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Expo 2015 was a
The Expo 2015 site is about northwest of Milan, in the municipalities of Rho and Pero, and covers an area of . It is adjacent to the
Expo 2015's concept was presented on September 8, 2009. It was designed by a committee of four architects: Stefano Boeri, Richard Burdett, Mark Rylander and Jacques Herzog.
The main idea was to trace two avenues (a main and a secondary avenue), representing the ancient Roman layout of a ''
The master plan for Expo 2015, coordinated by Stefano Boeri, was delivered to the BIE during its April 30, 2010 registration ceremony in Paris. Changes included:
*Each exhibiting country could rent areas ranging from .
*Buildable areas were reduced to 30 percent of the area assigned to each exhibitor.
*The large, but not navigable, canal around the area is maintained;
*The tent roofing remained only along the axes of the ''cardo'' and the ''decumanus''.
*Greenhouses would be in a zone.
*The circular canal became a theatre on the water, with a central stage.
*The green hill opposite the amphitheatre would be built of earth from the amphitheatre excavation.
*An auditorium was included.
Each participating country was hosted in a self-constructed pavilion and included on the Expo website. Some countries, such as Belarus, Belgium, Israel and
Germany, created external websites. As part of a reciprocity protocol with
In preparation for Expo 2015, the City of Milan signed coordination agreements with other cities in Italy and Europe focusing on tourism, culture and infrastructure.
Agreements were also signed with other countries for the development of projects associated with food and education.
Expo 2015's opening on May 1 was met with protests by a black bloc of anti-austerity activists, with police using tear gas. Although Vatican City invested €3 million in its pavilion before Pope Francis' election, he said that it was good for the church to be involved in causes which fight hunger and promote clean energy but too much money was wasted on the Expo by the Vatican.
Italian analysts like Daniela Danna have analysed the massive cost overruns for the project, the inflated prices paid for the land (with conflict of interest, the sellers and buyers sometimes being the same), poor worker contracts, the presence of large multinationals, the pouring of huge amounts of cement on the site, pushing through three new road projects that had previously been blocked (one outer bypass, the TEEM A58 cost €1.7 billion or US$2bn for 30 km, dubbed the most expensive highway in Europe), an abortive scenic canal network that was left incomplete, and the failure to find a buyer for the site after the event. She says protest in Milan and across Italy was inevitable, because "organizing circuses is politically risky when bread is hard to come by".
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File:Expo Milano 2015 - Azerbaidjan pavilion.jpg, Azerbaijan
File:Expo Milano 2015, Pavilion of China.jpg, China
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File:Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of France entrance.jpg, France
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Germany.jpg, Germany
File:Expo2015-HolySee-Pavilion.jpg, Holy See
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Indonesia.jpg, Indonesia
File:Expo 2015 - Pavilions - Israel (16754245334).jpg, Israel
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Japan.jpg, Japan
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Lituania.jpg, Lithuania
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Malaysia.jpg, Malaysia
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Mexico.jpg, Mexico
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Morocco.jpg, Morocco
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Netherlands.jpg, Netherlands
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Oman.jpg, Oman
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Poland.jpg, Poland
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Romania.jpg, Romania
File:Expo 2015 - My experience - Lisa Cortesi (20547568531).jpg, Russia
File:Expo Milano 2015. South Korea Pavilion.jpg, South Korea
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Spain.jpg, Spain
File:I Expo 2015 Milan Sudan Pavillon.JPG, Sudan
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Thailand.jpg, Thailand
File:Expo Milano 2015 - Great Bretain.jpg, United Kingdom
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Official website of the BIE
News on Expo 2015 and on the city of Milan
EXPO 2015 İzmir Film
* [http://www.expomuseum.com/2015/ ExpoMuseum's Expo 2015 Page] *
BLOG Expo 2015 Milano – News & Expo History
Rai Expo official multilanguage site, a library of about 1000 videos exploring and explaining "Expo di Milano 2015" theme
Photo gallery made by a UNESCO photographer
Colombia Pavillon Video and Photo gallery
Website
A screenshot of the early version of the site, omitting Sicily
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World Expo
A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large international exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in different parts of the world at a specif ...
hosted by Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
, Italy. It opened on May 1 at 10:00 CEST and closed on October 31. Milan hosted an exposition for the second time; the first was the 1906 Milan International
The Milan International was a world's fair held in Milan in 1906 titled ''L'Esposizione Internazionale del Sempione'', or sometimes ''The Great Expo of Work''. It received 4,012,776 visits and covered 250 acres.
Summary
The fair opened on 28 Apri ...
.
The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) general assembly in Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
decided in favour of Milan on March 31, 2008. On November 23, 2010, the event was announced by the BIE. Expo 2015's theme was "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life".
