LOT schools

The LOT Winter School 2010

About LOT

Local Organization

Credit

Credits & Costs

Costs

Accommodation

Venue

LOT: Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap
(Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics)

LOT is a cooperation of the following research institutes/groups:

• ACLC, the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (Amsterdam University)
• CLCG, Centre for Language and Cognition Groningen (University of Groningen)
• CLS, Center for Language Studies (Nijmegen University)
• DTC & DCI, Tilburg University
• LUCL, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (Universiteit Leiden)
• UiL OTS, the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (Utrecht University)
• Meertens Institute, KNAW, Amsterdam
• Language and Communication - research group VU (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Information:
LOT
Janskerkhof 13a
3512 BL Utrecht
The Netherlands
Phone:  +31 30 253 6111
Fax:     +31 30 253 6406
Email    lot@uu.nl 

Credits & papers

The 40 LOT credits you receive for participating in the courses during the LOT Schools are equal to: one week: 20 study hours and two weeks: 40 study hours. Your own University will decide how many ECTS credits you will receive for this amount of study hours. During each course an attendance sheet will circulate. We urge you to sign this each session of the course, because otherwise you won’t receive the 40 hrs. credit. Also, it gives us valuable information that is used in the evaluation of the courses.
For writing a paper you can check with the teacher of that course if he or she is willing to guide you. The teacher will explain to you which are the terms and possible credits. For meeting with a teacher for talking about a paper, please check with the course consultant about arranging a meeting. The teacher will then, after having graded the paper, send it back to us. You will then receive a testimonium.

Costs

Admission is free for those students (AIO's/OIO's/grants) who are officially affiliated with an institute that participates in LOT or have an agreement with LOT. Please check with your own institute first before signing up for the LOT Summer School 2009. Others are requested to pay the following tuition fee, not including lodging:

Local organization

Host of the LOT Winter School 2010 is Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit Letteren
Responsible for the local organization is Laura Rupp.

She has her office at:

Laura Rupp & Olga Steenhoek
De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, main building (HG), room 11A-29

Contact: o.steenhoek@let.vu.nl                                                                                                                                                                     

Location of class rooms

Courses will take place in the VU main building (hoofdgebouw), De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam.
For the exact class rooms see the Schedule.

Venue

How to get to VU University Amsterdam (see also: http://www.vu.nl/en/about-vu-amsterdam/contact-info-and-route/route-description/index.asp)

Public transport:

From Central Station 

• metro tram 51, direction Amstelveen Westwijk (16 minutes), stop at: De Boelelaan/VU
• tram 5, direction Amstelveen Binnenhof (25 minutes), stop at: De Boelelaan/VU
• tram 16 or 24, direction VUmc, final stop

From Station Amsterdam Zuid

• express tram 51 (1 minute), direction Amstelveen Westwijk
• tram 5 (1 minute), direction Amstelveen Binnenhof
• it's a 10 minute walk to the VU from Station Amsterdam Zuid

Car:

The A-10 Amsterdam ring road can be reached from all directions. Follow the A-10 to the Zuid/Amstelveen exit S 108. Turn left at the end of the slip road onto Amstelveenseweg: after about three hundred yards (at the VU University hospital building) turn left again onto De Boelelaan. VU University Amsterdam can be reached via city routes S 108 and S 109. 
 
Parking
There is a limited amount of parking space around VU University Amsterdam itself in De Boelelaan, which has parking bays, and also in Karel Lotsylaan. There is paid parking on VU Amsterdam parking lot to the right of the Hospital Outpatient Clinic. There is even more parking space on the east side of Buitenveldertselaan at the junction with Willem van Weldammelaan, within 5 minutes walking distance of VU University Amsterdam. A number of parking places for the handicapped are reserved in front of the VU University Amsterdam Main Building and within its grounds. 

From Schiphol Airport:

Travellers arriving at Schiphol can take the train to Station Amsterdam Zuid.

If you need accommodation, please fill in the lodging form on the site.
The contact with the hotels is mediated by LOT, via the local organization of VU.

The Winter School teachers are accommodated in Nova Hotel, Amsterdam. (breakfast included)

The Winter School participants are accommodated Nova Hotel, Amsterdam. (breakfast included)

Nova Hotel

Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 272 -280,
1012 RS Amsterdam‎ - (0031) (0)20 6230066‎

See map: http://www.vu.nl/en/Images/Map%20VU%20and%20VUmc%20region_tcm12-2602.pdf