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How to get to Atocha Renfe train station from Barajas airport. (Look for the Metro sign in the Arrivals area leading to the Metro station located within the airport) Tickets can be bought from the counter or from automatic vending machines.
Estimated Time: 0 h. 45 min. 15 secs. MTWTFSS
• Take the PINK line (Line 8) from the Airport Metro station till Nuevos Ministerios.
• In Nuevos Ministerios take the NAVY BLUE line (Line 10) until Tribunal.
• In Tribunal change to the LIGHT BLUE line (Line 1) till Atocha Renfe.
Other routes include:
Estimated Time: 1 h. 0 min. 25 secs. MTWTF
• Take the PINK line (Line 8) from the Airport Metro station till Mar de Cristal.
• In Mar de Cristal take the BROWN line (Line 4) till Diego de León.
• From Diego de León take the GREY line (Line 6) till Pacífico.
• Board the LIGHT BLUE line (Line 1) in Pacífico till Atocha Renfe.
Taxis are also available at the airport and generally cost between 35 to 40 euros (including airport supplement) for a trip to Atocha Renfe.
A discount is available on train tickets for passengers making a flight connection. Please retain your boarding passes as you will be required to produce them as proof at the counter if you wish to avail of this discount.
For information on timings and ticket prices of trains to Córdoba (duration of journey, approximately two and half hours), please consult the following link: http://horarios.renfe.es/hir/index.jsp?page=hjhir130.jsp&O=MADRI&D=50500&AF=2009&MF=MM&DF=DD&SF=NaN&ID=i
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To help you with the process of visa application, the names of all participants from South Asia have been sent to the Embassy of Spain in New Delhi. Please, check this website and follow the guidelines, and please don't forget to stay clearly the purpose of your visit, along with submission of all the documents:
http://www.ivs-spainvisa.com
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- As you already know, the organising committee of the First Annual Conference of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies "India in Canada, Canada in India: Managing Diversity" has offered fee waivers. It has been a complex process as first, there has been a very large number of applications, and second the world crisis has caused an important financial shortage also affecting our funds to cover fee waivers.
Together with fee waiver applications, we have been kindly suggested to cover local hospitality (accomodation and food expenses) as well, but fee waiver applicants must know that, contrariwise to Indian practice, Conferences in Spain (and also in most European countries) do not cover local hospitality. Thus, only fees can be financially supported by our Association.
This decision has been made consistently with our strong commitment to India. Therefore, it has been our aim to support twelve Indian scholars and students interested in participating in the First Conference organised by the AEEII, providing the greater economical difficulties that Indian colleagues face when visiting European meetings.
Our congratulations to the colleagues who have obtained our fee waiver:
- Gunjeet Aurora
- Saugata Bhaduri
- Paromita Chakravarti
- Anil Dhingra
- Smita Jha
- Simi Malhotra
- Seema Malik
- Masrufa Nusrat
- Seema Kashyapsharma
- Rajiv Saxena
- Vishnupriya Sengupta
- Jayshree Singh
The rest of participants are strongly recommended to make their bank transfer not later than next Friday 24th April, so as to benefit from early bird registration. We also want to remind you of the advantages of becoming a member of the Association. All this information can be found at out website www.aeeii.org