Themes
Expo 2015's theme was "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life", encompassing technology, innovation, culture, traditions andcreativity
Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and valuable is formed. The created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition, or a joke) or a physical object (such as an invention, a printed Literature ...
and how they relate to food and diet. The exposition developed themes introduced in earlier expos (such as water at Expo 2008 in Zaragoza
Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...
) in light of new global scenarios and emerging issues, focusing on the right to healthy, secure and sufficient food for the world's inhabitants. Futurist
Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities abo ...
ic concerns about food security are compounded by forecasts of increasing uncertainty about the quantity of food which will be available globally. The exposition had seven sub-themes:
* Science for food safety, security and quality
* Innovation in the agro-food supply chain
* Technology for agriculture and biodiversity
* Dietary education
* Solidarity and cooperation on food
* Food for better lifestyles
* Food in the world's cultures and ethnic groups
Site
The Expo 2015 site is about northwest of Milan, in the municipalities of Rho and Pero, and covers an area of . It is adjacent to the Fiera Milano
Fieramilano is a fairground and exhibition facility in Rho, Italy near Milan. It is operated by ''Fiera Milano SpA'' and is part of the larger Fiera di Milano - consisting of two sites: Fieramilano (located on the border of the municipalities o ...
fairgrounds, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas
Massimiliano Fuksas (born January 9, 1944) is an Italian architect. He is the head of ''Studio Fuksas'' in partnership with his wife, Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas, with offices in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen.
Biography
Fuksas was born in Rome in 194 ...
, which may be considered the cornerstone of the area's urban redevelopment. It had long been an industrial zone before its conversion to logistical and municipal services and agriculture. The fairgrounds and the Expo site were connected by a pedestrian bridge adjacent to the Rho-Pero high-speed rail station. Originally-planned bicycle paths were never constructed, and several motorways were built (or expanded) to allow access to the site.
The area is oblong in shape with an overall length of nearly , suggesting a boulevard along which the pavilions would be located. The design of pools and waterways in and around the Expo area was an element of primary importance.
Initial plan
The initial plan had the following elements: *50 percent of the area occupied by pavilions, 35 percent dedicated to space around each pavilion and the remaining 15 percent a green perimeter around the site *Piazza Italia and Piazza Expo at either end of the main boulevard, the former dominated by the Italy pavilion and flanked by a second square (Piazza delle Regioni) *A large, artificial lake surrounded by the 20 pavilions representing the Italian regions *A 12,000-seat amphitheatre covering and a 6,000-seat, auditorium *Country pavilions in three sizes, depending on the financial resources of the participating country *Three pavilions dedicated to geographic areas: Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean A service area was planned near the main Expo site with hotels, parking facilities, stores, a convention centre, green areas, a business centre available to Expo participants and aExpo Village An Expo Village is an accommodation center built for the Universal Exposition organized by BIE in the host city. Expo Villages are built to house all participating delegates, as well as officials. Expo Villages are similar to Olympic Villages.
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to house staff, volunteers and security and administrative personnel.
The following thematic pavilions were also planned:
*''What the World Eats'': At the base of the Expo tower and in the pedestrian bridge connecting the Rho-Pero fairgrounds to the expo site
*''Science and Conscience''
*''Tales of Land, Air and Water''
*''The Food Spiral''
*''The Right to Eat Well''
*''In the Realm of the Senses'', in Piazza Italia
*''Equilibrium''
*''The Art of Food''
Concept
Expo 2015's concept was presented on September 8, 2009. It was designed by a committee of four architects: Stefano Boeri, Richard Burdett, Mark Rylander and Jacques Herzog.
The main idea was to trace two avenues (a main and a secondary avenue), representing the ancient Roman layout of a ''cardo
A cardo (plural ''cardines'') was a north–south street in Ancient Roman cities and military camps as an integral component of city planning. The cardo maximus, or most often the ''cardo'', was the main or central north–south-oriented street.
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'' and a '' decumanus''. The initial idea of a "classical" site composed of avenues and pavilions was replaced by the idea of a "light" Expo composed of exhibition areas arranged across the main boulevard. The exhibition areas, identical for each country, recreated the typical food cycle of each nation from production to consumption. The centre of the avenue was occupied by a table in front of the country pavilions extending the length of the site, where visitors could sample foods produced in each country's pavilion. The area would be covered by large, tent-like structures to convey the idea of a global marketplace.
A second idea was to build large greenhouses on the site to reproduce the earth's principal biome
A biome () is a biogeographical unit consisting of a biological community that has formed in response to the physical environment in which they are found and a shared regional climate. Biomes may span more than one continent. Biome is a broader ...
s. These would be thematic pavilions for the cultivation and production of basic foodstuffs used in the individual country pavilions. Each country would have a dedicated greenhouse in its exhibition area. In this version of the site, water remained an important element but was shifted toward the exterior as a large, navigable canal surrounding the site. A large lake was also included in the design. Additional elements included a large, excavated amphitheatre and a hill, one at each end of the boulevard; expo village facilities across the encircling canal from the site, and redevelopment of the post-office building as a centre for sustainable development.
