We expect you to pay the participation fees upon arrival in cash. As specified in the first Infopack, the participation costs are 150.

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1 Welcome! This is the second and final Infopack for this year s BEAM in Berlin, Germany. Among other things, you will find information on the home staff, the site and how to get there, evening activities and religious services. As all of you already know this year s BEAM will be happening at the same time and place as the European, Middle-East and Africa Junior Branch Meeting and will be preceded by a Regional Coordinators Workshop. This will, of course, impact the meeting but we expect this to happen in a very positive way.

2 Home staff Payment We expect you to pay the participation fees upon arrival in cash. As specified in the first Infopack, the participation costs are 150. Insurance and forms Frank (Hamburg) Gerhard (Kiel) Hannes (Kiel) Christina (Hamburg) Lina (Köln) Malte (Hamburg /Kiel) Niklas (Hamburg) Every participant has to take care of their own insurance. There is no need not bring any forms. Only participants below the age of 18 have to bring the Youth Traveling Alone Legal Information Form (TWAL) which can be found at resources.cisv.org Religious Services If you would like to attend any religious services during BEAM, please don t hesitate to contact the home staff about it. We will do our best to accommodate you! The site We will be accommodated around 1 1/2 hours outside of Berlin. The site is typically used by scouts and other youth organizations, the staff is therefore used to groups like us. The site is compromised of several different houses, BEAM participants will therefore all be accommodated in a different house than EJBM participants. If you want to take a closer look at the site, you can check out their website (in German) by following this link: Weather Weather in Berlin at this time of year can be extremely mixed. So we would advise you to pack for all eventualities. We can have amazingly nice spring weather but snow is a possibility as well.

3 On Berlin Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany. Having been split into two parts in the aftermath of the Second World War, Berlin became a symbol of East-West confrontation and Cold War as well as reconciliation cumulating in the German reunification in Today, Berlin is considered one of the most hip cities in Europe with its rich cultural and intellectual agenda. Directions The home staff has prepared very extensive information on how to get to the site. You will find these on the last pages of this Infopack. Please note: As there will be a first year NAR training, we invite people to come to the site at two different times. This will be specified in the directions. First year NAR training As already mentioned above, there will be an extra session for first year National Representatives at this year s BEAM. Therefore, we invite everyone who is in their first year as a NAR to come to the site a bit earlier and other participants later. You can find more detailed info on this at the end of this document. Towels & Sheets Sheets will be provided by the site. However, you will have to bring your own towels. Contact If you have any more questions concerning BEAM, you can contact the ReCo, Nik, either via niklas.juhl@de.cisv.org or give him a call If you would like to contact the home staff directly, please refer to Malte again either via malte.kraus@de.cisv.org or phone Below you will find the preliminary schedule, a short advertisement for the Essentials of Peace Education training that will be held in Denmark in May and finally the directions on how to get to the site. We don t expect the schedule to change considerably until the meeting starts so this is a good way to get an indication of what we re going to work on during the meeting. Evening activities and camp shop The home staff has prepared a few fun activities for the evenings. We will also use the evening to exchange views and discuss with the EJBM participants. Refreshments will be available as well as a small shop where you can buy, among others, toiletries and snacks. Please remember to bring sufficient cash money ( ) as there is no ATM on site.

