Kongresové centrum SAV Academia in Stará Lesná hosts conferences, congresses, seminars, workshops and social events. The congress hall seats 170 and reaches 200 with extra chairs, a lounge takes 28 to 50 people, and a banquet hall seats 100 for lectures or serves banquets and wedding feasts. The centre belongs to the Slovak Academy of Sciences and includes accommodation and a restaurant, with views toward the High Tatras.
Seminars and company events
The congress hall is offered for conferences, congresses, seminars, workshops, training sessions, business negotiations, presentations and press conferences. Fixed equipment includes a lectern with a computer, two independent projectors, two screens, one of them large at 5.5 by 2.5 meters, a laptop, a fixed microphone and two wireless ones, a flipchart and videoconferencing. Internet runs at up to 100 Mb/s over wired LAN and Wi-Fi.
Additional services include interpreting and translation, audio recording of proceedings and video recording. Companies that want to exhibit can use the foyer and circulation areas. The centre supplies 10 fixed presentation panels in front of the hall and 28 portable double-sided panels, each 0.93 m wide and 1.00 m high, that can be placed anywhere in the building.
Weddings and receptions
The banquet hall is described as the space for discos, entertainment evenings, wedding feasts, graduation balls and family celebrations. Most of the time it is used for banquets, buffets and social events. A separate section of the website covers social events, and the lounge can host family gatherings as well as business meetings.
Rooms and capacities
The congress hall holds 170 multifunctional seats, increased to 200 by adding chairs. The lounge, called Salónik, seats 28 around tables. Arranged in classroom or cinema style, it takes about 40 to 45, and for catering at larger conferences it can seat 50. It has a Huawei TP10 presentation system with videoconferencing, a drop-down screen for projector presentations and wired or wireless internet for guests' own computers. The banquet hall sits in the congress wing. As a lecture room it takes 100 chairs, and it can also serve as an exhibition area.
Accommodation
The centre has its own accommodation, with standard double rooms, LUX double rooms and apartments. The website does not give the number of bedrooms, so organisers should confirm availability for their group size. A room allocation page and a price list for accommodation and catering are published on the site.
Catering
A restaurant belongs to the centre, and the lounge can be used for meals when a conference outgrows the main dining space, with 50 seats. The banquet hall is most often used for banquets and buffets. Coffee breaks and menus are organised with the centre, and the price list for accommodation and catering is available from the website.
History and setting
The centre is run by Centrum spoločných činností SAV, the joint services body of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, which also runs another congress castle at Smolenice. Stará Lesná lies in the High Tatras area, and the lounge looks toward the Tatra peaks. The site also lists services and surroundings pages for planning leisure time between sessions.
