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We have already information about bus routes and departure times for those afected by the cancellation of their flights

• Route 1: Bordeaux, Paris, Calais, Brussels, Utrech, Hamburg, Lubeck, Copenhaguen.
  Departure: Sunday, 18.00h
• Route 2: Marseille, Milano, Trieste, Graz, Vienna, Budapest.
  Departure: Sunday, 23.30h
• Route 3: Lyon, Munich, Prague, Varsaw, Vilnius, Riga, Tallin.
  Departure: Sunday, 23.30h
• Route 4: Paris, Calais, Brussels, Bonn-Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Munich.
  Departure: Monday 19th April, 10.00 h. NEW!

Thanks to all and have a nice trip

If you need extra information pleasego to Information Point
Updated at 16:30

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For 4 intense days, we have enjoyed this “essence of Campus Party” that has been the Campus Party Europe. An event where people with the most innovative projects of all nationalities have gathered in the Magic Box. We have enjoyed ideas, people and conversations with those who hope to revolutionize the present and the future of Europe. As always, uniting talent and creating the future.

Madrid Tour with Campuseros

Thanks to Munimadrid, we have taken a tour of Madrid with campuseros from all across Europe . From Cibeles to the Bibloteca Nacional, La Gran Vía, Sol… the most characteristic places of the town and court. Then we took a walk through Madrid de los Austrias.

Foreign visitors were surprised by the tour through the historical areas, and have ended up tasting the classic tapas the centre has to offer..

Thanks to David for his pictures during the visit.

United by Robots

In the Science area of Campus Party Europe, the area of robotics has been a place of continuous meetings. There have been many devirtualizations, that curious moment where you put faces to people who, until now, you only knew online.

That has been the case with Rik de Deken, Angel Hernández, Razvan Lixandru, Antonius Bouloubasis and John Edgell, who until now only knew eachother on the website, Let’s Make Robots, an active community of robotics fans.

Francisco Reinoso (Furri) is one of Spain’s foremost experts of “Pinguino”, a very versatile development board with microcontrollers . On the first day of Campus Party he discovered with great surprise and joy that, Jean-Pierre Mandon, the founder of the “Pinguino”project, had come to Madrid. They have spent time exchanging experiences, without a screen in the middle.

Koldo Olaskoaga and Román Ontiyuelo are developers of Lego NXT and have run into Daniel Benedettelli , author of one of the most prestigious books of this platform. Koldo also belongs to Terecop, a European education project, which also includes the Greek Dimitris Alimisis who says he spent a very rewarding few days in Madrid.

Everyone will leave Campus Party with new friends, new projects and new illusions.

Hello Campuseros,

As you all know the European airspace is affected by a cloud of volcanic ash and this is causing many flights to be canceled. The organizational body of Campus Party Europe wants to help you in this situation, so we want to inform you of the following points:

- We recommend frequently consulting your airline’s website to view your flight status (canceled or confirmed).

- If your flight appears to be confirmed you should go to the airport in buses provided by the organization on April 18th.

- If your flight appears to be canceled, you have the opportunity to sign up to travel by land on one of the bus routes designated by the organization that we are negotiating at this time. Europe Campus Party shall bear the costs arising from the hiring of these buses.

- For those whose flights have been canceled but did not want to return by bus, the organization will guarantee, without charge, a place to keep camping in the Magic Box until next Wednesday (21-04-2010), and catering for those days.

After 18:00 there will be an information point available about these issues at the entrance to the campsite on the ground floor -2 (place where you picked up a welcome-pack).

Kind Regards,
Campus Party Europe

Gender violence is a serious problem which we must all fight against. The Equality Ministry of the Spanish Government has launched a campaign with a clear message: “The perpetrator gets shown a red card.” This is to express the rejection towards the abuser, and towards the violence that has no place in our society, and must be eradicated completely.

Now it’s time to spread this campaign, so it is very important that it reaches everyone. That’s why the Campuseros have collaborated by showing the red card.

Help us to spread this campaign! At this link you will find materials to publicize the campaign on social networks.

Campus nights have a special magic. Each country has its culture and customs, but Campuseros worldwide, curiously have a lot in common. This was the case last night. Whether in be in Sao Paulo, Bogota, Mexico City or Valencia, Campus nights are full of activity and Campuseros postpone sleeping, trying to take advantage of the hours until they almost faint.

Last night, a modding group worked on cutting acrylic. To avoid disturbing other participants with the noise, they went outside the event grounds to continue working in the cold and with very little light . They were from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, France and Spain, and worked while joking around in a fun atmosphere.

Then there was a pizza break… and for some strange reason, technology and pizza have a lot in common.

Unfortunately, although we have tried everything in our power for Oliviero Toscani to be with us today, his conference has been permanently suspended. The flight that should have brought Toscani from Paris was suspended because of the problems being suffered by the air traffic in Europe due to the explosion of a volcano in Iceland. We are convinced that we can count on Oliviero Toscani to attend another edition of our event.

Campus Party Europe has received 800 projects from the 27 European Union countries, and the truth is that they are all very interesting. There are projects on social networks, music sites, robotics, software … and behind each one stands a Campusero that has come from his country to show it, share ideas, seek synergies …

The exchange of business cards, emails and Twitters, is constant, and new projects are already emerging as a result of contact between Campuseros.

Marc Rosenfeld, 27 year-old Belgian-Brazilian, realized there was not a complete list of all the Campus Party projects in Madrid. Therefore he created a GoogleDoc with all the information for each project: web address, names of creators and other contact information. Marc put it on his Twitter, other Campuseros re-Twitted, and within hours there were over 80 projects indexed. Add your own.

Marc’s Project is called “4teamus” and it aims to create a community for people from different countries to be able to work on common projects. For example, if you want to create a website and you have a design, you could find programmers to complete the job. So the idea of creating the GoogleDoc for Campus projects, to promote the collaboration between projects, companies and users and is always beneficial for everyone.