The office of the Lithuaniuan goverbmebt has launched a design contest for a joint Latvian-Lithuanian pavilion, to be called the Baltic Pavilion, at Expo 2025 Osaka.
The government said on Wednesdat that the contest is being organized in cooperation with the Latvian Investment and Development Agency.
“In the Baltic Pavilion, we want to show the uniqueness of our region, and present Lithuania as an open country where globally significant solutions are born, transforming not only our lives but also the lives of people worldwide,” Government Chancellor Giedre Balcytyte said in a press release.
“Therefore, we are lookign forward to receiving creative ideas that will help showcase this,” she said.
June 17 is the deadline for filing applications for the design and implementation of the pavilion.
The Baltic Pavilion will be housed in a 300-square-meter building constructed by the exhibition organizers, located next to the European Union Pavilion.
According to the government, the exhibition will feature a Lithuanian National Day on July 6 and a joint Lithuanian-Latvian project entitled Baltic Unity Day on August 23.
The international exhibition will run in Osaka, in Japan’s Kansai region, from April to October next year under the theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”.
The exhibition will involve 160 countries and nine international organisations, and is expected to attract more than 28 million visitors.
Source: BNS
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