Cotec: Italy, Portugal and Spain to meet the challenge of innovation

Italy’s Fondazione Cotec, Spain’s Fundación Cotec and Portugal’s l’Associação Cotec, organisations that support research and technological innovation, will meet in Rome on May 17 to take stock of the state and performance of each country’s research and innovation system. To this end the meeting will provide a wide range of statistics and information about the […]

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Italy-Sri Lanka: Undersecretary Della Vedova heads a delegation of companies to revive economic ties

The Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Benedetto Della Vedova, will be visiting Sri Lanka from today to 19 May. His agenda includes meetings with representatives of the Government and members of Parliament in Colombo, including Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera, the Minister of International Trade, Malick Samarawickrama, the Minister of Energy, Ranjjith […]

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Berlin – Luciana Castellina presents her political debut in “La scoperta del mondo” (“Discovering the World”)

Between the age of 14 and 18, Luciana Castellina wrote a diary telling the story of how she got into politics: it starts in Riccione on 25 July 1943, the day in which her tennis match with her schoolmate Anna Maria Mussolini was suspended because the daughter of the ‘Duce’ was obliged to flee (her […]

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London – Italian embassy in UK gives voice to innovators

Italy is a country of many shadows but also many lights, that hopes that the government’s reforms will truly bring about satisfying results. It is a country whose products can compete with German exports, despite its lack of infrastructure but that, precisely by investing in this gap, can give momentum to its economic recovery. Lastly, […]

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Johannesburg – Italy-Africa, a “peacekeeping” course for conflict management

Italy and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa are assuming a growing role in international peacekeeping training activities in Africa. A new course, promoted in partnership with St. Augustine College, has just started in Johannesburg. It is tailored for 50 civil servants from numerous African countries who intend to sign up for United Nations or […]

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Abu Dhabi – Italy celebrates record exports to UAE

The Italian Business Council of Abu Dhabi (IBCAD) and the Italian Embassy in the UAE held an evening to celebrate the excellent results for 2015 thanks to the strategic relations between the two Countries. The evening was also an opportunity to present the IBCAD’s new board of directors and launch a membership programme, with services […]

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosts the “Italian Design Day” Working Group

The design working group chaired by the Director General for Cultural and Economic Promotion and Innovation, Vincenzo De Luca, held a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, building on the great experience of the 21st Triennale di Milano and the 55th Salone del Mobile, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which organised more […]

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China – Beijing Career Day

More than 100 young people and businesses attended the third Beijing Career Day, organised by the Italian Embassy in Beijing with the Italian Chamber of Commerce and the Association of Young Italians in China. It was opened by the Italian Ambassador, Ettore Sequi, and included a session of themed workshops and meetings with young people […]

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Diplomazia e dintorni – Italian Jazz earmarked for export

The 61th episode “Diplomazia e dintorni” (“Diplomacy and the Like”) is entitled “Jazz to Export” and will feature an extraordinary guest star: Pino Saulo, music critic of Radio3 and long-time curator and presenter of numerous RAI radio broadcasts. The programme will be aired at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, 17 May, 2016, on Radio LUISS. Italian […]

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Madrid – Architecture and the City, a photographic show by Gabriele Basilico

As part of the Photoespaña 2016 International Festival, the Italian Institute of Culture in Madrid has staged the photographic show “Gabriele Basilico, Architecture and the City. Photographs from the Maxxi Collection”, curated by Margherita Guccione and Simona Antonacci. The show, which will open on 27 May and run until 6 September, consists of an itinerary […]

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Kassala – Sudan, Italy’s contribution to the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

With the aim of improving the living conditions of the residents and refugees in Eastern Sudan, the Italian Government, through the Italian Development Cooperation Agency, will contribute to implement a new project of UNOPS – the United Nations Office for Project Services – in Kassala State. The funds, amounting to 500,000 euros, will be allocated […]

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Italy-Russia – Focus on the current European and international scenarios

Italian Ambassador in Moscow, Cesare Ragaglini, delivered a lecture on “Italy and Russia in the current European and International Scenario” at the Academic Council of the Institute of European Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Institute’s director, Professor Alexey Gromyko, chaired the meeting. The Ambassador’s speech emphasised the changed context of relations between […]

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