Conference venue

The University of Jyväskylä, Agora building will be the venue for EBRF 2009. The conference will thus return to the same environment it explored in 2007.

City of Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä is a youthful and lively city and one of Finland’s centres of growth. Jyväskylä is home to 85,000 inhabitants; approximately 165,000 people live in the entire Jyväskylä region. Jyväskylä is known as a good growth centre and living environment, which attracts new inhabitants.

According to the research by Taloustutkimus (a Finnish market research company), Jyväskylä is the best residential place among Finland’s biggest cities, and is also considered the best in terms of growth and living environment.

With 40,000 schoolchildren and students, Jyväskylä is a city of high-quality education, lifelong learning and several fields of study. According to various studies, the thirty-year-old members of the city’s population are the most educated in Finland: more than 20,000 inhabitants of Jyväskylä have a higher education degree.

Besides education, Jyväskylä is also known as a city of culture. For example, Jyväskylä was the home of Alvar Aalto, the world-famous Finnish architect, who designed thirty buildings erected in the Jyväskylä region between 1920 and 1970.

Learn more:

City of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä experience
Jyväskylä web cameras

How to get to Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä is located at a distance of 270 kilometres north from the capital Helsinki.

By air

There are excellent flight connections to Finland from all parts of the world. Over 20 international airlines offer regular flights to Helsinki. There are over 130 direct flights daily from over 30 European cities to Helsinki-Vantaa airport.

Finnair (One World Alliance) has regular flights to Helsinki from all major cities in Europe, as well as from New York, Miami, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Osaka, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Finnair´s Web pages

From Helsinki-Vantaa airport you can take a connecting flight to Jyväskylä. You can find more information on the flight connections through this link: Jyväskylä airport

By train

You can also take a taxi or a bus from the Helsinki-Vantaa airport to Tikkurila railway station. Trains to Jyväskylä depart every hour or two hours (more seldom during night time). The travelling time is approximately 3 - 3 1/2 hours National Railways VR´s Web pages

By sea

Finland is also easily reached by sea from Stockholm, Travemünde, Rostock, Gdansk, Tallinn and St. Petersburg. Ferry services from Sweden and Germany are provided on luxurious liners with first-class restaurants. There are good bus connections to Jyväskylä direct from the ferry terminals.

Getting around in Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä map service

Weather in Jyväskylä

During the conference it is fall in Finland and the mean temperature in Jyväskylä is around +10 celsius degrees (50 fahrenheit).

In general, the mean temperature in Finland is several degrees (as much as 10°C in winter) higher than that of other areas in these latitudes, e.g. Siberia and south Greenland. The temperature is raised by the Baltic Sea, inland waters and, above all, by airflows from the Atlantic, which are warmed by the Gulf Stream.

Learn more:

5 day forecast (Finnish Meteorological Institute)
Finnish climate

Finland

Finland (Finnish name Suomi) is a republic which became a member of the European Union in 1995. Its population is 5.2 million. The capital Helsinki has 560 000 residents. Finland is an advanced industrial economy: the metal, engineering and electronics industries account for 50 % of export revenues, the forest products industry for 30 %. Finland is one of the leading countries in Internet use. Today, there are more mobile phones than fixed network subscriptions.

Learn more:

www.finland.com
virtual.finland.fi
http://www.finland-tourism.com/
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/eur/fin.htm