Team Aberdeen
A renowned centre for academia, research and scientific excellence, Aberdeen offers international association event organisers a seriously collaborative partnership, which makes the most of this smart city – including the UK’s most sustainable convention centre, P&J Live.
Home to world-class universities, leading research centres and a global hub for energy innovation, Aberdeen is easily accessible with a flight time of one hour and 10 minutes from London. With 30+ UK regional flights a day, plus arrivals from European hubs Heathrow, Dublin, Amsterdam and Copenhagen, and regular rail connections on Scotrail and LNER, Aberdeen defies its northerly location when it comes to convenient access.
And once you’re there, Aberdeen International Airport is just a five-minute bus or taxi journey or 25-minute walk from the award-winning P&J Live, rated a BREEAM Excellent facility.
Aberdeen Convention Bureau and P&J Live work in partnership to secure and support domestic and international association events. With a motivated and engaged support network of experts from academia to industry, public organisations and city leaders, Aberdeen Convention Bureau can co-ordinate bids, scientific tours, impact programmes, source regional venues/services, provide travel discounts, help with accommodation and so much more.
Aberdeen’s centres of excellence
- Medical and Life Sciences – it is home to the highest concentration of health and life scientists in Europe
- Food and Primary Industry
- Culture and Tourism
- Aquaculture and Marine Sciences
- Energy, Environment and Sustainability
P&J Live – the UK’s most sustainable convention centre
Truly flexible, P&J Live offers 22 event spaces that evolve to accommodate anything from 10 to 10,000 delegates. Offering a ‘one-stop shop’ solution, its in-house team includes experts in AV and IT, exhibition services, catering and marketing under one roof.
Powered, lit and cooled by its own energy centre, generating hydrogen gas from local food and garden waste, P&J Live has had sustainability at its heart from its inception. Now celebrating its fifth birthday, its professional team works closely with organisers to find easy ways to reduce an event’s carbon footprint from paperless conferences and digital signage, marketing and tickets to the Guardians of Grub food waste programme.
The venue partners with Stagecoach to supply hydrogen and electric-powered vehicles to transport delegates between the airport, venue and city centre, and LoganAir to offset carbon emissions by 2040 through its GreenSkies programme, with 30 per cent discounts on air fares for delegates.
There are 350 hotel bedrooms on site, 2,000 rooms within a five-minute car or bus ride and a further 4,500 in Aberdeen City and Shire offering a wide range from student accommodation to five-star luxury in castles, country houses and boutique city properties.
Social programmes
As you would expect from a city that attracts so many high-flying international professionals as well as students, Aberdeen has a thriving cultural and nightlife scene. It is well served by excellent restaurants, bars, museums and theatres.
And for those wishing to explore further, there is the unique Scottish hospitality, whisky tours, magnificent golf courses, sweeping coastlines, dramatic mountain landscapes and 263 castles – more per acre than anywhere else in the UK.
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