EXPO Futures Award 2026 Opens for Entries From June 1A · FULL TRANSLATION

An award created to inherit the philosophy of the Osaka-Kansai Expo opening for entries essentially answers a question: when a half-year expo closes, how should the "imagination of the future" it gathered be carried on? The EXPO Futures Award tries to convert the expo's one-off spectacle into a long-term mechanism that keeps discovering and honoring social innovation.

The structural meaning is "asset-izing the philosophy." A grand expo's most precious legacy is often not its buildings but the issues and visions it spotlights. By establishing an award and continually honoring "the sprouts of social transformation," the organizer sediments the expo's spirit from a single exhibition into a platform that can operate year after year, giving the vision a vehicle to land and relay.

For Taiwan's public and social-innovation fields, a direction worth borrowing: the true value of a major event hinges on whether a mechanism can be designed to carry its spirit forward—rather than letting the event's energy disperse at closing, convert it into a long-term platform that keeps discovering, rewarding and connecting innovators.