by: Gianfranco Belgrano | May 27, 2024
The fifth version of Codeway Expo, the primary and solely worldwide truthful devoted to cooperation and sustainable growth, has ended. The major goal of the promoters was achieved within the three days of the occasion, the place the International Cooperation Community was in a position to meet in a single place, on the middle of an “extraordinary” platform of dialogue, interplay and inspiration for all of the protagonists of the event.
At Codeway Expo, innovation, assembly and collaboration had been the important thing phrases and so they gave rise to new relationships and consolidated current ones, all this by inserting on the middle the principle focus that constitutes its mission, i.e. the synergy between revenue and non-profit in new situations international growth.
The presence of firms was vital, each when it comes to exhibitors and participation within the advanced B2B and networking programmes, promoted with the presence of UN companies, multilateral banks and international delegations.
The occasion was inaugurated by the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Edmondo Cirielli, who said that “collaboration between private and non-private is essential from a perspective of sustainability and progress at a worldwide degree. For this purpose – he underlined – we imagine with conviction in an occasion, corresponding to Codeway Expo has confirmed to be, able to bringing collectively all of the actors on this planet of worldwide cooperation and growth. An alternative that’s much more valuable at the moment, in mild of the big potential provided by the Government by the Mattei plan”.
Marco Riccardo Rusconi, Director of the Italian Agency for Cooperation, underlined the standard and significance of the relationships generated by the appointment: “The wind has modified – he mentioned – firms at the moment are extra conscious that investing ‘with’ the Cooperation System in Partner nations, notably on the African continent, is a profitable technique. This can be as a result of investing with Cooperation encourages the corporate to undertake a enterprise mannequin that African nations require for medium-term investments, it’s the progressive, sustainable and inclusive ISI mannequin of AICS. These are the pillars of the involvement of the personal sector in present and future cooperation situations that occasions like Codeway Expo can successfully facilitate and assist”.
Among the exhibitors of Codeway Expo 2024, the 27 firms of the Lazio Region-CCIAA Rome collective stood out, presenting realities and productions of progressive items and providers, looking for worldwide projection of their respective sectors, relevant to growth tasks in nations goal. Silvia Chiave, Head of International Relations and Community Affairs, Cabinet Office of the President of the Lazio Regional Council commented: “Codeway Expo is more and more proving to be an occasion aimed toward outlining a system method for Development Cooperation. In this sense, the 2024 version constituted a really great tool for comparability and dialogue with different Regions, but additionally with Civil Society Organizations, and with the personal world, which will likely be basic for future tasks”.
“We have all the time preferred – underlined the co-organizers Massimo Zaurrini and Gianfranco Belgrano of Internationalia – the concept Codeway Expo was a spot for comparability and dialogue between the assorted topics concerned within the new Cooperation. This 12 months’s version confirmed that we’re on the best path, however on the identical time we’re satisfied that there’s ample margin for progress within the presence of Italian and worldwide establishments, personal people and the world of Civil Society Organisations”.
The occasion was created with the assist of the Lazio Region and the Rome Chamber of Commerce, with the patronage of MAECI, AICS, CDP, CRI, CNR, Conference of the Regions, ANCI and RAI for Sustainability. The collaborations with UNOPS, ICE-ITA, the EEN community and IILA, the Italian-Latin American International Organization are crucial, in addition to the participation of commerce associations, NGO networks and particular person civil society organisations.
The occasion confirms its robust worldwide connotation, ranging from the unique Procurement program which was the undisputed protagonist of the primary day, and which noticed the participation, underneath the coordination of MAECI / UNOPS / ICE, of an important United Nations companies and main multilateral banks. The internationality was confirmed by the presence of international delegations from Iraq, Kenya, Senegal, Somalia and by the tasks offered by Jordan, Albania, Egypt. As per custom, there was an lively presence of quite a few Embassies of the worldwide cooperation nations.
The numbers of the fifth version paint an image of progress within the curiosity of operators for the prospects provided by the occasion and the sector: 52 conferences, 251 audio system, 343 b2b conferences, 86 direct exhibitors, over 3000 guests and pre-registered attendees , figures which might be one of the best premise for future editions.
“Fiera Roma – underlined the Sole Director of Fiera Roma, Fabio Casasoli – believed in it from the primary second, investing on this challenge since 2019. Consistent with Rome’s vocation to be a capital naturally inclined in direction of dialogue and a metropolis of alternative for occasions devoted to institutional and worldwide relations, with Codeway Expo our exhibition middle has successfully been the house of all of the gamers on this planet of cooperation, thus contributing to selling the aims of a extremely strategic sector corresponding to that of worldwide cooperation. It is exactly with this in thoughts that we’re launching the 2025 version of Codeway Expo proper now, making an appointment for everybody, which will likely be from 14 to 16 May subsequent 12 months”.
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