At the 26th General Assembly of the IUCr in Melbourne Manfred Weiss (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) and Tina Weigel (TU Freiberg) presented the German bid for the 28th IUCr congress and General Assembly to be held August 18–25, 2029 in Berlin. The delegates accepted the proposal and now we are all looking forward to a fantastic IUCr-2029 in Berlin. Stay tuned.
At the @IUCr General Assembly, the IUCr 2029 team successfully presented the intent of the German Crystallographic Society (DGK) to host the 28th IUCr Congress 2029 in Berlin.@ECA_social @IUCr2023 pic.twitter.com/aAcXbdGm3j
— IUCr 2029 (@IUCr2029) August 17, 2021
The IUCr 2029 Berlin team will be present at the IUCr 2021 Meeting in Prague on August 14–22!
Everybody is invited to stop by for some sweets and giveaways and some more information about the IUCr 2029 in Berlin. We will be located at booth no. 16 in the exhibition.
After being rescheduled from its original 2020 date, the next IUCr meeting will now take place August 14–22, 2021 in Prague, Czech Republic.
The IUCr 2021 will also feature Berlin’s bid for the IUCr 2029 meeting, with tentative plans for members of the organizing committee to attend the meeting in person.
The bid to bring the IUCr2029 to Berlin is also represented at the Joint Polish-German Crystallographic Meeting 2020 this week (February 24-27, 2020) in Wrocław, Poland! Meet Udo, Christian, and Manfred and pick up some more informational materials or one of our stickers and pens.
The bid to bring the IUCr2029 to Berlin was represented at the ECM-32 this week. We hope that you got a chance to pick up a supporting button or pen! See you all at IUCr2020 in Prag in a year!
IUCr2029-Berlin team members Christian Lehmann and Udo Heinemann
IUCr2020-Prag organizer Radomír Kužel with IUCr2029-Berlin team members Udo Heinemann and Christian Lehmann
The IUCr 2029 planning team will be present at the 32nd European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM-32) in Vienna, Austria next month (18.-23. August 2019). Please stop by at the “Future Meetings” booth, get the latest infos and pick up some nice give-aways.
The IUCr2029 team will announce additional information on the bid to host the 2029 IUCr meeting in Berlin, Germany at the 27th Annual Meeting of the German Crystallographic Society (DGK) in Leipzig, Germany on March 25-28, 2019.
adapted from the DGK Mitteilungen, issue 48 of the German Society for Crystallography (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallographie)
Of the previous 24 congresses of the IUCr, only one took place in Germany: the 13th congress 1984 in Hamburg. According to the current plans, the 25th congress will take place in Prague in 2020, the 26th in Melbourne in 2023, and the 27th potentially in Xian, China. IUCr congresses are attended by many scientists from all over the world and represent the largest international exhibition of crystallographic research. Approximately 2800 participants came to Madrid in 2011, 2750 went to Montreal in2014, and 1750 to Hyderabad in 2017. In that context, the idea emerged that it might be Germany’s turn to host again. An IUCr congress in Germany would offer the unique opportunity to welcome the international community of crystallographers in Germany, and to present the far-reaching activities that are being conducted in Germany in this field to an international audience.
Over time and with some consideration, the plan began to take shape and the idea—that the DGK should apply to become the host of the 28th congress—was introduced to the DGK board in their December session. The idea was received very positively, and Berlin was favored as a possible venue. Everyone is, of course, aware that such an enterprise always entails a financial risk. However, this risk for the DGK can potentially be staved via the creation of a not-for-profit GmbH. Finally, the DGK board instructed one of us (Manfred S. Weiss) to assemble a team and initiate the first steps to launch this campaign.
These preliminary steps encompass the compilation of the basic financial parameters on the basis of previous congresses, the design of a conference logo, and the purchase of the domain www.iucr2029.org, up to the planned presentation of a preliminary application at the 25th congress in Prague. There, we will represent DGK with a booth, and present our plan—to bring the 2029 congress to Berlin and to Germany—to the world for the first time. An important intermediate step was the presentation of the IUCr 2029 idea at the DGK conference in Essen. Over 150 conference participants signed up in the list of supporters and are now proud wearers of the IUCr 2029 supporter button. Additional intermediate steps include the sounding-out of the plans of other crystallographic societies in Europe, as well as the possible presentation of the idea at the ECM in Oviedo.
In conclusion, we would like to note that we are not a closed circle: everyone, who would like to contribute to these efforts and wants to help bring the IUCr conference 2029 to Berlin is cordially invited to join us.
The IUCr 2029 team: Julia Dshemuchadse, Udo Heinemann, Christian Lehmann & Manfred S. Weiss
adapted from the website of the IUCr2020 Congress in Prague
Local organizers in the Prague Congress Centre (PCC) in September 2018
Prague, viewed from the IUCr2020 exhibition area
Core team of the local organizing committee of the IUCr2020 Congress in Prague at the ECM31 in Oviedo in August 2018
