EXPO 2015: ONE EXHIBITION / MANY EVENTS  (*)
The next world Expo Milano 2015 "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life", is a global cultural, educational and scientific event which aims to create a worldwide platform for best practices and innovative solutions to respond to both the global food challenge as well as the need for increasingly sustainable services in cities as they develop in the future. It will unite countries, institutions and citizens to discuss and discover issues related to food production, availability and safety, nutrition and the culture of food.

Expo Milano 2015 is not merely a 6 month event occurring in year 2015; it is a multiyear journey to 2015 supported by a program of initiatives and events to start the debate and engage the global community in relation to the following topics:

• Science and technology for food safety, security and quality
• Science and technology for agriculture and biodiversity
• Innovation in the agro-food supply chain
• Dietary education
• Food for better lifestyles
• Food and culture
• Cooperation and development on food.

WHO

LEDA_EXPO2015 is a joint initiative of :

Milano Metropoli Development Agency

Milano Metropoli is the Agency for the Promotion and Sustainable Development of the Metropolitan Area of Milan. The Agency's mission is to promote sustainable development throughout the Milanese area by means of actions, projects and services. These are designed to increase the competitive edge of local businesses, to support growth in strategic industrial sectors and advanced services and to heighten awareness, both in Italy and abroad, of the skills, opportunities and centres of excellence available in the area.

Milan Province Fund for International Cooperation

The Milanese Provincial Fund for International Cooperation is a collegial tool, shared by the Milan area's local authorities and NGOs, which aims to bring its contribution to the national cooperation policies in a powerful and non-dispersive way.

The ART Initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

The ART Itiniative (Articulating Territorial and Thematic networks for Human Development) promotes a territorial approach to Human Development by connecting experiences and know-how of a variety of international cooperation networks of players, from the South and the North, through country framework programmes in 22 partner countries located in all the world's regions..

WHY

The presence of countries within Expo will be organized by agreements among national governments. It is then important to bring in voices and experiences coming from the territories, as an option to better face global challenges like Sustainable Human Development and foster decentralization and local development processes through participation of territorial stakeholders.

LEDA's deep connections with local communities can be a powerful resource for these voices and experiences to be pitched in the framework of the world Expo Milano 2015.

Milano Metropoli Development Agency intends to collaborate closely with other local economic development agencies (LEDAs) around the world in order to exploit their role as catalyst of the business opportunities that are going to be generated BEFORE, DURING and AFTER the next world Expo2015

WHAT

As a local economic development agency, by joining LEDA_EXPO2015 you will get support in defining a tailored work-programme for showcasing your region and companies, starting new partnerships, catching new business opportunities.

LEDA_EXPO2015  offers to local developments agencies around the world the unique opportunity of exploiting the benefits of Expo2015 as a global event, through BtoB meetings, showcasing, technology transfers etc.

HOW TO APPLY

Fill the "Expression of Interest" to get in touch with "LEDA_EXPO 2015" staff and send it back within the following deadlines: 

• 30th April, 
• 31st August, 
• 31st December

WHEN

2012

• LEDA_EXPO2015 start-up
• Spreading and communication about the Initiative
• Collection of interest expressions from LEDAs and their stakeholders: 3 deadlines:

• Business meetings with Italian/European companies (production and distribution)
• Showcasing of products/services (events, fairs, roadshows) in prestigious locations in Milan and Lombardy 
• Meetings with universities and research centers (technology transfer)
• Events for promoting regions and cities

2015

Meetings with delegations of other exhibitor countries
Showcasing of products and technologies in side-events during the Expo

(*) Expo 2015: "Feeding the planet, energy for life"

• From May to October 2015 
• 20 million visitors
• 130 participating countries
• € 3 billion infrastructures & operating budget
• Exhibitions by participating countries, international organizations and corporations
• World debates, conventions and policy meetings
• International cultural events and food festivals. 

 "The Expo is a non-commercial Universal Exposition (not a trade fair) organized by the nation which wins the candidature, with other countries participating through the diplomatic channels of the hosting nation.

Expo 2015 will be an extraordinary universal event displaying tradition, creativity and innovation in the business of food. It will bring together many themes that have already been handled by this event in the past, and set them out anew in light of new global possibilities whose common core is the idea that everyone on the planet should have access to food that is healthy, safe and sufficient. Workshop and debate themes include:

• Improving food quality and security: the security of having enough food to live on, and an assurance that the food is healthy and the water drinkable; 
• Ensuring healthy and high-quality nutrition for all human beings, doing away with the hunger, drought, infantile mortality, and malnutrition that still afflict 850 million people on this planet, and extirpating famine and pandemic disease; 
• Preventing the new epidemics and diseases of our time, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, by championing practices that have proven to be effective; 
• Promoting innovation in research, technology, and business practices along the entire food supply chain to improve the nutritional value, conservation, and distribution of foods; 
• Providing education in proper nutrition and encouraging more healthy lifestyles, especially among children, adolescents, the disabled, and the elderly;
• Enhancing the value of cultural and ethnic heritage as expressed in culinary traditions. 
• Food is vital for the sustainable development of good quality, reliably available nutrition, respect for the fundamental life needs of every human being, and health. "

(from the official site of Expo 2015: www.expo2015.org)

Fill the "First contact form" to get in touch with "LEDAs for EXPO 2015" staff

For further informations:

Milano Metropoli
Development Agency
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