Status: 02.07.2022 4:30 p.m
The IdeasExpo at the Hanover Exhibition Center aims to spark the spirit of research in schoolchildren and arouse interest in technology and the natural sciences. Hundreds of interactive exhibits are intended to encourage you to touch and participate.
After a three-year break due to corona, the IdeasExpo in Hanover has opened its doors to visitors again. By July 10, the exhibition center will be transformed into an adventure park with 720 hands-on exhibits. There are 13 subject areas – new this time are “Planet Sustainability” and “Fascination Space”.
The fair is aimed primarily at schoolchildren. The show aims to arouse their interest in careers in the natural sciences and technology.
Measure against the shortage of skilled workers
“It’s a really quite unique mixture of experimentation and learning, of impetus for finding a job and, above all, lots of fun and partying,” said Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil during a tour. This mix made the Ideas Expo more and more attractive. It is a format of the time, also against the background of the shortage of skilled workers.
The IdeasExpo was founded in 2007 as a joint initiative by politics and business to introduce young people to MINT subjects (math, IT, natural sciences and technology). Given the shortage of skilled workers, it is an opportunity for companies to recruit young people at an early stage, as the Chairman of the IdeasExpo Supervisory Board, Volker Schmidt, emphasized before the start.
360,000 visitors three years ago
Last year, only a digital version of the youth fair could take place, and around 360,000 young people came to the last live event before the 2019 pandemic. Free concerts – for example by Jan Delay – and appearances by social media stars such as Rewinside are intended to attract girls and boys to the site