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| General Schedule of Activities 
| Duration | 5 days, from Monday 29th September to Friday 3rd October 2008 |  
| Political Segment | 1 day |  
| Scientific Talks | 4 days |  
| Poster Sessions | 2 days in the afternoon |  
| Workshops | 5 days, please find details in the programme |  
| Arrival and Registration | Sunday late afternoon and Monday morning |  
| Congress Dinner | Tuesday evening |  
| Excursions | Framing the Congress | 
 Steering Committee BIOTA West Africa Eduard Linsenmair (University of Würzburg, Germany) (Substitute Elisabeth Kalko)Brice Sinsin (Laboratoire d’Ecologie Appliquée, Benin)Adjima Thombiano (Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)Minnattallah Boutros (University of Würzburg, Germany)Souleymane Konaté (Station d´Ecologie Lamto, Côte d'Ivoire)
 BIOTA East Africa Wolfgang Wägele (University of Bonn, Germany) (Substitute Katrin Böhning-Gaese)Beatrice Khayota (National Museums of Kenya, Kenya)Gerald Eilu (Makerere University, Uganda)Wolfram Freund (University of Bonn, Germany)
 BIOTA Southern Africa Norbert Jürgens (University of Hamburg, Germany) (Substitute Michael Kirk)John Donaldson (SANBI, South Africa)Dave Joubert (UNAM, Namibia)Ingo Homburg (University of Hamburg, Germany)
 BIOTA Maroc Mohamed Yessef (Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Rabat, Maroc) 
 CoCE Manfred Denich (University of Bonn, Germany)
 Stakeholder Dialogue Peter Moll (Science Development, Germany)
 BMBF / PT-DLR Rainer Müssner (BMBF, Germany)Lothar Quintern (PT-DLR, Germany)Ruth Badeberg (PT-DLR, Germany)
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