EXPO MILANO 2015 EXPO in general World exhibition that takes place every five years 1st World Exhibition: 1851 in London; in Vienna: 1873 To date more than 60 world exhibitions worldwide EXPO 2015 “Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life” „Den Planet ernähren. Energie für das Leben“ 1st world exhibition with a sustainability certificate (ISO 20121:2012) Duration 1 May to 31 October 2015 6 Months ‒ 25 Weeks ‒ 184 Days Opening hours: daily 10.00 ‒ 23.00 Visitors Expected Visitors: 20 million Tickets sold to date: 9 million 1/3 of which abroad: in China 1 million, in the USA 700,000 Participants 145 countries (corresponds to 94 % of the global population) 3 international organisations (EU, UNO, Caribbean Community ‒ CARICOM), 13 NGOs and 5 companies Country Pavilions: 54 (Shanghai 2010: 42) Exhibition Site 1.7 km 2 adjacent to the trade fair site Rho/Pero Via Cristina Belgioiso, 20157 Milan More than half the site consists of parks and gardens 4 theme clusters on rice, wine, coffee and cocoa & 1 in the Triennale Design Museum Lombardy Surface area: 23.864 km 2 Population: 10.0 million GDP 2013: 360 billion euros Per capita GDP 2013: 36,300 euros (130% of EU-28 average) Imports 2014: 109.9 billion euros Exports 2014: 109.6 billion euros Milan Population: 1.3 million (second-largest city in Italy) Population in the metropolitan area: 9.3 million Milan Region: 10 % of Italian GDP Also hosted 1906 world exhibition on transport AUSTRIAN PAVILION Location and Size Plot on the main boulevard Decumanus Plot size: 2,000 km 2 Forest area inside the pavilion: 560 m² Budget 12 million euros Sponsor Ministry for Science, Research and Economy and the Austrian Federal Chamber of Economy. Commissioner General Josef Pröll Project Director Rudolf Ruzicka team.breathe.austria terrain:architekten und landschaftsarchitekten BDA ‒ Klaus K. Loenhart Agency in Biosphere ‒ Markus Jeschaunig Hohensinn Architektur ZT GmbH ‒ Karlheinz Boiger LANDLAB, ia&l, Graz University of Technology ‒ Andreas Goritschnig, Bernhard König Lendlabor Graz ‒ Anna Resch and Lisa Maria Enzenhofer Alexander Kellas Engelmann Peters Ingenieure ‒ Stefan Peters transsolar ‒ Wolfgang Kessling University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, IBLB ‒ Bernhard Scharf Austria Day 26 June 2015 VIP Lounge Function rooms with a capacity of 100 guests for Austrian companies Foreign Trade Italy ‒ Austria Austrian imports from Italy 2013: 7.8 billion euros Links Austrian Pavilion http://www.expoaustria.at Official Website & Tickets http://www.expo2015.org EXPO in general (BMWFW) http://bit.ly/1IQHheY Business in Italy (WKO) http://bit.ly/1HAhedh Tourism Italy (Austrian Tourist Board) http://bit.ly/1OkSBXA Austrian exports to Italy 2013: 8.2 billion euros Sources of Data: BMWFW, WKO, EXPO 2015, ANSA, ISTAT Contact EXPO Office of the WKÖ Rudolf Ruzicka Page 2 T +43 5 90900-3102 E [email protected] www.expoaustria.at Page 3