The City of Helsinki is where I have lived all my life except for one six month period my family lived closed to our grand parents in Häme. For the last 28 years I have lived a couple of blogs away from the Senatre Square where also the IIAS2009 confrerence venue - the Univesity of Helsinki main building - is located. Now that I am working for the Ministry of Finance I cross the Senate Sqauare every morning going to work.
The City of Helsinki is one of our partners in building the conference and we are happy that on Wednesday evening (8th of July) the city is also hosting a reception for the conference participants. The reception takes place at the City Hall where also the City Council meetings are held. The entrance to the City Hall is from Pohjois-Esplanadi 11-13. This is the nothern one of the two Esplanades. The City Hall is a light blue big building opposite the Market Sqauare. Also this building is very familiar to me, as I used to work there for one summer during my school years taking care of delivering the post to the right people. The summer was very quiet, with not too much work. What I remember from the summer about the city administration was a warm and cosy atmosphere and people that were very nice to a young school girl in her first job.
Helsinki has over half a million inhabitants, that is 10% of the Finnish population. In the metropolitan area there are around 1 million which is one fifth of the country's population. If you are interested in more information about the City administration, please visit our website www.iias2009.fi and you can find a presentation on Helsinki in the Venue/Helsinkii/Finland -section of the pages.
I am looking very much forward to welcoming you to Helsinki!
Katju
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