A hotel room block has been reserved for the conference participants in three different Sokos Hotels in Turku between 13 June and 19 June 2027. Use the code BEESD2027 when booking a room from the conference room block.

You can make the bookings at https://www.sokoshotels.fi/en/hotels/turku

Original Sokos Hotel Kupittaa (next door to the venue)

• Standard Single Room 120 € / night
• Standard Double Room 140 € / night / room

Solo Sokos Hotel Turun Seurahuone (Turku City Centre)

• Solo Single Room 139 € / night
• Solo Double Room 159 € / night / room
• Solo Up Single Room 149 € / night
• Solo Up Double Room 169 €/ night / room

Original Sokos Hotel Wiklund (Turku City Centre)

• Standard Single Room 129 € / room
• Standard Double Room 149 € / room

Half of the hotel room block will expire by 14 April 2027, and the rest by 14 May 2027. Please book your room as early as possible to ensure availability. You will have to pay for the reservation upon booking. The room price includes a generous hotel breakfast, free Wi-Fi and 14 % VAT. You can get a full refund when reservation is cancelled at the latest four days prior to the start of the booking unless agreed otherwise.

You can fly directly to Turku by plane from Stockholm, Copenhagen, Riga, Gdansk, Vilna or Bucharest. From Turku airport there is a regular bus service (€ 3,15 by card or € 4,50 by cash) to the city center (Bus number 1). You can pay the bus fare with a bank card. There are also taxis waiting outside the terminal (airport – city centre). You shouldn’t have any problems getting to the city centre (by bus or taxi) rather quickly, as Turku is not a very big city.

Alternatively, you can fly to Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. There are frequent train and bus connections every hour from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport to Turku. Timetables can be found below (Place of departure: Helsinki-Vantaa, Destination: Turku or Kupittaa – see more info below). You can get a good deal with the train too if you book the tickets well in advance (note, your flight may be delayed).

Please note that if you are staying next to the venue at Kupittaa Sokos Hotel, there is a train station practically at the hotel. If this is the case, you should get off at Kupittaa (not at Turku train station).

You can find the timetables and fares on the companies’ webpages:

• Long distance buses www.matkahuolto.fi/en
• Train www.vr.fi/en

Kupittaa campus has two main buildings:

• ICT-City https://www.turkuamk.fi/en/about-us/campuses/kupittaa-campus/#educity
• EduCity https://www.turkuamk.fi/en/about-us/campuses/kupittaa-campus/#ICT-City

There is a regular bus service to the Kupittaa campus from the city center of Turku (Please note: the closest bus stop is not in front of the campus, so you have to walk about 100 m). Take bus no. 3 or 3 A (towards Varissuo, bus stop B5 at the Market Square). The closest bus stop to EduCity and ICT-City is Kupittaa asema (Kupittaa railway station), follow the info screen in the bus to get off at the right bus stop.

The local buses are called “Föli” in Turku. You can find the ticket prices, timetables and route planner at www.foli/en

The bus stops at the city centre are here: https://www.foli.fi/en/timetables-and-routes/central-bus-stops-in-turku

Föli, the local buses

The local buses are called “Föli” in Turku. You can find the ticket prices, timetables and route planner at www.foli.fi/en
The bus stops at the city center here.

Fölläri, the city bikes

Fölläri bikes are shared-use bicycles for short-term-use that can be used by everyone moving around in Turku. The city bike-share system consists of bikes for public use and bike stations that serve as pick-up and drop-off points. The user can pick up and drop off a bike at any station.
Read more about the Fölläri bikes here.

On Turku UAS Campuses, you can sign into our TUAS Guest network using your own e-mail address. You can ask for assistance from our info desk at the EduCity.

Instructions for the TUAS Guest network:
Choose TUAS Guest from available networks. After you have joined the network you need to open the browser which will take you to login portal. For successful login and registering you need to give a valid email address and accept the ‘Acceptable Use Policy’. After this you will be automatically logged in and browser redirects you to the Turku UAS website.

Limitations of the network:
Normal browsing, tunneling protocols and secure email protocols are allowed from TUAS Guest -network with limited bandwidth. Automatically created user credentials will be valid for 8 hours. After 8 hours you must login again.