21st edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World

Thursday, October 14, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. the presentation event of the 21st edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World will be held at the Farnesina. The event will be opened by Vice Minister Marina Sereni, and will be moderated by the journalist, Serena Bortone. It will be attended by the Secretary […]

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Lusaka: webinar on natural resources management

The Embassy of Italy in Zambia has organised a webinar “The ART of managing resources: Land, Forests, Water: paths of cooperation between Italy and Zambia”, on how best to manage natural resources.     The webinar was attended by two ministers of the Zambian government – the Minister for the Green Economy and the Minister […]

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Cairo: a book on the Italian Embassy building

A book on the history of the building that is the seat of the Italian Embassy in Cairo, richly illustrated with an extensive set of photographs, printed by the Stabilimenti Tipografici Carlo Colombo of Rome in Italian and Arabic (but an English version is expected next month). The book was presented in the Egyptian capital […]

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Sereni attends the USAID-sponsored summit on Ethiopia

Today, Vice Minister Sereni participated in an informal ministerial-level summit on the conflict in Ethiopia and the humanitarian crisis in the country, organised by USAID and chaired by Director General Samantha Power, as part of a series of international coordination initiatives the US Administration on the ongoing crisis. “It is now necessary to make greater […]

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Sereni attends the USAID-sponsored summit on Ethiopia

Today, Vice Minister Sereni participated in an informal ministerial-level summit on the conflict in Ethiopia and the humanitarian crisis in the country, organised by USAID and chaired by Director General Samantha Power, as part of a series of international coordination initiatives the US Administration on the ongoing crisis. “It is now necessary to make greater […]

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Conferenza stampa del Ministro Luigi Di Maio in chiusura della Riunione Ministeriale G20 Commercio

Il Ministro degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Luigi Di Maio, chiude i lavori della Riunione Ministeriale G20 Commercio con una conferenza stampa dal Teatro Tasso di Sorrento. Leggi il Media Handbook.

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Abu Dhabi: exhibition honors Fabrizio Plessi

The Italian Institute of Culture in Abu Dhabi has inaugurated an exhibition entitled “Plessi’s Digital Wall”, featuring the works of Italian artist Fabrizio Plessi, one of the pioneers of digital art in Europe.      In addition to the artist himself, the ceremony inaugurating the exhibition, which includes the video installations of the “Splash” series […]

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Informative Note – 12th Festival of Diplomacy

On Wednesday, October 13, 2021, at 11 a.m., the Presentation Event for the 12th Festival of Diplomacy, “Ready for the Unexpected?”, will be held at the Farnesina The Festival, which will be held in Rome from October 13 to 22, with over 100 events, will bring together illustrious representatives of diplomacy, civil society, the media and the […]

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Online conference on Venetian art in Russia

Yesterday, 11 October,  the “Tsaritsyno” Museum-Reserve, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Moscow and the Department of Art History of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, organised a conference entitled “Venice in Russia: research experiences on Venetian art and cultural heritage”. The initiative was aimed at researchers, curators of museum collections, young scholars, […]

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Di Maio: “Opening up to international trade in order to build recovery” (Il Sole 24 Ore financial daily newspaper)

ROME – The ghosts of protectionism are always lurking, but the tariff war of the Trump era is now behind us. There is every indication of a thaw between the United States on one side, and China and the EU on the other. It is now a matter of working to reform the rules of […]

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Dubai: talk on sustainable development and the green economy

The series of Innovation Talks created by ICE, the Italian Trade Agency, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Abu Dhabi as part of EXPO 2020, opened with a debate on “Rational consumption, sustainable development, and the green economy”.     Opening the debate, the Ambassador to the UAE, Nicola Lener, recalled that these Innovation […]

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Renaissance Venice, exhibition opens in Toronto on 14 October

The Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto has supported and collaborated in this important exhibition on Renaissance Venice, which provides an interesting insight into the daily life and luxury of the lagoon city in the 15th and 16th centuries.  The cultural event (“Renaissance Venice: Life and Luxury at the Crossroads”), organised by and at the Gardiner […]

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