NCCR SPIN Annual Meeting 2025
Wednesday-Friday, June 18-20, 2025
The fifth Annual Meeting of NCCR SPIN will take place in June 2025. The meeting will include more than 20 scientific talks and around 40 posters, an innovation talk by Tristan Meunier from Quobly, and a dance and science performance.
Find the provisional program, information and impressions below.
Accommodation & Travel
The conference takes place in Pontresina at the Kongresszentrum Rondo . We are staying at Hotel Saratz.
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 reimbursement 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 7:17 - Arrival 12:55
Departure 7:34 or 7:40 - Arrival 13:26
From Basel
Departure 8:33 - Arrival 12:55
Departure 9:06 - Arrival 13:26
From Zürich
Departure 9:38 - Arrival 12:55
Departure 10:07 - Arrival 13:26
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 (Wednesday) and lunch bags (Thursday-Friday) 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.
Provisional Program
List of posters
Hikes
Below you will be able to download two propositions for hiking on Thursday afternoon. As Pontresina can be quite cold in June, please make sure that you are equipped with enough layers, and shoes that are as waterproof as possible as there could still be snow patches on the mountains.
NCCR SPIN Excellent Paper Award
Outstanding papers are 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 and will be listed on the dedicated page.
NCCR SPIN Image Contest
We are excited to launch the NCCR SPIN Art and Science Contest again this year: the competition is open to all researchers working on projects that are part of NCCR SPIN. The competition is open until June 10th 2025.
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.