Master plan
The master plan for Expo 2015, coordinated by Stefano Boeri, was delivered to the BIE during its April 30, 2010 registration ceremony in Paris. Changes included:
*Each exhibiting country could rent areas ranging from .
*Buildable areas were reduced to 30 percent of the area assigned to each exhibitor.
*The large, but not navigable, canal around the area is maintained;
*The tent roofing remained only along the axes of the ''cardo'' and the ''decumanus''.
*Greenhouses would be in a zone.
*The circular canal became a theatre on the water, with a central stage.
*The green hill opposite the amphitheatre would be built of earth from the amphitheatre excavation.
*An auditorium was included.
Participants
Expo participants included 145 countries, three international organizations and several civil society organizations, corporations andnon-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from g ...
s (NGOs). Participants were hosted in individual or grouped pavilions.
Countries
Each participating country was hosted in a self-constructed pavilion and included on the Expo website. Some countries, such as Belarus, Belgium, Israel and
Germany, created external websites. As part of a reciprocity protocol with Expo 2010
Expo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo registered by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the t ...
in Shanghai
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, on December 8, 2008, China was the first country to formalise its participation in Expo 2015. The first country outside the reciprocity protocol to confirm its participation was Switzerland, on February 3, 2011. As in other years, during the Expo visitors could purchase a passport which could be stamped.
Two major countries which did not participate were Australia and Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
, who withdrew despite participating in the previous Expo in Shanghai, citing budgetary restrictions.
The following countries participated:
* Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
* Albania
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* Algeria
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* Angola
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* Argentina
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* Armenia
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* Austria
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* Azerbaijan
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* Bahrain
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* Bangladesh
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* Belarus
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* Belgium
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* Benin
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* Bolivia
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
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* Brazil
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* Brunei
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* Burundi
* Cambodia
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* Cameroon
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* Cape Verde
* Central African Republic
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* Chile
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* China
* Colombia
* Comoros
* Republic of the Congo
* Croatia
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* Cuba
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* Czech Republic
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* Democratic Republic of the Congo
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* Djibouti
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* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
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* Ecuador
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* Egypt
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* El Salvador
* Equatorial Guinea
* Eritrea
* Estonia
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* Ethiopia
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* France
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* Gabon
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* Gambia
* Georgia
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* Germany
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* Ghana
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* Greece
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* Grenada
* Guatemala
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
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* Haiti
* Holy See
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* Honduras
* Hungary
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* India
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* Indonesia
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* Iran
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* Ireland
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* Israel
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* Italy
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* Ivory Coast
* Japan
* Kazakhstan
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* Kenya
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* Kuwait
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* Kyrgyzstan
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* Laos
* Lebanon
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* Lithuania
* Madagascar
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* Malaysia
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* Maldives
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* Malta
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* Mauritania
* Mexico
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* Moldova
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* Monaco
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* Montenegro
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* Morocco
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* Mozambique
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* Nepal
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सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...
* Netherlands
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* North Korea
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* Oman
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* Poland
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* Qatar
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* Romania
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* Russia
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* Rwanda
* San Marino
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Senegal
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* Serbia
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* Sierra Leone
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* Slovakia
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* Slovenia
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* Somalia
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* South Korea
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(as Republic of Korea)
* Spain
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* Sri Lanka
* Switzerland
* Tanzania
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* Thailand
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* Timor-Leste
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* Togo
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* Tunisia
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* Turkey
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* Turkmenistan
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* Uganda
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* United Arab Emirates
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* United Kingdom
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* United States
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* Uruguay
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* Uzbekistan
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* Vanuatu
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* Venezuela
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* Vietnam
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* Yemen
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* Zambia
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* Zimbabwe
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Nongovernmental organizations
*ActionAid
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ActionAid is a federation of 45 country offices that works with communities, often via local partner organis ...
* Cesvi
* Amity University
* Andrea Bocelli Foundation
* Caritas Internationalis
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Collectively and individually, their missions are to work to build a bet ...
* Cibus-Federalimentare
* Don Bosco Network
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Places
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*Don (river), a river in European Russia
*Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name
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* Fairtrade International
* Fondazione Triulza
* KIP International School
* Lions Clubs International
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* National Observatory for Women's Health
* Oxfam International
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History
Founded at 17 Broad Street, Oxford, as the Oxford Co ...
* Save the Children
* Venerable Factory of the Duomo of Milan
* WAA-AMIA/CONAF
* World Wide Fund for Nature
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International organizations
* CERN *European Union
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* United Nations
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Companies
* China Corporate United Pavilion * Coca-Cola * Joomoo * New Holland Agriculture * VankeAgreements
In preparation for Expo 2015, the City of Milan signed coordination agreements with other cities in Italy and Europe focusing on tourism, culture and infrastructure.
