The Symposium will comprise plenary lectures, scientific sessions with oral presentations and posters, and field trips. The social programme will include a welcome party and a symposium dinner, as well as cultural excursions. English will be the official language of the Symposium.

General planning

B1 - Room B1
B2 - Room B2  

Themes

1 – Methodologies to characterise geological heritage
2 – Management of geological heritage
3 – Integrating geoconservation in nature conservation policies
4 – Geoconservation and education for sustainable development
5 – Portuguese frameworks of international relevance 

Provisional Programme
(5th August version - PDF)

Oral presentations

Both rooms (B1 and B2) will be equipped with one computer for Apple Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and one multimedia projector. Slide and overheads projectors will also be available. Given the short time allocated for talks the use of personal laptops during presentations must be avoided. Presenters who intend to use Apple Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint should bring their CDs (or computers or pendrives) to the respective room one day before their scheduled time to have their presentations copied. Presenters whose talks are scheduled on the afternoon of Tuesday 13 should deliver their presentations on the morning of the same day. To allow the organisers to verify that the session program is complete, all presenters must inform the Chair of each session about their mode of presentation, even if they are planning an overhead presentation. A projectionist will be assigned to each conference room.

Presentations are scheduled for 15 minutes plus 5 minutes dedicated to questions. All sessions will be on the same time frame. It is essential that all speakers keep on schedule.

Poster presentations

Posters must be on display for the whole day during which the session is scheduled. Posters should be set up between 8.30 and 9.00 and removed by 19.00. All posters must be removed at the end of the first day, even in cases where the session lasts more than one day. Display panels, one for each poster presentation, are 100 cm wide and 120 cm high. Sticking paste is available; velcro, thumbtacks are not needed. Authors must be present at the poster booth from 17.30 to 18.30 (except for Tuesday 13th, 17:45-18:45).

If you plan to make a computer presentation:

The size of Apple Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint presentations should not exceed 20 MB (videos excluded), preferably. Slides without much animation should be used. Before importing pictures which will be used in the presentations, you should reduce and optimise them by means of graphic programs such as “Imaging”, “Photoshop”, “Photopaint”, “Paintshop-pro”, etc. It is absolutely necessary that the files of videos and pictures are in the same folder of the presentation; moreover, they need to be copied in the folder before they are inserted in the presentation. If non-standard sources are used (i.e. not included in MacOSX, Windows XP and Office), please bring these sources with you and inform the technical staff in due time about this at least one day before their scheduled time. The videos included in the presentation shall have the following extensions: .mpeg, .mov, .avi (.mov is preferable). Please do not use the following codecs: DivX, Xvid and others that are proprietary of professional cameras. Just one video for each slide is advisable. The videos to be used in the presentation should not be more than 50 MB each. To get a light presentation, please use .gif and .jpg pictures (different types of extensions will be accepted as well, provided that they are recognised by Microsoft PowerPoint).