Civil Protection: Italy will treat another three people injured in explosion in Libya

CROSS will manage the transfer of the patients The Libyan Air Ambulance carrying three Libyan citizens injured on 1 August 2022 in the explosion of a tank in the Fezzan region has just landed at Pisa’s military airport. The Medical Evacuation (MedEvac) mission was carried out in close collaboration with the Libyan authorities. It was […]

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Italian Cultural Institute in Lima opens doors to the public

The Italian Cultural Institute in Lima is organising a guided visit – scheduled for 27 August – of the building that houses the Institute itself. Built between 1929 and 1930, it is known to be the centre of the Italian community’s cultural life and is recognised as National Cultural Heritage. The guided visit will allow […]

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​“Kabul the year after” — Secretary General Ettore Francesco Sequi guest of SkyTG24

One year on from the change of regime in Afghanistan, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, the Secretary General of the Farnesina, and Tommaso Claudi, former head of the consular chancellery in Kabul, are guests of the SkyTG24 special dedicated to that historic event.

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Dakar, auditions for contemporary urban dancers

The Italian Cultural Institute in Dakar sponsors the new edition of ‘EurAsia Auditions On Tour in Senegal’ organised by the international network of the EurAsia Dance Project directed by Stefano Fardelli in partnership with the M’Bosse Danse company and in association with the Alliance Française de Kaolack, the Résidence Mame Diarra de Kaolack and the […]

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Vršac hosts “Days of Italian Culture”

The Cultural Centre in Vršac , in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Belgrade, presents the “Days of Italian Culture”, to be held from 10 to 20 August as part of the Vršac Cultural Summer event. Visitors will get to see the exhibition “Nikola Tesla, the man who defined the future”, as well as […]

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Mexico City, exhibition of Dante’s inferno in comic form

The Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City presents Dante’s Inferno in comic form, an exhibition showing how Dante’s Inferno has been described and depicted by some of Italy’s most important cartoonists. The exhibition will be held from 11 August to 6 October at the Museo Miguel N. Lira di Tlaxcala. In the past hundred years, […]

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Farnesina Collection displays Giulia Neri’s works

The Farnesina Collection welcomes the works of Giulia Neri (Bologna, 1979). The twenty digital illustrations created between 2020 and 2022 by the Bologna-born illustrator, who graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and has a degree in psychology, add to the recent section – dedicated to graphics, illustration and street art – of […]

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Statement of the G7 Foreign Ministers in support of the IAEA´s efforts to promote Nuclear Safety and Security at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine

We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union, reiterate our strongest condemnation of the ongoing unprovoked and unjustifiable war of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The Russian Federation must immediately withdraw its troops […]

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​Italy–Australia. Meeting between the Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ettore Francesco Sequi, and the Ambassador of Australia, Margaret Twomey

The Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ettore Francesco Sequi, met the Ambassador of Australia, Margaret Twomey, today. Ambassador Sequi expressed his satisfaction over the growing amount of high-level contacts between Italy and Australia, which confirms the high quality of bilateral relations. In this context, Ambassador Sequi expressed his hope that the recent introduction of a […]

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​UN PROCUREMENT. ITALIAN COMPANIES’ SHARE INCREASES.

The  Annual Report on UN Procurement has been published. The report provides a detailed analysis of the management of the impressive volume of goods and services purchased by the United Nations system as a whole. 2021 saw a record, with a total volume of 29.6 billion dollars, an increase of 32.5% on the previous year. As was […]

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Copenhagen, rainbow-coloured comics for Pride Month

To celebrate Pride Month in Denmark, from 9 to 20 August, the Italian Cultural Institute in Copenhagen will present “Pride i striber. Fumetti arcobaleno”, a virtual exhibition displayed on its Facebook and Instagram pages that follows an itinerary to explore the complexity of relationships and identities, in a colourful language spelled out in the drawings […]

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Belgrade, Days of Italian Cinema in Bečej

The Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade, in partnership with the civic theatre of the city of Bečej, stages the “Days of Italian Cinema” in the Theatre’s gardens from the 8th to the 11th of August. The programme will screen four films in the Italian original version with subtitles in Serbian. The screenings kick off on 8 August […]

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