125 participants, 38 of them not from Czech Republic, attended to the training course. Reports were presented by 21 lecturers from 14 countries, 13 of them ITA animators or members of the ITA executive council. The high class lecturers gave 12 hours of excellent presentations about conventional and (especially) mechanized tunnelling in urban areas, both from the theoretical point of view and with the discussion of many relevant case histories. Engaged discussions showed the high interest of the participants. The training course has been coordinated by D. Peila, Animator of ITA/AITES WG18 “Training”, F. Gruebl, member of ITA/AITES Executive Council and J. Barták, Chairman of the scientific council of the ITA/AITES World Tunnelling Congress 2007 
Friday, May 4th
| Welcoming address by ITA President
| Harvey Parker, USA
| Presentation
| Specific Conditions and requirements for tunnelling in Urban Areas : General Environmental Aspects
| André Assis, Brazil
| Presentation
| Conventional Tunnelling in Urban Areas - general
| M. Frankovsky & P. Stefko, Slovakia
| Presentation
| Mechanized Tunnelling in Urban Areas - general
| M. Thewes, Germany & F. Gruebl, Germany
| Presentation Presentation | Face stability in conventional tunnelling and EPB soil conditioning
| D. Peila & C. Oggeri, Italy
| Presentation
| Risk management
| M. Knights, UK
| Presentation
| Conventional Tunnelling- Case Histories with ground reinforcing | H. Wagner, Austria | Presentation
| Urban Tunnelling in hard rock
| E. Grov, Norway
| Presentation
| Saturday, May 5th
| Settlements induced by tunnelling in soft ground
| E. Leca, France
| Presentation
| Health and safety in tunnel construction
| D. Lamont, UK
| Presentation
| Monitoring of tunnel urban areas
| F. Amberg, Switzerland
| Presentation
| Numerical modelling in tunnels
| R. Bucek, Czech Rep.
| Presentation
| Mechanized tunnelling in urban areas
| K. Bäppler
| Presentation
| Mechanized tunnelling in urban areas
| T. Tersigni, Canada
| Presentation
| Tunnelling in urban areaby slurry type TBM (railway Bosphorus tube crossing tunnels and stations)
| I. Takashi, Japan
| Presentation
| Mechanized tunnelling in urban areas- case history
| O. G. Askilsrud, USA
| Presentation
| Conventional tunnelling in urban area - case history and future prospect in Japan
| K. Fukumoto, Japan
| Presentation
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