No one knows the Sustainability Pavilion the way Terra does. She takes young adventurers on a voyage under the forest or under the ocean. Learn about the beauty of nature, humanity's impact on our environment and finally, hope for the future.

Interactive Tour

The sharpest and smartest of the guardians, you definitely don’t want to get on Terra’s bad side – especially when she turns invisible. Fierce and loyal, Terra is highly protective of nature and keeps its deepest secrets.  

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Learn about the beauty of nature, humanity's impact on our environment and finally, hope for the future.


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Inside Expo: Sustainability I: The World’s Oldest Innovator

Inside Expo: Sustainability II: Harnessing the Sun

The Powerhouse Pavilions

Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion - Audio Guide

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Terra offers two different, immersive tracks that take visitors either Under the Forest or Under the Ocean in order to learn more about the beauty of the natural world. 

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See the Expo Young Innovators exhibition, which brings to life the creativity of students across the UAE who worked on developing solutions to global challenges.

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At Expo 2020, sustainability is an urgent, attainable reality, and Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion is the proof. Both immersive exhibition space and exemplar of environmental self-sufficiency, Terra is a pioneering piece of architecture that pushes the limits of renewable design.

The pavilion’s 130-metre-wide solar canopy – so vast that you could park 10 city buses head-to-tail atop it – converts sunshine into electricity for the exhibits below. Artfully funnelled natural light and local plant species, together with technologies that can reduce water consumption by 75 per cent, show the way to a sustainable future.


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Inspiring experiential journey through our shared sustainable future

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Two immersive paths to choose from: beneath a forest and beneath an ocean

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LEED Platinum environmental features, including solar power and water recycling

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The Making of Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion

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Interactive Tour: Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion

Terra is a super-sized marvel of forward-thinking design. The pavilion’s technology generates enough energy in a year to power a Nissan Leaf to drive halfway to Mars, while another system captures moisture from the air you breathe and turns it into drinkable water. Enter and take a fantastical journey through the wonders of nature, humanity’s challenges and the promise of our shared future. 


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Terra is home to five thought-provoking art installations from artists around the world, with each piece demonstrating a response to the issue of sustainability.

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Terra Art Installations

Young visitors can explore a fantastical world inspired by Terra's very own octopus, Octavia.

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Octavia's Playground

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Children's Adventure Tour: Sustainability Pavilion with Robot Guardian Terra

A panel discussion on how technology can break barriers and make knowledge universal and accessible for all, while touching on last-mile education.

Knowledge is Everywhere

Dubai: ‘Expo Live’ benefits 5.8 million people worldwide

Expo 2020 Dubai to fund small start-ups with big impact

Inside Expo: The Future of Wellness

The Good Place - Audio Guide

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In February 1968, this nation's founding fathers met under a desert tent and shared an idea that would turn into something truly great: the United Arab Emirates. Animated by this spirit of collaboration, The Good Place by Expo Live is an exhibition space dedicated to showcasing human potential and those who work to advance it – through the Expo Live innovation and partnership programme and beyond.

With a design inspired by the tent where the UAE was conceived, the pavilion showcases social innovations conceived to improve our lives. Come and meet ordinary people doing extraordinary things – and be inspired to join our global community.


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Designed by renowned Emirati architect Ahmad Abdulrahman Bukhash, The Good Place’s structure expands the Bedouin tent shape into an elegant white canopy, folded with seven origami-like angles on each side to join at a tall peak. The tent seems to float over a clean, glass box. 

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Knowledge drives our global community to innovate for a better future, be it advances in medicine, sustainability, technology and more. Our planet’s rich diversity brings forward the importance of creating, storing and transferring knowledge which spans across geographies, cultures and generations. 
During this Theme Week, Expo will present and celebrate the knowledge, culture and heritage of all our participating nations, bringing them together under the UAE’s Golden Jubilee theme of Human Solidarity. Topics of discussion will include intangible and tangible heritage, creative industries, and knowledge economies, among other things. 


