EuBIC-MS Developers Meeting 2025

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Country

Netherlands

Venue

Oud Poelgeest

What makes this a good location a EuBIC-MS Developers Meeting?

Oud Poelgeest is a nice small castle a bike ride away from the city center of Leiden, Netherlands. The venue consists of two buildings, the main castle building houses multiple seminar rooms and the Coach House with three additional meeting rooms, a restaurant, a bar and the bedrooms. The buildings are surrounded by a beautiful park (forest).
For the 2025 EuBIC developers meeting we would book the complete venue with a maximum of 60 participants

• 47 rooms (13 "proper" double rooms with separable beds)
• 1 large seminar room for the welcome and roundup/farewell
• 6 seminar rooms for the hackathon groups (large screen, flip charts and extension cords)
• Energy breaks with coffee in the castle building to facilitate interactions between groups
• Stay hydrated: Plenty of water in the seminar rooms
• Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner buffets in the local restaurant
  • one special, seated 3-course dinner with wine pairing

All in all the venue is easily reachable, has enough space for 5-6 hackathon groups and with the venue fully booked, nobody is disturbing.

Connectivity

The venue is 25-30 minutes away from the Leiden train station by foot, 13 min by public transport.
From Amsterdam Schiphol airport, Leiden Centraal train station the airport Amsterdam is only ~20 min away.

Funding

(Possible)

• Dutch NWO (special “meeting” grant, currently €60 p.p. = €3,600, did sponsor HUPO-PSI meeting in 2023)
• Ruhr University Research School
• ELIXIR
• Companies

Would you like to act as local organizer?

• Just an idea for the location
• Perhaps up for organizing
• Likely up for organizing
• Would love to organize the event!

Names of local organizers

Magnus Palmblad (local local), Dirk Winkelhardt, Julian Uszkoreit, Veit Schwämmle

[julianu]

Closing this, as we decided for Neustift.