Every five years and for a period of six months, World Expos attract millions of visitors. The World Expo has never been held in the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia in the history of the event. The UAE is bidding to host the World Expo 2020 in Dubai under the theme ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future’.
Steps
Formed international partnerships. 1. Tonga 2. Sri Lanka 3. Peru 4. Rwanda
Building on the bid's theme of partnership, Expo Live will start to deliver on the promise and power of global collaboration as early as 2014. Expo Live will make Dubai Expo 2020 not just a global showcase event, but also a powerful engine of innovation for future progress.
Expo Live will challenge the world to identify the greatest global issues for the 21st century across the three Dubai Expo 2020 sub-themes of Mobility, Sustainability and Opportunity. By doing so, Expo Live will bring to life the aspirations of the bid s overarching theme, Connecting Minds, Creating the Future, and create a concrete programme for partnership and innovation with the Expo Partnership Fund of 100 million Euros. The fund will accelerate entrepreneurial spirit around the world and support projects of varying size, scale and stages of development; all with the same objective of delivering a lasting and positive impact.
Partnerships will be facilitated between people and organisations all around the globe to deliver solutions before, during and after the six-month World Expo. The resulting ideas and innovations will be showcased during the Dubai Expo 2020 itself demonstrating the message that together we can accomplish more. Dubai Expo 2020 would be the most international World Expo in the 169-year history of the event. Thanks to the UAE s unmatched infrastructure, strategic geographic positioning and global connectivity, the 2020 World Expo in Dubai will attract an estimated 25 million visitors. 70 per cent of these attendees would come from outside the