A warm welcome to
Regional labour markets in times of shrinking populations:
challenges, social inequalities and ways ahead
25 - 28 March 2025
Umeå University

INFORMATION

 
Campus of Umeå University 
The Conference will take place at Umeå University, more specifically in the Teacher Education  Building (nr 4 in the map). Easiest way is to go from the bus stop Universum where almost all the buses stop. From that bus stop there will be signs pointing you in the right direction. 
You can find the building on the map below, and you can download it here >>

City Centre of Umeå
The conference hotel and the dinners during the conference will take place in Umeå city centre, below you will find a google map of the city centre, use that to enter the destinations below. 

Welcome Dinner - Tuesday 25/3
The welcome dinner takes place at the restaurant Sjöbris (Adress: Kajen 10, 903 26 Umeå) at 17:00. 

Conference Hotel - Comfort Hotel Winn
For those who have booked hotel rooms in your registration, you will stay at Comfort Hotel Winn (Adress: Skolgatan 62, 903 29 Umeå).
If you are unsure if you booked a hotel room, please check your confirmation email or contact erik@nordiccongress.se.

Conference Dinner - Thursday 27/3
The conference dinner takes place at Elite Hotel Mimer (Adress: Kungsgatan 75, 903 26 Umeå) at 18:00. 

Information about Umeå
Umeå is situated on the inlet of the Baltic sea at the mouth of the Ume river, about 600 km north of Stockholm and about 400 km south of the Arctic Circle. With its more than 130 000 inhabitants it is the largest city of Norrland and currently one of the fastest growing cities in Sweden. Umeå is also known as the City of Birches with its large population of just birches. 

Umeå hosts two Universities (Umeå University and one of the three branches of the Swedish Agricultural University) and a University hospital; the around 40,000 enrolled students correspond to around 30% of the total population. 

Umeå University (Swedish: Umeå universitet; Ume Sami: Ubmeje universitiähta) was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders. Internationally, the university is known for its highly ranked Institute of (industrial) Design, but also for its tree research. Emanuelle Charpentier and co-workers developed CRISPR gene editing at Umeå University, which was awarded with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.


Read more about Umeå here >>