Annual Meeting (AM) and Mid-Term Meeting (MTM)
Jan 13th to 17th, 2025
We are excited to announce that the AM and MTM of EDUCADO will be held on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, January 13-17, 2025. We look forward to welcoming you in La Isla Bonita. Please save the date!
Logistics:
1. Travel Information
Getting to La Palma (flight information)
The meeting will take place in the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain). When booking your flights choose La Palma (airport code SPC) as your destination. Don´t get confused by Las Palmas (code LPA), this is the capital of the island of Gran Canaria, or Palma de Mallorca (code PMI) which is far aways!
Please book your flights early! Scheduled flights as well as charter flights from some European countries can be heavely booked as the Canary Islans are a popular touristic destination. Online information about flights arriving at or departuring from the Spanish airports is obtained at the official Aena page .
Some more detailed notes:
There is a daily direct flight to La Palma (SPC) from Madrid (MAD) with Iberia, part of the Oneworld Alliance. If you can connect to that, perfect! There are also direct flights to SPC from Barcelona (BCN) in Spain, and from the Netherlands, Germany and the UK but these flights are not daily and are usually operated by low-cost airlines.
Most visitors fly to Tenerife ot Gran Canaria (main islands) and then take an inter-island flight to La Palma (best views on these flights to La Pama are on the left, to see Tenerife, La Gomera, El Hierro if the weather is good, and finally La Palma on the final approach to land). Tenerife has two airports. Los Rodeos or Tenerife Norte (code TFN) is near La Laguna and Santa Cruz and serves mostly domestic flights, with many flights daily from MAD and BCN. From TFN, there are very frequent flights to La Palma SPC with two airlines: Binter (sometimes code-sharing with Iberia but watch the price) and CanaryFly (which sometimes codeshares with Air Europa, which is part of the Skyteam alliance). Tenerife Sur (TFS) has many flights from all kind of places in Europe, including some in the East Europe, but only two flights per day (with Binter) to La Palma. From TFS, your alternatives include taking a bus (or taxi, over 100 euros) to TFN airport, ot a bus or taxis (maybe 40 euros) to the port of Los Cristianos and take a ferry to La Palma from there, with Armas or Fred Olsen . The ferries arrive in the port of Santa Cruz de la Palma, from where you can walk to take bus 500, or take a taxi (10 euros or so) to the hotel. You can ask fly in to Gran Canaria (LPA) which like TFS is a major airport with 100´s of destinations. There are reasonably frequent direct flights to La Palma SPC and LPA, or you can take a connecting inter-island flight via TFN. Or go with Fred Olsen of course, one ticket can get you on two buses (Las Palmas to Agaete and Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Los Cristianos) and two ferries. All you´d need to fo separately is take the half-hourly bus from LPA airport to Las Palmas-Parque Santa Catalina!
As usual, travel sites like google maps, skyscanner.com, rome2rio.com or local ones such as titsa.com, bintercanarias.com or canaryfly.com are your companions.
From the US:
United operates a direct flight from Newark (EWR) to Tenerife South (TFS), Tuesday, Thrusday and Saturday (with return direct TFS-EWR on Wed, Fri, Sun). What works for the meeting would be leaving Newark evening Sat 14th Sept, arriving morning Sunday 15th Jan, and returning Sunday 22nd Jan from TFS, direct to Newark, direct to Newark. See above for how to go from TFS to La Palma and back.
Getting to Hotel Taburiente Playa (Los Cancajos)
The meeting is in the Hotel Taburiente Playa which is 5 km from the airport. You can take a taxis from the airport to reach the hotel. You. can also use the public bus system, using the bus number 500 ).
Renting a car
You can rent a car around 30 euros/day. Rental Companies available in the airport of La Palma are here: car rental .
2. Venue and Accomodation
Venue
The meeting will take place at the Hotel Taburiente Playa located in Los Cancajos, a fishing village that has adapted well to tourism but managed to keep its peacefull atmosphere.
Los Cancajos ( listen to the pronunciation ) is located. 5km distance from the airport and 5 km away from Santa Cruz de la Palma, capital of the island.
Accommodation
We advice each participant to pre-booked his/her own hotel rooms at the Venue Hotel. Make sure to pre-book as soon as possible Hotel H10 Taburiente Playa, it offers very good rates on the webpage now, and we urge you all to make your reservations already, using the free cancellation option if you wish. Including the dinner in your reservation is a good idea, as it only costs 3 euros per night extra and leaves all your options open.
More details on the Annual Meeting and Mid Term Meeting access the Agenda here