World Children’s Day aims to highlight the challenges and opportunities for children in crisis, and the role actors play in ensuring children’s rights and in engaging youth in combatting global challenges. Expo 2020 Dubai will celebrate World Children’s Day by encouraging children to explore, thrive and find innovative solutions to challenges in an effort to construct a promising and sustainable future.

Co-curated with the UAE Ministry of Community Development and UNICEF, the specialist event will host a series of practitioners bringing together Expo’s Partner ecosystem to discuss key topics.

World Children's Day

A series of specialist/practitioner events to discuss key topics under the theme of World Children's Day.

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World Children’s Day is celebrated on 20 November each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children's welfare. Young people will ‘take over’ Expo 2020 on Saturday at the biggest celebration yet of World Children’s Day 2021. Organized by Expo 2020 Dubai, in partnership with the UAE Ministry of Community Development and UNICEF, the packed agenda includes a Specialist Event showcasing the international community’s efforts to reimagine and build a child-friendly post-COVID-19 world, and an inspiring concert with music, dance, poetry and more on Expo's central stage.

"A Better Future for Every Child"

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With our planet today home to 7.8 billion people, we put the spotlight on co-existence, understanding different faiths, creating inclusive dialogue, and so much more. During this Theme Week, Expo will provide a platform for diverse voices from all corners of the world to reimagine how spaces, environments and storytelling can become more inclusive by focusing on multiculturalism and peaceful co-existence.

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How can we foster a greater common understanding to enable more tolerant and inclusive societies?

Tolerance & Inclusivity Week

World Children’s Day: Specialist Event

Tolerance is a virtue at the heart of strong societies. It is the core value that blends and joins people of the world together and prevents communities from breaking apart. It encourages understanding, mutual respect, inclusivity and peaceful coexistence. The objective of this summit is to build bridges among those of different faiths of the world, based on our similarities and shared views on human values. This summit will make the statement that common ground is possible if we come to know one another as leaders for peace, conduits to positive human connections, and a collective and catalytic force behind the wellbeing of society. In the ability to understand others in a diverse world we have found in tolerance and inclusivity not only moral urgencies, but also the key to unlocking the enormous energies of complex societies. Interfaith understanding is at the heart of effective dialogue with those that respect our differences. It is our differences that create the potential for us to learn from each other. And it is tolerance and inclusivity that catalyse that potential into this marvellous power of understanding that is transforming the world for the good of us all.

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Celebrate International Day for Tolerance with a spotlight on the UAE’s leadership in the area, as well as Expo Participants’ best practices and success stories.

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Explore the pavilion's materials which begin with the concept of circularity.

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Italy’s voyage to Expo 2020 began long before opening day, when three custom-crafted boats set sail from Venice, Genoa and Naples. Nearly 10,000 kilometres later, the vessels arrived in Dubai and were hoisted up on steel pillars to form the roof of the Italy Pavilion, a striking showcase of culture, science and the nautical arts.

Inside the pavilion, beyond a dramatic veil of LED strands, stylish exhibits await. See a five-metre-tall 3D-printed replica of Michelangelo’s legendary David statue, learn about algae at a cluster of naturally multicoloured pools or gaze up and contemplate the fanciful hanging gardens embedded in the boats’ hulls.


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The Italy Pavilion at Expo 2020 is a dramatic, open structure reminiscent of a giant carnival tent, with a swooping canopy and a layer of 20-metre-tall white strands surrounding its interior like a veil. A set of high steel pillars support its imaginative roof, which is formed from the hulls of three boats.  

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International Day for Tolerance

Global Interfaith Summit: Toward a Compassionate World Through Tolerance and Interfaith Understanding

Storytelling is a powerful tool that helps shape narratives and deﬁne cultures. It can help foster empathy and connection, serving as an important tool for promoting tolerance and inclusivity. Tolerance and inclusivity are core pillars of Digniﬁed Storytelling and its 10 Principles. 

