Preliminary Program WACRA® 2002

"Interactive Teaching & Learning in a Global Context"

Case Teaching & Writing, Continuing Education & Distance Learning
 for Global Labor Markets

hosted by The Federal University for Public Administration, Mannheim, Germany

 

Friday, June 28, 2002

  • 10.00 - 17.00 Faculty Development Case Teaching Workshop for Host University Faculty

 

Saturday, June 29, 2002

Pre-Conference Activities

  • 9.00 - 16.00 Doctoral Consortium

  • 10.00 - 13.30 Executive and Advisory Board Meeting Followed by Lunch 

  • 15.00 Optional visit to the 'Landesmuseum for Technic & Labor' and Dinner "On Top of Mannheim" (Separate Registration)

 

Sunday, June 30, 2002

  • 09.00 - 17.00 WICS - WACRA Interactive Case Sessions (Separate Registration)

 

Conference Activities

  • 16.00 - 17.30 Registration at conference Hotel Dorint in Mannheim

  • 19.00 - 22.30 Reception, Buffet Dinner and Entertainment and Mannheimer Schloss (Baroque Castle)

  • Official Welcome by the Mayor of Mannheim and the President of Federal University for Public Administration, Mannheim

 

Monday, July 1, 2002

  • 09.00 - Late registration

  • 10.00 - 11.30 Opening Plenary Session

  • 11.30 Bus leaves for partner tour 

  • 11.30 - 12.00 Concurrent Sessions, Panels and Workshops 

  • 13.00 - 17.00 Concurrent Sessions, Panels and Workshops

  • 19.00 Gala Dinner at the University for Public Administration Mannheim

 

Tuesday, July 2, 2002

  • 09.00 Plenary Session

  • Concurrent Sessions, Panels and Workshops

  • 13.15 Departure for Heidelberg, boat tour on the River Neckar

  • 17.00 Sightseeing, shopping, free time in Heidelberg 

  • 19.00 Reception by the Mayor of Heidelberg in historic City Hall 

  • 20.00 Dinner in historic Prince Carl Palais

  • 23.00 Return to conference Hotel Dorint in Mannheim

 

Wednesday, July 3, 2002

  • 09.00 - Plenary Session

  • 12.00 Concurrent Sessions, Panels and Workshops

  • 14.00 - 16.00 Concurrent Sessions, Panels , Workshops and Concluding Session

  • Conference adjourns

Post Conference Activities

  • 18.00 - Optional: Hambach Castle, Dinner and Entertainment sponsored by BASF

 

Thursday, July 4, 2002

  • 9.00- Depature for visit to research & production facilities of Siemens AG in Karlsruhe (includes participants of Doctoral Consortium, lunch, free time in Karlsruhe,visit of traditional wine village and local home on the Deutsche Weinstrasse (German Route of Wine) including reception. 

 

Friday, July 5 - Monday, July 8, 2002

  • 9.00 - Departure for optional post-conference Educational/Cultural tour through Southern Germany including visits to Würzburg, Romantic Road, Rothenburg (overnight), Neresheim, Dillingen a.d. Donau, the real Neuschwanstein, Reutte in Tyrol (overnight), Deutsche Alpenstrasse, Lake Constance, Meersburg, Villingen-Schwenningen in Blackforest (overnight), clock-museum in Furtwangen, Triberg - capital of the famous Blackforest Clocks, Offenbach, Mannheim. Seating is limited, separate registration is required.