Leo MD 108 ITALY is the official host of LEF2020.

What a journey it has already been! It all started in 2014 when three Italian Leos experienced LEF for the first time and found themselves one night wondering: when can we bring it back to Italy?

After careful consideration, of the candidates already booked and of the International Lions Club Convention planned in 2019 in Milan, 2020 was the answer.

It took time to build the interest and the excitement, to create a plan on how to sustain such an event in our country and to understand who would be behind this crazy project.

The first wave of emotion came in the Spring of 2017, when during the National Convention, the delegates assembly decided to vote in favor of submitting the application at LEPF2018 to host the LEF2020. From then, it’s been a blur!

And here we are, in Visegrad, as the official country hosting the Leo Europa Forum 2020, ready to start the second part of this beautiful journey!

Where will LEF2020 take place? What will it be like?

We don’t know yet, but what we know is that we are more than ready to fly.

And you?

Ready to fly with us?

We sure hope so.

Written in Rome in 1957 and presented at the Music Festival of Sanremo in 1958, it is a song that talks about a dream and that introduces the dreamlike vision of a man that becomes one with the color of the sky and that of the eyes of their beloved, to the point of taking flight towards freedom and infinity.

It was a natural choice for the verb “Volare – To Fly” to become the motto of our LEF2020. Especially because it is a word that clearly recalls the ideas of following impossible dreams and of overcoming limits.

Leonardo Da Vinci was already dreaming of being able to make humans fly and centuries were needed for this dream to become reality. It needed sheer belief, genius, hard work and creativity for mankind to fly all over to the moon.

Leos dream of a better world and of being able to make a difference. Every day, we try our best to do just that, overcoming our limits and looking at increasingly far horizons.

The idea of “Volare” represents the challenge, the effort, the exuberance and the joy of being Leos.

Together with the motto, a logo has been chosen.

A simple one, in white and blue, with a print of birds in flight on one side.

Birds are the pioneers of flight of the modern world. They are the ones that showed the way and inspired humankind to think of flight. As Leos, we try to be pioneers of a mentality, that of Service, for our communities. We try to inspire others with our actions, to create the change that will bring us all the way up to the moon.

As for the colors, white and blue are – after our “Tricolore” – the biggest representatives of Italy.

Not only they represent the national identity of our Country, but they also encase our territory: from the white of the snowy mountains in the north to the blue of the Mediterranean Sea in the south… Italy is waiting for you, at LEF2020!