Alongside the national pavilions, Expo 2027 Belgrade reserves a whole zone for companies, cities and communities showing real-world solutions — around 45 modular pavilions that most coverage of the Expo ignores. Here's what's confirmed about the zone, who has joined, and how a company gets in.
The Expo site at Surčin is organised into three interconnecting zones: the Thematic Area (the official programme's three thematic pavilions), the International Participant Area (the national pavilions, which becomes the new Belgrade Fair after the event), and this one — the Best Practice and Corporate Area: a showcase of working solutions from companies, cities and communities rather than concepts.
The zone is reported as around 45 modular timber pavilions arranged along the main promenade on a uniform 9×9-metre grid, with green roofs — with structural and facade engineering by Werner Sobek AG, the firm also engineering the wider site. The uniform modular design keeps corporate build costs predictable and fits the Expo's legacy-first planning.
As of mid-2026, one occupant is publicly named: the World Expo Museum (Shanghai) — the official museum of the World Expo movement — which signed a memorandum on 7 May 2026 for a 330 m² pavilion in the zone's Art and Museum Section, with an exhibition on what Expo 2010 left Shanghai. The remaining pavilions' occupants have not been announced; we add each one to this page and the directory as it is named.
Two routes are publicly documented:
One of the three zones of the 25-hectare Expo site: a showcase of real-world solutions from companies, cities and communities — rather than concepts — reported as around 45 modular timber pavilions arranged along the main promenade on a uniform 9×9-metre grid, with green roofs.
As of mid-2026, the only publicly named occupant is the World Expo Museum from Shanghai, which signed for a 330 m² pavilion in the zone's Art and Museum Section. The remaining occupants have not been announced — this page tracks them as they are named.
Two routes are publicly documented: the organizer's partnership programme (EXPO 2027 BELGRADE d.o.o. publishes sponsor categories and a partnerships contact on its Play With Us page), and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia (PKS), which signed an institutional partnership to recruit domestic and international companies into the corporate participants and best-practice zones.
The Expo site is explicitly designed around its afterlife: the International Participant Area becomes the new Belgrade Fair, and the wider Surčin development (National Stadium, housing, transport) is planned to outlive the 93-day event. The modular timber design of the corporate pavilions fits that legacy-first approach.
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