 Hello, welcome to the Finnish pavilion. So Here we can go inside the pavilion as you can see is shaped in the shape of an Arabic tent covered by snow and it is by some Finnish architect group called JKMM and To many the very simple and like Finnish Design is very intriguing since many other pavilions. They have a lot of lights and They are very flashy Is this a little bit like the Helsinki Harbor or no, this is at least These are actually called lakes and that is because Finland is also called the land of a thousand lakes Well, actually we have 188,000 lakes and these are the two newest additions to our lakes. Did you say correctly 188,000 lakes? Yes, that's a lot of lakes that is a lot of lakes and they all have names Yes, every single one has an individual name. So some are like very long and strange Yes, so the biggest lake in Finland is called the Saima Lake and that is Really huge. It is larger than all the cities in Finland combined. I think so We are very proud of our lakes and this is the entrance to the pavilion and Right as we get inside you can see our slogan in the mirror you can see the English version and Actually, the Arabic version is from the lights directly This artwork is meant to confuse the people that can speak both English and Arabic So welcome to future happiness stands for as Finland has been voted the happiest country in the world for four years in a row now And we want to welcome everyone to you still live from Denmark Yes, yeah four years in a row. So then what do you do to become happier than Denmark? Something happened, right? Yeah, so actually well the base of happiness in Finland becomes from the Education system and also the health care system. So we have free education free health care really high quality to everyone That lives in Finland. So and it doesn't get too hot even though the summer is amazing No, the summer is about 25 degrees of Celsius and it is the perfect summer in my opinion Yeah, it's a perfect destination come there and June July August ever any time of the year, right? Those those months you get a nice finnair connection or no region or something Yeah, so the summer is obviously the most intriguing time to many since it is very nice to have a 25 degree summer And the nature is open to everyone and the Finnish nature is also very safe. So that's why summer is usually it But then again also Yes, so these are actually this is a Finnish mask company called jetx and They may aim to make masks that are easy to breathe in and also safer than normal masks Yeah, because everybody else is just wearing a Kleenex on their faces, right? Yeah, I'm joking. Okay. All right and here we have some Finnish electricity companies and nuclear power Industry Displaced so all the displays in the pavilion are so touch screen and of course They are from a Finnish company those touch screens right very famous one Touch screens are not by a Finnish company. They're just normal touch screens And I don't think we have any electricity company that makes touch screens in Finland But the videos and every material and every company is finished in the pavilion. All right I did a video with an amazing big touch screen Helsinki company But maybe it's not this one. Yes, maybe it is. I don't think so because we haven't told we haven't been told about this I'm pretty sure they have at least a dozen contracts with big other pavilions probably because some of the big big touch screens And so these are all part of the same thing about nuclear power and nuclear waste final repository, so This is a system that we can bury the nuclear waste 400 meters below the ground below the bedrock so that it is not harmful to anything above ground or close to the ground level and Have a few nuclear power plants. Yes, and We have more in Like process of coming of course, there's a lot of politics with nuclear power It is very tough to get nuclear power plants actually like set up and working It takes a year or sometimes or decades Yes, and then you need to get a uranium to come from somewhere. Yeah, and that doesn't like and also There could be a lot of wind so you have a lot of wind power, right? Yes, we have Actually, I think solar power is bigger in Finland since we don't have really like the ideal spots for wind power plants in Finland since we have we don't have like very as like What do you call it? Yeah, yeah, we don't have many planes not so deep water and stuff like that We have a lot of forests and lakes and everything. Oh, yeah And this is a finished lock company called I lock they make smart locks and especially electric locks So they have locks that works with keys, but the keys actually have an electric signature So you can reprogram the keys and also they can work with your phone as well as your key and Then we have some finished air company called halton they make especially like air cleaning or air conditioning for very high like for hospitals and stuff so that means very high quality is very important Especially with all these weird things people are throwing in the air in the cities Exactly you want to clean the air because Some people have problems breathing exactly and especially for hospitals Which is probably the main market of halton when you need super clean air because the potions but patients can be very Sensitive to very bad quality air So and it's a maybe a very popular thing to export around the world like China and India and everybody wants to have clean air And since Finland is known for the clean air by the reason of forest and everything so can you can you make like a? Giant machines that just cleans the whole air on the planet