Our organization has submitted a proposal to ILGA-Europe to act as hosting organisation for the ILGA-Europe conference taking place in 2028.
We are supported in this bid by the City of Tampere (https://www.tampere.fi/en) and Mayor Ilmari Nurminen, and our partner in this endeavor is, naturally, Pirkanmaan Seta – Sinuiksi ry (https://www.sinuiksi.fi/), the regional LGBTI -organisation.
ILGA-Europe has acknowledged our candidacy, and we will be actively campaigning for it at various events— eventually at the ILGA-Europe conference in Dublin in the autumn of 2026.
We have already made preliminary bookings for a significant portion of Tampere Hall and the entire adjacent Marriott Hotel for the event, which is scheduled for October 2028.
We are developing the proposal in collaboration with the Tampere Convention Bureau and numerous other partners. For more information about the project, please email info[@]transfeminiinit.fi.
Join us in making this hosting proposal a success.
Tampere—Finland’s most popular city is a wonderful place for Europe’s LGBTQ+ community to gather in — Tampere the city known being welcoming for everyone!
Easy reachable – a safe and smart city
You can reach Tampere via its airport (TMP Tampere-Pirkkala) located 10 km from the city (Air Baltic and Finnair) or via Helsinki Airport (HEL) and a connecting train and fast Inter-City train service directly from air terminal. The conference venue and the hotels are all at walking distance from the railway station, located in the very city center.
In Tampere you can enjoy the pulse of a vibrant city that is very welcoming, it not unusual for strangers to have small talk while waiting for the tram, Tampere’s recent addition to its smart public transport system. Close to the conference venue and hotels, you can find a huge amount of restaurants and shops, close are even two shopping malls.
For those interested of culture Tampere boosts several museums, the closest being in the Conference venue itself pre-reserved already – the Moomin museum, of the worldwide known Moomin troll’s – the books, comics and films based on books written by Tove Jansson, herself once a part of the Rainbow Community.
Tampere is the 2026 European Capital of Smart Tourism and recognized globally for combining digital innovation, data, and artificial intelligence with sustainable urban living and a base for IT and smart technology clusters.
Tampere is host to one of the major universities of Finland, Tampere University. Its main building is located opposite the Conference venue in the city. In addition is known for its many other educational institutions, its large cultural scene, theatres, music halls and music pubs.
Facilitating the Conference
Transfeminiinit and Sinuiksi understand what a major Conferences requires, and we have started the planning of facilitating as local organisations a conference. We look forward of being able to have some one hundred volunteer working at the conference and related to it, and our staff has already handled larger events.
Transfeminiinit was the local host of the IGLYO Global Academy in 2025 and Sinuiksi is the organiser of Finland’s second largest yearly pride event, the Manse-Pride.