Agreements were also signed with other countries for the development of projects associated with food and education.
Partners
Official partners
* Alitalia, Etihad Airways: airlines * BolognaFiere: operations * Came: automation, management and access control of visitors * Cisco: IP network and solutions * Coca-Cola: soft drinks * Eni: sustainability initiatives in African countries * Eutelsat: satellite * Excelsior Milano: T-shirts and gadgets * Ferrero SpA: confectionery specialties * Franciacorta, Franciacorta DOCG: sparking wine *Fiera Milano
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: operations
* Illy: Italian coffee
* Huiyuan Juice: fruit juice
* McDonald's: fast food
* MSC Cruises, MSC: cruises
* :it:OVS S.p.A., OVS Industry: T-shirts and gadgets
* Technogym: wellness and sport
* Trenitalia: rail carrier
* Sicily: Regione Siciliana managing the Bio-Mediterraneum Cluster
Media partners
* Canon (company), Canon: photography * RAI, Rai: televisionGlobal partners
* Accenture: system integration * Allianz: visitor assistance * CNH Industrial: agriculture * Enel: smart energy and lighting * Fiat Group, Fiat-Chrysler: sustainable mobility * Finmeccanica (Selex ES): Safe City and Main Operation Centre * Intesa Sanpaolo: banking * Samsung: entertainment * Telecom Italia: integrated connectivity and servicesPremium partners
* Coop (Italy), Coop: food distributionOther partners
* Algida (Unilever): gelato * Birrificio Angelo Poretti: beer * Eataly: Italian food * Gewiss: lighting * Granarolo (company), Granarolo: milk products * Lavazza: coffee * Martini & Rossi, Martini: drinks * S.Pellegrino, San Pellegrino: mineral water * Swatch: official timekeeperControversy
Expo 2015's opening on May 1 was met with protests by a black bloc of anti-austerity activists, with police using tear gas. Although Vatican City invested €3 million in its pavilion before Pope Francis' election, he said that it was good for the church to be involved in causes which fight hunger and promote clean energy but too much money was wasted on the Expo by the Vatican.
Italian analysts like Daniela Danna have analysed the massive cost overruns for the project, the inflated prices paid for the land (with conflict of interest, the sellers and buyers sometimes being the same), poor worker contracts, the presence of large multinationals, the pouring of huge amounts of cement on the site, pushing through three new road projects that had previously been blocked (one outer bypass, the TEEM A58 cost €1.7 billion or US$2bn for 30 km, dubbed the most expensive highway in Europe), an abortive scenic canal network that was left incomplete, and the failure to find a buyer for the site after the event. She says protest in Milan and across Italy was inevitable, because "organizing circuses is politically risky when bread is hard to come by".
Food
Several unusual (or unique) food choices were offered during the exposition, some normally not permitted in Italy. At Zimbabwe's pavilion, visitors could try burgers made from crocodile, zebra or Python (genus), python (named "crocoburger", "zebraburger" and "savanaburger" by their creator, Consul (representative), consul Georges El Badaoui). The pavilion's food was some of the expo's most innovative and extravagant. At the Japanese pavilion during the expo, European regulations were relaxed and it was possible to taste sashimi from Tetraodontidae, pufferfish (fugu). In the Future Food District were packs of canned insects, common in Southeast Asia but prohibited in the European Union. Italian chef Massimo Bottura and international colleagues created the Refettorio Ambrosiano, a gourmet soup kitchen using waste food from the fair.Verybello.it
verybello.it was the Italian website for the Expo 2015. The website was launched in January 2015. Its early version has attracted criticism for omitting Sicily from the map of Italy, and for having only the Italian language version present. Website design and name have also been criticized. The website, as accessed in late March 2015, had an English version, and an expanded map including Sicily.Sport
World Cup Expo, a football tournament of mixed teams composed of workers from individual pavilions (or clusters), was held during the event./ref>
Mascot
The mascot was Foody (mascot), Foody was a salad-like character, inspired by the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo and is composed of eleven different foods, each of which forms a separate mascot, including Chicca the pomegranate. It was designed by Disney Italia.Pavilions
See also
*Jellyfish Barge *Nemo’s Garden (Noli)References
External links
*Official website of the BIE
News on Expo 2015 and on the city of Milan
EXPO 2015 İzmir Film
* [http://www.expomuseum.com/2015/ ExpoMuseum's Expo 2015 Page] *
BLOG Expo 2015 Milano – News & Expo History
Rai Expo official multilanguage site, a library of about 1000 videos exploring and explaining "Expo di Milano 2015" theme
Photo gallery made by a UNESCO photographer
Colombia Pavillon Video and Photo gallery
Website
A screenshot of the early version of the site, omitting Sicily
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