Italy-Libya: training of Libyan teachers to teach Italian

The arrival in Venice of 60 Libyan teachers, who will begin in-person training activities at Ca’ Foscari University to coincide with the opening of the Italian Language Week in the World, marks a step forward in the training activities envisaged by the Agreement signed in Tripoli in December 2020 as part of the strengthening of […]

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The 21st edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World begins in China

The 21st Week of the Italian Language in the World, which began today in China, is dedicated to “Dante, the Italian”, and coincides with the 700th anniversary of the death of the Supreme Poet. This cycle of events dedicated to the Italian Language was inaugurated in Beijing by the Italian Ambassador to China, Luca Ferrari, […]

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The records of Made in Italy: publication of the second edition of ‘Excellence: Italian Main Industrial Sectors’

A little less than a year after the first issue, a new edition of the publication “Excellence: Italian Main Industrial Sectors” offers a concise overview of Italian excellence in the leading sectors of the “Made in Italy” designation. Many sectors are added to this new edition: leading categories that range from infrastructure and transport to […]

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Pre-COP26 Conference in Tbilisi

In view of COP26 to be held in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12, 2021, the Embassy of Italy and the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Georgia organized, in collaboration with the Georgian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, a conference on combating climate change. The event, which took place in Tbilisi, was […]

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Teheran, the Italian Embassy celebrates film director Kiarostami

Yesterday, October 14, the Italian Embassy in Teheran hosted a multimedia tribute in memory of Abbas Kiarostami, icon of Iranian cinema. The cultural event consisted of a photographic exhibition, a showing of two video-documentaries on the locations that inspired Kiarostami, and a classical music performance.  In his remarks, the Italian Ambassador, Giuseppe Perrone, highlighted the […]

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An exhibition on Italian Futurism in Moscow

The exhibition “L’arte libera. Il Futurismo italiano dalla collezione di Gianni Mattioli” (Free art. The Italian Futurism from the Gianni Mattioli Collection), sponsored and supported by the Italian Embassy in Moscow in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes in Moscow and St Petersburg, will be inaugurated at the Puškin Museum of Fine Arts in the […]

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Tashkent: Italy photographed by the Alinari to contemporary artists

On 15 October at the premises of the National Institute for Art and Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tashkent, will open the exhibition “ItaliAE. Dagli Alinari ai Maestri della fotografia contemporanea”, organised by the Italian Embassy in collaboration with MAECI, Fratelli Alinari IDEA Spa and the Academy of Fine Arts in Tashkent. […]

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London: #Italy4Art, starting again with contemporary art

Public diplomacy activities are resumed with contemporary art and the Italian Embassy in London will offer a series of initiatives, from 13 to 18 October, in connection with the #Italy4Art event. Kicking off with Spotlight Italia, a special project within the StART Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery. For the first time, StART has dedicated […]

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ArteOltreConfine: the call for applications for Italian schools abroad is now online

Launching the first edition of the competition to promote reflection on diversity via the works in the Farnesina Collection, the ArteOltreConfine call for submissions, for students of primary and secondary Italian schools abroad, is now online. This educational project is based on the reproduction – multisensory and accessible for people with visual disabilities – of a work of art from the Farnesina Collection.  Interested classes can register by 27 November 2021. The finalist works will be exhibited […]

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Melbourne: talking about the relationship between people and trees

Melbourne: talking about the relationship between people and trees On 15 October, as part of the Sustainable Development Festival 2021, the Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne is offering an online conference entitled “We are the Forest – Our special relationship with trees”. Giorgio Vacchiano, researcher in Forest Management and Planning at the State University of […]

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Tashkent: conference on renewable energy

A conference is scheduled in Tashkent for October 15 on the subject of renewable energy. It is organized by the Italian and British Embassies in Tashkent, jointly with the campuses of the Politecnico di Torino in Italy and Uzbekistan. The event, which will be attended both in presence and online, will feature well-known experts in the field, […]

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Brasilia: an exhibition on Dante and the eyes of Beatrice

The Italian Embassy in Brasilia, together with the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, on the occasion of the XXI Week of the Italian language in the world, will inaugurate on 19 October the exhibition “Dante 700 years: the eyes of Beatrice”‘, on the eighteenth anniversary of the death of the Supreme Poet. The aim of the […]

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