Her Excellency Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, Minister of Culture and Youth, visited the Greece Pavilion, which is located in the Sustainability District of Expo 2020 Dubai. The Greece Pavilion spotlights the European nation’s history, ancient civilisation and rich cultural heritage. It also showcases Greece as a modern country with a developed economy with expanding international partnerships. The Expo is an ideal platform to showcase participating countries’ strategic goals, with its wide global participation that includes 192 countries.
During Her Excellency’s visit, the organisers of the Greece Pavilion gave a detailed account of the pavilion which carries the theme ‘Greece paves the way’. The Greece Pavilion highlights the country’s accomplishments in the field of engineering, design and innovation, as well as the success it is witnessing in the field of entrepreneurship. At the centre of it all is a civilisation rooted in rich history that goes back millennia.
Forest of Future Technology
Her Excellency Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi also paid a visit to the Belarus Pavilion, which combines nature and technology in the Opportunity District at Expo 2020 Dubai. The pavilion design is inspired by the green forests of Belarus and its rich natural resources. The theme of the pavilion also focuses on investment and creativity to highlight sustainability and future innovation.
Her Excellency was briefed about the clever positioning of nature and technology in the pavilion, which was built under the theme ‘Forest of Future Technology’. The pavilion spans an area of about 1200 sqm, the largest Belarus pavilion by far in the history of the country’s participation at previous Expos. The Belarus pavilion boasts four floors with rather large expanses, which are being used for business and entertainment by the pavilion management. A number of live artistic and cultural performances have been held at the pavilion, which also houses a store for Belarusian souvenirs and artifacts. The highlight of the pavilion is the Tree of Knowledge, which is a woven tree that stands nine metres tall at the centre of the pavilion and is made of natural wool. It symbolises the relationship between humans and nature as energy and resources are transformed into new technology, which emphasise the values of sustainability.
Home of innovation, business, research, tourism and culture
Her Excellency also visited the Baden-Württemberg Pavilion which is the first participation for the German city as an independent pavilion in the history of Expos around the world. This southwest German city is home to more than 60 institutions for scientific research and four federal universities. It is a destination for the most important research in the world. Baden-Württemberg also features the Cyber Valley, which is the largest of its kind in Europe, especially in the field of artificial intelligence, as research done here is turned directly into innovative applications.
Her Excellency was briefed about 25 pioneering scientific innovations and projects from Baden-Württemberg, as well as paintings and images distributed on high wooden poles in the pavilion that shed light on the scientific and cultural diversity of the city. The German city is home to Daimler, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, the world's leading luxury cars manufacturing companies. It’s also the birthplace of Einstein. The world's first calculator was made in 1623 in Baden-Württemberg by Wilhelm Schickard. The city records 15,000 inventions annually. The world’s first autonomously flying air taxi that completed its first test flight in Dubai in 2017, was invented in Baden-Württemberg.
