Ifrro´s General Assembly Week will take place in Reykjavik, Iceland October 2-6 2023 and Iceland will be the venue for this large-scale in-person meeting for the first time. Online options from the international collective rights sector will be allowed to make a wider participation possible.

The program will be announced later on but as expected it will include keynote talk, roundtable discussions and dialogues for several Ifrro committees and working groups, including the Legal Issues Forum, the European Group, Visual Working Group, Newspapers and Periodicals Working Groups along with the PLR Forum.

The meeting venue is the Reykjavik Natura hotel

Rooms at the hotel have been preoccupied for the Ifrro GA participants from October 1st to October 6th

Rates:

Single occupancy with breakfast, VAT and Service fee included ISK 25.920 (around 172 EUR or 184 USD)

Double occupancy with breakfast, VAT and Service fee included ISK 29.980 (around 199 EUR or 212 USD)

Book here before July 1st

Transportation to and from the airport: The international airport is located in Keflavik on the Reykjanes peninsula. It takes 45 minutes to drive to Reykjavik by car. Transportation to and from the airport is by car only, that is either the Flybus that takes you to Reykjavik in 50-60 minutes and most of them take you straight to the hotel, or by a taxi that takes 40-45 minutes. Iceland has no trains. Yet.

Reykjavík is the northernmost home of one of the Ifrro members, Fjölís, which is also the smallest RRO of the community. Reykjavík has around 250.000 inhabitants in the greater capital area. That counts for approximately 64% of the whole population of Iceland. 16% of the inhabitants are foreign citizens and the most common in Reykjavik are Poles, Lithuanians and Latvians.

Climate: Because of the location the climate is pretty cold. The average temperature in October lies between 2.7°C and 7.5°C ( 36.9-45.5 F) It gets windy and it can even snow in October. Reykjavík only sees at around 93 sunshine hours in October and there is 31% chance of sunshine. The good news is that the average ultra violet index is just at around 1.  To cut the story short. October often brings bright, calm and crisp days but also dark, windy and rainy days. We recommend warm clothing, including warm sweaters, coats, hats, mittens and a scarf. You probably will need it.

If the participants of the General Assembly get lucky there is a chance that the northern lights will turn on for them. Unfortunately the northern lights are a wonder of the nature that can not be controlled. However the hosts will give you update on predictions of the weather before you arrive and predictions of the northern lights during the meeting.

Iceland is one of the smallest linguistic areas in the world with one of the smallest currencies as well, the Icelandic króna. Currency converter can be found here

The international airport is located in Keflavik on the Reykjanes peninsula. It takes 45 minutes to drive to Reykjavik by car. Transportation to and from the airport is by car only, that is either the Flybus that takes you to Reykjavik in 50-60 minutes and most of them take you straight to the hotel, or by a taxi that takes 40-45 minutes. Iceland has no trains. Yet.