PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Tuesday, 20th May 2014: International Clinical Trials Day

Wednesday, 21st May 2014: ECRAN Project Meeting

Neumnster Abbey, Luxembourg City, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg

Registration
To register for the International Clinical Trials Day and / or for the ECRAN Project meetings, please sign up online: ECRIN & ICTD Registration

Meeting venue Neumnster Abbey

Address: 28,rue Mnster L-2160 Luxembourg (G.-D. de Luxembourg) Phone: (+352) 26 20 52 1 Fax: (+352) 26 20 19 80 E-mail: contact@ccrn.lu http://www.ccrn.lu/en/Culture

Welcome Desk
Our team is pleased to welcome and inform you in the lobby of the conference room Jos Ensch during all the meetings. Just follow the signs WELCOME DESK

Contact persons
For any questions including your stay at a hotel or any other information, please contact: - Tania Zamboni tania.zamboni@crp-sante.lu +352 26 970 801 / +352 621 491 800

How to reach the meeting venue?

From Luxembourg AIRPORT by bus:
Bus line N16 or N9 in direction of Centre - Gare
http://www.vdl.lu/vdl_multimedia/PdfLigne16.pdf (Mo-Fr: from 5h30 am every 10 min / Su: from 6 am every 30 min) http://www.vdl.lu/vdl_multimedia/PdfLigne9.pdf (from 5h24 am Mo-Sa: every 15 min / Sunday: every 30 min)

This ride takes maximum 30 minutes to Gare Centrale (Central Luxembourg Railway station) Take bus line N23
http://www.vdl.lu/vdl_multimedia/PdfLigne23.pdf (Mo-Fr: from 6h49 am every 30 minutes / Su: from 9h29 am until 7h29 pm every 60 min)

Neumnster Abbey

Get off at the bus stop Stadtgronn-Brk This ride takes max 5 minutes Walk over the little bridge, turn left twice, and you arrive at the Neumnster Abbey

From Luxembourg RAILWAY STATION:

Take bus line N23 http://www.vdl.lu/vdl_multimedia/PdfLigne23.pdf
(Mo-Fr: from 6h49 am every 30 minutes / Su: from 9h29 am until 7h29 pm every 60 min)
Neumnster Abbey Bus stop Stadtgronn-Brk Bus stop Stadtgronn-Brk

Get off at the bus stop Stadtgronn-Brk. This ride takes max 5 minutes Walk over the little bridge, turn lef twice, and you arrive at the Neumnster Abbey

By CAR
If you come by car please contact tania.zamboni@crp-sante.lu. It will be a pleasure to tell you where to park and how to come to the meeting venue.
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HOTELS
We provide you all information regarding the hotels in the surroundings of the meeting venue here below. To book your room please contact the hotel directly.
Hotel Walking distance to the meeting venue 850 m Address Contact Details Tel: +352 22 04 93 Fax: +352 22 04 96 info@hotelvauban.lu Tel: +352 22 19 75 fax: +352 22 67 11 contact@hotelcravat.lu Tel: +352 27 47 37 Fax: +352 27 47 38 info@hotelleplacedarmes.com Tel: +352 248771 Fax: +352 26480223 H5555@sofitel.com Tel: +352 47 45 34 Fax: +352 46 42 74 info@hotelfrancais.lu Tel: +352 248781 H5556@accor.com Fax: +352 26480224 Price / night and person Website hotel

Hotel Vauban Hotel Grand Cravat Hotel Place d'armes

10 Place Guillaume II L-1648 Luxembourg 29, boulevard F.D. Roosevelt L-2450 Luxembourg 18 place d'Armes L-1136 Luxembourg

90 - 140

www.hotelvauban.lu

1.0 km

200

www.hotelcravat.lu

1.1 km

205 minimum

www.hotelleplacedarmes.com/ en/home
www.sofitel.com/gb/ hotel-5555-sofitelluxembourg-legrandducal/index.shtml

Hotel Sofitel centre-ville

1.1 km

35, rue du Laboratoire L-1911 Luxembourg

210

Hotel Franais Hotel Novotel City Center Hotel Golden Tulip

1.0 km

14, Place dArmes L-1136 Luxembourg

120 - 140 www.hotelfrancais.lu www.accorhotels.co m/gb/hotel-5556novotel-luxembourgcentre/index.shtml www.goldentulipcen tralmolitor.com