Unfortunately, no not yet. Not yet. Maybe in the future though. Who knows and then we have companies. This is Grand Lund. So they are like management software for Apartment buildings and such and they have just their game here that you can play if you have more time But we can skip that for now and they have these QR codes around the pavilion that you can scan if anything's wrong with the pavilion You scan the QR code send a message to our management team and then we'll fix it I think you'll get a bunch of messages after this video. Okay, nothing's wrong. Yeah Yes, and then I guess we can go to our main national partner Kone So many people pronounce it wrong Kone Kone Whatever you could pronounce but it's pronounced Kone and it's actually a Finnish word that means machine and It is a very known company all over the world and they make elevators and escalators And actually here in the expo they make about 80% of the elevators and escalators Also, you can see them very clearly at the metro entrance to the expo So I was at the Swiss pavilion where they said Schindler is the elevator in the Burj Khalifa But maybe it is Kone Burj Khalifa is Schindler. Yes, but I'll sample in the Princess Towers. For example, there's Kone elevators and Quite a lot of actually skyscrapers in Dubai also have Kone because you want to have a very fast elevator Very safe very smooth. Yes. It's such a Crazy important technology that we have and we take for granted exactly and also Since Kone doesn't want to be just about getting people around to places So they actually what they we have here is the Kone DX class elevator Which stands for digital experience. So I can actually show you this is just from the outside I can show you the inside later But you can press these buttons to have a picture sewn on the Kone elevator We can wait for the elevator to come back down Yes, and we can show you the inside of the elevator later They are completely customizable All the way from sound to video inside the elevator and of course very high quality elevators are very important It'd be nice if you had an apartment building and every time you got an elevator There was a personalized experience for every person that gets the messages on the screen and everything They don't even want to get out of the elevator room. Exactly. That's not very good. Maybe but yes Yeah, so these are the theme of this is what makes you happy so you can choose your favorite emotion Like nature right here or love Whatever you might feel like at the moment and then you can see a picture Reflected on the elevator and then we can go forward. Let's go this way so the architecture and the design by Finnish architects or Yes, actually by an architect group. So the architecture Architect group is called JKMM architects. So there's a lot of different architects have designed this pavilion But they work for the same architect group But all these displays are by their own companies also So right here we have the Missing link circular economy artwork So this is just an artwork, but it actually represents a very important topic So all of these small lines around the artwork actually represent real statistics that you can see on that side And they are actually taken from the Finnish society and they are themes of how to improve your personal life and how to lessen your carbon footprint and They are some of them are very specific to Finland, but some of them are that could be directly taken to use even in other countries Does it say here that you have to put vitamin D in all milk? No, it doesn't it is Yes, that is because of our very long and very dark winter. So actually we have this thing called Land of never rising Sun. So the Sun can not rise at all in the winter So we can have a day where we don't see the Sun at all I went in 2003 to the Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankula. That is the opposite of that So yeah, that was like I didn't know what time it was it was six in the morning And it looked like afternoon exactly and even like when you try to go to sleep and the Sun still up It feels so weird when you wake up the Sun's up again. So it's definitely a very interesting concept and Right here. We have probably the biggest and most interesting machine in the pavilion by two Finnish companies It's actually called Bertila and Solitaire power and the coffee machine right here big shiny Everyone is interested in it, but actually what we're presenting here is this machine behind it And that is a very innovative machine using technology called power to X And that actually means that it can take the carbon dioxide in the air and turn that into a usable fuel called methane So we can make carbon neutral Renewable fuels from just the air And it sounds like sounds like one of these things you would say that's completely impossible And some people say I know how to make unlimited power or something. It sounds like that Yeah, but it actually is possible. We have it here working at right at this moment as well and there are some of course there's a lot of complicated chemistry involved and also it does need solar power to get Hydrogen from so we actually need hydrogen from somewhere But if you have hydrogen which we can get from water and then just air then we can make carbon or Methane Hydrogen from the Danish wind wind farms in the sea and just get a little boat that goes up or Pipeline or I don't know and then you would take carbon and mix it with the hydrogen and boom to get methane Yes, exactly and then you get as much power you need. Yes, but I hope how's the efficiency how is Like are you gonna Spend, you know, like X amount