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How do we harness and challenge our knowledge today to prepare for the future?

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Dubai values education as the key to helping its youngest citizens take charge of the future. Expo 2020’s host city extends that mission across the globe with Dubai Cares, a dynamic philanthropic organisation that helps children in developing countries access quality learning opportunities. At the Dubai Cares Pavilion, learn about the transformative power of education and the unique challenges facing future generations through a series of playful, immersive activities designed to engage the whole family. Sit in a futuristic learning pod, take photos in a comics-inspired exhibit and find out how you can help grow the Dubai Cares movement.

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Knowledge & Learning Week

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Open-heartedness and ambition are values captured by the UAE Pavilion, designed by renowned architect Santiago Calatrava. The remarkable building is reminiscent of a falcon in flight, inspired by our national bird. Once inside, go on a multisensory journey that chronicles the rise of a nation of “dreamers who do”. Traverse a dreamlike landscape filled with dunes of real sand to learn about our nation’s founding father Sheikh Zayed, the natural wonders of the Emirates and their rapid modernisation. Be inspired by stories of the UAE dreamers building an inclusive future as the desert sun filters through the pavilion’s oculus. 

The design of the UAE Pavilion evokes a falcon in flight; referencing the Emirates’ traditional art of falconry. The main building resembles a titanic oval, with a grand, four storey entrance set into the tip. More than 25 feather-like panels are arranged at the dome of the pavilion, each curving down toward the entry of the structure. 

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The market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best.

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SAP leads the way in enterprise application software, enabling organisations of all sizes to become intelligent, Cloud-powered enterprises. As the Innovative Enterprise Software Partner for Expo 2020 Dubai, SAP is helping businesses around the world to ‘recover better’ and shape a more resilient, sustainable future. Find out how best-in-class companies are using the power of intelligent enterprise to reinvent their businesses and make the world run more efficiently.

Unleashing the power of data

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Inspired by British physicist Stephen Hawking, who challenged humanity to ponder how we might express ourselves to alien civilisations, the UK Pavilion invites visitors to contribute to a unique linguistic experiment. While exploring this cone-shaped structure, which showcases the UK’s contributions to space science and artificial intelligence, you can add your own words to the pavilion’s neural network. A language-generating algorithm then processes these entries into an ever-changing “poem” that will be displayed on the pavilion’s LED façade, providing an inspiring collective message to Expo 2020, our planet and maybe even worlds beyond.

The awe-inspiring UK Pavilion is an epic, 20-metre-tall, cone-shaped structure compiled of rows of horizontal timber slats that stretch forward to create a circular form. The end of each slat houses a LED panel that emits phrases that link to form an ever-changing interstellar message crafted by artificial intelligence and Expo visitors. 

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Co-Founder & CEO at Ustad Mobile from the United Arab Emirates
Ustad Mobile is an EdTech startup based in the UAE which connects teachers and students and provides high-quality digital content, yet provides it offline and without needing internet connection.

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Founder & CEO at EdTech Solutions (GetBEE) from the United Arab Emirates
GetBEE is an online platform that creates knowledge from knowledge - by connecting on-demand teachers, mentors, experts to those who want to learn.

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Co-Founder & CEO at Sublime, Edify from Scotland
Sublime has combined virtual reality learning and video conferencing to create Edify, which it says will help to improve students’ remote teaching experience amid measures to combat the spread of Covid-19. The firm said students will soon be able to explore and learn in virtual environments from anywhere in the world with the launch of Edify, which has been two years in development.

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Expo Live Impact Series: Knowledge is Everywhere

Back in 2015, United Nations unveiled the Sustainable Development Goals as a means to work towards a better future. Expo 2020 Dubai’s purpose embodies the two main pillars of these goals: sustainability and opportunity. The global COVID-19 pandemic has further proved the urgency of this global agenda. As this mega-event takes place, Expo 2020 Dubai will become the center of commitment and action in ensuring that no one is left behind. The Leave No One Behind Track of Expo 2020 Dubai's Programme for People and Planet features a tapestry of event series that spotlight the importance of opportunity for all, gender equality and much more.

