An Opportunity to Participate in Expo 2020 Dubai

Expo 2020 Dubai is calling applicants from all around the world to participate in the Global Best Practice Programme that aims to showcase projects that have provided tangible solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. It will highlight simple but effective initiatives, which localise the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and can be adapted, replicated, and scaled to achieve an enhanced global impact. 

Eligibility

Projects can come from nations, international organisations, businesses, educational institutions and communities from across the world.

Criteria

• Collaboration: facilitate and encourage partnership and cooperation between relevant stakeholders.
• Creativity: Use of art, film, storytelling, music or other media to communicate projects creatively.
• Sustainable impact: demonstrate sustainable and tangible impacts (social, economic, environmental) of projects from around the world.
• Transference: create points of connection between people, partners, communities and countries so project impacts can be adapted, replicated or scaled.

About the competition

The programme calls for projects related to five priority development topics and touching on at least one cross-cutting theme and enabler for development:

• Inclusive and sustainable service delivery: reliable service provision in urban, suburban and rural areas, as well as in fluid environments such as informal, nomadic, post-disaster, emergency, and refugee settlements.
• Livelihood and enterprise development: promoting alternative employment and income opportunities, women in the workplace, competitive products and services, and improved market access.
• Resilient habits: Better protecting human, economic and natural assets in urban, rural and fluid environments (informal, nomadic, post-disaster, emergency & refugee settlements).
• Social development: reliable, affordable and appropriate healthcare and education systems and delivery.
• Water, food and energy security: smarter consumption and resource management to better meet increasing water, food and energy requirements for a growing global population.

About organization

World 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. International exhibitions have been established to provide industrial inventions to various countries. It provides the technological and industrial interface of the participating countries, reflecting the progress of the industrial revolution. The first international exhibition was held in London in 1851.

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