of energy to get less out or not really well It depends on how you count it if you count the whole process of getting the electricity from Sun or the wind power to get the hydrogen then yes, it is about 30% efficient But if you already have the hydrogen then it is a hundred percent efficient to turn the carbon dioxide from the air into methane You can look inside here, so this is fine And that is actually the carbon filter so it uses carbon capture technology to let all the air pass through and just stick to the carbon dioxide So this machine is actually an air purifier at the same time So in the future every air purifier could be actually powering the washing machine or something of course Yes, since that is actually the air purifiers kind of just take the carbon dioxide and put it elsewhere This is one way to use the carbon dioxide Is it just like something This is just something you show at the expo just like that or is a big big project very important project Yes, actually, this is the first working prototype that we have right here but it is aimed to become commercialized and to be a very common thing in the future and Also, it is very big. It is very clumsy at the moment But the companies Verciland Solitaire power are aiming to make it a lot smaller more compact So it can fit everywhere in restaurants or even in living rooms or something and Over here. Is it where you're growing the the finish? hash Unfortunately, not no grow a lot simpler plants like strawberries here also lettuce and spices And this is a farm called evergreen farm It is a vertical hydroponic farm and that can sound quite complicated But what that actually means is that the plants grow vertically on top of each other Which is where the vertical part comes from and it's a hydroponic farm, which means that it doesn't use common soil So it is actually a substrate from cocoa peat and biochar And what all that allows us to do is obviously save a lot of space as well as save Water and nutrients to grow the plants. It can also grow the plants faster than out in nature So for example The strawberries can grow in Finland so that you can harvest them once a year Of course that does take into account the long winter But with this technology we can grow them so that we can harvest them about five times a year So that would be five times more efficient that way How soon are we from This being in a massive deployment was just also the first prototype or no This is actually already in the commercial markets you can actually buy this even for your own house if you would like it to and The CEO of the company has told us that if someone is interested they can do The model that would fit their needs So there's different kinds of models for growing different kinds of plants This one's aimed for 20 to 30 centimeter tall plants But there's obviously different layouts for small trees and these seeds were just planted at the beginning of the expo Exactly, so it's just a month in something, right? Yes I completely automated we don't do anything to the plants the system takes care of it There's a few thousand sensors and there's sensors for every single plant individually that we can Let the machine take care of every plant Let's go this way. Yeah So here we have a place called koala cave and this is Just right now showing finished nature. So this is a place for relaxation you can sit here enjoy the pictures of finished nature and We can actually turn this space into a 3d environment So we can make the screen show 3d pictures of the finished nature so that you can immerse yourself in the finished nature even more and You can also make it show for example a design blueprint of a hospital in 3d And that is actually what this technology is meant to be used for to design Spaces and buildings in 3d so that you can feel like you are actually in the space while designing it So I see a very big projector up there Mm-hmm going into mirror and then going in this direction I see finished design It's So you're saying that this is not just a basic cinema or something no curve the Screen background. Yes more to it. No it is The curve is actually very important for this since the 3d immersion works better with the curve and The projector as it as you see it is very huge and it is for a very special kind of 3d experience So obviously with the camera and you can't see it and right now we don't have it on we have it on 2d But if we need to for example showcase to someone if someone's interested in buying this technology We can show it in 3d and show how immersive it actually is Thank you. We can go forward again And next we can go to the right side of the pavilion or the left side depending on where you're looking from And here we have a company called black donuts and of course many people just see the tires And they think that it's a tire company, but actually they don't make tires at all They actually just make the machines to make the tires and what's special about their machines is how they can use Renewable materials that are also safer since actually the emissions from a car are not as dangerous as the emissions from the tires Actually since the small particles of rubber and other substances that fly off the tires are way more about ten times more Harmful to humans compared to the fumes from a exhaust pipe Thank you. And then next is Finnish valve company called Neles, so they make smart water valves and to a Normal person that might sound very boring and they are not aiming to sell these for every household either But they're actually aiming for the business to business business government markets And what's special about