Finland in numbers and facts

• Capital: Helsinki• 338,000 km2, 10% is water and

69% forest• 187,888 lakes, 5,100 rapids and

179,584 islands • Europe's largest archipelago,

including the semi-autonomous province of Åland

• Finland's land border with Russia (1,269 km) is the eastern border of EU.

• Languages– Finnish (89.33%)– Swedish (5.34%)– Sami (0.03%)

Finland in numbers and facts

• Government:• Parliamentary

republic• President, Sauli

Niinistö• Prime Minister,

Alexander Stubb

The Finnish game industry has been growing dramatically during the past couple of years.

..well-known Finnish game companies are at the moment Rovio with its Angry Birds, and Supercell with its Clash of Clans

..consists of approximately 150 companies.

How many of these Finns can you recognise?

The Nordic Leader in Energy Technology

• More than 140 businesses, several of which are global market leaders in their field

• Total business turnover some EUR 4 billion annually, export rate over 80%

• 30% of Finland's total export in energy technology

• Number of employees 10,000

Best way to get to Finland?

• Flight via – Helsinki (Finnair) 1h– Or Stockholm (SAS) 1h

For more information

• www.vaasa.fi • www.finnair.com• www.flysas.com

Program

• Homeparties (Thursday)• About Vaasa (Friday)• Nations night (Friday)• Delegates meeting (saturday) at Jannen

saluuna• Gala dinner (Saturday) at Strampen • Brunch (Sunday) at Hotel Kantarellis

Nations night (Friday)

Delegates meeting (saturday) at Jannen saluuna

Gala dinner (Saturday) at Strampen

Brunch (Sunday) at Hotel Kantarellis

Accomodation, clothing

• Homehosting will be provided to all who desire

• Temperature may vary between +15 to 20, cooler at nights, so bring along some warm clothing

• Formal dressing at galadinner, otherwise comfortable. You may wish to bring along your bathingsuit for sauna and swimming

We wanted to give you the best possible picture of Vaasa, so this is what we did…

Thank you, and welcome to Vaasa!

More information about the eventwww.euro4meeting.fi