WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU AT HELSINKI IN JUNE 2012
The EUROFOODWATER Conference on Water in Food, is organised at Helsinki from 3 to 5 June 2012.
This will be the seventh Conference in a series of workshops and conferences held in Ispra, Italy - 2000, Reims, France - 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland - 2004, Brussels, Belgium, 2006, Nürtingen, Germany – 2008 and Reims, France – 2010. (Books of Abstracts of these workshops and conferences are available on webpage http://www.eurofoodwater.eu/english/programme.php). This conference is becoming a regular event among technical meetings for engineers and scientists working in the fields of water determination, water activity and water interactions in Food.
This 7th International Conference on Water in Food will be held at Scandic Continental Helsinki which is located close to the city centre (about 10 minutes walk from the city centre). Registration and get-together party start the conference on the 3rd of June, official opening of the conference is scheduled on 4th of June and closing of the conference is scheduled on the 5th of June at 5 p.m.
This Conference hotel is located close to Töölönlahti Bay around which you will also see the Finlandia Hall, the Opera House, the winter garden and the wooden villas of the Etu-Töölö district. You can walk round Töölö Bay to Linnanmäki Amusement Park and Sea Life
Photo: City of Helsinki Tourist & Convention Bureau's Material Bank /Suomen Ilmakuva Oy.
Helsinki is easy to reach. Around 200 international flights a day arrive at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, which is located about 20 kilometres from the centre of Helsinki and can be reached by car in about half an hour. There are also daily ferry services to Helsinki from Estonia, Sweden and Germany and a daily train service to Helsinki from St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Compact Metropolis (Source: City of Helsinki Tourist & Convention Bureau's Material Bank)
What’s best
- Location and connections (where East meets West, proximity to other Baltic Sea cities and ac-cess to Asia)
- High-quality and functional tourist and other services
- Compact size
- Safety (high-quality tourism infrastructure, high level of food hygiene, reliable venue for major events, world’s second safest city – Mercer Human Resource Consulting, 2007)
- Cleanliness and green appeal
- Locals who are easy to approach and fluent in many languages
- Straightforward friendly customer service
- Public transportation system among the best in Europe
- Central location of most hotels
Helsinki is a modern European city of culture that is famous especially for its design and high technology. Helsinki is a pocket-sized metropolis that is easy to discover on foot.
For lovers of architecture, Helsinki is a treasure trove that is easy to discover in its entirety. A half-hour walk from the district of Katajanokka to Töölönlahti Bay will take you from bold Jugend-Art Nouveau designs through Neoclassical monuments to modernist masterpieces designed by Alvar Aalto. Along the way you will also get a taste of Helsinki’s Byzantine-Russian heritage, Neo-Renaissance buildings and contemporary glass and steel superstructures!
It is also easy for fans of Nordic design to tour Helsinki’s boutiques, workshops and galleries. The Design District combines the top names in design within a stone’s throw of each other.
Helsinki is one of the safest cities in Europe that is friendly towards residents and visitors alike thanks to its cleanliness and functional urban planning. Food hygiene and the quality of drinking water are of the highest order and are matched by the city’s other essential services. Helsinki’s experience and expertise in hosting major events is world-class, as demonstrated recently by the success of the Eurovision Song Contest and ASEM6 summit meeting.