their valves is their very high quality as well as their smart functions that you can control and monitor them from wherever you want and However, precisely you would need to and then next volumet They're also making machines and not actual products. So what they're making is machines for the pulp and paper industry so They specialize in very high quality machines that and also training supplies using for example of virtual reality and augmented reality to train people and to make the machines and also to operate the machines as well And next we have a company or actually a Finnish University here So many people might know that the Finnish education is one of the best educations in the world and this is one of the Finnish Universities of applied sciences. So it is called Haaga Helja and actually all the guides here in the pavilion are from this University, so we are all students doing our internship here in the Dubai World Expo and This is the university we are from so what this display is actually showing is an AI that aims to predict the world's career options, so with this AI you can see what you should study right now for it to be very useful in the future I study tourism at the moment, so tourism and event management is actually there. Oh, there's the It's it's extremely important for People from different places to mix and and go around the world and getting inspiration from each other Tourism is not just for I mean, it's important to relax With the lakes and everything, but you also want to get inspiration by for example when you visit Finland You want to get inspiration? Why they're so happy and try to bring it to your country, of course And that's why I'm here to learn about the Middle Eastern culture and to bring the best parts into Finland as well to see what we can use in the Finnish tourism industry and Since education in Finland is not just about the universities. There's also interactive experience here about Finnish education as a whole. It takes a few minutes so you can go over it on your own whenever you want to But there's videos and interactive Experiences here that you can see Why would you say the Finnish Universities are so good? I would say that because we have a lot of critical thinking thought to us all the way since the beginning of the school lives So we are taught to not take everything for granted and to research ourselves So we are very capable in researching every topic that we might come across Learn everything about everything that you involved with, not just like the stuff that you need to know, right? Exactly. Yes All right And here we have the Finnish baby aid kit and this is actually a concept in Finland that when a mother gets pregnant and when the child is being birthed this Get sent to every mother for absolutely free So you get all of this that you have here and it actually comes in a big cardboard box That can be turned into a bed for the baby as well So everything you might ever need for the baby and also for the mother to grow the baby is Granted for free every time So does I mean everybody in Finland has exactly these? Yes every day design Well, I think there is probably choice regarding the design and I know that there are different kinds of models for every year so Probably not the exact same, but pretty much the same. Yes To get new children And every country some some countries have problems with the population Declining yes, definitely, and this is also we can send this to developing countries as well to aid with since obviously as you Read from the text right here. There are so many child deaths and we aim to reduce that so By sending this to developing countries. We aim to make better lives for everyone around the world So Finland is definitely Finland is definitely helping The other countries of course not just taking care of themselves not just ourselves Yes, and that's what our expo is all about is spreading happiness to other countries as well And then we had Finnish health care overall here as well And then next we have laqua, which is premium water from Finland The name laqua actually comes from obviously aqua and then lahti, which is a city in Finland Where the water actually comes from and it is pure spring water and as Finland has Every tap water in Finland is drinkable and we have very clean waters as well So this is aimed in to bring the Finnish water experience to everywhere in the world as well and then the famous book of Santa Claus with all the wishes of the children around the world and You can't look inside it is secret for privacy concerns But of course many people might not know I hope everyone knows but many people might not that Santa Claus is from Finland from Rovaniemi specifically and This is book this book is borrowed from Santa Claus here And he will actually be coming to the pavilion in December to get the book back and to get some more wishes from the children here as well and Finland is very big into tourism as I should know as well So many places in Finland not just the northern Finland where Santa Claus is from but also the southern and the middle parts of Finland Aim to make better industries for tourism And that's what this screen is all about different areas of Finland being promoted And then next we have finnair everyone knows the airline company from Finland finnair premium airlines Taking people from everywhere to Finland and from Finland to everywhere actually when I was flying from Copenhagen to China Often saw that finnair was like way faster connection Somehow then going down. Yes, it's a pretty short cut. Yes I don't even know why but finnair just seems to be faster