Contact Details

Scientific Committee

• AESOP Vice President Professor Willem Salet, The Netherlands
• Professor Peter Ache, Finland
• YTK Director Professor Raine Mäntysalo, Finland
• Professor Kimmo Lapintie, Finland
• AESOP President Professor Kristina Nilsson, Sweden
• Professor Pantoleon D. Skayannis, Greece

Local Organizing Committee

• Chair: Professor Peter Ache, YTK
• Deputy Chair: Mervi Ilmonen, YTK
• Aalto University Congress Consultant: Jan Fagerström, Dipoli
• Secretariat: Timo Heikkinen & Eeva Mynttinen, YTK
• Webmaster: Mikko Johansson, YTK

Contact LOC

• Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (YTK)
• PB 12200, FIN 00076 AALTO
• Telephone (+358 9) 470 28350
• Fax (+358 9) 470 24071
• E-mail aesop2010(at)tkk.fi
• Internet YTK

Congress Office

• CONGREX / Blue & White Conferences Oy,
• P.O.Box 81, FIN-00371 Helsinki, Finland
• Tel: +358-9-560 7500, Fax: +358-9-560 75020,
• E-mail: aesop2010(at)congrex.fi
• Internet: www.congrex.fi

Location

• Dipoli Congress Centre, Aalto University, Otaniemi, Finland

YTK

YTK is a multidisciplinary research and training institute, located at the Helsinki University of Technology. It was founded in 1968 as a common unit for all Finnish universities. TKK again, is the oldest and largest Finnish technology university, celebrating its 100th year as a university in 2008. The research personnel of YTK is multidisciplinary, consisting mostly of social scientists, architects and geographers. There are altogether some 30 persons working in the Centre. The research covers a wide area of urban issues. The current spearheads of the research are sustainable urban structure, urban space and housing, place experience and participatory planning methods, European metropolises and regions, partnerships and conflicts, planning and policy evaluation. In addition, YTK is the only Finnish institution which offers continuing education for planners. The Centre has also post-graduate students and is actively co-operating and co-ordinating Graduate Schools.