Practical information

Venue

The colloquium will take place at the University of Liège, in the city center campus.

Liège (Luik, Lüttich) is a mid-size city located to the east of Belgium, near the German and Dutch borders. It is a lively city, with many pubs, restaurants, and hotels at all prizes. Thanks to its location, it can be easily reached by all means of transport. The train is a good way to keep carbon footprint as low as possible, and there are many lines enabling to come to Liège, with notably direct connections from Maastricht, Köln, Frankfurt or Paris and high-speed connections with only one change between Liège and Amsterdam or London. If train is not possible, note that Liège sits at the junction of 4 major motorways (E25, E313, E40, and E42) linking it quickly by car to the rest of Belgium as well as France, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and Germany. Long-distance participants arriving by plane can fly to Brussels airport (about one hour away by train), Frankfurt airport (direct high-speed train connection, 2h travel), Charleroi airport (aka Brussels-south, served by low-cost airlines), Köln airport, Maastricht airport, or Paris airports (direct high-speed train connection to/from Paris north station, 2h travel). 

The workshop will take place in the city center.

Coming to Liège by plane

Brussels Aiport (BRU)

The easiest is to take a direct train from the Brussels airport train station to Liège Guillemins (alternative routes imply an additional stop, e.g. in Brussels North).

Tickets : Tickets for internal train connections must be booked in the train stations. You can check the time schedule on the Belgium Rail Website or download the SNCB app.

Frankfurt airport (FRA)

You can take a direct fast train from Frankfurt airport train station (Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnhof) to Liege Guillemins train station, the journey takes 2 hours. These international tickets have to be booked in advance on the SNCB Europe website.

Köln-Bonn airport (CGN)

There is a direct Eurolines coach from the Köln airport (Cologne) to Liege Guillemins train station (2 hours). Tickets can be booked in advance on the Eurolines website.

You can also take a direct train from Köln main train station (Hbf) to Liege Guillemins (you have first to take a train from Köln airport to Köln Hbf), tickets can be booked from here.

Charleroi Airport

If you arrived in Charleroi Airport you can take a Flibco bus to Liege Guillemins. If you wish to use the train, you will have to first take a bus in the direction of Charleroi (the bus stop is a 5 minutes walk from the airport) and stop at the Charleroi Station where you have connections to the three train stations in Liège (Guillemins, Palais and Jonfosse), see the Belgium Rail Website. In general, this journey is longer than the others and lasts about two hours.

Coming to Liège by train

All international connections can be booked in advance here : https://www.b-europe.com/EN

For internal trains, tickets can be booked directly in the train stations, time schedule can be checked here.

Coming to Liège by car

A well-developed network of motorways (E40, E25, E42, E313) makes access to Liège by car fairly easy.

Accommodation

Liège offers many accommodation options, suitable for all budgets. This page contains a non-exhaustive list of places to stay during the congress. You can also consult a selected accomodations on the University website and a more complete list of accommodation on the Liège city website.