Venue and Practical Information

AIEC2023 CONFERENCE VENUE

​AIEC2023 takes place in the Bizkaia Aretoa main auditorium of the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao. The Bizkaia Aretoa is located besides the Estuary of Bilbao and built where the Euskalduna shipyards of Bilbao used to be right in between the Guggenheim museum and the Euskalduna Palace of Congresses and Conferences. The sessions will take place in the Baroja auditorium (second floor) and posters will be exhibited during the whole congress in the Chillida auditorium (1st floor, in front of the terrace).

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HOW TO GET TO BIZKAIA ARETOA BY FOOT

The Bizkaia Aretoa is centrally located on Avda. Abandoibarra n 3 in the area of Abandoibarra. A walk to the Guggenheim Museum takes about 2 minutes and the walk to Casco Viejo, the historical center of the city, will take about 30 minutes along the Bilbao river banks.

HOW TO GET TO BIZKAIA ARETOA BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT 

The conference venue is connected to the rest of the city by tram (Guggenheim stop) and the Bilbao Metro Lines 1 and 2 (zone 1, station of Moyua + 10 min walk).

HOW TO GET TO BIZKAIA ARETOA FROM THE AIRPORT 

There are bus connections (line 3247) from the airport by Bizkaibus​, which takes between 30 and 40 minutes from the airport to the Bilbao central bus station (Termibus). The previous stop in Alameda Rekalde 14 from where you will have a 7 mins walk to the venue. Otherwise, from Termibus there are tram connection to the conference venue or 15 min walk.

ACCOMMODATION AND TOURIST INFORMATION 

Bilbao has a vast array of hotels to cater for a range of tastes and budgets, within a city that is called “The Hollow”, that meaning that everything everywhere is close and in easy reach.
Below, please find a list of hotels in the vicinity of the AIEC conference venue.