China – Fashion speaks Italian to celebrate Italian Language Week

“Fashion speaks Italian” and is inspired by art: this is the theme of the fashion show the students from Beijing’s Fashion School, hosted by the Italian Culture Institute, have organised within the framework of the events for the Italian Culture and Language Week in China. The work of over 30 designers-to-be, led by Professor Yanh […]

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Finland – Modigliani’s retrospective in Helsinki features 200 masterpieces

Helsinki’s Ateneum Art Museum will host an extensive retrospective of Amedeo Modigliani’s works starting from 28 October until 5 February, 2017. An installation of almost 200 masterpieces of the famous Italian painter and sculptor will be shown on the Museum’s third floor. This is Modigliani’s largest exhibition ever launched in a Scandinavian country. Modigliani, who […]

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Russian Federation – Lesdrevmash Moscow to host 38 Italian firms

Moscow’s Expocentr will host Leshrevmash 2016, Russia’s major international show for woodworking machinery and equipment, until 27 October. The Italian Trade Agency in Moscow, ICE, has set up the trade event in collaboration with ACEIMAL (Italian Woodworking Machinery and Tools Manufacturers Association). The Italian pavilion will host 38 firms over a 1031 square metre surface area. Russia […]

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#HumanitarianCorridors – Minister Gentiloni greets a new group of Syrian refugees

Another 75 Syrian refugees have landed at Fiumicino Airport from Beirut thanks to the “Humanitarian Corridor” pilot project. It is the fifth group that arrives in Italy, safely and legally, since last February following the agreement signed between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of the Interior, the Comunità di Sant’Egidio, […]

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16th Week of Italian Language in the World – Events on 22 and 23 October

Events on 22 October “Doctor Gadget” on stage in Cairo      The Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo, in cooperation with the Swiss Embassy in Egypt, presents a match of on-stage improvisations to explore the soul of objects. Three actors, Françoise Prefumo, Valerie Tacheron and Fabio Maccioni, will “dialogue” with Made in Italy and Italian-designed […]

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Gentiloni: “An absurd resolution with a waning consensus” (Corriere della Sera)

“UNESCO’s denial of the connection between Judaism and the holy sites in Jerusalem is absurd, but it has been going on for years. The number of countries shifting their votes from yes to abstain is increasing,” said Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni in an interview with the daily newspaper Corriere. Continuing on the issue of Italy […]

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Iran: publishes call for bids from foreign oil and gas companies

The National Iranian Oil Company announced it will soon launch a tendering open to large international companies for the exploitation of 29 oil and 21 natural gas fields. The companies interested will have to submit their bids by 19 November. Adjudication results will be announced on 7 December. Based on the forecasts of the Ministry […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTE – Human Corridors – Refugees from Lebanon to land at Rome Fiumicino airport on 24 October

The  “Human Corridors” Resettlement Programme, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of the Interior, the Comunita di Sant’Egidio, and the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy and the Waldensian Board, is dealing with the arrival of 75 refugees from Lebanon. They are due to arrive at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on Monday, 24 October, and […]

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Argentina- ‘Aiutare mi aiuta’

‘Aiutare mi aiuta’ (Helping others helps me)  is the title of a charity event to raise money for the people stricken by the earthquake which rocked central Italy on 24 August. It was held at the Italian Theatre ‘Coliseo’, and organised by the Italian Embassy and Consulate General in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the help […]

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Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni receives the President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

The meeting, which took place at a time when a democratic transition process is in motion in the African country, highlighted the political will to strengthen the political ties with Italy and the attention Italy pays to the whole of the Sahel region.The talks focused, among other issues, on relaunching the bilateral political and economic […]

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Spain – Italian Embassy in Madrid organises event to help Italy’s earthquake-stricken population

An important charity event will be held on Saturday Oct. 22, in the courtyard of the Italian School of Madrid, to raise money for the population affected by the earthquake that devastated central Italy on Aug. 24. Pictures of the victims and the damage caused by the quake left a profound mark in the souls […]

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Washington – Six Italian scientists receive awards in the United States

Six researchers, aged between 30 and 40, have become the pride and glory of Italy in North America. Six talents, six prizes, and the winners are  Ilaria Iacobucci, who received the  Paola Campese Award for research in leukemia;  Gaetano Santulli and Silvia Balbo who received the Hogan Lovells Award in Medicine, Biosciences and Cognitive Science; […]

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