Local Information

COSIGN 2003 will be held in Middlesbrough, England, hosted by the Virtual Environments Group of the School of Computing and Mathematics at the Univiversity of Teesside. It will be hosted in the Conference Suite in the Centre for Enterprise.

Middlesbrough sits near the mouth of the River Tees in the north-east of England. It is a lively town with a proud industrial heritage and one of the main shopping and leisure centers for the area. It is also an important location for business and commerce, communications and civic administration.

In the Tees valley heavy industry mingles with wetlands and wildfowl reserves while just a few minutes drive away are the North York Moors National Park and
the dramatic North Sea coast.

Getting to Teesside

Teesside International Airport is less than 20 kilometers from Middlesbrough and has several direct connections every day to both London (Heathrow) and Amsterdam (Schipol) which are major European hubs for international flights.

More details on getting to the University of Teesside - including printable maps - can be found here.

Tourism

In Middlesbrough you might like to visit the:

• 'Bottle of Notes'
• Transporter Bridge (see link below)
• wealth of natural and historic places of interest on Teesside and the surrounding countryside.

Hotels

Details to follow.