NCCR SPIN Annual Meeting 2024

Accommodation & Travel

The conference takes place in Pontresina at the Kongresszentrum Rondo . We are staying at Hotel Saratz.

We recommend to use public transportation to get to Pontresina. Information on train departures and arrivals is given by the SBB online timetable.

Please purchase your ticket from your place to Pontresina and arrange for re​imbursement with your research group.

The hotels are reachable with a 10-15 minute / 750 m walk from the Pontresina train station.

Please check in at the hotel reception. All participants are registered at the hotel.

Train connections

From Lausanne

• Departure 7:20 - Arrival 12:57

• Departure 7:25 or 7:44 - Arrival 13:24

From Basel

• Departure 8:33 - Arrival 12:57

• Departure 9:06 - Arrival 13:24

From Zürich

• Departure 9:38 - Arrival 12:57

• Departure 10:07 - Arrival 13:24

For those connections, a shuttle will be available at the Pontresina train station to drive to the hotel. The participants who specifically asked in the registration form to have a transportation from the station have a seat reserved in the shuttle. As the shuttles have only a very limited number of seats, we will ask the rest of the participants to walk to the hotels. However, they can ask that their luggage is transported in the shuttle.

Meals and drinks

Quick lunch (Wednesday) and lunch bags (Thursday-Friday) can be picked up at the Congress Center. Dinners take place at the Hotel Saratz.

Bottles of water will be available for all participants during the meeting. However, we would like to participate in reducing plastic waste caused by the consumption of individual bottles of water, therefore we strongly encourage you to bring your own reusable bottle. There will be possibility to refill it at the bar of the Congress Center.

Program

List of posters

Hikes

Below you can download two propositions for hiking on Thursday afternoon. As Pontresina can be quite cold in June, please make sure that you are equipped with enough layers, and shoes that are as waterproof as possible as there could still be snow patches on the mountains.

Hike 1 - Easy

Departure in front of the Rondo Convention centre all together at around 12h30 to take the train in Pontresina to Bever at 13h02.

Hike 2 - Medium

Departure in front of the Rondo Convention center all together at around 12h30.

NCCR SPIN Excellent Paper Award

Outstanding papers are recognized with a SPIN excellent paper award. The award consists of a certificate, listing on the SPIN page, and a monetary prize of CHF 700 for the first author(s) of the paper to be used on a team event. The winners are announced at the Annual Meeting and are now listed on the dedicated page.

NCCR SPIN Image Contest

We are excited to launch the NCCR SPIN Art and Science Contest again this year: the competition is open to all researchers working on projects that are part of NCCR SPIN. The competition is now closed.

The goal of the contest is to highlight the role of images in scientific research as well as to give a face to the researchers conducting it and to encourage researchers to document the environment in which they work.

Voting system for the public prize

All the image entries will be displayed in the Sela Arabella of the Congress Center Rondo. The public awards a Public Prize at the NCCR SPIN Image Contest. To do so, you will receive two small tokens (red and silver butterflies) with your nametags. The red butterfly is used to vote for the entries of the category Scientific: object of Study, the silver one is use to vote for the entries in the category People & Places of Science. You will find boxes under each picture. Simply put the butterfly in the box corresponding to the image you would like to vote for.

The winners of the Art and Science contest are now listed on the dedicated page.

Declaration of Consent