1.1 km

35, rue du Laboratoire L-1911 Luxembourg

120

1.2 km

Tel: +352 489 911 Avenue De La Liberte 28 reservations@goldentuli L-1930 Luxembourg pcentralmolitor.com

115 - 135

Park Inn by Radisson

1.1 km

Tel: +352 268 91 81 Avenue de la Gare 45Fax: +352 2689 1899 www.parkinn.com/h 47 149 - 165 info.luxembourg@rezido otel-luxembourg L-1611 Luxembourg rparkinn.com Tel. : +352 45 61 411 5 avenue Marie-Thrse Fax : +352 45 61 41 222 www.parcplaza.lu/uk 100 - 130 L-2132 Luxembourg reception.plaza@goeres/index.php group.com

Group Goeres Park Plaza

1.6 km

HOTELS
We provide you all information regarding the hotels in the surroundings of the meeting venue here below. To book your room please contact the hotel directly.
Hotel Walking distance to the meeting venue 1.9 km Address Contact Details Price / night and person Website hotel http://www.bestwestern .de/hotels/Luxemburg/B EST-WESTERN-PLUSGrand-Hotel-Victor-Hugo

Hotel Victor Hugo Htel Le Chatelet Alvisse Parc Hotel HotelRestaurant Sieweburen

Tel: +352 2627440 3 avenue Victor Hugo Fax: +352 26864730 140 - 160 L-1750 Luxemburg info@victorhugo.best western.de 2, Boulevard de la Ptrusse L-2320 Luxembourg Route d'Echternach L-1453 Luxembourg 36, rue des Septfontaines L-2534 Luxembourg Tel: + 352 40 21 01 Fax: +352 40 36 66 contact@chatelet.lu Tel: +352 43 56 43 0 Fax: +352 43 69 03 Tel: +352 44 23 56 Fax: +352 44 23 53

1.6 km

115 - 125 www.chatelet.lu/en

4.1 km 4.0 km

89 - 107 www.parc-hotel.lu 105 www.sieweburen.lu/en http://doubletree3.hilto n.com/en/hotels/luxemb ourg/doubletree-byhilton-hotel-luxembourgLXMHIDI/about/index.ht ml www.melia.com/en/hot els/luxembourg/luxemb ourg/melialuxembourg/index.html

Hotel Double Tree by Hilton

4.8 km

12 Rue Jean Engling L 1466 Luxembourg

Tel: +352-43-781 Fax: +352-43-6095

175

Hotel Melia Kirchberg

Hotel Campanile Luxembourg (Airport) IBIS Luxembourg Airport NH Hotel Findel (Airport)

2.7 km

10 Rue Fort Thuengen L-1499 Luxembourg

22 ROUTE DE TREVES SENNINGERBERG L-2633 Luxembourg Route de Trves L-2632 Luxembourg Findel 1 Route de Treves L-1019 Luxembourg

7.2 km

6.0 km

7.0 km

Tel: +352 27333-1 Fax: +352 27333-999 150 melia.luxembourg@m elia.com Tel: +352 34 95 95 Single www.campanileFax: +352 34 94 95 room: 105 luxembourgLuxembourg@campani Double airport.lu/en/index.aspx le.com room: 116 www.accorhotels.com/g Tel: +352 438801 b/hotel-0974-ibisFax: +352 438802 78 - 100 luxembourgH0974@accor.com aeroport/index.shtml www.nhTel. +352 340 571 hotels.com/nh/en/hotels nhluxembourg@nh- 120 - 160 /luxembourg/luxembour hotels.com g/nh-luxembourg.html

PROGRAMME
Tuesday, May 20th 2014 International Clinical Trials Day
09h30 Registration and coffee 10h00 10h15 Welcome and why are we here? Dr Christian Gluud, Denmark 10h15 10h30 What are ECRIN and ECRIN-ERIC? Director Jacques Demotes-Mainard, France 10h30 11h00 Relaunch of The James Lind Library. Sir Iain Chalmers, UK 11h00 11h30 Clinical studies with group sequential designs or adaptive designs: a user perspective. Prof Philip Hougaard, Lundbeck A/S, Denmark 11h30 11h45 Coffee break 11h45 12h15 Approaches to adaptive designs. Prof Peter Bauer, Austria 12h15 12h45 When are adaptive designs really needed? Prof Christopher Jennison, UK 12h45 13h15 Round table discussions on adaptive trial designs 13h15 14h45 Lunch and coffee 14h45 15h30 Credibility and bias in the results of clinical trials. Prof John P.A. Ioannidis, U.S.A. 15h30 16h00 Did the World Medical Association get their last revision of the Declaration of

