PRAGUE
"City of hundred spires", "Heart of Europe", or "Golden Prague". These are only a few nicknames given to Prague. A crossroad, where many merchants, artists and scientists met since the Middle Ages. Prague Castle, built on top of a hill around 870 AD, overlooks the Vltava river and both the Old Town and the Lesser Town. The river is crossed by the famous Charles Bridge, built by Charles IV in the XIVth century. In 1526, the Habsbourg dynasty succeeded to the throne. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, was crowned the Czech King and Prague became the center of science and alchemy. Many famous scientists, such as astronomers Tycho de Brahe and Johannes Kepler, were attracted to Prague. A new city of renaissance culture was born.
As Prague is geographically the centre of Europe where all the philosophic and artistic tendancies converged in the past, we had the idea to select a topic that we called "all the unconventional ways lead to Prague" allowing each of us to present his own unorthodox way of doing things. This is summarized in the title "My Way".
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to present your unconventional technique of sclerotomy, your personal therapeutical combination, your new peeling instrument, your specific buckling indication, your trick avoiding drainage complications, your expertise in trying a new product or a new machine, your special office organization… all those things which are never presented at classical congresses because they are rejected by too traditionally thinking reviewers. For sure, each of us will go back home having learned one or two genius techniques to be employed the day after.
The 8th EVRS Meeting will follow the EVRS congress philosophy. No invited lecturers. The program will be built by the sole abstract submissions. Each member will pay his registration fee and will be treated equally. The goal is not to give an audience to a certain number of lecturers in order to promote them but really to share our tricks, our knowledge and our experience. Never more than this year, the congress will be closer to the EVRS fundamentals.
The 8th EVRS Meeting will have this year an usual format. The presentations of the unconventional ways of doing will be made in three different ways: oral presentations, edited films & posters. These three kind of presentations will be awarded. An interactive voting system will allow each participant to judge the the innovative aspect of oral presentations and films as well as the convincing power of these presentations. A long discussion time will allow the audience to understand the advantages of the innovation.
The 8th EVRS Meeting will have the usual Meeting Policies.
As for Venice, we will try to finish the sessions at 04 pm, so time will be available for sightseeing.
A Welcome Reception will be held on Saturday evening. The Gala Diner wil be held on Monday evening at the Zofin Palace.
The Municipal House, a national heritage building, is one of the most important Secession buildings in Prague. It was built between 1905 and 1912 and stands in the very centre of the city, close to the Powder Tower, right next to the pedestrian zone. It is surrounded by a lot of hotels of different categories. The leading Czech painters and sculptors of the time shared in the decoration of the Municipal House. Even the exterior of the Municipal House is unique, thanks to its wealth of sculpture. The façade is decorated with statues, mascaroons and a Secession plant decoration. The Smetana Hall is an imposing space - a concert hall for 1,200 people, containing a unique organ from 1912.
The neo-renaissance Zofin Palace is the architectural jewel in the crown of the most beautiful of all islands in Prague, "Slovansky ostrov" (Slavic Island). Its position in a centuries-old park with a view of the historic Prague panorama, the spectacular and opulently-adorned rooms and ceilings that boast original painted and stucco decoration.