3.10.2024

The 5th World Conference on Floating Solutions (WCFS 2025) will take place in Espoo, Finland from 1st to 3rd September 2025. The conference will be hosted by Bluet Floating Solutions, a Finnish company and a global leader in innovative floating construction. The event is organised in collaboration with the Society of Floating Solutions, as well as a team of educational, academic and research institutes, such as Finnish state-owned research institution VTT and Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences. The conference will take place at conference hotel Hanaholmen (pictured above). 

The theme of WCFS 2025 is “Floating Solutions for sustainable urban waterfront development and blue economy”.

This conference will be of interest to architects, engineers, urban planners, biologists, social scientists, consultants, manufacturers, developers, government officials, researchers, academics, and postgraduate students interested in floating solutions. On average each conference has had about 250 delegates from all over the world.

The World Conference on Floating Solutions (WCFS) was initiated by the Society of Floating Solutions, Singapore (SFSS) in 2019 to bring international experts and leaders together to disseminate recent research and developments in floating solutions. The second WCFS was held in Rotterdam in 2020, third in Tokyo 2023 and fourth will be held in Hong Kong December 2024. 

Read the original press release here. 

As a popular conference city, Espoo offers versatile meeting facilities, from dedicated congress centres and conference hotels to historical manors and villas by forest lakes.

More information on Espoo as a destination for congresses, and Visit Espoo's services for congress organizers can be found on the Visit Espoo website.