Meeting Facilities
The conference will be held at the Festival Palace, situated in one of the most significant areas of the city, in front of the Bay. The Festival Palace offers various halls, exhibition areas and meeting rooms and offices. This impressive scenario accounts on cafeteria service where to rest after an intense conference day.
The meeting rooms are equipped with a state-of-art lighting and sound equipment, projection and retro-projection system and also offer the possibility of simultaneous translation.
The building complex has an Auditorium with up to 1670 seats, and three individual rooms, one of 570 seats and two of 125 seats, to accommodate the participants expected to assist to the Conference by IAFSS.
Accommodation
There are several hotels near the University and the Festival Palace, some of them placed in front of the beach and less than seven minutes drive to the Campus and to the City Center providing a transportation service hotel-meeting-hotel exclusively for the attendants. Also there are many hotels placed in downtown Santander with less than five minutes drive to the Festival Palace with regular public bus routes connecting city center to the Festival Palace and the University.
University Halls of Residence
Major College Juan de la Cosa
The Major College Juan de la Cosa is an integrated centre in the University of Cantabria that provides residence to the student community and promoting cultural and scientific formation. The Major College is situated in front of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University. Only ten minutes walk to the beaches and 15 minutes walk to the city centre.
To improve the infrastructure of the College as part of the Cantabria International Campus Project have begun the construction of a new College which will be located in the land previously occupied by the old College.
The works, with duration of 20 months, have planned to start in June this year, ending early 2013. The new College will enable the University to accommodate over 180 students and over 210 cars in and underground car park.
Major College Torres Quevedo
Menéndez-Pelayo International University has its own arranged accommodations. There are different types of accommodations which are described below.
The Major College Torres Quevedo has the possibility to book individual rooms or double rooms to share in bed only regime. University offers a free shuttle service for participants to transfer to the Magdalena Peninsula.