Location/Tourist Information

Aveiro is a dynamic, coastal mid-size city. Hosting about 75.000 residents Aveiro is a prosperous city of commerce and services, as well as a centre of culture and leisure, inserted in a region of high industrial development.
The Art Nouveau, an architectonic and decorative style that marked the end of 19thcentury and the beginning of 21st, the Aveiro Lagoon and salt-pans, the lagoon canals that make the city known as the ‘Portuguese Venice”. There are extensive beaches just a few minutes way of this  young and dynamic city with much to offer to its visitors.
 
The city is well connected by road and rail to Porto and Lisbon, therefore granting an easy, regular and fast access to the two biggest airports in Portugal: Porto and Lisbon.
 
There are several accommodation establishments in Aveiro, ready to welcome the participants of ICIEOM. All hotels provide easy access to the conference venue (Campus of the University of Aveiro) and the majority is located within a walking distance. You can check a list of suggested hotels in the registration pages, and ask for a reservation. The list of the hotels is also below.
 
The University of Aveiro (UA) is a public institution with the mission of intervening and developing graduate and post-graduate degrees, research and cooperation with society. Created in 1973, it has rapidly transformed itself into one of the most dynamic and innovative universities in the country. Attended by about 15.000 students of graduate and post-graduate courses, University of Aveiro assumes an extremely relevant role in the Portuguese academic context, positioned in a leading role in what concerns the quality of the provided infrastructures, the quality of the produced research and the excellence of the teaching staff.

ICIEOM – CIO – IIIE 2015 Conference will be hosted at the main campus of the University of Aveiro.
The Campus of the University of Aveiro is located next to the center of the City of Aveiro. Participants staying in hotels in the city can easily reach the University Campus by foot.

The plenary and parallel sessions are distributed by 3 buildings close together, that can be found in the Campus map:
• The Department of Environment and Planning - DAO (identified in the map with the number 7)
• The Department of Economics Management and Industrial Engineering - DEGEI (identified in the map with the number 10)
• The Rectorate Building – Reit. (identified in the map with the number 25)

On July 6ht, the participants can, if they wish, do the registration for the Conference in the morning, from 11 a.m. onwards, at the Department of Environment and Planning – DAO.

The Conference will start as 2 p.m. in the same building, i.e. in the Department of Environment and Planning – DAO.

UA is a privileged partner of enterprises and other national and international entities, with which it cooperates in several projects and programs and to which provides important services, being, this way, a research space where innovative products and solutions that contribute to the advance of science and technology are developed.

The city map is available here to download.
The University of Aveiro map is available here to download.