Particulars

Date:

4-5 September 2008

Location:

Plön Castle, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Duration:

2 full days

Participants:

A select group of about 300 people.

Attendance fee:

€1500. Discounts are offered to young researchers and other participants.

The GES consists primarily of panel sessions, in which the panelists
debate the session topics, after which the audience joins in.

Each panel consists of about four panelists.
There are about six session slots per day. Each session slot
has about two parallel sessions. Thus over the two days,
there are about 24 sessions in all. Each session lasts
75 minutes. There are about four panelists per session. After each
panel debate, there is an open discussion in which other session
participants join the discussion.

There are also two plenary sessions, one identifying the world’s
major challenges and the other summarizing potential solutions.