no matter where you're going So I guess it just goes north around the planet instead of going. Yeah, I guess that actually makes sense Yeah, because you can get through the shorter side of the planet and here we have two Finnish Companies fiskars and ittala ittala makes premium glass Complete the handmade every piece of their glass and then fiskars scissors so actually in this artwork you can see the scissors and the glass combined and Actually, every one of these is individually handmade and therefore very special No one is same from the other and you can actually buy one of these Individually you can choose which one you would like to buy if you're interested in getting a very special souvenir from the Finnish pavilion Oh, yeah, this guy's Moomin or from the Moomins Many children might know the show Moomins is very very big in Finland and it is from Finland So that is of course a reason and it is also very big here in the UAE as well It's big in many countries. That's really good to hear We have actually run into people that have no idea what it is So I'm starting to lose my faith in humanity as a whole but no just kidding So the shop Buy a bunch of stuff that you can bring Everything is from Finland or related to Finland in one way or another There's some special premium jewelry And also the ittala glass that we saw earlier as well This is a hat? No, actually it is a pillow Everyone thinks it's a hat but I guess I can see where it comes from It's actually a pillow Alright This is reindeer hides So actually many people might think that reindeer hides are not sustainable And as everything in the pavilion is very sustainable But that is actually wrong because there's a very lot of reindeer in Finland So we need to hunt them sustainably every once in a while And the reindeer hides are actually the parts that would normally not be used about reindeer So this is the way to use even the waste parts of an animal What happens if you have too many reindeers? They just eat everything Reindeers like to eat all the plants no matter what So we have to keep the population stable so that they don't eat too much And overpopulate And also other animals as well that might cause a similar problem And then the last part of the exhibition is the center of the pavilion The gorge So you can enter it from this tent-shaped entrance And actually inside of here you can smell the walls which are made of Finnish pine wood And also the atmosphere in here is very special Especially during the hot days It gets nice and cool here about 25 degrees just like the Finnish summer And the atmosphere in here with the music and everything is very special We actually call it an artwork spreading the serenity of Finland It's a little bit like a giant sauna no? I'm joking it's not hot Yeah it is not hot but I can definitely see where you're coming from with the wooden walls and everything So pine wood is one of the woods that can be used for Finnish sauna And actually there's also a church in Finland that resembles this architecture a lot Wow I get the urge to lean a little bit when I'm here Oh yeah definitely Oh I feel a little bit like I'm going by just walking and looking up I get, yeah it's really challenging the senses Yeah you get a little bit busy It's amazing Yeah but actually since the music and everything is so calming inside of here It's very nice to just come in here sit down enjoy relax a bit Because the expo can be very hectic so You can just come in here sit down relax And spend some quality time just by yourself or with your family friends whatever This is where you have all the VIP business meetings Exactly Right just sit down here We actually have a separate VIP floor on the second floor of the pavilion For the VIP meetings and everything Wow It's a very nice space So this just needs to stay after the expo Is it going to stay? Yes I definitely hope it's going to stay I don't know about the executed decisions yet But I'm definitely hoping that the pavilion stays and this space will stay the same During the day when it's hot out there does it get cooled in here somehow? Yes actually the temperature is about the same 25 degrees No matter the time of the day or time of the year for that matter So there's a special cooling system that only cools down the lower 10 meters from the ground Since we don't need to care about the air up there And actually the sounds here in the gorge are also taken from the Finnish nature So in that way as well we are bringing the Finnish nature here in the middle of the desert so to say That's cool that was a grand finale Yes thank you so much Alright thanks a lot I hope it was very interesting And you have a whole bunch of social media and stuff for the expo? Yes definitely we have the Finnish Instagram page hashtag Finland pavilion Where you post all the official stuff there I think it's actually Finland expo 2020 pavilion if I remember correctly It's very long name Did the president come? Oh do you have a prime minister sorry Yes actually the president didn't come here physically but he was here by a hologram for our national day And for Independence Day in December he will unfortunately have his own party in Finland so Actually you have a president you don't have the prime minister thing No we had the president virtually and I don't think the prime minister Has been here yet I'm assuming that she will come but we don't know about that for sure Alright It's important with all the VIPs to mingle and get some things done for the future The expo is all about being positive right? Yeah Coming together and doing something positive for the world Definitely Alright