Expo Osaka 2025: the General Commissioner of the Italy Pavilion thanks the Fondazione Collegio delle Università Milanesi

A few weeks after the closing of the World Exposition, the Fondazione Collegio delle Università Milanesi received official thanks from the Commissioner General for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka, Ambassador Mario Vattani. “I would like to sincerely thank you,” wrote the Commissioner to our Managing Director Stefano Blanco, “for your contribution and constant support during these extraordinary six months.”

These words are even more significant when we consider the achievements of the Italy Pavilion: Expo 2025 Osaka was the perfect showcase for a dynamic Italy, capable of innovating and at the same time playing a leading role in addressing major global challenges, from ecological transition to the space economy, from life sciences to the blue economy. The results achieved constitute a heritage to be consolidated and further developed through a constructive international projection that focuses on promoting our companies, the quality of our territories, and the unparalleled value of Made in Italy around the world.

Fondazione Collegio delle Università MIlanesi participated in this extraordinary project thanks to its partnership with Padiglione Italia, which began in February 2025 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at implementing concrete projects related to the themes of the Universal Exposition, which opened on April 13 and closed on October 13, 2025. The primary objective of this collaboration was to give young people the unique opportunity to immerse themselves in global challenges and involve them in the creation of a more sustainable society.

As part of this initiative, in July 2025 there was “The Future is Now: Gen Z Leading the Way“, a unique educational experience involving 55 students and staff members from Italian Collegi di Merito (Colleges of Merit). The experience, organized with the support of the Conference of Collegi Universitari di Merito, was not limited to discussing issues of the future: it was a total immersion in innovation and tradition. Participants were able to learn about Japanese culture firsthand through visits to iconic cities such as Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, and Hiroshima, and discover Expo 2025 Osaka. It was an intense week, full of visits, meetings, and firsthand accounts.

We are proud to have been part of this successful initiative. We would like to thank the Commissioner General and Padiglione Italia not only for their collaboration over the past few months, but above all for allowing us to offer our students this unique opportunity.