You can register to the event using the link published on the Integration 2024 website. Registration will opened in early autumn 2024.
Registration for the event will be open in August/October 2024.
Participation in the event and the meals included in the event are free of charge for the participants, but registration is binding due to reserve food and prevent food waste. Participants pay for their accommodation in Turku and travel to Turku.
Participants also pay for any alcohol they may purchase at the evening event.
The information collected when registering includes the participant’s name, email, organisation, job title/position and diet. We need this information for communicating about and making arrangements for the event. The privacy statement of the partnership programme is followed in the event, with the exceptions required by the funder of the event. The information will be stored according to the AMIF funding guidelines for five years after the year the project ends in 2025. You can read more about the processing of personal data in the privacy statement of the partnership programme.
We collect the registrations for the two days of the event separately, which means you can participate in the event for just one day. However, we cannot use the registration form to limit the number of visitors per day, so the registration period will end when a total of 1,000 participants have registered for the event. If there are fewer people registered for one of the two days, we may open additional places for the other day of the event.
Please note that registration is binding. For example, the amount of food served at the event is determined based on the number of registrations and information about allergies. To avoid food waste, please do not register for both days just in case if you intend to only participate in the event on one of the two days.
Integration 2024 does not have programme tracks, but instead consists of sessions organised in six different spaces. There is plenty of room to move around in Logomo, so you can easily switch from one space to another. However, you should note that some of the spaces can accommodate a limited number of participants.
The evening event has a capacity of around 1,000 participants. However, there is pre-registration for the evening event to make catering reservations. To avoid food loss, do not register for the evening event just in case there is a chance you decide to spend the evening elsewhere.
The evening event will take place in Logomo.
Later registrations are not accepted for the evening event due to catering arrangements and taking special diets and allergies into account.
Cancel your registration or change your registration using the link in the confirmation email you received when registering. If you have lost the confirmation message, contact us by email at [email protected]. However, we recommend that you primarily use the link in the confirmation message.
You can change the information you submitted in the form by using the link in the confirmation email you received when registering. If you have lost the confirmation message, contact us by email at [email protected]. However, we recommend that you primarily use the link in the confirmation message. Make the changes by 28 October 2024. Changes submitted after this date will not be accepted.
If you are unable to participate because of an illness and it is too late to cancel your participation using the registration form, you do not need to notify the organisers separately. We encourage participants to pay attention to how they are feeling and to not hesitate to stay home if they have symptoms of the common cold, for example.
Integration 2024 is planned to be primarily organised as an in-person event, but you can also attend it remotely. At the event, the event programme that takes place in the Logomo Hall will be streamed online to remote participants.
You will receive a separate confirmation of your registration by email. We will send more detailed information to the participants before the event on week 45.
We organised a call for exhibitors in May 2024. Due to the large number of applicants, we cannot accept later registrations. Those selected in the process will be notified of the selection in early autumn.
The call for exhibitors ended on 24 May 2024.
There was a need to limit the number of exhibitors at the event due to resources and the size of the event facilities. A further aim was to make sure that the noise level at the venue would be moderate. The exhibition booth is subject to a small fee which depends on the size of the booth.
The basis for selecting exhibitors is that they represent different regions and contents. We also emphasise the themes of the event (session content and partnership).
You can show a video or a PowerPoint presentation from your device or be present in-person at your booth. Please note that the event only offers a chair, desk and electricity at the exhibition booths. You can also direct visitors to view your website, publication or other material you have produced, or share your materials with the participants.
We hope that exhibitors take environmental impacts into account in acquiring and producing their materials. We encourage sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives.
Integration 2024 takes place in Logomo, Turku.
You can arrive in Turku by train, bus or your own car.
Logomo is located about a 750-metre walk from Turku Central Station, about 3 km from the Kupittaa Station and about a 900-metre walk from the bus station. Several bus lines stop at Logomo.
- Logomo arrival instructions (including parking your car)
- Public transport routes and timetables in Turku
There is a quiet space at the event, which participants can use for quiet time and prayer, for example. The space is not intended for work.
