Congress dates
June 7-10
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Finnish Press Release
Lehdistötiedote
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ESBRA 2009 - June 7-10, 2009
The 12th Congress of
European Society
for Biomedical Research
on Alcoholism
organized by the
University of Helsinki and the
Finnish Society of Addiction Medicine

Registration

Registration
Printable pdf-instructions here.

All reservations (including social program and hotel) should be made on the same registration form, also for the items that are included in the registration fee.

Kindly confirm or cancel your participation in the two evening parties included in the fee. Please, make sure that you receive the reference number of your registration to your e-mail.

If you have any questions concerning the registration form or procedure, please contact TAVI Congress Bureau at ESBRA@tavicon.fi or +358 3 233 0400 (Finnish office hours 08:30 – 16:30, GMT+2).

Congress fees

‘Member’ in the fee categories refers to an ESBRA/ISBRA member. To qualify for a Student fee, a verifying certification is required. Send a copy of your student card and a recommendation from the head of your department by e-mail to ESBRA@tavicon.fi or by mail to TAVI Congress Bureau, Varpu Taavettila, Papinkatu 21, FI-33200 Tampere.

The congress is exempted from VAT.
Registration fee for participants other than accompanying persons includes:

• Admission to the scientific sessions
• Congress material (abstracts in the internet only)
• Coffee and lunches at the venue
• Get-together party and congress dinner
• Congress services at the venue

Accompanying person fee includes:

• Coffee and lunches at the venue
• Get-together party and congress dinner
• Congress services at the venue

NB! This does NOT include participation in the scientific program.

Please note that the costs for travel, accommodation, insurances, the optional city sight-seeing tour or the post congress tour to St.Petersburg are not included in the fees. 

Payment and confirmation
All payments (registration fees, a hotel deposit and possible social program fees) should be made in advance in euros (EUR) in connection with the registration. When registering online, you will receive instant confirmation of successful registration to your e-mail.

Payment options:

• By credit card: Visa, MasterCard and Eurocard are accepted.
• By bank transfer to the congress account.
  Bank: Pohjola Bank Plc
  Address: P.O.BOX 308, FI-00101 Pohjola, Finland
  SWIFT/BIC code: OKOYFIHH
  Account number: 573008-2384374
  IBAN: FI2057300820384374
  Account owner: ESBRA 2009 Congress
  Reference: The delegate's personal reference number

Please use the participant’s reference number when making the bank transfer. The reference number will be shown on the automatic e-mail reply that you will receive after submitting the registration form online. Credit card payments will be dealt automatically.

Note!

• All payments should be free of bank handling charges.
• Bank drafts as well as personal, traveller’s or company cheques cannot be accepted.
• An invoice will be sent by request only, in which case a supplement of EUR 6.10 will be added.
• Kindly mark the details for your invoice request in the ‘Other Special Information’ field on the online registration form.

Confirmation of participation
TAVI Congress Bureau will confirm the participation upon receiving the registration and payments. No participation confirmation letters will be sent before all the payments (including the hotel deposit and eventual social program) have been received.

Cancellation and refund policy
Kindly note that all cancellations and/or changes to registration and accommodation must be made in writing to TAVI Congress Bureau by e-mail: ESBRA@tavicon.fi or by fax: +358 3 233 0444.

If a cancellation for the participation and/or hotel reservation is received by April 30, 2009, the registration fee will be refunded with the exception of a handling fee of EUR 50 and/or the hotel deposit will be refunded minus a EUR 20 handling fee. No refunds can be made for cancellations received after April 30, 2009.

In the case of no-show, there will be no refund of the registration or the hotel deposit. There is no extra fee if a delegate’s registration is transferred to a colleague from the same organisation.

To the registration