Vancouver, webinar on “Food security on Earth”
The Consulate General of Italy in Vancouver, along with the local branch of the Italian Chamber of Commerce, has organised a webinar entitled “Food security on Earth: lessons from food production systems in space”. The webinar is one of the events marking the 6th Italian Design Day. The speaker is the architect and engineer Valentina […]
Read moreDakar: presentation of an Italian product that replaces cement
The Italian Design Day in Senegal offered the opportunity to present the fruit of Italian ingeniousness: ‘’Monolyto’’, a recycled plastic structure that replaces cement bricks. Manufactured in the region of Dakar from an Italian patent registered by the developer Maddalena Martigli, “Monolyto” represents an eco-sustainable and innovative solution that reduces the carbon footprint thanks to […]
Read moreSanto Domingo: conference on scientific and space diplomacy
The Embassy of Italy in Santo Domingo, in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry of the Dominican Republic and the Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (INTEC), has organised a conference on “The experience of the Italian Republic in developing scientific and space diplomacy”. The event was organised in the context of Italian Research Day. The aim […]
Read morePrague: 36 photos to tell the story of women scientists
The Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague inaugurated an exhibition narrating the stories of women scientists. The “A Life as a Scientist” exhibition draws inspiration from the databank of the “100 Women Against Stereotypes” project launched by the Osservatorio di Pavia and the Associazione di giornaliste Gi.U.Li.A., in partnership with the Bracco Foundation and […]
Read moreOpportunities in Brazil for Piedmont’s Technology Pole
A Protocol of Cooperation for commercial, industrial, cultural relations and technology exchange was signed between the Piedmont Technology Pole and the Commercial Association of the Federal District of Brasilia. The Protocol was signed last 24 February via videoconference with the Italian Embassy in Brasilia. It is the first technological cooperation agreement that the Federal District […]
Read moreSingapore, webinar on new technologies in sustainable agriculture
The Italian Embassy in Singapore organised a webinar on new technologies in sustainable agriculture, in tandem with SGInnovate. The “Uncovering Agriculture 4.0 – Sustainable Technologies” event took place in recent days, and was attended by Gianni Ferretti, professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Chiara Corbo, Head of the Smart Agrifood Observatory and Daniele Benatoff, […]
Read more“ARTE e Tecnologia -Il ruolo dell’Italia nella digitalizzazione dello Zambia”
The Italian Embassy in Zambia is organising the event “ART and Technology” on Thursday, February 17, from 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. With the participation of the Zambian Minister for Technology and Science Hon. Felix Mutati, this event, which is the third one of a series of five events, is part of the Project “Italia-Zambia, […]
Read moreAsteroid named after Nobel Prize winner Parisi
On 7 February 2022, the working group for Small Bodies Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) accepted the proposal made by the Astronomical and Cultural Club of Farra d’Isonzo (CCAF) to call the asteroid discovered in Farra d’Isonzo on 7 February 1994 with the name (15803) Parisi (the number in brackets before the name is typical of asteroids). […]
Read moreQuanta Italia c’è nello spazio
Le potenzialità economiche dello spazio sono enormi grazie alla Space economy, frutto di tutte le attività di ricerca, esplorazione, gestione e uso delle risorse spaziali che creano valore e benefici per l’intera umanità. Grazie a un settore di R&S all’avanguardia, permette di realizzare infrastrutture spaziali (upstream) e fruire di prodotti e servizi sulla Terra (downstream), […]
Read moreTel Aviv, webinar on climate change impact
The Embassy of Italy in Israel and the Italian Cultural Institute of Tel Aviv have organised a series of online scientific meetings in partnership with The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (a faculty of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev), centred on the relationship between man and mountain, called “So Harsh, So Fragile: […]
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