ASSOCIATION OF COMPETITION ECONOMICS ANNUAL CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE VENUES

Belmeloro University Complex > Conference venue
Via B. Andreatta, 8 (past name Via Belmeloro, 14) – 40126 Bologna

Conference rooms
• Room A (main hall) > ground floor
• Room G > ground floor
• Room C > 1st floor
• Room D > 1st floor
• Room E > 2nd floor

Location
Belmeloro Complex is located in the historical area of the University of Bologna, just a few minutes walk from the Two Towers, Piazza Maggiore and the most important monuments of Bologna.

How to get there

BY TRAIN
Belmeloro Complex is 20-minutes walk from Bologna Centrale (main entrance from Piazza Medaglie d’Oro). You can also take the bus (ticket € 1,50):
– line C (get off at Teatro Comunale stop)
– line 32 (get off at Porta San Vitale stop)

BY AIRPLANE
Guglielmo Marconi International Airport is about 20 minutes by taxi from the city centre.
You can also take Aerobus BLQ (ticket € 6,00) and get off at Bologna Centrale railway station.
See above the instructions to reach Belmeloro Complex from the railway station.

BY CAR
Take exit number 7 of the ring road (via Stalingrado) and follow the indications to the city centre.
Via B. Andreatta is located in the restricted traffic zone ZTL and the access is supervised by the “Sirio” electronic system.
It is possible to purchase tickets for access to the ZTL that allow you to obtain an entry permit for one or four days. For further information: http://www.comune.bologna.it/trasporti/servizi/2:4321/32451/
The garages located in areas with limited traffic, as well as hotels and bed & breakfasts are required to issue a special mark and communicate to the offices in charge the plaques of their customers who are included in the list of vehicles authorized at the entrance and that will not be fined.

PARKING
• APCOA Parking Piazza VIII agosto, Piazza VIII agosto
• Posteggio San Martino, Via Guglielmo Oberdan 25

TAXI
• COTABO +39 051 372727
• CAT +39 051 5490

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Scuderia – Future Food Urban CooLab > Lunch venue
Piazza G. Verdi, 2 – 40126 Bologna

Scuderia is a 5-minutes walk from Belmeloro Complex.

We recommend you to keep your name badge in order to be allowed to access the reserved area inside the restaurant.
USEFUL INFO

Registration desk
The registration desk to collect your name badge and Conference kit will be open from 9am on November 15th.

Wardrobe
Wardrobe service will be provided at Belmeloro Complex.
The organization does not assume responsibility for lost items, so please keep all your valuable belongs with you.

Internet Access
The University of Bologna will provide you with free wi-fi internet access.
You’ll receive username and password by email before the Conference.

Language
The official Conference language is English. Simultaneous translation will not be provided.

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ACCOMMODATION IN BOLOGNA

Please find below some suggested hotels:

Hotel I Portici****
Via dell’Indipendenza, 69
Price range € 190 – 200

Hotel Cappello Rosso****
Via de’ Fusari, 9
Price range € 190 – 200

Hotel Metropolitan****
Via dell’Orso, 6
Price range € 150

Best Western Hotel S. Donato****
Via Zamboni, 16
Price range € 150

Hotel Roma***
Via D’Azeglio, 9
Price range € 100 – 120

Hotel Atlantic***
Via Galliera, 46
Price range € 100 – 120

SOCIAL DINNER – November 15th

PALAZZO GNUDI – via Riva di Reno, 77 – 40121 Bologna

Built literally across the channel that brings Reno waters to the city, the building has its origins in the first half of 1500. In 1747 it was sold to Raffaele Gnudi, business man of modest origins that became rich through his knowledge and his work at the Apostolic Camera. In 1758 Raffaele died and Antonio, the most dynamic among the three sons of Raffaele, began climbing the social ladder. During his climb he rebuilt the palace: Antonio spared no money on decorations and hired the best painters of the time.
The facade made by Francis Tadolini presents typical characteristics including bicromia, which emphasizes the decorative elements, and the rustic smooth. The tall neoclassical portal is surmounted by a balcony and the door, adornes the top of the sculpture depicting allegories of the Abbondanza (right) and Sapienza (left), attributed to Petronius Tadolini, brother and assistant to Francis.
The eighteenth-century “Gallery of mirrors”, frescoes, statues and charming stucco decorations make it one of the most interesting and evocative historical residences of the city centre.

