Madrid – Italian design: a two-day event for students

Some of the Italian design community’s biggest names have taken part in two days of debate and meetings with students from Masters courses in design-related subjects. Domitilla Dardi, lecturerat the European Institute of Design (IED) and design curator at the MAXXI gallery in Rome, along with Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, founders of Studio Formafantasma, […]

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From Pesaro to Sydney – “Viva Rossini” travels to Australia

Australian audiences will have an opportunity to “meet” Gioachino Rossini with a series of films based on the great composer’s works. The event is organised through a collaboration between the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Screenings will include “L’Italiana in Algeri”, “Il turco in Italia”, “L’equivoco stravagante”, “La […]

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Accreditation Notice: Africa Day 2015 – “The Role of Energy for Sustainable Growth in Africa” (Farnesina, 27 May 2015)

A seminar on “The Role of Energy for Sustainable Growth in Africa” will take place at the Farnesina at 10.00 on Wednesday 27 May 2015 as part of the Africa Day 2015 event. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, and the Minister for the Environment and the Protection of the Land […]

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“The world has changed but Romero’s message is still relevant”

Under-Secretary Mario Giro attends beatification ceremony for Monsignor Romero The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mario Giro, attended the beatification ceremony for Monsignor Romero, which took place in San Salvador on 23 May 2015. “He is a figure who still poses questions for us today. The world has changed but Romero’s message is still relevant in […]

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DEI – Papua New Guinea: Salini Impregilo awarded hydro-electric project worth 2 billion

Salini Impregilo has won a contract worth around 2 billion dollars to develop a 1800 MW hydro-electric project in Papua New Guinea. the contract envisages that the Italian company will submit a feasibility study and have exclusive rights to build the hydro-electric power station over a five-year period. The project includes the construction of the […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTICE – Farnesina Collection, meeting with artist Nicola Carrino (Farnesina, 26 May 2015)

The first in a cycle of a series of encounters with artists featured in the Farnesina Art Collection will take place on Tuesday 26 May at 17:00 at the Farnesina, organised within the context of “Farnesina Doors Open” week (22-29 May). The guest artist will be Nicola Carrino. The encounter will be opened by Deputy […]

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NPT: Farnesina concerned over failure to adopt final document of the Review Conference of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

“The Farnesina has noted with concern the failure to adopt a final document at the five-yearly Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which has just ended in New York. The failure was caused by the diverging views of the States Party, especially on the preparation of […]

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Terrorist attacks in Syria: UN Security Council decision important result of action by Italian government, says Gentiloni

“The decision of the United Nations Security Council’s decision is an important result of the action by the Italian government”. This was how the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, and the Minister for Cultural Assets and Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, expressed their approval of the initiative taken by the United […]

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Conclusion of international conference at the Farnesina on UN Security Council reform

The international conference “Pathways for a more inclusive and accountable Security Council” on the reform of the UN Security Council, hosted by Italy in its capacity of “focal point” of the Uniting for Consensus group, concluded today. The event was divided into two sessions that offered an opportunity for open and constructive dialogue on all […]

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Afghanistan, members of the Afghan parliament “at school” in Italy

A training course for members of the Afghan parliament was organized by the Italian Lower House (Chamber of Deputies) in collaboration with the Luis-Libera Università Internazionnale delle Scienze Sociali Guido Carli, with the contribution of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The session opened with a comparative training module on how a legislative […]

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Budapest – Media and propaganda recalling the Great War

On the centennial of Italy’s entry into the First World War, the Italian Cultural Institute of Budapest organized a meeting on war propaganda, presenting the story of the “Giornale sul soldato Tirolese” and the magazine ‘Tiroler Soldaten-Zeitung’, published during the Great War by the Landesverteidigungskommando of the Tyrol region, which hosted a literary supplement and […]

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Mexico – Exhibition on the art of restoration in Italy

“Restoration in Italy” is the title of an exhibition to take place from 29 May to 26 June at the Italian Cultural Institute of Mexico City. A total of 25 panels illustrating the history and activities of the Institute for Advanced Conservation and Restoration (ISCR), a centre of excellence of international renown, and whose projects […]

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