Digniﬁed Storytelling unites the voices of content makers, editors, journalists, photographers, ﬁlmmakers, storytellers, and contributors and equip them with the awareness and hands-on knowledge that will enable them to capture moments and tell stories without compromising human dignity. 

Moderated by Getty Images, this session features 11year-old published author, Diaco Taaeb; Surinamese actor, writer and ﬁlmmaker, Ivan Tai-Apin; Friendship’s Founder and Executive Director, Runa Khan; and Disability Empowerment Consultant Fatma Al Jassim. In addition, excerpts of two ﬁlms focused on tolerance and inclusivity will be shared with the audience. 

Storytelling to promote principles of tolerance, coexistence, and inclusivity as fundamentals of justice and peace.

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An event that brings together development and humanitarian practitioners and storytellers to explore the increasingly vital role of storytelling in overcoming prejudice and fostering intercultural harmony.


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

Inside Expo: Sustainability II: Harnessing the Sun

The Powerhouse Pavilions

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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.


Inspiring experiential journey through our shared sustainable future

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

LEED Platinum environmental features, including solar power and water recycling

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

Octavia's Playground

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Dignified Storytelling | Placing Human Dignity at the Heart of Storytelling

World Expos have always been meeting places for people across cultures and geographies; an opportunity to come together and celebrate human ingenuity and forge meaningful human connections. As the first World Expo to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, and with the participation of more than 192 countries, Expo 2020 Dubai looks to take this legacy even further. The Build Bridges track of Expo 2020 Dubai’s Programme for People and Planet features a tapestry of event series and experiences that celebrate our common humanity and the vital connections that can help us prosper together as a worldwide community.

Knowing One Another Better

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Watch Al Wasl as it gets submerged under water. As the deep blue light washes over, the great mysteries of the ocean will come to life. Beautiful corals flowing in harmony with the smooth movement of the current, glowing creatures of the ancient ocean floor swimming just out of reach and much more.

A glowing fantasy of the ocean brought to life in Al Wasl Plaza.

Underwater Harmony

A glowing fantasy of the ocean brought to life in Al Wasl Plaza

Architecture II: Al Wasl Plaza

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Expo 2020 Dubai, the first Expo in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region in the 170 years of World Expo history, opened with a celebration of global togetherness and optimism. Spectacular storytelling, performances, fireworks, and immersive projections on the dome of Al Wasl, the heart of Expo 2020, all told a story of collaboration and hope for the future, echoing Expo 2020 Dubai's theme of "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future". Global artists joining in the celebration included Andrea Bocelli, Ellie Goulding, Lang Lang and Mohammed Abdu.

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The first World Expo in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region, Expo 2020 opened with a celebration of global connection and hope for the future.

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Long ago, travellers referred to Dubai as Al Wasl, or “the connection” – a name that reflects the area’s heritage as a meeting point. This spirit of coming together takes shape in Al Wasl Plaza, Expo 2020’s spectacular centrepiece and gathering ground for celebration and wonder. 

Situated at the meeting point of Expo’s three thematic districts, Al Wasl Plaza's dome is tall enough to fit the Leaning Tower of Pisa beneath it. By night, she transforms into a 360-degree projection screen, blanketed by more than 250 state-of-the-art projectors. Al Wasl Plaza is a hub for visitors and the vibrant heart of our Expo.

Daily performances, national day ceremonies and more

Immersive 360-degree domed projection screen

Lush garden spaces for relaxation and connection

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Al Wasl Plaza is 130 metres in diameter and more than 67 metres tall. Delicate-looking despite its titanic scale, her pattern is inspired by our Expo's logo, which is fully visible at the oculus.

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The life force of the Expo 2020 site, Al Wasl Plaza proudly carries the old name of Dubai.

The beating heart of Expo 2020

A series of immersive 360° videos of Al Wasl's projection shows that put you centre stage for each stunning performance. 

World Children’s Day: Specialist Event

World Children's Day

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Tolerance & Inclusivity Week.

This event is part of the
World Children's Day.

World Children's Day

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Tolerance & Inclusivity Week.

This event is part of theWorld Children's Day.

This event is part of the
World Children's Day.