Following the acceptance, on the part of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), of Milan’s candidature as host city for the 2015 World Expo, the company Expo 2015 S.p.A. was formed to run the event. The company comprises the following institutions as shareholders:

• the Government of the Republic of Italy (Ministry of the Economy and Finance)
• the Region of Lombardy
• the Municipality of Milan
• the Province of Milan
• the Chamber of Commerce for Industry, Agriculture and Crafts

The exhibition will be held from May to October 2015. Countries and organizations from all over the world will take part, and its central theme is “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.”

This remarkable, universal event will provide a showcase for tradition, creativity and innovation in the foods sector, presenting an overview of themes that have already been developed in previous Expos and reviewing them in the light of new global scenarios, at the centre of which lies the right to healthy, safe and sufficient food for all people in the world.

Some details of the subject "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life"

 

• improving the quality and safety of food, ensuring sufficient nutrition, and the certainty of having access to healthy food and pure drinking water;
• climinating famine and pandemics, and ensuring healthy, quality food for all human beings in order to eliminate hunger, thirst, infant mortality and malnutrition, which today afflict 850 million people in the world;
• preventing the great new social diseases of the present age, such as obesity, heart disease, tumours and the most common epidemics, by enhancing techniques for their cure;
• introducing new techniques into the entire food chain, by means of research, technology and industry, in order to improve the nutritional characteristics of products, and their conservation and distribution;
• informing people on correct nutrition and encouraging new lifestyles, above all as regards children, adolescents, the differently abled, and elderly people;
• enhancing the concept of “nutritional traditions” as cultural and ethnic factors.

Information for people from abroad participating in Expo 2015

Expo 2015 will therefore concentrate on the fundamental importance of continuous, correct nutrition, based on the genuine quality of agricultural and food products, in the context of a system focusing on the conservation of bio-diversity and the environment.
It will also help identify better methods of control and innovation, and of providing new sources of food for the poorest parts of the world.
The attainment of these objectives will enable the promotion of projects by companies operating in all parts of the foods sector, from primary production to catering, including food storage and distribution, with additional support from technological and scientific research centres.
In this remarkable and extensive overview, which will help establish innumerable points of contact between participants, the knowledge of the Italian language will play a central role.
It will provide a useful tool, facilitating communications with local stakeholders. In addition, this large event will facilitate the development of many employment opportunities in which the knowledge of the local language will be fundamental.

Società Dante Alighieri

Società Dante Alighieri, awarded the status of a moral institution in 1893, and now with a global presence in the form of over 500 Committees, is authorized to issue a Certificate for Italian Language Skills (PLIDA) in accordance with a convention undertaken with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (n° 1903, 04/11/0993) in cooperation with “La Sapienza” University in Rome.
This certificate is recognized by the Ministry for Employment and Social Policy (decree 18/10/2002) and by the Ministry for Universities and Research, as a qualification that facilitates enrolment at universities by students from abroad (convention 9/10/2006).

The Milan Committee, with premises in Via Torriani 10, offers the following opportunities for studying the Italian language:

» Individual lessons

(prices per student)

• one student € 30,00*
• two students € 18,00
• three or more students € 15,00

* for 12-hour packages, the cost per hour is € 28.00.

» Intensive courses

(prices per student)
Five lessons per week, each of four hours.
Groups of from 6 to 12 students

• 1 week: € 130,00
• 2 weeks: € 260,00
• 3 weeks: € 390,00
• 4 weeks: € 490,00