W H E R E will the congress be held?
We will meet in the VVF facility, called "La Bergerie" at La Colle Sur Loup, Côte d'Azur, France. The facility offers room, full board and congress facilities and is located in the country about 20 minutes from the Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE).

"La Bergerie" is on top of a hill in the midst of a vast pine forest, an authentic Provence village with little houses roofed with ochre-coloured tiles, and arranged around a main square planted with century-old olive trees.
It's a vacation resort consisting of bungalows -- we've provided a pdf file of the layout of the resort. It offers good standard conference facilities. It faces Saint-Paul de Vence, a fortified village famous for its art galleries and museums. It is also close to Nice, Cannes and Grasse.


W H O will attend this congress?
We expect over 400 attendees representing intercultural research and studies, consultants and trainers, as well as corporate HR people, governmental and NGO professionals from all around the world.


W H A T will be the overall theme and topics for the Congress?
The theme "My culture, Your Culture, Our Opportunity" has been chosen to focus on the role of intercultural studies, practices and arts in addressing the pressing cultural issues of our time: politics, religion, terror, violence and genocide, social shifts, reducing the effects of past colonialism, and certainly developing a larger role in these matters for "the New Europe."

SIETAR congresses are not merely offering front lectures or presentations. Close interaction and networking between the congress participants has always been central to SIETAR congresses. For example, small working groups consisting of fellow interculturalists allow participants to exchange thoughts and best practices.
	Experiential activities are an important part of our congresses. Here a group of SIETARians at our Budapest Congress engage in improvisational theatre to address the future of intercultural work.

W H O is organizing this congress?
SIETAR Europa in collaboration with SIETAR France has the responsibility of organizing the 2005 congress. This means that the congress is constructed by interculturalists for interculturalists and for people that have to deal with the many challenges of communicating, and managing across cultures. A full congress committee representative of the European SIETARS and a large number of volunteer members, sponsors and exhibitors are developing a program and inviting you to participate in learning, networking and strategizing our future.

Congress F E E S and B O A R D

This year's fees for participating in the congress are the best ever! Why is that, I hear you say? "La Bergerie" will provide both the congress facilities and accommodation and lunch and breakfast. That way, we could secure special prices that are eventually cheaper than paying congress fees and accommodation separately. Please keep this in mind when the fees on the Registration Form seem totally unreasonable for you at a first glance.We've also provided a detailed explanation of what the fees encompass.

Some more questions are being answered in the Congress FAQs

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