Internationalisation: MIMIT-MAECI Steering Committee convened

MAECI-MIMIT JOINT STATEMENT   The meeting focused on the signing of an important memorandum of understanding between the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) and Invitalia to promote foreign investment in Italy and strengthen the attractiveness of the Italian country system on international markets.  Urso: “the Italian Government works with companies to enhance Made in Italy in […]

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PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTE – FOOD FOR GAZA FARNESINA – 11 MARCH 2024, 6:30 p.m.

PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTE – FOOD FOR GAZA FARNESINA – 11 MARCH 2024, 6:30 p.m. Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, will meet with FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu, WFP Executive Director Cindy H. McCain and the Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent […]

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Seoul, Ambassador for a day for Women’s Day

To mark International Women’s Day, the Embassy of Italy in the Republic of Korea organised the third edition of “Ambassador for a day”, a project that allows a female Korean university student to work for a day alongside the Ambassador of Italy in Seoul, Emilia Gatto, in order to gain valuable first-hand experience in an […]

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“Red benches” at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Embassies. International Women’s Day, Friday 8 March

To mark International Women’s Day, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, asked the Italian Foreign Ministry to install a “red bench” in every Embassy of Italy around the world. “Italy must take the lead in promoting gender equality and women’s emancipation, especially in preventing and opposing all […]

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Minister Tajani’s visit to the “Bambini in Emergenza” Foundation

During his mission to Bucharest, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani visited the “Bambini in Emergenza” Foundation, which was created in the late 1990s by Italian journalist Mino Damato to help abandoned children with AIDS and, more recently, abandoned children with disabilities. “The “Bambini in Emergenza” Foundation is one of the most significant examples […]

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Meeting of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, with the President of Romania, Klauss Iohannis

Within the framework of his mission to Romania, the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, met today in Bucharest with the President of Romania, Klauss Iohannis. Tajani stressed that “relations between Italy and Romania have made a decisive qualitative leap with the 3rd intergovernmental summit held in […]

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Vienna, conference on women in science

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Italy’s diplomatic missions in Vienna (Italian Embassy and Permanent Mission to the International Organisations in Vienna), Canada, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom organised a panel discussion on 6 March at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) headquarters entitled Women in Science: Breaking Frontiers. Experiences and Policy Implications […]

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Working Table for the Internationalisation of Biotechnology Industries

On 6 March, the Working Table for the Internationalisation of the Biotechnology Sector was convened for the first time in plenary session at the request of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, on the occasion of the conference “Italy-USA: International Cooperation on Emerging Biotechnologies and Life […]

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Abu Dhabi, exhibition on the Italian Mannerist artist Lavinia Fontana

The “LAVINIA” art exhibition, promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the DIFC in Dubai, was inaugurated in Abu Dhabi at The Gate at DIFC – West Lobby. The exhibition, which will be open to the public until 30 March, was put together by a team of international curators led by Alejandra Castro […]

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“Food for Gaza” initiative

On the initiative of Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, next Monday Italy will set up the “Food for Gaza” initiative, a coordination panel featuring FAO, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). “Since the outbreak of […]

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Agreement between the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and the Italian Customs and Monopolies Agency to strengthen joint programmes in countries benefiting from Italian cooperation

The Directors of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, AICS) Marco Riccardo Rusconi and of the Customs and Monopolies Agency (Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli, ADM) Roberto Alesse today signed a Cooperation Agreement at the Italian Foreign Ministry in the presence of Italy’s Deputy Minister of Foreign […]

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Eritrea, new discoveries at the Adulis archaeological site

A new phase of the Italian archaeological mission in Adulis, an ancient port city and the most important archaeological site in Eritrea, has come to an end. The latest excavation operations, as led by the project’s scientific director, Prof. Serena Massa of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, lasted several weeks and brought […]

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