Glasgow: five centuries of Italian art on display at the Kelvingrove Museum

On 6 April Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum inaugurated the exhibition “The Essence of beauty: 500 years of Italian Art”, one of the most prominent events of the Scottish cultural season. The exhibition will run through 12 August and includes a rich calendar of events organized with the participation of the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh. To […]

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The Hague: opportunities to work in international organisations on the website of the Italian Embassy

The website of the Embassy of Italy in The Hague has a new section on job and internship opportunities for Italians in the 17 international organisations operating in that Dutch city – a broad network of institutions working on the front lines (disarmament and non-proliferation; criminal courts, European and other bodies working in the sector […]

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Seoul: the Terra Quintet opens the 2012 jazz season in Korea

The Terra Quintet opened the Italian jazz season in South Korea on 7 and 8 April, respectively at the Bear Hall and the “Once in a Blur Moon” club, considered the temple of jazz in KOrea. The concerts were organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Seoul in collaboration with Sens Management and the Jazz […]

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Budapest: Italian books on display at the Cultural Institute

The exhibition “L’Italia dei libri”, opening on 12 April at the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest, offers 150 years of history in books using a sophisticated touch-screen system to present many of the authors, works and publishers that have characterized Italian publishing from 1861 to the present day, including art books by Franco Maria Ricci, […]

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Dettaglio nota

Il 20 e 21 maggio 2012 si terrà a Chicago (Stati Uniti) il Vertice dei Capi di Stato e di Governo dei paesi membri della NATO. I rappresentanti degli organi di informazione interessati a seguire l’evento potranno accreditarsi, entro il 13 aprile 2012, seguendo le indicazioni disponibili sul sito web: http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-3439894D-CD4C9794/natolive/news_85164.htm.Per ulteriori informazioni è possibile […]

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De Mistura: Aspettiamo i documenti ufficiali

II sottosegretario agli Esteri Staffan De Mistura ha incontrato ieri in Puglia i familiari del maresciallo Massimiliano Latorre e del sergente Salvatore Girone. Ha seguito, attimo dopo attimo, le ultime vicende (le indiscrezioni sulle perizie che confermerebbero le responsabilità dei due militari), non proprio una sorpresa per la Farnesina. De Mistura, nella prima fase della […]

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Syria: uncertainty over Annan plan

The road to a solution in the Syrian crisis is still a rocky one. Damascus has annouced having begun to implement UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan’s peace plan but ,on the day specified for withdrawal of troops and heavy artillery, the Syrian Human Rights Watch reported that government forces had bombarded in […]

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G8: military protection in counter-piracy missions, says Terzi – Arab Spring, “let’s not wait until the fall comes”

At the G8 meeting in Washington on 11 and 12 April, “I will remind my colleagues of the urgent need to protect our troops deployed in counter-piracy missions”, asserted Minister Giulio Terzi, who will be participating on those days in the G8 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in the United States, not least in relation to the […]

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Call for Tender for World Food Day

Still a couple of days to participate in the MFA’s call for tenders for organising World Food Day, to be celebrated in Rome on 16 October 2012. The winning agency will handle not only the logistical organization of the event but also communication and press office activities. The Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the […]

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Cooperation: Education for girls in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian Education Minister, the Italian Ambassador to Ethiopia and the Director of UNESCO’s International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) met recently for the signing ceremony for the project on “Retaining Girls in Lower Secondary Schools and Increasing their Learning Outcomes in Ethiopia”. 500,000 dollars allocated The project is a result of a […]

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Momento Italia-Brasile: Gattinoni at Brasilia Fashion Week

The Gattinoni fashion house took pride of place at Brasilia’s Fashion Week, with an international fashion show hosted by the Italian Embassy. The 2-day event attracted key figures from the worlds of politics, diplomacy and fashion, as well as journalists from the sector and young designers and students. Science Without Borders During the pre-show press […]

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Montevideo – the last stage of Written in Italy, an exhibition featuring Italian literature in translation

The travelling exhibition “Written in Italy” has reached its last destination, Uruguay, after a journey of over 100,000 km. The exhibition features an extraordinary collection of works from Italian literature translated into numerous languages. In Montevideo, it opened the Year of Italian Culture in Uruguay. Accompanying the event was a presentation on the work of […]

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