All food served at the event is vegetarian, lactose-free and pork-free. When registering, you will be asked about your diet and allergies. To make sure meals are safe, information on diets and allergies is forwarded to the venue kitchen and taken into consideration in preparing meals. The information on your diet is subject to data protection, and both organisers and venues process the information appropriately.
The event will take place in Logomo on Thursday 14 November from 9:45 to 16:30. and on Friday 15 November 2022 from 9:00 to 15:30 (doors open on both days at 8.30).
Arrive in time to avoid queues and make it to the Logomo hall before the event programme starts.
Be prepared that there may temporarily be long queues at the registration point when trains and buses arrive from Helsinki, Pori and Tampere to Turku.
On Wednesday 13 November, people arriving in the morning and those living or working in Turku will be asked to register and pick up their name tags already during Wednesday at a separate registration point. The location and opening hours of the registration point will be reported separately to those who have informed us in advance that they will pick up their name tags on Wednesday.
The event programme consists of a joint programme and a programme divided into sessions based on their themes. There are around 60 sessions in total.
The event includes seminar-like activities, workshops, panel discussions and activities.
We will publish the timetable and headings of the programme around August and September and more detailed information about the programme around September and October on the event website at integration2024.fi and the social media of the event organisers.
We are also organising activities in Swedish and English.
Finnish has been used as the main language of the event since 2018. Finnish was also selected as the main language of the Integration 2024 event. We also wanted to organise activities in Swedish and English. This choice is based on feedback and the fact that the target group of the event, i.e. integration professionals, usually speak all three languages. We have also paid attention to the fact that people who have moved to Finland employed as integration professionals may not understand English and/or Swedish, but use Finnish as their working language in most cases.
It is important to highlight plain language in events on immigration. As a result, the content of the event programme reflects language awareness. Clear Finnish, Swedish and English will be used at the event to the extent possible. The speakers have also been asked to use clear language in their presentations. However, we cannot expect all presenters to have competence in plain language.
There is a lot of event material and the organiser does not have the resources to adapt all of it to plain language. However, the aim has been to make sure that the event materials use standard language that is as clear as possible.
Unfortunately, we cannot promise in advance that the materials will be provided to participants. The publication of the presentations and materials presented at the event depends on whether or not the speakers give us permission to publish them. It is up to each speaker to decide whether or not to share their presentations. The publication of videos that may be presented at the event depends on whether the video meets the accessibility requirements and whether those who appear on the videos or the video owners give their permission for their publication. If the materials are available, the event participants will be informed about this after the event. The materials are primarily distributed through the event workspace of the Partnership Platform.
The event will not be recorded, but remote participants can partly view the event programme in real time using an online link.
Photographers representing the event organiser will also be working among the participants at the Integration 2024 event. Employees responsible for event communications may also take photos of the participants and the event with their smartphone cameras.
The organisers have the right to take photographs at the event and use the photos in event communications, but people visible in the photos will be asked for their permission for purposes such as the use of the photos in marketing for the next Integration event. If you have a legal or safety-related reason to refuse to appear in photos and videos, you can tell the photographers that you may not be photographed. You do not have to give them the reason.
While event participants may take photos of the event, we encourage you to familiarise yourself with the principles of a safer space and ask the persons in the photos for their permission before publishing the photos on social media, for example. If possible, it is also a good idea to ask speakers whether you may publish their photos.
The event programme will be published in early autumn and it will be updated until the week before the event.
The event programme consists of approximately 60 programme sessions and a general programme part aimed at all participants. Participants can also follow the programme in Swedish or English.
The programme includes content in both Swedish and English.
Interpretation is not available, but a written summary of some parts of the programme may be provided in Swedish and/or English.
Get in touch with the contact person for programme planning, i.e. the person with whom you made arrangements for your presentation at the event. The person will sort out and agree with you on matters related to travel expenses, accommodation and speaker fees. Speakers are generally paid a speaker fee and reimbursed for their travel expenses. Accommodation is only reimbursed in exceptional cases.
The Integration 2024 event’s organisation consists of the so-called core team for the event, which includes experts representing the main funding providers and an event producer as well as planning groups selected through an open application process. The AMIF project behind the event also has a steering group.
The planning groups for the event were selected through an open call in autumn 2023. The groups plan the programme, implementation, communication, the organisation of in-person and remote events and the exhibition booth market.
