Italy and United States Renew Scientific Cooperation Agreement – 2016-2017 Two-Year Joint Declaration Signed

With research areas including nanotechnology, agrifood, robotics, ICT, and life sciences, scientific cooperation between Italy and the United States was strengthened and bolstered when the 2016-2017 Joint Declaration on Scientific and Technological Cooperation was signed today at the Foreign Ministry headquarters. In the afternoon, experts from the two countries will discuss basic research and innovation […]

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Italy-Japan – 150 years of bilateral relations

With the opening of the two exhibitions “Botticelli and His Time” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum and “Leonardo Da Vinci: Beyond the Visible” at the Edo Tokyo Museum, the schedule of events organised to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the start of diplomatic relations between Italy and Japan begins tomorrow. A full programme that ranges […]

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Cartagena – Italy starts at international Music Festival

The 10th edition of the Cartagena International Music Festival is in full swing, featuring a number of Italian performers. These include soloists from the Concerto Italiano, conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini and the jazz guitarist and composer Alberto Capelli. The Fundacion Salvi and the Italian Cultural Institute in Bogota organised the festival and the participation of […]

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Italy and China discuss cooperation

Relations between Italy and China are becoming, “increasingly ambitious and increasingly concrete.” This in a nutshell is how Italian Ambassador to Beijing Ettore Sequi and Liu Haixing, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, with responsibility for Europe, agreed to define the status of the relations between the two countries at […]

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New York – Robert Gallo receives Leonardo da Vinci Prize

The Italian Heritage and Culture Committee (IHCC) has conferred the 2015 Leonardo da Vinci Award on Robert Gallo, an Italo-American and an internationally renowned researcher in the field of immunology. The Director of the Institute of Human Virology and Professor of Medicine at the Maryland School of Medicine, Dr Gallo played a key role in […]

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Foreign Ministry Pledges 1.4 million euros for Emergency Humanitarian Aid in Libya

Italian Development Cooperation Department has planned a 1.4 million euro humanitarian aid package for Libya to support primary emergency interventions by international organisations operating in the Country. The package will focus on activities to protect the more vulnerable communities and prevent irregular migration along the Mediterranean route, as well as on the provision of healthcare […]

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DEI – Argentina: Government launches plan for the development of the North Regions

Social development, the eradication of structural poverty and the fight against drug trafficking: these are the planned objectives for the development of the Regions of the North, launched by the Argentinian government. The plan will be able to rely on considerable public investment intended for the creation of social service centres, to improve public education […]

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Update on the case of Italian marine Massimiliano Latorre

The Italian Government has taken note of the decision made today by the Indian Supreme Court to adjourn to 13 April before expressing its opinion on the case of marine Massimiliano Latorre, while waiting for the Government in New Delhi to state its position. The Italian Government confirms that it is in agreement with the […]

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Tirana – Italian writer Stefano Petrocchi launches book in Albania

Italian writer, Stefano Petrocchi, will present his novel “La polveriera” [The powder keg] in Shkoder and Tirana on Wednesday and Thursday, revealing the behind-the-scene story of the  literary award ‘Premio Strega’ in Albania.  The event  has been organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana, in collaboration with the Italian Department of the University of […]

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Argentina – “Zorba, the Greek” returns to Argentina on February 11

“Zorba the Greek”,  produced by Naples’ San Carlo theatre, will be back on stage in Argentina on Feb. 11, to participate in the second edition of the “Festival de musica en Plaza Vaticano”. The performance is a two-act choral ballet with 22 scenes designed by Lorca Massine in 1988. “Zorba the Greek” was inspired by […]

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Santiago – “La Moneda” celebrates its tenth anniversary with Botticelli

The Italian Cultural Institute in Santiago and the Italian Embassy in Chile participate in the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the foundation of Centro Cultural La Moneda in the Chilean capital, promoting the display of one of Sandro Botticelli’s most important works: the Madonna and Child with six Angels. The display, which is completely […]

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Madrid launches “Made in Italy, 1950-70 Graphic Design”

The exhibition “Made in Italy, 1950-70 Graphic Design, Creativity and Experience”, has been launched in Madrid, and will be hosted in the Palacio Quintanar in Segovia until Feb. 28. The Palacio is  a centre connected with the Consejeria de Cultura y Turismo of the Junta de Castilla y Leon. The exhibition, that has been organised […]

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