It makes sense to hold your next conference or congress in Aalborg, North Jutland. Aalborg is one of Denmark’s most accessible cities, whether by plane, car, train or bus, and a multi-faceted university city that makes you feel at home right away.
Here everything is within easy reach - easy to get to your hotel, congress facility, art venue, eatery, music site or whatever else that takes your fancy.
What is more, Aalborg is a conference city with a conscience. Also dubbed Green Conference City Aalborg, this place is mindfully aware about fulfilling present needs without endangering the needs of generations to come.
Organisers of conferences and congresses with a sustainable facet are guided towards the city’s environmental initiatives that live up to the above definition, and Green Conference City Aalborg also intends to inspire conference guests to experience and use the city’s eco-friendly eateries, green areas, etc. full on.
As for latest developments, Aalborg’s recently restored waterfront includes the intriguing Nordkraft, a former power station transformed into a culture centre with café, theatre, cinema, performance venue and restaurant, as well as the impressive Utzon Center, famous Danish architect Jørn Utzon’s last work. Utzon described the center as “a place where good thoughts could come together and… a centre of excellence for architecture and humanity in the future” – and it is a beautiful building with exhibition spaces, a workshop for students of architecture and design, the Utzon Library and Archive, a café and restaurant – and basically the perfect setting for just about any type of event. And if you need modern, flexible congress facilities, there is always the Aalborg Congress and Culture Centre with its state-of-the-art facilities and 40 different venues, handling events with anything from 2 to 2400 participants and the capacity to feed 3000 guests at the same time. There are 1500 hotel beds available within walking distance, and Danish Meetovators at hand to help you design a successful conference or congress with a high return on your meetings investment.
Learn more about Green Conference City Aalborg at:
www.visitaalborg.com or at our forthcoming MeetDenmark event in Bruxelles on 24th November 2011.
Case Aalborg: New Int. Degree in “Cities & Sustainability” at Aalborg University
Aalborg University, Denmark’s 3rd largest university, has - in collaboration with three partner universities in Germany, Spain and Portugal - been granted permission to offer a new Master Degree called ”Cities & Sustainability”. The Degree is be part of the EU’s Erasmus Mundus Programme and the take up is expected to be 20-30 students only per year. All students will start their studies in Aalborg or Barcelona, followed by studies in Hamburg or Aveiro, before they are given the possibility to study at universities outside the EU, such as in Sydney, Beijing and most likely also at the Earth Institute at Colombia University in New York, before they head back to Europe to write their final Thesis.
Aalborg University is among leading universities in the world within health technology research, wireless communication, energy, computer science, innovation economics and comparative welfare studies. Winning the “Cities & Sustainability” degree is considered another case in point of how committed the city and region’s academic, political and business life is to sustainability-related issues and considered an invaluable asset for the future branding of Aalborg University which ranks 362th on the latest top 400 by international QS World University Rankings (2010).