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Practical information and advice to prepare your stay at the ZA EUROLAB
Accommodation
- For your convenience we provide a list of
hotels
close to the
GESIS-ZA with special university rates. Please book as soon as you know when
you will arrive as the cheaper hotels are often soon booked out,
particularly during trade fairs. For longer
visits we might be able to help finding an apartment. The price is
from about € 500 per month and higher. You usually have to leave a deposit when signing the contract (the amount of the deposit is regularly the rent for one month) The apartments are mainly in walking distance to the
GESIS-ZA and fully equipped.
For Users accepted within the EC programme ZA-EUROLAB staff will
organise the accommodation.
Address
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The address during your stay:
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Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung an der Universität zu Köln
ZA EUROLAB
Bachemer Str. 40
D-50931 Köln
Germany |
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Phone:
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+49-221 / 476 94 - 91
(ZA EUROLAB)
+49-221 / 476 94 - 0 (Main GESIS-ZA office) |
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Fax:
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+49-221
/ 476 94
- 79 |
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E-mail:
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You will receive a
GESIS-ZA e-mail address at arrival. In case you need to know it in
advance, please contact us. |
Akademisches Auslandsamt
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This office arranges excursions all over Germany on the weekends, courses in German, gives legal and practical advice concerning your stay in Germany etc.
- If you have any specific questions you may contact the Akademisches
Auslandsamt (office for foreign students), Kerpener Str. 4, 50931 Köln. http://www.daad.de/deutschland/en/2.2.3.html.
Child care:
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A private kindergarten is located close to the ZA. Price is 500 € per child per
month. Opening hours 7.30-18.00 weekdays. For smaller children private
arrangements might be made. Please not that this has to be booked as long in
advance as possible.
Insurance
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Please be sure that you have a valid health insurance for the duration of
your visit.
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In some cases it might be wise to have a separate travel insurance. Whether this is recommendable in your case ask a national insurance company.
Passport
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Please check that your passport or other personal identification is valid for the time period you plan to stay in Germany.
Travel
- Maps: GESIS-ZA
- By train:
- take a train to "Köln Hauptbahnhof" (central
station)
- from there you can go by underground (line 12,16 or 18) to "Neumarkt"
- to reach the Zentralarchiv take the bus (bus line 136 or 146) to
"Hildegardis Krankenhaus"; the Zentralarchiv is just across the
street
- a taxi from the train station to the GESIS-ZA costs about € 10
- By plane:
- from Köln/Bonn Airport you can go to "Köln Hauptbahnhof" by bus
(line 170)
- the bus leaves from the airport every 15 minutes, from the central station you proceed as described
above
- a taxi from Cologne airport costs about € 35
- if you arrive at the Düsseldorf airport take the train (S-Bahn, line 7) to
"Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof" and from there take any
train to "Köln Hauptbahnhof"
- from the central station in Cologne proceed as described
above
- a taxi from Düsseldorf airport to GESIS-ZA costs about € 80
University library
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You will have access to the university library during your stay at the Zentralarchiv. Just bring your passport and the letter confirming your stay at the Zentralarchiv. However, you are not allowed to take the books with you out of the library since you do not have a permanent address in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Visa
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Check with your national authorities whether you need a visa to travel to Germany.
© GESIS Ingvill C. Mochmann
14.12.2007
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