Registration and Participation Fees

Registration

Registration takes place via Google Forms: Click here to enter the Form
 

Accommodation

Please note: Accommodation is not included in the general participation fee. You can find more information about the accommodation options here.
 

The participation fee

Your registration fee depends on the following factors:

1. The number of days you decide to participate in the Congress
2. Your selected Friday activity
3. Whether you choose to attend the optional dinners.

Minimum cost: the general participation fee depending on the number of days you participate: €280–440 (for registrations done before April 27th; read more about the discounts & see the price chart below).

Additional costs: whether you choose optional dinners or paid activities. Further details can be found below.

At your own expense: travel costs and accommodation.

We offer a special Early Bird discount for participants who register by April 27th, 2025, and pay their participation fee by April 30th. Please note that if you are making a bank transfer from outside the EU, the payment may take 2–5 business days to process. To get the Early Bird discount, your payment must be finalized by April 30th, 2025.

After the Early Bird campaign we can only offer regular participant fees.

Final deadline for registration overall: May 21st, 2025. 
The participation fee must be paid by May 26, 2025, at the latest.

(Organizers' note: We applied for and received a grant to help cover a portion of the seminar’s expenses. Thanks to this generous support we were able to reduce the participation fee by approximately €100 per participant.
 

The general participation fee

The general participation fee (depending on which days you attend) includes the following:

• Wednesday: Welcome dinner and evening event
• Thursday: Lunch, afternoon coffee break, and the program (evening dinner and event at extra cost)
• Friday: Lunch, the program, free alternative activity, and the international evening program (some of the alternative activities as well as dinner, are at extra cost)
• Saturday: Lunch at Ounasvaara as part of the excursion day, the program, excursion day (including one activity of your choice), and the Gala evening (including the Gala dinner)
• Sunday: Lunch and the program
   

The optional dinners and alternative activities

Next to the general program, we are also offering a few additional activities on Friday afternoon, a dinner and sauna session on Thursday (at Bear's Lodge) and a dinner on Friday (at the Congress hotel). The fees from these activities come on top of the general participation fee. Alternatively, you can also choose to dine elsewhere or cook at your own accommodation.

Optional dinners:

• Dinner and sauna evening on Thursday at Bear´s Lodge: (€72)
• Dinner on Friday at Congress hotel (€33)

Note that you can also add optional dinners after your registration by emailing us stutteringworldcongress2025@ankytys.fi, but please make sure to do so before the official registration period ends. 

Optional activities are arranged on Friday afternoon. You can find more information about them here: 

• Football and/or other yard games (free of charge)
• Visit to Santa Claus Village (free of charge now, but please note that you need to pay for the bus trip yourself)
• Culture and science: Arktikum - museum, Pilke - science centre and/or Korundi - house of culturem (free of charge now, but please note that you need to pay for your entrance ticket(s) yourself on-site)
• Large Canoe Paddling (€59)
• Visit to a reindeer farm (€65)
   

Example participants

Given the wide range of participation options, we've provided a few examples below along with the corresponding total fees. Please note, that these are just random examples and not the only possible options to join the World Congress.

Example participant 1:
Participant 1 attends the Congress from Wednesday to Sunday with an Early Bird ticket, joins the Bear’s Lodge dinner+sauna evening on Thursday, visits the reindeer farm on Friday, and has dinner on Friday at the Congress hotel. The participant shares a superior room with a friend in the Santa’s Hotel Santa Claus (official congress hotel).

Total costs:
- Early Bird fee: 440 euros
- Bear’s Lodge: 72 euros
- Reindeer farm: 65 euros
- Dinner on Friday: 33 euros
- Accommodation: 278 euros
Total: 888 euros

Example participant 2:
Participant 2 attends the Congress from Wednesday to Sunday with an Early Bird ticket, skips the Bear’s Lodge dinner+sauna evening on Thursday, joins the yard games on Friday, skips the optional dinner on Friday at Congress hotel, and shares a standard room with a friend in the Santa’s Hotel Santa Claus (official congress hotel).

Total costs:
- Friday to Sunday normal fee: 440 euros
- Yard games: free of charge
- Accommodation: 210 euros
Total: 650 euros

Example participant 3:
Participant 3 attends the Congress from Friday to Sunday with a Normal ticket, joins the football on Friday, skips the optional dinner on Friday at Congress hotel, and shares a superior room with their partner in the Santa’s Hotel Santa Claus (official congress hotel).

Total costs:
- Friday to Sunday normal fee: 310 euros
- Football: free of charge
- Accommodation: 139 euros
Total: 449 euros

Payment details

After you submit your registration form, we will email you the payment details as soon as possible. You can make the payment via bank transfer. Since some optional Friday activities require a minimum number of participants, the payment details will be provided once we can confirm that the minimum has been met. Rest assured, you will receive the payment details in time to make your payment before the due date. 
 

Cancellation terms

If you need to cancel your arrival, please contact us as soon as possible. If you cancel your arrival before May 31th 2025, we can refund your participation fee in full. If you cancel your arrival after that, the amount of refund will be reviewed on a case by case basis, e.g. depending on the time of cancellation.