The LAKE GENEVA REGION association organised a business trip from the 6th until the 13th of June on the “Cleantech” theme in Shanghai during the World Expo 2010.

As of the 1st of May until the 31st of October 2010, the city of Shanghai is hosting the World Expo on the theme « Better City, Better Life »

Over 70 million visitors are expected at this event, where, for the first time in history of world expositions, cities are benefiting from a reserved spot (Urban Best Practice Area) in which they have the opportunity to present their best practices.

The cities of Geneva, Basel and Zürich elaborated a project around a common pavilion on the theme « Better Water – Best Urban Life ».

In the light of all promotional aspects the pavilion offers, the States of Geneva and Vaud wished to be part of this project and it is thru the LAKE GENEVA REGION association they reserved some space on the pavilion in order to give the opportunity to companies of our region to present their know-how.