Meeting venue and Accommodation

The symposium will be held at:

Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel (IMN)

2 rue de la Houssinière
BP32229
44322 Nantes cedex 3
France

Getting to Nantes

• By train:
  Nantes can be accessed directly from Paris CDG airport, or by changing trains at Paris Montparnasse or Lille Flandres station (Attention: Paris underground railways are not very friendly for disables and those carrying heavy suitcases. If you are travelling by Eurostar, it may be easier to transfer at Lille). Nantes train station is within walkable distance from the city centre.
  
  
• By plane:
  Nantes Atlantique Airport is about 25 minutes by car (depending on traffic) from the city centre. The shuttle bus to the city centre runs every 30 minutes from 5:15am to midnight [Timetable]. The bus ticket can be purchased from the bus driver or at the vending machine in front of the bus stop, next to the airport building. If you are arriving before or after the working hours of the shuttle bus, it may be safer to reserve a taxi since those waiting outside the airport building are sometimes unlicensed.

Access to the meeting venue

From the North exit of Nantes station: take tram line 1 (direction Jamet or François Mitterrand) to Commerce station, then line 2 (direction Orvault-Grand Val or Ecole Centrale-Audencia) to the Michelet-Sciences station. Then enter the Faculty of Sciences, the Institute of Materials of Nantes, where the meeting takes place, is in front of you, slightly on your left. Total time from train station to IMN: roughly 25 minutes.

 Accommodation

Accommodations can be found in various online travel agencies like Booking.com or the tourist office of Nantes city [Link]. Here are few examples with good accessibility from the meeting venue or the train station. The price was checked on 18/12/2023.

City centre (Commerce/Bouffay area):

• Ibis Styles Nantes Centre Place Graslin*** [Link]: ca. 104€ / room.night
• ibis Styles Nantes Centre Place Graslin*** [Link]: ca. 104 € / room.night
  
• Appart’City Confort Nantes Centre*** [Link]: ca. 115€ / room.night
  
• Mercure Nantes Hotel Passage Pommeraye**** [Link]: ca. 118€ / room.night
  
• Best Western Hotel Graslin**** [Link]: ca. 107€ / room.night
  
• Maisons du Monde Hotel & Suites - Nantes**** [Link]: ca. 122€ /room.night
  
• Mercure Nantes Centre Grand**** [Link]: ca. 131€ / room.night
  

Around the train station:

• ibis Nantes Centre Gare Sud*** [Link]: ca. 98€ / room.night
• Aparthotel Adagio Nantes Centre*** [Link]: ca. 99 € / room.night
• Appart'City Confort Nantes Cité des Congrès*** [Link]: ca. 90€ / room.night