The Ministry of the Environment together with the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Center "LITEXPO" begins the selection of future guides for the Lithuanian pavilion at the EXPO 2020 world exhibition.
Applicants must have a university degree and excellent command of the English language. Knowledge of Arabic is an added advantage. Other abilities will also be evaluated: experience in interpreting at public events, knowledge of IT technologies, skills in photography, writing articles, managing social networks. At least one team member must have five years of active driving experience.
"If you are well-acquainted with Lithuanian history, domestic and foreign policy, financial innovations, renewable energy, geography, culture, customs and are able to tell about it in English, and even better - in Arabic, you know the political current affairs, traditions and culture of the Middle East , you are communicative, proactive and helpful - you have the opportunity to go to Dubai this fall and work as guides for the Lithuanian pavilion for six months", says Romas Jankauskas, general commissioner of the Lithuanian pavilion, head of the EXPO department of the Ministry of the Environment.
State pavilions at the show will be open every day from morning to evening, so staff will work in shifts and on a rolling schedule. The team of guides, having flown to Dubai, will settle in a nearby residential block or the so-called EXPO village. During his free time from work, he will be able to visit the pavilions of other countries, the sights of Dubai and the neighboring Emirates, and if the restrictions imposed by the pandemic allow, he will have more opportunities to get to know the exotic Arab world.
The guides were already invited to the selection a little more than a year ago, then half a dozen applications were received, but when the quarantine began, and then the exhibition itself was postponed for a year, it did not take place. "We hope that in addition to those who already wanted to participate, there will be more. Working at a world exhibition is both an honor and a prestige. These people become a kind of ambassadors of Lithuania", explains Romas Jankauskas.