An open call for programme ideas was organised in spring 2024 to put together the event programme. The event’s planning team used the received proposals and ideas to draw up a programme proposal which was approved by the core team and steering group.
The event programme is planned by the programme planning team in collaboration with the event core team. The programme ideas are based on an open application process, but it may not be possible to realise all of them as presented in the application form.
The Integration 2024 programme is implemented by the programme implementation team and the persons responsible for each programme session. In addition, the event has persons responsible for each room used at the event and other assisting personnel to ensure the smooth implementation of the programme and event.
The purpose of the open application process was to collect ideas for the programme, ready-made programme packages and proposals on speakers. The programme planning group, in cooperation with the core team of the event, used these ideas as the basis for compiling the programme of the Integration 2024 event.
In some parts of the programme, the party proposing the idea or named as the contact person is responsible for the implementation of the activity. In some parts of the programme, the programme implementation group of the event, together with the presenters, is responsible for the implementation of the activity. We have been in touch with these parties, but the programme implementation group has been mostly in direct contact with the speakers named in the proposed ideas to complete the event programme within the set timetable.
We received nearly 200 programme proposals in total, and processing and including them in the programme structure has been a time-consuming process. Some of the programme proposals have been approved as such. Some have been very polished while others have been rougher, more open ideas. For practical reasons, some of the programme ideas had to be combined with other ideas, there have been some changes to the proposed speakers during the planning process or the proposal may otherwise have been modified. Additionally, some ideas were presented by several different parties. As a result, we are unable to provide each proposal providers with personalised information about whether their proposals have been accepted to the Integration 2024 programme. In other words, the proposal may not have been approved in its original form, but it has been modified to ensure a balanced programme package.
Most of the speakers and performers selected for the programme have now been contacted, but the work to compile the programme will continue until August. In some cases, we may also have contacted the party proposing an idea for the programme or named contact person when the contact person and/or the proposal provider have indicated on the application form that they wish to personally compile this part of the programme. But we have mostly directly contacted the proposed speakers.
As there may be cancellations or other unexpected circumstances before the event, we may get back to the proposals at a later stage.
The event’s communication team answers questions related to the organisation of the programme application process: [email protected].
The aim of the new method of organising the event is to ensure that the number of participants involved in planning the event programme content is balanced with the number of participants involved in the practical implementation of the event (communication, event facilities, guidance, registration, exhibition booth market, etc.). The aim has also been to streamline the process of planning the programme for the event and to ensure a consistent programme.
The persons responsible for organising the Integration event usually provide their input alongside a full-time job without any working hours specially allocated to this task. In previous years, less than 10 people have been responsible for the practical implementation of the event, while up to more than 100 people have been involved in implementing and planning the programme. The aim of levelling out the organisational responsibilities has been to guarantee humane and feasible workloads for everyone involved in putting the event together.
The Integration 2024 project is organised by the Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment of Southwest Finland in cooperation with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. The City of Turku, the Wellbeing Services County of Southwest Finland and Bildningsallianssen rf also provide funding for the event. The event is part of the Partnership programme to promote integration.
The event is co-funded by the European Union. The event is organised as a part of the Integration 2024 Project.
The number of participants in the event will be limited if the situation so requires. Participants can wear a face mask or respiratory protective equipment at the event.
Given the high number of registrations, we hope that all participants will arrive at the event in perfect health. Remember that many of the participants or their loved ones may belong to a risk group for different viral diseases, so do not hesitate to stay at home if you have symptoms of the common cold, for instance.
If you have to cancel your participation due to illness on the day of the event or on the previous weekend, you do not have to notify the organisers. The cancellation link in the confirmation email you received after registering will work until 28 October 2024.
As a rule, the organisers will limit the number of participants based on the order of registration, or the date of the event will be postponed if there are event restrictions with a significant impact on the implementation of the event. Another option is to move the event fully online. This would be subject to a separate notification and decision.
The principles of a safer space are published on the event website at integration2024.fi.
There are harassment contact persons at the events. You will know them by their yellow name badge.
The organisers and venue Logomo have taken care of event safety and sufficient first aid.