Giorgio Cini Foundation and Expo 2015

The theme of the Milan 2015 World Expo is “Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life”, a highly relevant, urgent topic for the future of the coming generations.
Ahead of this important event, the Milan 2015 World Expo organised a series of four encounters on the general theme of “Expo and Church: a dialogue looking ahead to 2015”.
The fi rst meeting, held at the Italian Embassy to the Holy See in Rome, was dedicated to the theme of “Nourishing Peace”; the second, at the Pontifi cal Academy of Sciences in the Vatican, tackled the subject of “Biodiversity and Climate Change”; and the third at the Memmo Foundation focused on the “Symbolism of Food in the Bible”.
The fourth and fi nal meeting is due to be held at the Giorgio Cini Foundation on 18 May 2011. The speakers, who include Cardinal Angelo Scola and Professor Janne Halland Matlary, will address the theme of “Living in tomorrow’s world. What social identity?”
The term “social identity” was introduced for the purposes of stimulating a general discussion on political relations and social, religious and economic interactions between people. In other words, how will the society of the future develop? What should this society be like? Is there an ideal society for the crossovers of cultures and ways of life?
What beliefs, faiths, lifestyles and customs will develop in Europe as a consequence of
immigration, globalisation and new knowledge?