NCCR SPIN Annual Meeting 2023
Monday – Wednesday, June 19-21, 2023
The third Annual Meeting of NCCR SPIN takes place in June 2023. The meeting includes more than 20 scientific talks and around 35 posters, an innovation talk and fireside chat by and with Dr. David Gunnarsson from Bluefors and much more.
Find the program and some impressions below (photo credits: Glowly Solutions)!
Accommodation & Travel
The conference takes place in Pontresina at the Kongresszentrum Rondo . We are staying at Hotel Saratz, Hotel Allegra and Sporthotel. You will be notified in an email in which hotel you are staying.
We recommend to use public transportation to get to Pontresina. Information on train departures and arrivals is given by the SBB online timetable.
Please purchase your ticket from your place to Pontresina and arrange for re-imbursement with your research group.
The hotels are reachable with a 10-15 minute / 750 m walk from the Pontresina train station.
Please check in at the hotel reception. All participants are registered at the hotel.
Train connections
From Lausanne
Departure 7:20 - Arrival 12:57
Departure 7:25 or 7:44 - Arrival 13:24
From Basel
Departure 8:33 - Arrival 12:57
Departure 9:06 - Arrival 13:24
From Zürich
Departure 9:38 - Arrival 12:57
Departure 10:07 - Arrival 13:24
For those connections, a shuttle will be available at the Pontresina train station to drive to the hotel. The participants who specifically asked in the registration form to have a transportation from the station have a seat reserved in the shuttle. As the shuttles have only a very limited number of seats, we will ask the rest of the participants to walk to the hotels. However, they can ask that their luggage is transported in the shuttle.
Meals and drinks
Quick lunch (Monday) and lunch bags (Tuesday) can be picked up at the Congress Center. Dinners take place at the Hotel Saratz.
Bottles of water will be available for all participants during the meeting. However, we would like to participate in reducing plastic waste caused by the consumption of individual bottles of water, therefore we strongly encourage you to bring your own reusable bottle. There will be possibility to refill it at the bar of the Congress Center.
Program
Hikes
Below you can download two propositions for hiking on Tuesday afternoon.
Posters
In the Poster Flash-Intro, each person presenting a poster has 30 seconds and one slide to present their work. If you present a Poster, please send your slide to marie.ledantec@unibas.ch before June, 16th 2023.
NCCR SPIN Excellent Paper Award
Outstanding papers will be recognized with a SPIN excellent paper award. The award consists of a certificate, listing on the SPIN page, and a monetary prize of CHF 700 for the first author(s) of the paper to be used on a team event. The winners will be announced at the Annual Meeting.
NCCR SPIN Image Contest
We are excited to launch NCCR SPIN Image Contest again this year: the competition is open to all researchers working on projects that are part of NCCR SPIN. Send your image including a caption/short description to marie.ledantec@unibas.ch before Monday, 12th 2023.
The goal of the contest is to highlight the role of images in scientific research as well as to give a face to the researchers conducting it and to encourage researchers to document the environment in which they work.
Voting system for the public prize
All the image entries will be displayed in the Sela Arabella of the Congress Center Rondo. The public awards a Public Prize at the NCCR SPIN Image Contest. To do so, you will receive two small tokens (red and silver butterflies) with your nametags. The red butterfly is used to vote for the entries of the category Scientific: object of Study, the silver one is use to vote for the entries in the category People & Places of Science. You will find boxes under each picture. Simply put the butterfly in the box corresponding to the image you would like to vote for.