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7 How to get to the EJBM and BEAM site Arrival: BEAM, Friday, 25 th March NARs who attend BEAM for the first time are asked to meet us at 3 pm on Friday, 25 th March 2016 at the information point in the hall at the train station Berlin Ostbahnhof because you will have a session held before the arrival of the others. Check out this map to locate the info point, it s between the items 29, 30 and 39: All other NARs, please follow the instructions below, starting by taking the train that leaves Berlin Ostbahnhof at 4.46 pm. (*the final station of each step is always marked bold) Step 1: Take the regional train RE going towards Cottbus. You get out at Königs Wusterhausen. This train leaves from Berlin Hauptbahnhof (main station) at 4.35 pm (normally from platform 11 or 12) or from Berlin Ostbahnhof at 4.46 pm (normally from platform 1 or 2). The trip is around 30 minutes. Step 2: In Königs Wusterhausen, you have around 20 minutes to change trains (which is plenty). Take the regional train RB going towards Frankfurt (Oder). You get out at Storkow(Mark). This train leaves at 5.33 pm, normally from platform 3. The trip is around 20 minutes. Step 3: In Storkow(Mark) you have 8 minutes to change to a bus. Take the bus 435 going towards Fürstenwalde (Spree). You get out at Hirschluch, Storkow (Mark). This bus leaves at 6.05 pm. The trip is 8 minutes long. Step 4: Follow the signs to Hirschluch for 300m by foot until you enter the campsite. Notes: If you cannot make the described connection, please get in touch with the Home Staff as soon as possible to arrange other means of transportation. For this connection, it is essential that you catch the bus at 6.05 pm because it is the last one. If you arrive late in the evening and would only start your trip from Berlin after 9 pm, get in touch with the home staff as soon as possible because limited to no trains operate by then. To find out about directions from wherever you are, you could use the Deutsche Bahn website at or the Regional Train Operator website (VBB) at This is a map of the train system in Berlin for download: This is a map of the regional train system in and around Berlin (the stations mentioned above are to the South-East of Berlin):

8 Arrival from Airport Berlin-Schönefeld (SXF) to the campsite If you arrive at Berlin-Schönefeld (SXF) and make your way to the campsite yourself, you could also skip Step 1 and do the following instead it will save you from entering Berlin and leaving into the same direction again: Take the regional train RB 288XX (XX only represents a sequential number) going towards Königs Wusterhausen where you also get out. From there, you follow Step 2. This train leaves at *.41h after every hour and takes 15 minutes. It normally departs from platform 3 at SXF. What ticket do I need? You have two options: 1) From anywhere in Berlin, you can buy a single ticket by selecting either Hirschluch, Storkow (Mark) or Storkow (Mark) as your final destination at the ticket machine. With this ticket you can get to the meeting point as well as the campsite. A single ticket costs 5,70. 2) As a group of max. 5 persons, you can buy a group ticket, called the Brandenburg- Berlin-Ticket. It is valid the entire day. If you stay in Berlin the day anyways, it is advisable to buy that because it allows you to travel through Berlin, to the meeting point and the campsite all day long. The ticket costs 29. (NB: An all-day ticket is also available for a single person for 11,40 ) Home Staff Contact for arrival coordination, in case you get los or miss the last bus Malte Kraus malte.kraus@de.cisv.org Arrival by car The address of our campsite is: Ev. Jugendbildungs- und Begegnungsstätte Hirschluch Storkow/Mark Google Maps: Website of campsite: How to get to Berlin Ostbahnhof, the Meeting Point (examples, there are plenty of others) From Airport Tegel: Take the Airport Bus TXL (direction S+U Alexanderplatz) to Berlin Hauptbahnhof. Then take the S5 (direction Hoppegarten(Markt)), S7 (direction Ahrensfelde) or S75 (direction Berlin-Wartenberg), approx. 40 min From Airport Schönefeld: Take the RE (direction Dessau Hbf) or RB (direction Nauen) approx. 20 min From Hauptbahnhof: Take the S5 (direction Hoppegarten(Markt)), S7 (direction Ahrensfelde) or S75 (direction Berlin-Wartenberg) approx. 10 min

9 From ZOB/Busbahnhof: Walk 6 min to Messe Nord (S)/ICC, take Bus X34 (direction S+U Zoologischer Garten) to Zoologischer Garten. Take S75 (direction Berlin-Wartenberg) approx. 40 min From Zoologischer Garten: Take S75 (direction Berlin-Wartenberg) approx. 17 min From Hostel 36 Rooms: Take U1 from the Station Görlitzer Bahnhof (direction Warschauer Str.) to Warschauer Str. Then take the S75 (direction Berlin Westkreuz) approx. 15 min Here is a map of the train system of Berlin for download: Departure Participants will take a public bus from the station "Hirschluch, Storkow (Mark)" either at 11:49 am towards "Storkow(Mark)" or at 12:13 pm towards "Fürstenwalde(Spree)". From there, you can take a train heading back to Berlin at least every hour.