The Municipality of Venice has introduced an access fee and a booking system for day trippers. There are cases for exemption from paying the access fee (e.g. visitors taking accommodation in Venice), but obtaining the appropriate exemption voucher is required to benefit from the exemption. Full information is available on the Municipality of Venice website.
San Giobbe Economics Campus
Fondamenta San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873, 30121 Venice
The conference, hosted by the Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, will be held in San Giobbe Economics Campus a modern and fully-equipped congress venue, deeply rooted in the town centre. Sprung from the careful recovery of the local urban fabric, it covers a surface of over 23,000 square meters.
Its 2,000-square-meter garden will provide a pleasant place to take a break. Childcare services will be provided. Detailed information about them will soon be made available on this page.
The San Giobbe Economics Campus is conveniently located in the “sestiere” (district) of Cannaregio, at a walking distance from "Piazzale Roma" (bus, tram and taxi terminal) and "Venezia Santa Lucia" railway station (the so-called "Ferrovia").
It is also well connected with the city center and the islands by waterbus (the so-called "Vaporetto"). Near the Campus there are the stops of the ACTV waterbus (“Crea” stop or “Tre Archi” stop) and the stop of the Alilaguna boats, which connect Venice directly from Marco Polo international airport.
From the airport you can reach Mestre or Venice (Piazzale Roma) by land (on a bus or taxi) or take the water route to Venice (Alilaguna boat or water taxi).
The Venice railway station is “Venezia Santa Lucia”. The principal train companies in Italy are Trenitalia and Italo. You can purchase the tickets at the train station or online, directly from the relevant websites.
Piazzale Roma and Tronchetto are the two areas in Venice that can be reached by car and where you can find the following park terminals:
For more tourist information please visit Venezia Unica, the Official City of Venice Tourist and Travel Information website.
Photo "Vaporetto stop Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia 07 2017 4038.jpg" by Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) CC BY-SA 4.0.
ISBA is working to option a number of rooms in different accommodation facilities conveniently located to the conference venue, in Venice Island and Mestre (the Venice district on the mainland). Please check the "ISBA 2024 Accommodation" webpage regularly to stay updated on recommended and reduced-rate accommodations for conference attendees.
If you prefer to book on the island of Venice, we suggest consulting hotels or other accommodations in the sestrieri of Cannaregio, Santa Croce and Dorsoduro.
If, on the other hand, you prefer to book in Mestre, we recommend one of the many facilities near the Venezia-Mestre railway station. This area is conveniently connected to the Island of Venice by public transport lines by bus (active 24/24 h) and by railway (last stop at Venezia Santa Lucia railway station).
The San Giobbe Economics Campus can be reached via a special route that starts from Platform nr. 1 of the Venezia Santa Lucia railway station.
Note that the demand for hospitality in Venice is always very high, and there are many events scheduled in the city for the same period. We strongly suggest that you book your accommodation as soon as possible.
Thanks to the generosity of the University of Michigan and the ISBA foundation, we are able to offer subsidized childcare for attendees of the ISBA 2024 World Meeting.
For children aged 1-6, we offer group childcare at Comparetti Nursery School [ITA]. This is available at the subsidized rate of $ 50 for the week. Please book at these links Registration for children 1 to 3 - Registration for children 4 to 6 to reserve your spot. Please book before June 10 to guarantee your slot. See below for full details.
For children aged 7+, ISBA will reimburse up to $100/attendee for attendance at one of the summer camps listed below. To take advantage of this, please:
For children under 1 year of age, we do not have pre-arranged group childcare, but will work with you to arrange individual childcare solutions. Please email isba2024@unive.it as soon as possible. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide reimbursement for nannies or family members traveling with you to the conference.
On the occasion of the ISBA World Meeting 2024, the Organising Secretariat, in collaboration with BarchettaBlu study and service center proposes the implementation of the “Play, experiment and discover project” : a special summer play center in Venice to welcome children from 1 to 6 years old at the Comparetti Nursery School from Monday 1st to Saturday 6th July 2024 from 8:00 to 18:00.
The psycho-pedagogical team offers a whole series of games, courses, experiences, ateliers and workshops to spend the week together and also discover the adventure of being next to many children from all over the world in a fantastic city like Venice. For all proposals, the use of a playful and interactive method is envisaged with diversified activities depending on the age group designed specifically for the fun and well being of children in a dimension of sharing, creativity and amazement and wonder.
Activities for Children (1-3 years): The proposals dedicated to nursery age children include the organization of activities, ateliers, sense-perceptive experimentation laboratories with the use of stimulating tactile materials, noises and music, psychomotor and rhythmic games, creative construction
Activities for Children (4-6 years): The organization of recreational activities, creative, psychomotor, musical and reading workshops and ateliers is envisaged. Small groups followed by an expert operator experiment with outdoor routes in the large courtyard and indoors in the various rooms made available. In addition to the structured play options, there are stations for symbolic play, with constructions and puzzles, with board games, etc.
BarchettaBlu is a center founded in 1999 on the initiative of a group of experts in the educational field who create and organize socialization and child care initiatives through a multidisciplinary team.
Over the years the Center has grown to represent a point of reference for citizens and civic institutions, not only for the care services for the little ones but also for the numerous educational, recreational and cultural activities dedicated to people of all ages.
Today BarchettaBlu is also a research and service center with expertise in the field of cultural planning and training. With its staff it creates and organizes services and initiatives for children, families, childcare workers, teachers and educators, collaborating with schools of all levels, private and public bodies, libraries and museums. The team is made up of educators, pedagogists, art historians, experts in teaching, children's literature, active musical pedagogy, art for children, psychomotor play.
ISBA's Organising Secretariat selected a number of organizations active in the City of Venice that organize educational/recreational activities for children in the 7+ age group. Contact with the organizers is the responsibility of the parents, who are invited to view the proposals for the week 1-7 July directly on the organizers' websites.
ISBA will reimburse attendance up to $100/attendee.
Voga Camp
Venetian lagoon boat excursions and activities dedicated to children from 6 to 17 years old to promote and to renew the knowledge of an invaluable treasure made of traditions, people, lifestyles, ges-tures and places, often forgotten or little attended that not everyone knows.
All activities are performed under the capable supervision of professional instructors and exceptional guides, such as some leading athletes from the Venetian rowing world, great champions of the past and experts in sport and lagoon.
Presence of English speaking operators (French on demand, German on demand).
Piscine Sant'Alvise Summer Camps [ITA]
Multidisciplinary sports centers for young people aged between 6 and 14 during the summer period. They are designed to stimulate the psychomotor development of children and young people through sports and leisure activities, using different training methods adapted to different age groups.
The weekly programme includes exercise and sports workshops, games and pool activities.
Presence of English language operators is not a guarantee.
Just Kids Venice [ITA]
Summer camps in English discovering Venice… old and forgotten outdoor games, strolls through venetian “calli”, riddles and rhymes, craft club and visits to venetian museums.
Activities in English
