Dubai, UAE; October 2, 2021:  competence-based Italy, champion of innovation, sustainability, and training takes off for Expo Dubai with a programme of international initiatives and events dedicated to Italy's innate capability of connecting peoples and intelligences through beauty, know-how and creativity.

The Italy Pavilion at Expo Dubai, with the participation 70 institutional partners, 50 business sponsors, 15 Regions and 30 Universities, will promote a vast programme of multilateral forums and high-level dialogues to analyse the challenges that are most pressing for humankind, indicating solutions capable of generating growth, innovation and international collaboration.

Addressing key issues ranging from the climate, Space, urban development, promoting intercultural dialogue, to the challenges innovation and digitalization in the healthcare sector, in agriculture and in the blue economy, the Agenda of multilateral forums will convene high-ranking policy-makers, international experts, young students, and representatives of the world of business, to discuss these themes and to highlight Italy’s contribution to developing new collaborative models on the principal issues on the UN Agenda 2030.

Venice is the highlight of the opening week of events

The first thematic week of Expo Dubai is dedicated to “Climate and Biodiversity”: at the Italy Pavilion, the theme will be developed in several initiatives focused on Venice, brought as an example of a local laboratory and an international model of how to combat the effects of climate change and promote innovative environmental transition processes and cultural and social innovation. On the 3rd of October, one of the two forums dedicated to the lagoon city will launch the candidacy of Venice as world capital of sustainability on the Expo’s global platform.