Wednesday, June 14 Welcome dinner

Thursday, June 15
Get together, Young professionals

Friday, June 16 Gala dinner under the bow of the ship Vasa, at Vasa museum, a salvaged 17th century warship preceeded with a guided tour
The Vasa is the best-preserved seventeenth-century ship in the world and a unique art treasure. More than 98 percent of the ship is original, and it is decorated with hundreds of carved sculptures. The 69 meter-long warship Vasa sank on its maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor in 1628 and was salvaged 333 years later in 1961. For nearly half a century the ship has been slowly, deliberately, and painstakingly restored to a state approaching its original glory. The three masts on the roof of the tailor-made museum show the height of the ship's original masts.

Saturday, June 17 – Excursion

09:30 am: Departure from Klara Mälarstrand with the beautiful boat M/S Evert Taube to Birka for lunch and guided tour before we go back to Stockholm at 16:00 pm
In Sweden, there are 15 sites, which is considered so precious that they must be included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Birka Hovgarden is one of them. There are a lot of ancient monuments – and still much to discover. In the mid-700’s, a city was born on Björkö in Lake Mälaren named Birka, a location, which is commonly called Sweden’s first town. It is believed that it was the Swedish King who took the initiative to form the city as part of a desire to control the trade in northern Scandinavia, both politically and economically.

During two hundred years Birka was a thriving city and Sweden’s most important place for trade throughout northern Europe. The city had a perfect location because it was centrally located, but also well protected in the Baltic Sea. Birka had about 700-1000 inhabitants, which today can be compared to the Swedish island Visingsö in Lake Vättern.

^{Foto: Anneli Karlsson, Vasamuseet/SMTM}