Venue

The Pre-Conference to the 6th European Ministerial e-Government Conference - Innovation for e-Participation - will be held at:

Poznań University of Economics
al. Niepodległości 10
61-875, Poznań
Second floor, Main Hall

 

 



Plan of the building


Plan of the building - click to enlarge

Conference City

Poznań is a city in west-central Poland with over 567,882 inhabitants (2006). Located on the Warta River, it is one of the oldest cities in Poland, making it an important historical centre and a vibrant centre of trade, industry, and education. Poznań is Poland's fifth largest city and fourth biggest industrial centre. It is also the administrative capital of the Greater Poland Voivodeship. More info >


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Pre-Conference banquet

The Preconference banquet will be held in Działyński Palace, in the Red Room of the palace.

Działyński Palace

Stary Rynek 78/79, Poznań



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The palace represents a unique architectural solution within the old city walls. It was erected by an unknown architect in the 1870s on two mediaeval plots with a small garden at the rear, only to be rebuilt a decade later by Antoni Hoene in a mixture of Baroque and neoclassical styles.

Judging from the decoration on the gable end, which features a coat-of-arms flanked by Roman soldiers and panoply, the first owner of the palace, the Great Lithuanian Marshall Kazimierz Gurowski, must have been a man of lofty aspirations (the bass-reliefs in the attic depicting triumphant parades and sacrificial processions and the sculpture of a pelican feeding her young with her own blood, which is placed on the top of the building are a later amendment. They were placed there during the period of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw as a symbolic representation of a homeland hoping to regain independence).

The magnificent Red Room was richly decorated with stucco work, most likely designed by Jan Christian Kamsetzer. There are also royal portraits of Stefan Batory, Władysław vthe Fourth and Jan the Third Sobieski over the doors and also two pairs of statues. The statues made by Augustyn Schöps depicted the kings Władysław the Elbow-high and Casimir the Great, and Władysław Jagiełło and Duke Witold (or according to an alternative interpretation, Mieszko I and Boleslav the Brave). The replicas of the statues destroyed during the war were made by Józef Kopczyński.

The palace inherited by the Działyński family became an important centre of Polish life, where public lectures were given, art and craft exhibitions were organised and support committees were founded during uprisings.

The Działyńskis have gone down in history thanks to the library that Tytus Działyński founded in Kórnik near Poznań. The library incorporated examples of Polish literature and was vastly expanded through the efforts of his son Jan and his grandson Władysław Zamoyski, who bestowed the entire property upon the Polish nation in 1924.

Source: poznan.pl


Venue photos: The Red Room , Działyński Palace.

Sightseeing

Poznań is one of the richest cities in historical monuments in Poland, both in terms of their value and number. The most valuable ones are concentrated in three areas: the island of Ostrów Tumski (Cathedral Island), the Old Town and the Centre. In addition, Poznań belongs to the select group of cities that boast examples of all architectural periods - from the Romanesque, through Gothic, Reinassance, Baroque to the eclectic and the modernist.

Travel information

You can reach Poznań by plane, train, bus or car. Please follow the link below for more information: More info >


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Weather

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Accomodation

For information concerning hotels available in Poland visit Travel Poland website.