Location
Palazzo Gnudi is located in the city center of Bologna.
The distance from the Conference venue is 1,5 km (15/20-min walk or 15 min by bus line 27, starting from Porta San Vitale stop and arriving to Via Indipendenza stop).

How to get there

BY BUS
Lines 21, 25, 28, 30, 36, 38, D (get off at Via Marconi stop)
Lines 27, A, C (get off at Via Indipendenza stop)

BY CAR
Take exit number 5 of the ring road (Quartiere Lame) and follow the indications to the city centre.
Palazzo Gnudi is located in restricted traffic zone ZTL and the access is supervised by the “Sirio” electronic system.
It is possible to purchase tickets for access to the ZTL that allow you to obtain an entry permit for one or four days. For further information: http://www.comune.bologna.it/trasporti/servizi/2:4321/32451/
The garages located in areas with limited traffic, as well as hotels and bed & breakfasts are required to issue a special mark and communicate to the offices in charge the plaques of their customers who are included in the list of vehicles authorized at the entrance and that will not be fined.

PARKING
• APCOA Parking Riva Reno, Via del Rondone, at the corner with Via Azzogardino

“CLASSIC BOLOGNA” GUIDED TOUR > November 16th
We propose an itinerary to let the guests admire many of the beauties of Bologna’s historic centre.
Time: 3 pm – 5.30 pm (2 hours and ½). The meeting point will be communicated to the participants by the Organizing Secretariat NOEMA.
Fee: € 25,00 (+ 22% VAT if due).
Online registration at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-ZqhY-ZI57ElPrRv5tUBFyHP3s73HhK6OaIeoh3U7iD4HSA/viewform
Please note that the tour will be run only if the minimum number of 20 participants will be reached.
For further information: Maria Pia Petrei – ph. +39 051 230385 – m.petrei@noemacongressi.it

Piazza Maggiore
The heart of Bologna since 2500 years ago. A real heart, in fact when people from Bologna go “in the city centre” they say they are going “in Piazza”.

Palazzo D’Accursio
Composed by buildings that cover three hundred years of rich Bolognese history, from 1200 to 1500, it’s the prestigious headquarter of the city’s Government and with the grandeur of its rooms it reveals fascinating art works.

Palazzo del Podestà
An austere building from the thirteenth-century masked as an elegant residence of the Renaissance. It’s adorned by thousand of tiles that tell its ancient history.

Sala Borsa
After the ancient private garden of the Cardinal was demolished this area, in 1800, got occupied by the splendid Liberty style Sala Borsa that we can admire today. The transparent crystal pavement let people admire some ruins of the great roman city of Bononia.

Neptuno’s Fountain
Symbol of the sixteenth-century’s elegance, its clear waters were never intended as drinking water for thirsty people from Bologna but as a celebration to the Pope’s power.

Palazzo Re Enzo
The gloomy medieval prison of the city. Two pikes from the sixteenth century reveal the cruelty of a time when forgiveness didn’t exist.

Basilica di San Petronio
The works for this majestic Collegiate started in 1390. On the incomplete façade you feel the tenderness of the Madonnina by Jacopo della Quercia, while on the inside you can admire pictorial, sculptural and glass masterpieces from medieval and of the renaissance Italian art.

The Archiginnasio and the Anatomical Theatre
Elegant sixteenth-century palace, was built to be the first and “only” headquarter of the ancient Studium Bolognese, the oldest University in Europe. On the first floor we find the awesome Anatomy Theatre where corpses were dissected during medicine and anatomy lessons.

The medieval market and the merchant’s lodge
Through the narrow and lively alleys of the city-market we will arrive to the palace that had been the headquarter of the Foro dei Mercanti. This building was built in the fourteenth century and still keeps its Gothic style charm.

Santo Stefano Church
Named the Bolognese Saint Gerusalem after its symbolic links to the “Passion of the Christ” sites.
There still stand: a Benedictine monastery the origins of which go back to the dawn of Christianity, a Byzantine church almost 1600 years old, a Romanesque church and a crypt as well as two cloisters of incomparable beauty. An unforgettable historic-artistic experience.

The two towers
The itinerary ends at the base of the Two towers that, from the Middle Ages, overlook the city.