Venue&Travel
The venue for the conference will be the University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. The conference sessions will take place in the Amphiteatres de l'Europe, in the Sart Tilman University Campus.

Thanks to its location in central Europe and its proximity to Brussels, Liège can be easily reached from main european cities by car, airplane (flying to Brussels, Charleroi or Koeln) or by train.
Click on the following links for more information on how to:

  • get to Liège by car, airplane or train

  • get to the Sart-Tilman University campus from the city centre/central station.


    • For a few snapshots of the historical centre of Liège we suggest you to visit Vues de Liège. Here you also find useful links if you wish to have detailed information on the tourist and cultural attractions of the city of Liège and of the Wallonia region.
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    Getting to Liègetop

    by car

    Liège sits at the junction of 4 major motorways (E25, E313, E40, and E42) linking it to the rest of Belgium as well as France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany.

  • The E40 links it to Cologne and Aachen to the east, and Leuven, Brussels, Ghent and Bruges to the north-west.
  • The E42 runs all the way to Lille, via Namur, Charleroi, Mons and Tournai. Eastward, the E42 forks off from the E40 in Verviers (E421) and goes south to Spa, Trier and Saarbrücken.
  • The E25 goes northward to Maastricht, then all the way up to Amsterdam, and southward to Luxembourg and Metz.
  • The E313 goes to Antwerp via Hasselt.


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    by airplane

    Participants arriving in Belgium by air can fly to Brussels airport, which is about one hour away from Liege by train (see the SNCB website for further information on train timetables).

    Other airports within 1h30 hours by train from Liège are those of Koeln and Charleroi, which are also served by low-cost airlines, such as Rynair and Germanwings.



    by train

    There are two high-speed train lines passing through Liège: the Thalys running between Paris and Koeln, and the ICE to Koeln and Frankfurt.

    There are frequent regular trains to most Belgian cities. Here is a summary of the main lines :

  • Toward Ostende (2h15min) : Leuven (35min), Brussels (55min), Ghent (1h35min), Bruges (2h),
  • Toward Lille (2h40min) : Huy (20min), Namur (40min), Charleroi (1h10min), Mons (1h45), Tournai (2h10min)
  • Toward Antwerp (2h) : Tongeren (30min), Hasselt (55min)

    • Regular direct trains to neighbouring countries include : Maastricht (30min), Aachen (50min) and Luxembourg (2h30min).

    For further information please visit the SNCB website.




    Getting to Sart-Tilman from the city centretop
    The colloquium will take place in the Sart Tilman University campus, located at about 10 km south of the city centre. The Sart-Tilman University campus can be easily reached by bus from the city centre or from the Guillemins train station.

    Two bus lines connect the centre to Sart-Tilman: number 48 and 58, whereas from the Guillemins train station you can reach Sart-Tilman taking bus n. 48.

    For updated bus timetables please check the TEC website.

    Université de Liège > Faculté des Sciences > Département d'Astrophysique, Géophysique et Océanographie : A. Miglio