University of Minho - the venue

The 2010 IAMCR Conference will take place at University of Minho's Braga Campus.
The university has an overall student population of 16.000 (2.000 doing postgraduate studies). The university has 1.200 teachers and 600 administrative and technical staff; The European Universities Association considered the university a case study in good practices at the European level. In the most recent evaluation process by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT), 19 out of 29 university Research Units were classified as ´Excellent´ or ´Very Good´ by international evaluation panels, making this one of the top universities in the country. The University of Minho has one campus in Braga and another one in the UNESCO world heritage city of Guimarães, some 20 km away.

The conference will take place in three buildings at the centre of the Braga Campus (Pedagogic Complex 1, Pedagogic Complex 2 and Pedagogic Complex 3).

Some general views of the Braga Campus: