BEST PRACTICES

“Best Practices” is a programme that disseminates high-quality projects that solve important global issues. Projects that embody the theme of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”, were selected as the Best Practices for the Expo.

The best practices that were selected are introduced on the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan official website, and during the Expo, they are displayed in the Best Practice Area.

Let’s learn Best Practices through exhibitions and events.

Best Practices are on display in the Future Life Village.

Exhibitions

Selected initiatives on display!

The diverse initiatives of the award winners, selected as Best Practices, are showcased through panels and videos. In a space where you can feel a sense of connection and expansion through colourful ribbons, we will create opportunities to connect and expand ideas that contribute to making a better future, inspiring others to take a new step towards that future.

Events

Events held once a month from May to August!

At Future Life Village, the “Best Practices Day” event that features presentations and opportunities for interaction will be held on the second Thursday of each month from May to August.

Souvenirs

Connect your first step of action towards the future with a ribbon!

A trophy, crafted from a variety of colourful ribbons symbolising a wide range of diverse personalities and ideas, honours the selected winners. Visitors can take home a ribbon related to a project they resonate with, in this way taking their own step towards the future. Ribbons will be available to the first 100 visitors each day during the Expo! (Limited to one ribbon per person)

25 Initiatives Selected as Best Practicesみ

The Future of Earth and Biodiversity

Health and Well-being

Peace, Human Security and Dignity

Necessities of Life: Food, Clothing and Shelter

Learning and Playing

Co-creating Cultures for the Future

The Future of Community and Mobility

SDGs+Beyond Future Society for Life

Selected
Committee
Members

  • Mr. Dimitri Kerkentzes

    Mr. Dimitri Kerkentzes
    Secretary General of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE)

    Joined BIE in 2003 after stints in the energy industry and the UN. He has worked on numerous Specialised Expos and World Expos, including Expo 2010 Shanghai and Expo 2015 Milan. As BIE Deputy Secretary General, he played a key role in restructuring and developing the Secretariat. He became BIE Secretary General in January 2020.

  • Ms. Chieko Asakawa

    Ms. Chieko Asakawa
    Chief Executive Director, Miraikan – The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation; IBM Fellow; Deputy Chairperson, Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition

    Joined IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory in 1985, where she conducted R&D for non-visual UIs. She became an IBM Fellow in 2009.
    In April 2021, she became the second chief executive director of Miraikan. Recognised with an award in 2003 from the Women in Technology International. Awarded the Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon, 2013.

  • Ms. Marianne Mensah

    Ms. Marianne Mensah
    CEO, ClimateInnov (CIEL)

    CEO of ClimateInnov (CIEL) whose purpose is to advise business on their sustainable transformation and ESG, building on their power to change and innovate. In addition, through higher education, she engages young designers to become catalysts of the development of a regenerative, net zero and resilient society. She has worked on numerous projects in the fields of clean energy, environment and education for international development organizations.

  • Dr. Sanduk Ruit

    Dr. Sanduk Ruit
    Founder and Medical Director of the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology (TIO)

    During his career in Australia, he developed inexpensive intraocular lenses for small-incision cataract surgery. He subsequently established an ophthalmology clinic in Nepal in 1994 and has performed sight-restoring surgeries on more than 100,000 patients. He has received numerous awards, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award, for his contributions to cataract treatment.

EXPO 2025 OSAKA KANSAI JAPAN BEST PRACTICES

  • Embodying the Expo’s theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives” and its sub-themes of “Saving Lives“, “Empowering Lives” and “Connecting Lives
  • Potential to be deployable in other regions and have a clear and visible impact
  • Sustainable and contributes to a better future

“BEST PRACTICES” & “TEAM EXPO 2025” Programme

At the Expo , diverse participants take the initiative in a participatory programme called TEAM EXPO 2025, which aims to create an ideal future society together.

Among the activities gathered by this "TEAM EXPO 2025" programme, the most outstanding initiatives will be selected as the "Best Practices".

Therefore, projects that are candidates for "Best Practices" must be previously registered in "TEAM EXPO 2025"(A separate application process for “Best Practices” is required).

By registering with the “TEAM EXPO 2025” programme, the purpose and activities of the project will be made clear to other participants in this programme, the public through the official website of the “TEAM EXPO 2025” programme, and the exchange and co-creation initiatives implemented by the Organiser of the World Expo 2025.

This encourages interaction between participants, or between participants and others, and is expected to result in better projects that are worthy of being best practices, such as evolving projects or co-creation leading to alternate projects. This may result in projects that are more sustainable and could lead to the resolution of complex and local issues, or create new projects that lead to a better future.