I'm here at the world's largest exhibition!
More than 192 countries are participating.
This is Expo 2020 in Dubai.
In case you don’t know what the Expo is, it is a huge international exhibition,
happening every five years hosted in different countries.
And it's designed to bring the world together.
Showcasing culture, sharing ideas and achievements of participating
nations and featuring the latest, most advanced technology and innovations.
With the sustainable goals of development in mind,
the theme of this Expo is 'Connecting Minds, Creating the Future',
in hopes we can collaborate in building a brighter and better future!
The whole Expo is divided into three themes.
Opportunity, mobility and sustainability.
In this video, we’ll show you around at the Expo
and take a closer look at the German pavilion, which is located in the sustainability district.
The Campus Germany concept, which is a concept dedicated to the university-way of experience.
And already in the building you can see it's built like a campus.
Of course not in the horizontal way but in the vertical way.
The idea of the German pavilion is that it resembles a university,
not just in terms of looks and design, but in structure, too.
It starts with the enrolment, where you get your badge
with your nickname on it and ends with your graduation.
The badge is actually more than just a name tag and plays
an important part in your journey through the pavilion.
You select your preferred language and the country you're from beforehand,
as you will see later, this will make your
whole experience at Campus Germany so much more personal and interactive!
So I already got my name tag here and the interesting thing is,
while waiting in this queue here, you can read
a lot of fun facts about all the states of Germany.
"Our world is quite old."
"And all-changing accidents…"
The journey starts in the room of 100,000 ideas.
Here you can simply pick a yellow ball and place it on
one of the readers to explore cool facts, stories
and ideas on sustainability from Germany in form of a short presentation.
This table here is personalised to my name tag.
It recognises when I come near and shows my name here and the language that I speak.
Or – you can dive into the ball pit!
Campus Germany has three sub themes, that can
be seen as your 'curriculum', presented as three labs.
Energy Lab, the Future City Lab and the Biodiversity Lab.
The Energy Lab is the first one. And as you guessed it,
it’s all about sustainable and renewable energy!
In this area you can see what percentage of energy is
generated from renewable or non-renewable energy
in your country compared to Germany and the rest of the world.
Once again, the name tag recognises which country I'm from
as soon as I go near to this.
In the first room of this lab you will learn all about new ways
to produce green energy – all in a very hands-on and fun way!
So this is basically the process of generating energy from the kite.
I have to follow this infinity path that the kite has to fly
to generate the maximum amount of energy.
It's not that easy!
At the end of every topic they ask you a question here
and depending on where you go you can answer 'yes' or 'no'.
And your tag records your answer and you can see the results in the end!
So the previous room was about how we can generate renewable energy.
This room is about how we can store the renewable energy.
There's different ways of storing.
Over there we learn about hydrogen storage, over here we have the deep sea storage,
how we can store energy deep under the ocean.
This exhibit shows us how it works basically: If I push this it stores the energy and the
push has to be really hard.
There we go, the energy is stored.
Next up is the Future City Lab, where we learn about
new ideas to design future cities in a way that
they’re better for us to live in and also better for the environment
with smarter structures, better mobility, more recycling and less energy used.
This third room is about future cities, how the cities of our future should look like,
how they can be made more sustainable, what technologies can be used.
Here's an example of future elevators.
How the elevators in the future can go not only vertically,
but also horizontally by not using cables but instead using electromagnetism.
Since more than 40% of global CO² emissions come
from just the construction industry, this place describes
what materials we can use in the future.
Like the SMILE plastics, building materials made out of plastic.
Or this new material called mycofoam.
My personal favourite was the Biodiversity Lab,
which is also the most aesthetic one.
The mobile artwork displays the vulnerability and how,
once you take away one part of the ecosystem, everything becomes imbalanced.
There's also a really cool map helping us look beyond
the surface and discover the value of a healthy ecosystem in numbers.
This is the last room before we graduate there, there's a graduation happening,
and this last room talks mostly about nature and biodiversity.
Once your Campus Germany curriculum is completed, you sit down on one of the swings for a very
moving graduation ceremony – in the literal sense!
The message is: if we act together and move towards the same goals,
we can be the much needed change.
This last area is some swinging area, we don't know what's going to happen here!
But they do say that once we sit on these swings,
that we should not swing.
Not yet!
Not yet.
Juli!
Hello, Dhruv!
"Welcome to the graduation hall. Your journey is almost complete."
"But before you leave, there's one last thing we will show you."
"...and show that you can."
"Let's try a little experiment! As we think the same way, we can move the same way."
"Let's move together and inspire the people around us to move as well."
Oh, wow!
Wow!
"The future is what we make of it!"
"And it takes you to inspire, to connect and to keep moving."
"Thank you!"
After visiting several pavilions from different countries,
we can confidently say that Germany is one of the best
and also one of the most popular ones, receiving great feedback.
You probably think we have to say this, because we're reporting for Deutsche Welle,
but we loved the ideas and innovations and felt like
this pavilion had the right balance of showcasing science
and raising important issues with possible solutions in an entertaining way.
You learn a lot, but it's never boring!
So we decided to build the Campus Germany, especially the content part, in a fun way.
For us it was very important to have it in an entertaining way,
because people also want to enjoy.
We don't want to show just the technology and the really hard stuff of science,
we wanted to do it with an experience!
As mentioned before, there are 191 other country pavilions
to explore at Expo 2020, besides Campus Germany.
It's so so big, I think even a week might not be enough to see everything here!
But, if you're looking to learn a lot,
we recommend that you don't miss the German pavilion.
It's worth standing in queue for a bit!
Hope you enjoyed this video!
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See you next time!