Belgrade hosts fashion show presenting “Balestra Reload”

The Italian Embassy in Belgrade hosted the fashion show presenting “Balestra Reload”, the first ready-to-wear collection of the historical Italian fashion brand. The event – the first of a series dedicated to Italian fashion in Serbia – was attended by Federica Balestra, as a testimony to a brand that is going through an important generational […]

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Secretary-General, Ambassador Sequi, meets with ASI President, Mr Saccoccia

Today, 29 September, Farnesina Secretary-General, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, accompanied by the Principal Director for Integrated Promotion and Innovation, Minister Plenipotentiary Cecilia Piccioni, had a fruitful meeting with ASI (Italian Space Agency) President, Mr Giorgio Saccoccia, assisted by Ms. Gabriella Arrigo, Head of International Affairs at ASI. They addressed issues such as space diplomacy and […]

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Development Cooperation, Deputy Minister Marina Sereni presides over Joint Committee meeting

Deputy Minister Marina Sereni presided over the sixth annual meeting of the Joint Committee for Development Cooperation, also attended by the Director General for Development Cooperation, Fabio Cassese and the Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Luca Maestripieri. Representatives from other Authorities in charge of the matters under discussion also took part in […]

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Lisbon, webinar on climate change and water resources

The Italian Embassy in Lisbon organised a webinar on “Drought: Climate Change and Management of Water Resources. Challenges and Opportunities for Cooperation between Italy and Portugal” attended by about 300 Italian and Portuguese companies. The initiative – added to the 2022 Festival of Sustainable Development calendar and organised in association with the Italian Chamber of […]

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Chinese translation of the book by Nobel Laureate Giorgio Parisi presented in Beijing​

The auditorium of the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing hosted an event to celebrate science and knowledge by presenting the Chinese edition of the book “In a flight of starlings. The Wonders of Complex Systems” by Prof. Giorgio Parisi, Nobel Laureate for Physics and Vice President of the Accademia dei Lincei. The book, an educational […]

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Consul General in Vancouver on mission to Calgary

The Italian Consul General in Vancouver, Fabio Messineo, travelled to Calgary to meet the Country’s largest Italian community in Alberta to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the city’s Italian Cultural Centre and to introduce the newly appointed Consular Correspondent, Attorney Andrea Riccio. He took the opportunity to also visit the International Disaster Relief Centre of the […]

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​Italian schools abroad: inauguration of the new school year on 28 September

Today, 28 September, the school year started for Italian schools abroad in the northern hemisphere. The event, also broadcast in live streaming, was held at the new premises of the Istituto Italiano Statale Comprensivo in Barcelona, one of the seven Italian state schools in the world. This was the first time a school year opening […]

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Meeting between the Farnesina Secretary General, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, and the Ambassador-Designate of the State of Israel in Rome, Alon Bar

Farnesina Secretary General, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, met with the Ambassador-Designate of the State of Israel to Italy, Alon Bar, on 28 September for a discussion focused on bilateral relations and the regional context, with particular reference to the Eastern Mediterranean. The meeting made it possible to reaffirm the importance of a multidimensional partnership between […]

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Durban, “Twenty thousand leagues under the seas” amid LED lights and digital projections​

The Italian Cultural Institute of Pretoria and Durban’s Centre for Creative Arts are pleased to present the theatrical show “Twenty thousand leagues under the seas”, of the Italian theatre company ‘Teatro Potlach’, to be staged for the first time in South Africa, as part of Durban’s Poetry Africa festival. Taking cue from Jules Verne’s novel, […]

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Italian design on display in Buenos Aires

The exhibition “Italian Design. The beauty of everyday life between Italy and Argentina”, promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute, was opened at the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires in the presence of Ambassador Fabrizio Lucentini. The exhibition, open until 29 January 2023, brings together some of the most significant objects of the […]

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A Cooperation Agreement for the creation of bio-districts in Tunisia signed in ​Tunis

A Cooperation Agreement for the creation of bio-districts in Tunisia was signed at the Residence of the Italian Ambassador in Tunis, Lorenzo Fanara, between the Farnesina, the Italian Development Cooperation Agency (AICS), and the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM Bari). The Agreement, titled “Preliminary Actions for the building of bio-districts in Tunisia”, […]

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Italy takes centre stage at Tourism Expo Japan 2022

Italy was one of the key players at the TEJ-Tourism EXPO Japan 2022 in Tokyo, once again accessible in person after the two-year-long pandemic. The 2022 edition was hosted at the Japanese capital’s Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre, with the first two days dedicated to travel trade meetings and another two days open to the […]

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