In Italian schools in Italy and abroad the state exams for 2014, marking the end of the first and second cycles of schooling, are under way. About 600 pupils abroad are taking the exams, from schools in 16 countries: 6 in Europe, 5 in Africa, 3 in Latin America, 1 in the United States and […]
Read moreMorocco: Italian Chambers of Commerce – biomedical sector trade mission The Chamber of Commerce Consortium for Internationalisation, which includes the Chambers of Turin, Rome, Florence, Genoa, Modena, Padoua, Vicenza, Udine, Catania, Salerno and Matera, is organising a trade mission to Morocco (Casablanca). The mission, which will take place from 27 to 30 October 2014, will […]
Read more(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato) • On the special occasion offered by the celebration of the Italian National Day, I would like to focus on the most important event that is about to take place in Italy, and in the whole Europe, for many years ahead. • In 2015 Italy will have the […]
Read more(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato) I am very pleased for this opportunity to open an event which I consider both timely and innovative. The idea of regrouping “Eurasia” from different points of view, such geo-economic framework and development models, investments in Asia and Europe, communication and diplomacy for growth seems in fact particularly […]
Read moreLa sofferenza del popolo siriano è divenuta insopportabile. Troppi veti incrociati, inattendibili complicazioni politiche, impotenze e rinvii: è ora di dire basta e provare a fare qualcosa. La triste gara dell’ipocrisia della comunità internazionale è fin troppo evidente. Politicamente la crisi di Siria è un rompicapo ma questo non è una giustificazione sufficiente a rassegnarsi. […]
Read moreThe Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw is celebrating its 80th birthday with an exhibition of drawings by great Italian artists, on loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The exhibition also includes letters and articles regarding the opening of the Institute, on 12 November 1934. Forced to close at the outbreak of the Second World […]
Read moreItaly will be taking centre-stage at the next season of the Royal Opera House in Muscat, with performances of Macbeth (Teatro dell’Opera di Trieste), Falstaff (Teatro La Scala) and Don Pasquale (Teatro Comunale di Bologna), as well as a concert by Riccardo Muti in March 2015. As the Italian Ambassador to Muscat, Paola Amadei, pointed […]
Read moreEXPO 2015 will be the biggest global event for the coming years, with 147 official participants and more pavilions than the Shanghai edition. It will be “a unique opportunity for our agri-food industry, an encounter between the most dynamic businesses in the sector”. These were the comments of Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini as she presented […]
Read moreLucilla Galeazzi, a composer, researcher and lecturer specialising in Italian folk music, will be giving her first concert in Argentina on Saturday 21 June 2014. The event is being organised by the Umbria Centre in Buenos Aires, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Embassy, in collaboration with the Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos […]
Read moreLjubljana’s links with Italy have been showcased in a number of recent events organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in the Slovenian capital. Highlights were the exhibitions on “The Brain. Inside story”, featuring recent discoveries in neuroscience, and “Emona: A City of the Empire”, celebrating the city’s first two millennia. Both opening events were attended […]
Read moreItalian music and theatre events have been a great success in Tel Aviv. The events, which included the first ever Italy-Israel Jazz Festival to mark UNESCO’s International Jazz Day, were organised by the Italian Cultural Institute “to disseminate Italian culture, in its various sectors, throughout Israel”. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreTen young people, 5 of them Italian, are in London for the Pontignano Fellowship Scheme, an exchange programme organised in the run-up to the Pontignano Conference. The theme of this year’s Conference, which will take place in Pontignano, near Siena, from 3 to 5 October 2014, is “Better together or better apart?” Italian and British […]
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