BIE-Cosmos Prize Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai: extension for applications

The deadline to apply for the Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai edition of the BIE-Cosmos Prize has been extended to 6 January, in response to ongoing interest and to ensure broad participation.

Open to not-for-profit projects, the BIE-Cosmos Prize Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai promotes and rewards citizen initiatives exemplifying the Expo's overall theme, "Designing Future Society for Our Lives" and working in fields relating to one or more of its sub-themes - Saving Lives, Empowering Lives and Connecting Lives.

Applications for eligible projects may be submitted by completing the application form, in English or in French, by 6 January 2025.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to present their work and achievements at Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai, and an international jury will then select the winning project, to be announced on BIE Day on 12 October 2025. A donation of 20,000 euros will be granted to the recipient of the BIE-Cosmos Prize.

Click here to download the Prize outline and the fill-in Application form for the BIE-Cosmos Prize Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai.

The BIE-Cosmos Prize is a collaboration between the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) and the Expo '90 Foundation of Japan, which commemorates Horticultural Expo 1990 Osaka and its value of "Harmonious Coexistence between Nature and Humankind". The BIE-Cosmos Prize has been awarded at all World and Specialised Expos since 2008, with the aim of giving visibility and support to citizen projects that promote the theme of the Expo and the values of the Expo '90 Foundation.