Russia – Italian competes in language Olympics

The auditorium of the Moscow State University of Linguistics (MGLU) hosted on Wednesday the regional round of the Olympics of three languages: Italian, Chinese and Spanish, idioms that are rarely dedicated a specific course in Russian middle and secondary schools. Thanks to this competition, the three foreign languages have officially acquired the same dignity as […]

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Ottawa – Italo-Canadian astrophysicist leads the Astro-H telescope project

The scientific team that developed the Astro-H telescope space observatory, due to be launched into space on Friday, was led by Italo-Canadian astrophysicist Luigi Gallo. The instrument will be launched from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan. The ambitious project, which involves NASA, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, the European Space Agency and the Canadian […]

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Dei – Cameroon: Team Engineering awarded contract for a railways feasibility study

Team Engineering, in a consortium  with a Canadian partner, was awarded two feasibility study contracts for Cameroon’s Edea-Kribi and Douala-Limbe’ railway lines, with a total value of 1.8 million euro. Jamaica: Expo 2016 in Kingston Expo Jamaica 2016, which will be in its 43rd edition, will be held in Kingston on 14-17 April. Over 300 […]

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Meeting of Minister Gentiloni with the trade unions representing the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Minister Gentiloni met today with the trade unions representing all categories of workers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Italy is increasingly becoming a key player in the international arena on many matters involving counter-terrorism, economic diplomacy, the United Nations and the European Union. Minister Gentiloni said that on all of these […]

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SERVICE NOTICE – Meeting of the International Syria Support Group (Munich, 11 February 2016)

The International Syria Support Group (ISSG) will meet in Munich on 11 February 2016 and will be attended by Paolo Gentiloni, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Representatives of the press interested in following the event will be able to obtain accreditation by sending an email to MunichPA@state.gov  by 5 p.m. Feb. 10, […]

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Prague – An exhibition puts mosaic art at centre stage

Mosaic art will take centre stage in Prague in a cycle of events on Feb. 12 that will be hosted by Italian Institute of Culture (IIC). The event will open with the conference “MosaiCONtempo – from the mosaics of Ravenna to the present day”, focusing on the history and restoration of mosaics, which will be […]

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Barcellona – On display Gabriele Sisti’s “Archivio quotidiano” photographic show

Imagination, creativity, the world of dreams, the subconscious: all this is inside Gabriele Sisti’s photography. “In this new one-man show, Gabriele Sisti decided to leave behind the world of traditional photography in order to explore new expressive possibilities through the juxtaposition technique, through which he combines two or more of his own images with those […]

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Buenos Aires – Olivo Barbieri photo exhibition to open in Buenos Aires

“Olivo Barbieri: images 1978-2014” is the title of an exhibition to be held in Buenos Aires from Mar. 2 at the Recoleta Cultural Centre. The event has been organised by the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in the Argentine capital, by the hosting Centre and by the Maxxi Museum in Rome. The exhibition illustrates the […]

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London-“Cinema Made in Italy” festival to begin in March

The “Cinema Made in Italy” festival will be held from March 10 to 14 at the Cine’ Lumiere in London’s South Kensington area. The festival has been organised by the Istituto Luce Cinecitta’ and the Italian Institute of Culture in London. Many of the movies in the festival’s programme will be screened for the first […]

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Gentiloni: «The horror of the Foibe massacres must teach Europe to integrate and have trust» (Il Messaggero)

Ten years have now elapsed since the declaration of the “Day of Remembrance” for the victims of the Foibe massacres and the exodus from Fiume-Rijeka, the Giulia region and Dalmatia, the tragedy that involved the Italian minorities living in the eastern Adriatic. It is a sufficient lapse of time to draw a first balance and […]

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E.U. Founding Countries meet in Rome

The Foreign Affairs Ministers of the six E.U. Founding Countries discuss migration challenges and integration at Villa Madama The Foreign Ministers of the six Founding Countries of the European Union (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) are meeting today at Villa Madama in Rome to  discuss the future of the European Union and […]

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Chile exhibition celebrates artists Ciccarelli and Mochi

“Arte italiano, una huella en Chile” is the title of an exhibition to be held in Santiago de Chile from Mar. 1 to 21. The show will celebrate artists Alessandro Ciccarelli and Giovanni Mochi who, in the mid-nineteenth century became respectively the first and third directors of the newly established Academy of Fine Arts in […]

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