Minister Gentiloni visits Saudi Arabia

Intensifying political consultation, strengthening trade cooperation, developing investments, attracting Saudi students in Italy and promoting Italy’s cultural, economic and innovation system in a country that is very keen on Italian technology and brands –  these are the goals on the agenda of Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni. He will be in the Saudi coastal […]

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Italy’s Economic Diplomacy – 01 June: Latest news from the world

Thailand: Bangkok’s MRT System soon to be expanded The Thai government has announced the imminent publication of three calls for tender in the month of June, to build three new lines of Bangkok’s Mass Rapid Transit system for a total value of 221.2 billion baht (5.67 billion euros). The initiative is part of the project to […]

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Moscow – Italian Consulate awards Demetrio Volcic journalism prize

Journalism as a means to spread Italian wine in Russia and to create opportunities for the future of young people. These were the aims of the first edition of the Demetrio Volcic journalism award, promoted by the Italian Consulate General in Moscow under the patronage of RAI. The awards ceremony was held today in the […]

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Astana – Luca Seta on tour in Kazakhstan for the Year of Italian Culture

Luca Seta is getting ready for his tour in Kazakhstan: Astana, Uralsk and Aktobe. After performing on the prestigious stage of Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica (last 20 May), the young songwriter and singer will now fly abroad to present the release of his record “In Viaggio con Kerouac” (“Travelling with Kerouac”). He has set […]

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Podgorica – A show of the selected works by Rosario Genovese

Podgorica is to host Rosario Genovese’s exhibition “Poetico Universo”. The Dvorac Petrovica Contemporary Art Centre is presenting the exhibition which is promoted by the Italian Embassy in Montenegro and organised by art director Ermenegildo Frioni. It will include a catalogue with texts written by Francesco Gallo Mazzeo and Marcello Palminteri and a 30-year anthology of […]

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Israel – Dance: ‘Folk-s, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?’ by Alessandro Sciarroni at Jerusalem’s Israel Festival

The Israeli premiere of Alessandro Sciarroni’s “Folk-s, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?”at Jerusalem’s prestigious Israel Festival was all sold out. Sciarroni, an Italian performer, choreographer and director is quickly asserting himself on Europe’s modern dance scene. «This dance will exist as long as one of you is left in the theatre and at least […]

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Appointment of the Directors of the Italian Cultural Institutes in Istanbul and Paris

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, has appointed the directors of two of the major Italian Cultural Institutes (IIC) abroad, Istanbul and Paris. The appointments were made at the end of the procedure set forth to single out IIC directors of “reputed competence” on the basis of the evaluation of a […]

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Italy’s Economic Diplomacy – 31 May: Latest news from the world

Thailand launches Food Innopolis Thailand is betting on its agrifood sector, which is among the country’s most important economic drivers. It recorded a 26 billion dollar turnover in 2015 which made up 12.3 percent of total exports and 6.7 percent of Thailand’s GDP. The government is launching Food Innopolis, an innovation and development centre aimed […]

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Farnesina-University – The Foreign Ministry’s Legal Service signs a convention with University of Trento

On 31 May 2016, a Convention was signed between the Foreign Ministry’s Legal Service for litigation and Treaty Law and the “Law Faculty” Department of the University of Trento. The Convention was signed, in representation of the Foreign Ministry by Plenipotentiary Minister Andrea Tiriticco, the director of the Service, and on behalf of the Law […]

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World No Tobacco Day​ – The Farnesina joins the anti-smoking campaign

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), through its Sole Guarantee Committee, joined the World No Tobacco Day (http://www.iss.it/pres/?lang=1&id=1650&tipo=1&csss=002), by promoting an awareness raising campaign in favour of the smoking and non-smoking personnel, with the support of the Higher Institute of Health and the Ladisa company. The organisational wellbeing initiative fostering a healthy work […]

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European E-ELT Supertelescope – Big success for Italy’s high-tech industry

On 25 May the European Southern Observatory (ESO) officially awarded the biggest industrial contract every signed, worth almost 400 million euros, to a consortium of Italian companies The contract, won by Italian industries Astaldi, Cimolai, and sub-contractor EIE Group, concerns the construction of the rotating dome of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), ESO’s futuristic project […]

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Farnesina – Italy-USA: guidance meeting for Fulbright scholars

The Farnesina’s International Conference Hall hosted the first meeting of the Fulbright Scholars, a joint event aimed at counselling Italian scholars leaving for the U.S.A. and American scholars coming to Italy on the different types of scholarship awarded by the Fulbright Commission. The Italian presidency of the Commission, which alternates between the Italian Foreign Ministry and the […]

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