CDIO Fall Meeting 2009

Social Events

The Fall Meeting programme contains social events that offer you opportunities to enjoy Finnish history, traditions and nature. You are warmly welcome to participate in the social events!

Conference dinner and marine museum tour

The conference dinner will be organised on Tuesday 6th October at 19:00 in Restaurant Daphne that is located at Forum Marinum by the river Aura. Forum Marinum is a maritime centre and a national museum specialised in merchant shipping and naval history. The conference dinner begins with a guided museum tour in Forum Marinum museum. After the museum tour, the conference dinner will be served in Restaurant Daphne.

The Forum Marinum Museum collects, maintains, researches and interprets objects, archive material and traditions related to Finnish merchant shipping and naval history. The museum also provides the visitors with exhibitions and various events. The collections of Forum Marinum consist partly of the collections originally acquired by the Åbo Akademi University Museum of Maritime History and the Turku Provincial Museum. In addition to a large variety of interesting ships and boats for over a hundred years old, the museum collection contains many fascinating marine-related objects including a steel-hulled full-rigger.

More information on Forum Marinum: http://www.forum-marinum.fi

   

Evening with traditional Finnish food and smoke sauna

On Wednesday 7th October the conference guests have an opportunity to enjoy traditional Finnish food and smoke sauna in Kavalto estate. The estate, which is located in Kaarina, is surrounded by a beautiful Finnish nature landscape with forest and water scenes. During the evening, the guests will enjoy traditional Finnish delicacies that are served in a fascinating Finnish log house surrounded by pinewood forest.

The guests have also opportunities to enjoy traditional Finnish smoke sauna – an exotic experience in Finnish nature surroundings. The most enthusiastic sauna fans have also possibilities to take a refreshing dip in a forest pond near the smoke sauna. The Finnish evening offers you a selected collection of the finest Finnish traditions in a charming nature atmosphere. The evening will be organised if at least twenty persons sing up to participate while registering.

Pictures and more information on the Kavalto estate (in Finnish): http://www.kavaltontila.com/

 

N.B. The Finnish Evening with smoke sauna in Kavalto estate on Wed 7th October is cancelled since the number of participants was under the minimum amount, 20 persons.