Switzerland Tourism Day is organized by MySwitzerland, the national tourism agency. This is the day where Kazakh and Swiss tourism agencies can connect and swap notes about their countries’ specifics and attractions.

Solar Technology does not have to be complicated: join us in building and designing personalised solar lamps to take home! Swiss students developed an innovative technique wich allows people to create their own solar lamp from upcycled PET bottles. Be sure to bring old plastic bottles!

How to be productive and self-efficient? How to cross as many items off your to-do list as possible? Take part in these workshops organised by the Geneva Business School and learn how to be efficient at work and in your personal life!

12:00 - 12:30    5 ways to get it done                                 

13:00 - 13:30    Smartphone and productivity: 5 apps to be efficient every day                              

14:00 - 14:30    3 methods to win against stress                                

15:00 - 15:30   Presentation: easy to understand, interesting to listen, impossible to forget                             

16:00 - 16:30   5 way to get it done                            

17:00 - 17:30    Smartphone and productivity: 5 apps to be efficient every day                                 

18:00 - 18:30    3 methods to win against stress                                 

19:00 - 19:30    Presentation: easy to understand, interesting to listen, impossible to forget                            

20:00 - 21:00    Networking cocktail

Every master class would last for 20 minutes followed by mini-games on the content with prizes from the school and their partners and everybody gets a chance to win a little present.

Seedstars World hosts a startup pitch event in line with its mission to place the spotlight on entrepreneurs from Kazakhstan and provide them with an opportunity to travel to Switzerland and to win up to USD 1 million and network with investors and mentors from around the world.

This workshop, developed and conducted by the Università della Svizzera italiana’s (Lugano), takes the form of a 10-15 minutes game. It aims at raising the participants’ awareness about the impact of the use of certain energy sources on the environment and on every day life. It also teaches the players that receiving more accurate information about a given problem (here energy production) can impact one’s decisions.

Each participant slips into the shoes of the ruler of an imaginary country, and decide how much electricity to produce with each of the available generation technologies. There are six technologies to choose from, identified by the primary energy source: sun, wind, hydroelectric energy, natural gas, coal, and nuclear energy. The aim of this four-staged game is to demonstrate that comparing one’s decisions to others’ and learning about energy impacts one’s choices about it.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the International Monetary Fund “Helvetistan” (which comprises, amongst others, Switzerland, Poland, Montenegro and Central Asia countries, like Kazakhstan), Ueli Maurer, the Federal Councilor in charge of the Federal Department of Finance is touring Central Asian countries. He is visiting the 2017 Astana exhibition as part of his tour.

Hunger, discrimination, migration and climate change are some of the global challenges humanity faces today. The United Nations Office at Geneva  (UNOG) and its partners address each of these issues when they issued the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a guideline.

Through an installation of scenes and fairy tale characters taken from the book, “Fairy Tales for a Fairer World,” visitors will be able to discover the issues addressed in the storybook and learn about the SDGs while journeying through the different book scenes. The aim is to not only highlight some of the current global challenges, but to show the importance of the work done to in Geneva to address these issues.

During "Education and Innovation for Sustainable Future", an open special event on July the 18th, several speakers will share their stories of overcoming challenges, growing and initiating projects. Each one of them has contributed to building awareness within their communities and taken steps towards positive change.

During the open event, Education and Innovation for a Sustainable Future, participants will meet several international speakers who have contributed to building awareness within their communities and
taken steps towards positive change.

At 4 p.m., the first part of the event "Human Library" will take place. Four international speakers will share their stories of overcoming challenges, growing and initiating projects, working to bridge the gap between the current situation and where we want to be to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Agenda through education and innovation. Participants will receive a free copy of "Fairy Tales for a Fairer World",a collection of traditional tales from around the world with a new twist and a reminder of how the 17 Global goals can guide us to the sustainable future we hope for.

At 6 p.m., an "Education and Innovation Talk" will take place. Three speakers active in the domains of education and in organizations for the protection of children will share their experiences and their work and their visions of the future, and what measures we can undertake to achieve it.

RSVP by Monday 12.00 17.07.2017 at swissnex@swisspavilion.org.

Can waste water be transformed into electricity? In this workshop by the University Of Applied Sciences Of Western Switzerland Valais, students will run small-scale experiments to learn the principles behind this innovative way of producing electricity, while discussing potential fields of application.

Microbial fuel cells can be a source of energy by transforming waste water, food waste and other organic material into bio-electricity. The goal of the workshop is to teach the participants about this future energy source during a two-days workshop. In between, the participants will be asked to fulfill homework assignments.

The first part of the workshop is theoretical. It consists in an introduction to microbial fuel cells. In the second part of the workshop, a MFC-Kit for small scale experiments will be handed out and an experiment showing the principal functions of a microbial fuel cell will be ran. The students will then be asked to reproduce these experiments at home if possible.

They are also asked to write a short report for the next workshop that is scheduled around 2 months later. In this personal presentation, they have to discuss their ideas on how to use microbial fuel cells in a personal project which can be of theoretical or practical interest.

Program:              10:00 – 12:00 Theoretical Introduction

                              12:00 – 13:00 Break

                               13:00 – 17:00 Practical Experiments

• This workshop will take place on 28^th July, 2017 in the Swiss Pavilion at EXPO Astana

• Students selected to participate will receive a free entry ticket to the Expo Site and certificate of achievement if the workshop is completed

• Maximum 20 Students can join the workshop

• Register under swissnex@swisspavilion.org