EVENTS & TOURS

• Welcome reception.
• Venue: catering area
• Time: August 31^st (Monday) 19:00-21:00
• On Monday evening, after Poster Session (part I) and short Award Ceremony, we would like to give all participants possibility to say hello to friends and colleagues, as well as meet new people. We hope that served snacks and drinks will help to renew old contacts and to strike up a new acquaintance. All participants are kindly invited.

• Polish Evening
• Venue: Klub Sosnowy (Pine Club), ul. Trakt Lubelski 40a, 04-870 Warszawa
• Time: September 1^st (Tuesday) 20.00-23.00 (Buses will take participants from the SGGW Campus at 19.30)
• On Tuesday evening we would like to invite all of you for a dinner. We are going to serve you Polish food, which usually is served during folk festivals like lard with apple, bigos, pierogi or żurek. And of course a Polish bread. We hope that the food and the Polish music, good also for dancing, as well as good company will exhilarate you and will give you energy for next days of the meeting.

•  „Warsaw by night”
• Time: September 2^nd (Wednesday);
• Buses will take participants from the SGGW Campus at 20.30 (There will be also possibility to join the tour on Plac Zamkowy at 21.00. Persons who choose such a possibility should inform organisers (information desk in the building 23) no later than on Wednesday during the sessions)
• It is the panoramic sightseeing tour of Warsaw’s tourist attractions with an English speaking guide. At the Castle Square we start with pedestrian tour of the Old Town; charming labyrinth of alleys bordering with churches. Than we drive along the Royal Route – the most representative thoroughfare in the city, linking the Royal Castle with palaces in Łazienki and Wilanów. The route, shaped by ages of history, captivates with the atmosphere of palaces, churches, bourgeois tenements and seats of government.
  

• Farewell dinner
• Venue: Ufficio Primo, ul. Wspólna 62, 00-684 Warszawa (entrance from St. Barbara street; transfers not provided)
• Time: September 3^rd (Thursday) 20.00-23.00
• It is the last social event during the 66th EAAP Annual Meeting in Warsaw. Good food and good music should be a proper end of the meeting. After very intensive four days of conference you will be able to rest and have time for clam meeting with old and new friends. Farewell dinner will take place in the hall of Ufficio Primo - an imposing building inspired by Italian Renaissance.

T3 - Beef Cattle Technical Tour: Popowo Parcele - Mińsk Mazowiecki
Date: September 4^th  (Friday)
Schedule: Warsaw (8:00) – Popowo Parcele – Mińsk Mazowiecki  – Warsaw (17:00)
Total distance: about 190 km
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T4 - Dairy Cattle Technical Tour - Krępa - Emilianów - Żelazowa Wola
Date: September 4^th (Friday)
Schedule: Warsaw (8:00) – Krępa – Emilianów – Żelazowa Wola – Warsaw (18:00)
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DT1 - Two-Days Technical Tour - Piątnica - Popielno: milk production, Polish dairy traditions, organic farming and breed protection - CANCELED 
Time:  September 4^th - 5^th, 2015

Schedule: Warszawa (Friday, 7: 30) – Piątnica – Kalinowa – Biebrzański National Park (overnight stay) - Popielno – Nowogród – Warszawa (Saturday, 18:30) 

DT2 – Two-Days Technical Tour - Annów - Kraków - Michałów:  sheep, dairy cattle and horse breeding
Date: September 4^th - 5^th (Friday-Saturday)
Schedule: Warszawa (Friday, 8:00) – Annów – Kraków (overnight stay) – Michałów – Warszawa (Saturday, 20:00)
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Inclusions:  visits to farms, producers and tourist attractions according to the programme, transportation, English speaking guide, insurance, meals (one day tours – lunch and coffee breaks, in case of two days tours – 2 lunches, dinner or barbeque, coffee breaks) accommodation at two days tours based on dbl/twin room in hotel ***, including breakfast. Single room available for the supplement.

 Accompanying persons programme

• Łazienki Królewskie - Palace-Garden complex
• Day: Monday, 31^st August, 2015
• Meeting point: Warsaw University of Life Sciences - bus stop at 10.00 a.m.
• Additional point: at Emilii Plater street - Public bus stop Emilii Plater 04 - at 10.30 a.m.
• Duration: 5 hours
• Inclusions: English speaking guide, visit to the Palace on Island, lunch, transfers
• Complex includes a park (76 hectares of nature, right in the city center) and numerous historical objects. The park was created using the formerly wildly growing forest, allowing the animals to be 'detained' under natural conditions. In the 18th century it became the most beautiful planned area in Warsaw and one of the most beautiful in Europe, equally stunning in terms of its greenery and architecture.

• Frederick Chopin's Warsaw
• Day: Tuesday, 1^st September, 2015
• Meeting point: Warsaw University of Life Sciences - bus stop at 10.00 a.m.
• Additional point: at Emilii Plater street - Public bus stop Emilii Plater 04 - at 10.30 a.m.
• Duration: 5 hours
• Inclusions: English speaking guide, visit to the Chopin's Museum, lunch, transfers
• Frederick Chopin is the most famous Varsovian. It was in Warsaw that he studied music, made friends, expanded his knowledge and gave his first concerts. If we stroll through city streets, we come across places he lived or frequented. The tour we finish with a visit to Frederick Chopin's Museum established in the 1930s by the Frederick Chopin Institute before the Second World War. Today, the museum covers the history and works of Poland's most famous son, Frederick Chopin, including original manuscripts and documents written by the composer, photographs and sculptures of him, letters, as well as hosting piano recitals and competitions of Chopin's works.

• Wilanów - The Palace & Park Complex
• Day: Wednesday, 2^nd September, 2015
• Meeting point: at Emilii Plater street - Public bus stop Emilii Plater 04 - at 10.00 a.m.
• Additional point: Warsaw University of Life Sciences - bus stop at 10.30 a.m.
• Duration: 5 hours
• Inclusions: English speaking guide, visit to the Wilanów Palace, lunch, transfers
• Wilanów Palace is one of the most beautiful architectural monuments in Warsaw. The typical baroque palace is remarkable for its original architecture, a blend of the European art with the Old-Polish building tradition. Wilanów Palace, together with its park and other buildings, is one of the most precious monuments of Polish national culture. Palace survived the time of partitions and wars and preserved its authentic his-torical qualities. It was built by the Polish king Jan III Sobieski in the last quarter of the 17th century and later was extended by other owners.

• Museum of the History of Polish Jews
• Day: Thursday, 3^rd September, 2015
• Meeting point: Warsaw University of Life Sciences - bus stop at 10.00 a.m.
• Additional point: at Emilii Plater street - Public bus stop Emilii Plater 04 - at 10.30 a.m.
• Duration: 5 hours
• Inclusions: English speaking guide, visit to the Museum of History of Polish Jews, lunch, transfers
• Museum is located in front of the Ghetto Heroes Monument. It is designed on a square plan, and takes the form of a cube with glass walls. The Core Exhibition is a journey through 1000 years of the history of Polish Jews – from the Middle Ages until today. Visitors will find answers to questions such as: how did Jews come to Poland? How did Poland become the center of the Jewish Diaspora and the home of the largest Jewish community in the world? How did it cease to be one, and how is Jewish life being revived? Museum of the History of Polish Jews tells a story that is much broader than the story of the Holocaust.