for all conference participants
There are several excursions to choose:
- Guided City Tour
- Guided Cathedral Tour
- Heinz-Nixdorf-Forum (biggest computer & computer science museum of the world)
- Externsteine & Hermann
- LWL-Open-Air Museum Detmold
- Hike through Paderborn's Countryside
Guided City Tour
Paderborn holds a rich variety of sights, worth seeing: The tour will lead us to the town wall´s medieval tower, along beautifully redecorated studwork houses and past significant churches. We will also visit the Kaiserpfalz and the famous, three-gabled town hall with its Weserrenaissance architecture. A special sight is presented by some 200 water springs, named Paderquellen. They rise beneath the cathedral amid beautiful parkways. This is where the city´s name derives from and where the river Pader is born.
More information: https://www.paderborn.de/microsite/welcome/tourism-culture/sp_auto_10563.php
This tour ends in the city centre of Paderborn
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
Guided Cathedral Tour
In the 13th century, the cathedral was reconstructed, not due to damage but to bring it up to the current artistic and ecclesiastical standards. Construction most likely began at the western end of the building (late Romanesque basilika, before 1220). The nave followed in form of a hall church (i.e. with three aisles all reaching to the height of the central roof) in early Gothic style. It was completed in the late 13th century with High Gothic elements.
During the guided tour you will get information about the religious, artistic and art-historical dimensions of Paderborn Cathedral.
This tour ends at Paderborn Cathedral.
Duration: approx. 75 minutes
Heinz-Nixdorf-Forum
The Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum is the world´s largest computer museum. Experience history, present and future of information technology, presented on a total exhibition space of 6.000 square meters (approx. 19700 sq ft). The museum´s offer reaches from first typewriters and characters over calculating machines to early computers and modern robots. Following the guided tour you will have the opportunity to explore the exhibition on your own.
More information: https://www.hnf.de/en/home.html
After this tour you will find transportation at the shuttle station.
Duration: approx. 2 hours
Externsteine & Hermann monument
Instead of the Christo in Rio de Janeiro at ICMT II, this tour will take you to the Hermann monument and to the Externsteine—two important historical sights of the region. During your bus ride through the Lipperland you will learn about the destination´s mythical backstory. You will be impressed by the sights’ appearance and meaning.
More information: https://www.externsteine-info.de/
https://www.hermannsdenkmal.de/
After this tour you will find transportation at the shuttle station.
Duration: approx. 4 hours
LWL-Open-Air Museum Detmold: More than 500 years of Westphalian history at a glance.
The LWL-Open-Air Museum provides a lively account of Westphalian everyday and cultural history. On a site of 90 hectares of cultivated landscape ancient houses and farms bear traces of more than 500 years of Westphalian history and provide an insight into rural life style. The guided tour gives an overview of the development and the changes of Westphalian everyday and cultural history.
More information: https://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/LWL-Freilichtmuseum-Detmold/?lang=en
After this tour you will find transportation at the shuttle station.
Duration: approx. 4 hours
Hike through Paderborn's Countryside
This hike offers the opportunity to gain some insight into the amenity of Paderborn´s countryside. Starting at the university, we will wander south-east, and explore the forest park Haxtergrund on one of its numerous loop roads. After the tour of roughly eight kilometers (approx. 5 miles) we will arrive back at our starting point. Sturdy footwear is beneficial.
This trip ends at the university.
Duration: approx. 3 hours