PROGRAMME
Sunday, 6 April 2008
- Arrivals -
Up to 18:00 h | Arrival of candidates and experts at RAMADA Hotel Bad Soden. Arrival of registered guests at HOLIDAY INN Neu-Isenburg. |
18:00 h | Welcome in the foyer of the hotel. · Delegates will receive information material and passes to the exhibition · Participants hand over tool boxes. |
19:00 h | Briefing meeting with candidates. (With specialist interpreters German/English and German/French) · Drawing lots for the competition boxes. |
20:00 h | Arrival of registered guests from the HOLIDAY INN hotel. · Meeting to discuss the competition programme for the next few days. |
20:30 h | Champagne reception and dinner for candidates, experts and registered guests at the RAMADA Hotel. |
22:30 h | Return of registered guests to the HOLIDAY INN Hotel. |
Monday, 7 April 2008
- 1st day of competition -
06:30 h | Candidates and experts meet for breakfast at the RAMADA Hotel. |
07:15 h | Candidates and experts walk from the RAMADA Hotel to the S-Bahn (city railway) station "Bad Soden" and travel together to "Messe" (S-Bahn station for the exhibition). |
08:00 h | Start of the competition. · Practical task |
09:30 - 16:30 h | Supporting programme for registered guests at the HOLIDAY INN. |
11:00 h | Press conference of the AIE for the CYE 2008 at the light+building exhibition. |
12:30 h | Lunch break for candidates and experts. |
17:00 h | End of 1st competition day. |
17:30 h | "After Work Party" for candidates, experts and registered guests at the exhibition stand of KNX. |
18:30 h | Candidates, experts and registered guests travel back together via S-Bahn from S-Bahn station ?Messe? to the RAMADA Hotel. |
20:00 h | Dinner for candidates, experts and registered guests at the RAMADA Hotel. |
22:30 h | Return of registered guests to the HOLIDAY INN. |
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
- 2nd day of competition -
06:30 h | Candidates and experts meet for breakfast at the RAMADA Hotel. |
07:15 h | Candidates and experts walk from the RAMADA Hotel to the S-Bahn (city railway) station "Bad Soden" and travel together to "Messe" (S-Bahn station for the exhibition). |
08:00 h | Continuation of the competition · Theory task (With specialist interpreters German/English and German/French) · Practical task |
09.30 - 16.30 h | Supporting programme for registered guests at the HOLIDAY INN. |
12:30 h | Lunch break for candidates and experts. |
13:00 h | Meeting of CYE taskforce of AIE at light+building. (Interpreter German/English) |
17:00 h | End of 2nd competition day. |
17:30 h | Candidates and experts travel back together via S-Bahn from station "Messe" to the RAMADA Hotel. |
19:00 h | Candidates and experts walk from the RAMADA Hotel to the S-Bahn (city railway) station "Bad Soden" and travel together to "Frankfurt Römer" (U-Bahn / Underground station at Frankfurt city centre). |
19:30 h | Dinner for candidates, experts and registered guests at "Paulaner am Dom" restaurant. |
22:00 h | Participants walk from the restaurant to the bus terminal at Paulskirche (St. Paul's Church). Site-seeing tour through Frankfurt at night with a visit to "Luminale". |
23:30 h | Candidates and experts return by bus to the RAMADA Hotel. The registered guests will carry on to the HOLIDAY INN. |
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
- 3rd day of competition / award ceremony -
06:30 h | Candidates and experts meet for breakfast at the RAMADA Hotel. |
07:15 h | Candidates and experts walk from the RAMADA Hotel to the S-Bahn station "Bad Soden" and travel together to "Messe" (S-Bahn station for the exhibition). |
08:00 h | Continuation of the competition. · Practical task |
09:30 - 13:30 h | Supporting programme for registered guests at the HOLIDAY INN. |
11:30 h | Completion of the competition with subsequent functional testing of the competition entries. |
12:00 h | Lunch break for candidates, experts will start assessment. |
13:00 h | Candidates travel back via S-Bahn from station "Messe" to the RAMADA Hotel. The afternoon is at the candidates? disposal. |
17:30 h | Candidates and experts walk from the RAMADA Hotel to the S-Bahn station "Bad Soden" and travel together to "Frankfurt Römer" (U-Bahn / Underground station at Frankfurt city centre). |
18:00 h | Arrival of registered guests from the HOLIDAY INN hotel at Frankfurter Römer. |
18:00 h | Champagne reception for candidates, experts, registered guests and guests of honour in the foyer of the Kaisersaal (Emperor Hall). |
19:00 h | Award ceremony of the CYE 2008 in the Kaisersaal of the Frankfurt Römer. (With simultaneous interpreters German/English and German/French) · Presenter: Andreas Radtke. |
20:15 h | Photo shoot for winners and candidates, including presentation of sponsored prizes in the foyer of the Kaisersaal. |
20:30 h | Festive buffet dinner with live music by the ?Ladies Swing Quartet? in the historic Römerhallen underneath the Kaisersaal. |
23:30 h | Return of candidates, experts and registered guests to the RAMADA Hotel / HOLIDAY INN. |

The music of the Ladies Swing Quartet leads through the award ceremony and the festive evening.
Thursday, 10 April 2008
- Departure -
09:00 h | Candidates and experts meet for breakfast at the RAMADA Hotel. |
10:15 h | Official farewell for all candidates, experts and registered guests. Participants depart under their own arrangements. |
Download:
- Programme (pdf)
- marked CYE-locations on the map of RMV city railway (pdf)
- marked CYE-locations on the light building 2008 (pdf)
- map of the light building 2008 (pdf)









































