AWA Invitation - Deposit February 27th 2026

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January 9th

Latest registration for the deposit, book your flight and hotel

Thursday, February 26th

AWA deposit ceremony & deposit dinner

January 24th

Your data is being transferred to piqlFilm

January 15th

Deadline for upload of your data on the AWA portal

February 10th

Wednesday, February 25th

Your data will be securely shipped to Svalbard and AWA

Meet & Greet in Longyearbyen

Timeline

We recommend that you book your flights and hotel rooms as soon as possible since there are limited flights and hotel rooms.

T he airlines SAS and Norwegian both fly to Longyearbyen, Svalbard from Oslo and to take part in the AWA deposit ceremony, you must arrive latest on Wednesday 25th and return earliest on Friday 27th, unless you would like to stay for the weekend in the beautiful arctic wilderness. We recommend you to book your room at Funken Lodge or you can check availability for other hotels in Longyearbyen at hotels.com. For more information and registration send an e-mail to info@arcticworldarchive.org. We will send you a payment link for the attendance fee.

Deposit programme: February 25th 12.00 - Deposit at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. 18.00 - Meet & greet

9.00 - Taxi pick-up outside hotel 9.30 - Deposit ceremony in AWA 13.00 -Svalbad sauna & swimming in the Arctic Ocean or a guided tour in Longyearbyen 20.00 - Celebratory dinner Attendance fee for activities € 600 per person

February 26th