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The conference will be held in Brest, Brittany (France) from 20 to 26 August 2023 at Brest ARENA, a sports and cultural center.

 

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This structure located at 10 min from the city center of Brest by tramway offers a plenary room allowing to welcome 700 persons as well as 3 other rooms of 200 places and the spaces of restoration and exhibition.

You will find here a here a map of Brest center with the location of the various EPC8 sites.

And you will fin here a floor plan of Brest ARENA with the location of the different conference rooms.

 

How to come to Brest ?

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Brest has a TGV train station (3h30 from Paris) in the city center and an international airport close to the city center, with a shuttle and tramway service. Brest Bretagne international airport offers some international flights and a large choice of flights via Paris (Orly or Charles de Gaulle).

 

How to get to Brest-Arena?

 

Brest train station is located in the heart of the city, 500 m from Place de la Liberté, the ideal starting point for discovering the metropolis, which is served by all public transport. 

Brest Bretagne airport is located 9 km from the city center or 15 minutes by car. The city center is accessible through a shuttle + tram service, taxis and car rental. 

From the city center, to get to Brest-Arena, you need then to take the Tram direction "Porte de Plouzane" and leave it at the stop "Polygone".

The map of the BIBUS public transport network (tram) is available here: https://www.bibus.fr/fr/se-deplacer/plan-reseau-bibus

Taxis are also available 24 hours a day. Here is a list of some taxis in Brest:

 - Taxi airport Brest
75 Rue de Siam, 29200 Brest +33 6 08 48 17 14

 - Taxi Brest
14 Rue du Pourquoi Pas, 29200 Brest +33 6 49 41 77 63

 - Taxi Brest 806
234 Rue Jean Jaurès, 29200 Brest +33 2 98 80 68 06

 - Taxi Brestois 801 801
246 Rue Jean Jaurès, 29200 Brest +33 2 98 80 18 01

 - Allo Taxi Brest
245 Rue Jean Jaurès, 29200 Brest.+33 2 98 42 11 11

 

Brest and surroundings

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Brest is a metropolis of 400,000 inhabitants, a tourist area as well as a living area. The city and its surroundings have many attractive facilities such as Océanopolis, one of the most attractive infrastructure of Brittany, the ocean discovery park (up to 450,000 visitors per year), and the Ateliers des Capucins, huge naval construction workshops converted into a cultural and living space, linked to the city center by the first urban cable car in France and where the Conference Diner will take place.

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In addition, the city and suburbs possess numerous points of interest, such as the National Botanical Conservatory of Brest, a marvelous 30-hectare garden in Brest, an exceptional center of discovery of the plant world, welcoming 400,000 visitors each year; and the Hélène and Edouard Leclerc Fund for Culture in Landerneau, which offers top-notch painting exhibitions: Miró, Giacometti, Chagall, Picasso… Culture, heritage and art are major themes for the metropolis and are always bubbling: this is demonstrated by the fact that the city was recently classified “Town of Art and History”.

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Innovative and open to the world, Brest is distinguished from other French cities by its links with the marine environment, as well as its cutting-edge marine science and technology sector. In fact, it was from the port of Brest that great explorers set out to discover new worlds: La Pérouse, Kerguelen, Bougainville…

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