(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 20 - The Gruppo 24 Ore (24 Ore Group) has signed a prestigious partnership with the Italy Pavilion at Expo Osaka 2025, an agreement formalized by Federico Silvestri, Director General Media & Business of Gruppo 24 Ore, and Ambassador Mario Andrea Vattani, Commissioner General for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka.
    The Universal Exposition of Osaka 2025, scheduled to take place from April 13 until October 13 2025, with a focus on the theme of society's development, will be an extraordinary occasion to deal with some of the greatest contemporary challenges on the global stage and the Italy Pavilion will seize the occasion to promote the examples of excellence of the country in every field, from the most well-known to the least, highlighting the Italian vision for a sustainable and inclusive development.
    Gruppo 24 Ore will be the initiative's media partner to contribute to the promotion of the culture of business excellence, sustainability and innovation as necessary tools to confront the challenges of the future.
    Italy's participation, coordinated by the Commission General for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka, together with Enti culturali e Industriali, will also represent an occasion to meet during which stakeholders, including representatives of institutions, entrepreneurs, scientists and creatives will be able to share their ideas, giving life to debates on how to deal with the next global challenges.
    On this occasion, Gruppo 24 Ore will provide its multimedia news platform to support Italy's participation at Expo 2025 Osaka through numerous initiatives dedicated to the national and international public present at the event.
    Sole 24 Ore, in collaboration with 24 Ore Eventi, will organize a series of events dedicated to the most significant and interesting current themes for the public of observers interested in the Italian country.
    The objective of the meetings, to be moderated by Il Sole 24 Ore's journalists, will be to gather the most authoritative national and international opinion leaders to debate the themes connected to development.
    From culture to the role of ambassador of Made in Italy, the potential of aerospace and the new frontier of underwater, many themes will be discussed to highlight our country's ability to develop value, technology and innovation.
    A focus will also be dedicated to Futurescapes: Italy in future, to tell the story of Japan's presence in Italy and outline the society of the future, with a wider perspective embracing the international context.
    The news agency of Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor will work on Speciale Italia Expo 2025, a special edition on Italy Expo 2025 which will include in-depth analyses, thematic reports, and video interviews which will talk about Italy's participation at Expo and will analyse the key themes of the interest towards Italy.
    The project will further benefit from the involvement of Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japanese daily newspaper with the widest circulation in the world, with the objective of enhancing the presence of the Italy Pavilion at Expo Osaka also on the Asian stage.
    "Great satisfaction for the agreement between the Expo Commission and Sole 24 Ore that we have signed today in Milan with Federico Silvestri", stated Ambassador Vattani.
    "A fundamental partnership for us because it allows us to bring to the Italy Pavilion, together with many other excellencies of ours, a great reference point of the Italian media", he noted.
    "Il Sole 24 Ore is an ideal partner for the presentation we will offer of Italy: certainly culture, tourism, fashion and design, but also and especially high technology, research and innovation", Vattani went on to say.
    "Moreover, this collaboration on Expo 2025, consolidates to our benefit the connection between Il Sole 24 Ore and the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, the most widely distributed in the world with 7 million copies: an extraordinary opportunity to multiply the visibility of Italy and of our companies on the global stage", he noted.
    "We are particularly proud of having been chosen by the Commission General for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka and I thank Ambassador Vattani for this", said Federico Silvestri, director general Media & Business of Gruppo 24 Ore.
    "We will have the opportunity of representing the media outpost that will enhance the activities to be held at the Italy Pavilion, connecting our country to the international public of all stakeholders interested in understanding how Italian institutions and businesses are interpreting the numerous developments connected to technology and innovation and building the challenges to deal with the future in the best possible way", stated Silvestri.
    "A relevant stage in the path to enhance the most important asset we have and our most well-known brand in the world: Made in Italy", he concluded. (ANSA).