Catalysing Opportunity for All

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Expo Live's Impact Series highlights the impact of social and environmental innovations. Taking place at The Good Place by Expo Live Pavilion, Expo Live Global Innovators join change-makers around the world to discuss their visions towards collective action and meaningful change.

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Join a dialogue about social innovations and their impact showcasing Expo Live Global Innovators.

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As the world’s greatest renewable resource and a fundamental right, education is critical in combatting poverty, bridging the digital divide, and instilling global citizenship. While there has been significant progress made, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted education systems at an unprecedented scale. This has permanently changed the learning experience worldwide and forced us to reimagine the future of education. The International Day of Education (IDE) provides an opportunity to reflect on the changes brought in the past years, while also envisioning education in the upcoming decades together with education experts, students, and teachers. The IDE will bring these stakeholders together to strengthen collaboration, share best practices for teaching in an era of digitalization, and explore pathways to accelerate innovations brought about by disruptions to education worldwide.

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Coming together to strengthen collaboration, spotlight teaching and learning success stories in the digital age, and explore pathways to make education more resilient to disruption. 

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The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24 January as International Day of Education, in celebration of the role of education for peace and development. Without inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong opportunities for all, countries will not succeed in achieving gender equality and breaking the cycle of poverty that is leaving millions of children, youth and adults behind.

Today, 258 million children and youth still do not attend school; 617 million children and adolescents cannot read and do basic math; less than 40% of girls in sub-Saharan Africa complete lower secondary school and some four million children and youth refugees are out of school. Their right to education is being violated and it is unacceptable.

Education is a human right, a public good and our shared responsibility.

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Who better to guide young viewers through the Mobility Pavilion story than Alif, the guardian of Mobility? Learn about the past, present and future of mobility. Interactive sessions make the tour even more fun!

Mobility Student Tour with Alif

Alif is definitely the leader of the guardians – or at least he thinks so. This shapeshifting robot will always get you where you need to go, whether you’re digging to the core of the Earth or surfing stardust on cosmic waves.

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Learn about the past, present and future of mobility. 

Inside Expo: The Evolution of Robots

Inside Expo: Redefining Mobility I: Not Just Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Inside Expo: Redefining Mobility II: The Giants of Mobility

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In today’s hyperconnected world, mobility is more important than ever – so what better way to embody this than through a visionary structure that looks ready to take flight? With its space-age contours and awe-inspiring exhibits, Alif – The Mobility Pavilion offers visitors an immersive journey through the spectrum of human movement. 

But Mobility – one of Expo’s three main subthemes – is also about moving ideas. Take the lift to the pavilion’s top floor and undertake a voyage into the often-invisible ways that mobility unites us, from the campfire of a nomadic Bedouin all the way through the ultra-connected cities of humanity’s future.


Visitors ride the world’s largest passenger lift, which can transport more than 160 people at a time. The Bedouin girl in the middle of the lift is illuminated, reaching up towards the stars, symbolising the desire to reach new heights.

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Nine-metre-tall photo-realistic giants of mobility from the golden age of Arab civilisation, including 15th Century seafarer and navigator Ibn Majid, 11th Century historian and geographer Al-Bakri, and 14th Century explorer Ibn Battuta.

The giants of early exploration

Future cities merging imagination and design are dreamed up by children and projected an immersive space that explores the limitless possibilities that lay ahead for mankind

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Timelapse: Alif – The Mobility Pavilion

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The heart-pounding motion of speeding ideas and vehicles alike take shape in Alif – The Mobility Pavilion: a ribbed, curvy, three-sided structure wrapped in highly reflective stainless steel metal cladding, inspired by chrome fenders and aircraft wings. Alif's mirror-like surface captures movement, making the building seem alive and in motion. 

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Watch the creation of Alif - The Mobility Pavilion as it rises out of the desert sands.