VENUE
The conference will be held at the University Medical Center in Groningen.
Hanzeplein 1
9713 GZ Groningen
The Netherlands
The registration will be held at the Fontein Patio, and will be signposted.
UMCG
The University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) is a city within a city: it is one of the largest hospitals in the World, offering superregional tertiary care to the northern part of the Netherlands, and it is located in the center of Groningen. The medical center employs almost 13,000 people; numbers almost 1500 beds; educates about 1000 PhD students per year; and provides specialty training at its state of the art facilities for over 750 physicians.
The UMCG has a strong focus on healthy ageing, initiating the cohort study LifeLines (165,000 volunteers), the Center for Geriatric Medicine and the European Research Institute on the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA). All research at the UMCG is characterized by a combination of fundamental and patient oriented clinical research. The interaction between these two stimulates the development of new opportunities. Problems that occur in the clinical practice act as a catalyst that sets new fundamental research in motion, whereas on the other hand, fundamental research often triggers new clinical possibilities.
Groningen
The City of Groningen
Groningen is the main municipality and the capital city of the most northern province of the Netherlands. With a population of 200,000, it is the largest city in the north of the Netherlands. An old city, Groningen was the regional power of the northern Netherlands, a semi-independent city-state and member of the German Hanseatic League.
Groningen is a university city: it houses the University of Groningen (about 28,000 students) and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences (about 25,000 students). Groningen is the youngest city of the Netherlands: most people are between 20-24 years old: Groningen is a city of talent.
The University of Groningen is an internationally oriented university with 30,000 students. It is over 400 years old and is well known to be innovative and research-driven. It is rooted as the number-one knowledge hub for the Northern Netherlands. For more information visit the site of the city of Groningen.