Wikimania 2015 bids/Monastir

Monastir Sciences Palace is a public non-administrative establishment with an area of 5470 square metres...

The science palace occupies an area of 5470 square metres, consisting of

• A conference room having a circular shape and an Annex, rectangular in a shape connected by a partially-covered gallery.

The congress hall and the gallery cover an area of 2474m 2 equipped to organize congresses and scientific as well as cultural events. This room is fully air-conditioned. It has a capacity of 850 places, 3 commission rooms, simultaneous translation cabinets, projection equipments, and a fully-developed sound system.

• The annex is a breakdown of 2 levels having an overall area of 1600m 2. It includes:
  • A videoconference room of 150 seats
  • Six rooms for training and commissions work of 35 seats
  • Other rooms used for various purposes (A "Braille" room , a virtual university room, a digital studio, a language lab,a Library and a digital crossroad)

All these spaces are equipped WiFi hot-spots.

Monastir Science Palace is located in the very heart of the town of Monastir. It is Located in Avenue Farhat Hached in front of the municipality and 100 metres from the governorate of Monastir. The palace is next to the old city known as "La Medina". Venue map: http://www.psm.rnu.tn/anglais/index.php?page=acces_carte

Welcome to Monatir where you will have your fill of blue sky and sunshine, where you will find extraordinary heritage and original traditions, where you will enjoy twinkling sea. Monastir is a touristic city in the East coast ot Tunisia. It has many fine hotels and restaurants. It has also many colleges part of the University of Monastir.

• place 3 aout
• houmat trabelsia (medina)
• sidi el mazeri

• Costume Museum
• Museum of Islamic Art

• Elharoun
• El grotte ( café restaurant)

adresse: vieux port place 3 Août , Artissimo

• la réserve
• Pirate
• Elhamra

the touristique hotels are strung out along the beaches west of town all the way from Monastir to Skanes. Like other resort hotels, Monastir's are self-contained complexes and provide little motivation for guests to leave. In Monastir you will have a range of choices of everything between luxury hotels and simple hotels.

• Amir Place
• Delphin Abib
• One resort Monastir
• Sentido Rosa Beach
• Royal Thalassa Monastir
• Sahara Beach
• Ramada Liberty Resort Hotel
• Skanes Serail

Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport is among the first 20 busiest airports in Africa. The airport activity is mainly due to the movement of tourists coming to visit Monastir, Sousse and the surrounding resorts (Monastir-Skanes and Port El Kantaoui in particular). Almost all charter flights are concentrated during the tourist season. The airport is located at Skanes, 9km fare from the city center. The trip by taxi costs about 5 TD (3.5 $). Getting to the airport is also possible through train between monastir and sousse, since the train station "Airport" is only 200 meters from airport terminal. Visit airport website for further info: http://www.habibbourguibaairport.com/en-EN/Pages/Main.aspx

Getting acces to Monastir is easy by bus, the bus station is located at the western edge of the medina.There is a bus every 20 minutes leaving from bus station located in bab bhar sousse. 2 bus 52A and 52B

You can reach Monastir by Train from Tunis.Trains take off 3 times a day, one in 8:30 am, the second in 13:35 pm and the last one 17:50pm Also if you are in Sousse there is fast metro from Bab Ejdid Station to H.Bourguiba Station evey half hour.

Living cost in Tunisia is not really high.As a result,you can enjoy your time here without paying too much money

Visitors to Tunisia must obtain a visa from one of the Tunisian diplomatic missions unless they come from one of the visa exempt countries or are eligible for a visa on arrival.

Citizens of the following 72 countries and territories can visit Tunisia for up to 90 days (unless otherwise stated) without a visa:

Citizens of the following 2 countries may obtain a visa valid for up to 1 month on arrival:

• Australia
• South Africa

Citizens of the following 16 countries may enter Tunisia without a visa, provided travelling on a tour organised by a travel agency and holding hotel voucher:

• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Czech Republic
• Estonia
• Georgia
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Moldova
• Russia
• Slovakia
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Ukraine
• Uzbekistan

The citizens of the remaining countries require visa to enter the Tunisian territories.

A this time the community of wikimedia in tunisia is not big, so we are struggling to expand our activities through the help of non profit organizations like JCI-ENIT and C-Libre. Bidding to Wikimania would increase active members and lead towards creating a Tunisian Chapter of Wikimedia. The following table shows up the involved members throughout all the bidding process:

Signed letters from organizations that could support the conference. Proposed:

• Unité des Logiciels Libres, Ministère des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication
• Mayor of Monastir
• Ministère du trourisme