Regional Council of South Karelia continues with limited office hours

Due to COVID-19 outbreak, the Regional Council limit its office hours to 8-10 on workdays until 3 July.  

Our office at Kauppakatu 40 D, 53100 Lappeenranta is open from 8 to 10 to receive posts and other deliveries. Exceptional office hours will continue until 3.7.2020. Personnel work mostly remotely, and is available via phone and email. Meetings that are not cancelled or postponed, are organised mainly by using on-line tools. All changes are informed to the participants accordingly.  

Information-links of the Covid-19 news are also made available at http://www.ekarjala.fi (in Finnish). 

Regional Council of South Karelia acts as the hosting organisation for the South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014-2020 Programme. The MA office (Kauppakatu 40 D, 1. floor) has limited its office hours to middays. Programme’s branch office (BO) personnel in Saint Petersburg works also remotely.

Meetings and consultations are organised by using on-line tools and for the necessary visits to our offices, kindly contact us to agree on the arrangements.    


For further information: 

Regional Council of South Karelia, Director for administration, development and HR
Olli Seppänen, Tel. +358 40 139 0175, [email protected]

South-East Finland – Russia CBC Programme, Programme director
Jukka-Pekka Bergman, Tel. +358 50 437 0339, [email protected]