Provisional program for Babels volunteers before and during the ESF

Before the ESF

Arrival in Athens

If you arrive before May 2nd, you must proceed directly to your accommodation and pay for your bus ticket to the center of Athens (3.20 euros). Please keep the validated ticket so that you can be reimbursed.

If you arrive on May 2 or 3 between 10:00 am and 11:00 pm, Babels volunteers at the airport will give you a map of Athens, your travel card – which is valid for one week and will be used for routes except from and to the airport – and 2 transportation tickets of 3,20 euros which you will be able to use to get from the airport to the center of Athens or the ESF venue and vice versa. Babels volunteers will be waiting for you at the Bus Starting Point outside the Eleftherios Venizelos airport. Your names and your arrival times will appear in a list and you will receive your maps, travel card and tickets after you sign beside your name. Do not lose your ticket or card: you won’t get another one!

Those interpreters who arrive in Athens on May 2nd or May 3rd after midnight or May 4th, please buy the bus ticket of 3,20 euros, and proceed to the center of Athens by bus (there is bus service every 30 minutes from the Eleftherios Venizelos airport and the center of Athens or to Peiraias during the night hours). Please keep your validated ticket so that you can be reimbursed.

Please remember that you have to VALIDATE both the ticket from/to the airport and the travel card so as to be valid.

Please note that we will not reimburse the bus ticket for those who arrive in Athens in May 2nd or 3rd between 10:00 to 23:00 because we will purchase their ticket for them.

Please keep in mind that you will not be reimbursed if you use the suburban railway.

For more information on how to go to the center of Athens from the airport:
click here

At the ESF venue

(Olympic Facilities for Basketball and Fencing – this is the name of the venue!):

Tuesday and Wednesday May 2-3, from 14:00 to 18:00, at the ESF venue:
– you can pick up your food vouchers and per diem, when applicable.
– you can pick up your map, transport ticket and travel card if you have not taken them at the airport.
– you can test ALIS interpretation equipment and ask questions to ALIS volunteers.
– you can review your work schedule in the Babels room at the ESF venue.
– refer to your coordinators per language for any question you might have.

There will be no general meeting before the ESF. You are personally responsible for testing the ALIS alternative equipment and meeting your coordinators per language, and coming to pick up your vouchers and schedule at the ESF at your earliest convenience.

During the ESF

Tuesday May 3: FSMED Preparatory Assembly

Thursday May 4 : beginning of the 4th ESF (3 shifts)
1st Time slot: 10:00-13:00
2rd Time slot: 14:30-17:30
3rd Time slot: 18:00-21:00

Friday May 5 : 4th ESF (3 shifts)
(same as above)

Saturday May 6: 4th ESF
1 Time slot: 10:00-13:00
Women’s Assembly.
Reimbursement of travel tickets.
Demonstration.
Party!

Sunday May 7: Assembly of the Movements, end of the 4th ESF

Reimbursement will take place on Saturday, May 6.

Reimbursement of travel expenses from 8am to 9pm at the ESF venue:
Exact place to be determined later.

To be reimbursed for your travel expenses, you must bring:
– your passport or official ID;
– a photocopy of your airplane ticket and the stub of your ticket to Athens;
– any additional document that might be necessary.

Reimbursement will be done in cash, in euros.

Volunteers who have failed to show up during their allotted time slots during the ESF will not be reimbursed. We will not tolerate absenteeism.

After the ESF

A lot of rest.