Helsinki right? Prof Silvio Garattini, Italy

16h00 16h15 Presentation of the ECRAN project. Dr Paola Mosconi, Italy 16h15 16h30 The ECRAN Film 17h30 19h00 Social Programme: Robert Schuman Circular Guided Walk http://www.lcto.lu/en/place/toursonrequest/schuman-circular-walk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schuman 19h30 Cultural Dinner @ Neumnster Abbey

PROGRAMME
Wednesday, May 21st 2014 ECRAN Project Meeting
09:30 09:40 Welcome and introduction by the EU Commission. EU Commissioner. 09:40 09:50 Presentation of the ECRAN film. Dr Paola Mosconi, Italy and Dr Christian Gluud, DK. 09:50 10:10 The importance to promote independent clinical trials: where are the European researchers? Director Jacques Demotes-Mainard, ECRIN-ERIC.

10:10 10:30 Why evidence-based medicine is so important for designing clinical research and
clinical practice. Editor-in-Chief David Tovey, The Cochrane Library, UK. 10:30 11:00 Transparency: an imperative in clinical research. Professor An-Wen Chan, Canada. 11:00 11:20 Coffee break 11:20 11:40 The ECRAN project: materials and tools. Dr Paola Mosconi, ECRAN. 11:40 12:10 Experiences from participation in design and promotion of randomised clinical trials: examples from patients organisations. Chair Brian West, EATG, Tams Bereczky, EATG and invited speakers.

12:10 12:30 Impact of journals, web and social networks in promoting clinical trials.
Clinical Editor Europe, Wim Weber, The BMJ, UK 12:30 13:00 General discussion. Paola Mosconi, Jacques Demotes-Mainard, and Christian Gluud. 13:00 14:00 Lunch 14:00 15:00 What are the bottlenecks in disseminating information on clinical trials and how can we blow up the bottlenecks? Consumers and patients organisation. Invited speakers. The European Network of Health Care Journalists. Senior Lecturer John Lister, UK.

The evidence-based community. Director Gerd Antes, Germany.

The clinical researchers. Professor Silvio Garattini, Italy Testing Treatments. Sir Iain Chalmers, UK. 15:00 16:15 16:15 16:45 Five break out groups How, when and who should speak about clinical trials? Report from the five break outs. Chairs: Jacques Demotes-Mainard, Paola Mosconi and Christian Gluud.

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT Luxembourg Preparing your stay

Luxembourg (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) is a country in the western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France and Germany. LANGUAGES National language: Luxembourgish / Other languages: French, German and English TIME ZONE UTC/GMT +1 hour. Here a link to convert the time depending on your country of origin: Worldclock converter CURRENCY: The official currency is the Euro (EUR). CLIMATE: Like most of the Western Europe, Luxembourg has a moderate climate. The seasons are characterized by cool summers and cold, cloudy and humid winters. A nice time of the year to visit is spring (May to June) and autumn (September to October). For the festive period at the end of the year, the weather can also become dry, cold or snowy. ELECTRICITY: The voltage in Luxembourg is 220v and the standard European two-pin plug is used. North American and British travelers are advised to bring adaptors with them to Luxembourg as they are not widely available in the city. INVITATION LETTER VISA: For visa application, if you need conference invitation letter, please contact: Tania.Zamboni@crp-sante.lu. Invitation letter will be issued to registered participants only. If you need more information about visa for your travel to Luxembourg, please see here: www.mae.lu EMERGENCY CALLS: Police Grand-Ducale: Phone 113 - www.police.lu Medical and fire rescue: Phone 112

Key facts about Luxembourg and further information as restaurants, please visit these websites: National Tourist Board (ONT): www.visitluxembourg.com/en Luxembourg City Tourist Office (LCTO): www.lcto.lu www.lonelyplanet.com/luxembourg
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