The Alliance's 10th Annual Conference, celebrating a decade of progress, will occur November 7-10, 1999 in Budapest, Hungary -- a fitting location, since Budapest served as host for the first conference in 1989.
Plans call for on-site conference registration and hotel check-in to begin during the afternoon on Nov. 6 and continue through Nov. 7. The conference hotel will be the four-star Park Flamenco. Please register through AUDEM rather than contacting the hotel. We're delighted to be aided in our stay by long-time AUDEM friend Andras Csegezi, who is now the Maitre'd Hotel at Park Flamenco. With the Park Flamenco's excellent quality -- best ever for AUDEM -- and Andras' careful attention and planning, we're assured an excellent conference experience.
More information will be posted about this event in the weeks ahead. Abundant information about Budapest, Hungary, and related areas for touring and experiencing is available online. An excellent starting point, which includes a number of images of Buda and Pest, is located at http://www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/budapest/bp.htm. Detailed information and abundant links are also available at http://www.gyaloglo.hu/telep/b/budapest/index_e.htm.
The Alliance's most recent conference occurred Nov. 8-11, 1998, in Nitra, Slovakia. More information on this Ninth Annual Conference is available.
The 1997 conference took place at the Hotel Grand Orbis in Warsaw, Poland, November 2-5, 1997, with the focus of promoting collaborative activities and bilateral agreements between universities and their faculties. Approximately 100 papers on higher education reform were presented, have been issued in a bound volume of proceedings, and will be made available online at this web site as time permits.
Please find additional information below:
The charter conference was in
Budapest in 1990. Subsequent conference sites were:
Alliance of Universities for Democracy
Central and East European Center
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