Upon your arrival
Dear Participants, 
the date is here and we would like to provide you some last, most actual information about conference upon your arrival.
It is foreseen that there should be nice sunny, but relatively cold and windy week. 
 We are looking forward to meet you!
Whole week forecast at the conference venue.
 
Venue and Parking
 For those who think it could be difficult, detailed view on how to reach Hotel. 
After leaving Highway D1 direction Piestany, please drive stright forward direction Spa. You will pass 1 x circle, 1 x lighs,
than another circle; last circle before crossing river (bridge) take direction city (left) and the next crossing right
and you will come to the Hotel.
 
Parking of all participants is reserved at Hotel parking places and Garage. 
Upon your arrival just enter the parking place in front of the Hotel and you will be placed at the reception desk.
Registration Desk
Registration Desk will be instaled in front of Reception Desk and will operate according the program. 
Upon your registration you will received conference package and the badge to wear during whole conference
Pre-conference courses
If you are registered pre-conference courses you should already receive all the necesary information and instruction for software instalation and data.
 Please contact us in case you think something goes wrong. It will save time during the course.
Date & Conference Venue, Participants, Committees

Date & Conference Venue (Change!)
September 26-28, 2018 :: Piešťany Spa, Slovakia — Hotel Magnolia****
The Spa history is closely linked with the history of the city. The first reliable report on Piestany, such as spas, comes from the year 1549, located in the file George Wernher De admirandis Hungariae aquis hypomnemation – On wondrous waters of the Hungarians, which was published in Basel. 
In 1682 Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia,
 at the request of the owners of the manor Hlohovec in which included the Piestany, took Piestany and the Bank under his protection. The first written protection 
 spa — Salva Guardia (1682, a kind of statute spa – it is one of the earliest written documents on the protection of spas in Europe), 
 deprived community obligations of lodgings army, forbade requisitions of horses, cattle, food etc. for the imperial army, which had a favourable impact 
 on the development of the spa.
During the 19th century, worked in a spa first balneologist in Piestany, MD. Francis Ernest Scherer (1805-1879) the author of a monograph on the spa. MD. Martin Marschall is the author of the German published 
dissertation about Piešťany Spa (1838). About spa also wrote MD. David Wachtel (1859) and other others.
 
The basic natural medicinal of the spas is the gypsum-sulfuric thermal water with a temperature of 67-69 °C (applied in the form of water baths and swimming pools) and healing sulphurous mud (applied in the form of partial or total packs). 
GPS: N 48.587447, E 17.836978.
Participating Universities
Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra :: Nitra, Slovakia
                                                               
University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Zootechnical Department :: Ljubljana, Slovenia 
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agricultural :: Zagreb, Croatia
University J. J. Strossmayer, Faculty of Agricultura in Osijek :: Osijek, Croatia
University of Kaposvár, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences :: Kaposvár, Hungary
University of Padova :: Padova, Italy
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences :: Vienna, Austria 
Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague :: Prague, Czech Republic
Coordinating Committee
Martino Cassandro, Italy
Marko Čepon, Slovenia
Gulio Cozzi, Italy
Ino Čurik, Croatia 
Peter Dovč, Slovenia
Birgit Fürst-Waltl, Austria 
Vesna Gantner, Croatia
Radovan Kasarda, Slovakia
Wilhelm Knaus, Austria 
Goran Kušec, Croatia 
Árpád Bokor, Hungary 
Krešimir Salajpal, Croatia 
Johann Sölkner, Austria 
Anna Trakovická, Slovakia 
Luboš Vostrý, Czech Republic
Gerolamo Xiccato, Italy 
Silvester Žgur, Slovenia 
Melinda Zomborsky, Hungary
Organizing Committee
President: Radovan Kasarda
Secretary: Friderika Hallová
Members:
Anna Trakovická
Juraj Candrák
Ondrej Kadlečík
Martina Miluchová 
Nina Moravčíková 
Programme draft II :: General, detailed (PDF)
Programme draft II :: Poster session (PDF)