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Dutch term or phrase:	conferentielijnen
English translation:	conference tracks
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11:33 Aug 21, 2008

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Dutch term or phrase: conferentielijnen

Eigen aan Velo-city is de mix van deelnemers. Zowel overheden, academici, consultants, gebruikersgroepen en fietsindustrie nemen deel aan Velo-city. Deze mix van mensen en professionele achtergronden is een van de successen van Velo-city. Om te garanderen dat de verschillende verwachtingen van de deelnemers zo snel mogelijk worden ingevuld is Velo-city2009 gestructureerd rond 4 conferentielijnen:
I. CHAMPIONS: de benchmarks op vlak van (stedelijk) fietsbeleid
II. CLIMBERS: steden, regio’s die op weg zijn naar een hoogwaardig fietsbeleid
III. (URBAN) TOURISM: fietsen en toerisme, recreatie (in stedelijke gebieden)
IV. EUROPE: thema’s die de rol van Europa en fietsbeleid verduidelijken

Velo-city is the name of a conference due to take place in Brussels. It has been split up into these four different 'conferentielijnen' - can anything think of a suitable translation? 'Conference lines' doesn't really sound right to me.

ChrisJP KudoZ activity Questions: 18 (none open) Answers: 0
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conference tracks

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Tina Vonhof
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Thanks to everyone who responded - I'm going with Tina's suggestion this time since 'conference tracks' seems to be a common expression.
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Summary of answers provided

Conference themes

Machiel van der Stelt

conference tracks

Tina Vonhof

Conference main topics

Lianne Van De Ven

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2 hrs confidence:

Conference themes

Explanation:
'Themes' looks most natural to me. 'Theme' is used in cases when different elements have a common idea or subject (in this case fietsbeleid/fietsen).

Example sentence(s):

It has been split up into these four different conference themes

Reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theme

Machiel van der Stelt
Local time: 14:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Dutch

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks

11 mins confidence:

Conference main topics

Explanation:
bijv:
http://www.ecme-2007.gatech.edu/Main Topics and Conference F...
http://www.kenes.com/immuno7/prog.asp

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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-08-21 14:45:14 GMT)
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Well, then you have topics or main topics and themes along 4 lines. You think "conferentielijnen" was original Dutch???

Lianne Van De Ven
United States
Local time: 02:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Dutch
PRO pts in category: 37

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks. Sorry, I should have put in my original post that later on in the text 'conferentielijnen' is contrasted with 'conferentiethema's', i.e. the main topics are further divided into these so-called lines. Maybe something with 'streams'?

5 hrs confidence:

conference tracks

Explanation:
There is often only one main theme, but there can be several tracks (i.e., areas of interest within that theme), each further divided into (concurrent) sessions (i.e., the actual presentations/topics).

Reference: http://www.scc.ca/en/nss/conference_2008tracks.shtml
Reference: http://2006.xmlconference.org/tracks/

Tina Vonhof
Local time: 00:50
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Native speaker of:

Dutch,

English
PRO pts in category: 26

Grading comment

Thanks to everyone who responded - I'm going with Tina's suggestion this time since 'conference tracks' seems to be a common expression.

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Reference

Reference information:
http://www.ecf.com/145_1

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