Expominer Minerals, Fossils and jewellery Exhibition energy and sustainability were the pivotal topics of this year’s edition, including a full series of talks on mineralogy and earth sciences, with the participation of renowned specialist speakers. Likewise, more than 100 2,000 visitors were exhibitors, half of them international, exhibited a broad variety of fossils, students in primary minerals and jewels. expominer, whose linear surface area grew by 6 % over and high school, the 2016 edition, was reconfirmed as a great commercial and dissemination 17 % of the total driver of mineralogy. 10-12 november Venue Montjuïc Edition 39th Area 5,000 m² Exhibitors 111 Type Professional and public Activities Conference series; workshops on gold-digging, meteorites, volcanism or superconductors www.expominer.com Manga Manga and Anime Convention The show celebrated its most multitudinous edition. The appointment with manga, anime and Japanese culture grew in space (5,000 m more),2 exhibitors (+9 %) and days of duration (five in total), attracting 148,000 The anime visitors. Robotics was one of the key topics, with an exhibition of both real industry made and comic android-based robots such as Mazinger Z. On the occasion of a record figure its 25th anniversary, the “dragon Ball” series was also one of the highlights, of 13,600 million as well as the traditional book signing by great authors, plus workshops euros in 2016 and activities inspired by Japanese culture and cuisine. Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) 1-5 november Venue Montjuïc Edition 23rd Area 75,000 m2 Exhibitors 215 Type Public Activities Sónar Manga; exhibitions; concerts; Japanese food; workshops; book author signatures Organisedby Ficomic www.manga-xxiii.ficomic.com ACTiViTY AT THe VenUeS — 71