Day to Fight Counterfeiting: the Foreign Ministry’s commitment to youth

The aim of the “National Student Day to Fight Counterfeiting” is to raise the awareness of youths on the problem of counterfeiting and the international commerce of “Italian sounding” products, as well as to promote the culture of legality in the new generations. The Day was launched on 29 October by the National Council for the […]

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Italian Economic Diplomacy, 28 October: latest news from the world

Sparkle joins the European Open Cloud for Research Environments Project​ Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and the eighth leading global operator, has been selected for the wave 1 of the Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) Voucher Program to provide European researchers with access to AWS’s services. The OCRE project, launched in […]

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The Farnesina protects the more vulnerable social groups: funds for € 3 million to Chad and Tunisia

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has earmarked 2 million euros from its Africa Fund in favor of the World Food Program (WFP) in Chad, to support the economic self-sufficiency of about 30,000 Sudanese refugees, creating local job opportunities in the agricultural sector that constitute alternatives to migration. A further contribution of € 1 million from the […]

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The Year of Leonardo da Vinci: Medieval music in Bratislava

The music of the Middle Ages is the protagonist of a concert organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Bratislava for the year dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci, on the 500th anniversary of his death. The “Arco Antiqua Ensemble” will accompany viewers tomorrow in the Church of the Capuchins on a musical journey through the whole […]

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Italy – Spain book forum, focus on the ‘Craft of Writing’

The fourth Italy-Spain book forum will be held tomorrow in Madrid to promote the development of publishing projects and cooperation between the Italian and the Spanish publishing industries.  The Italian Cultural Institute organised the event in association with the Italian Trade Agency (ICE), Monteverdelegge and the Associazione Forum del Libro as part of a cycle of […]

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Leonardo da Vinci is the guest star in Algiers

The “Leonardo Opera Omnia” exhibition by RAI COM made its first stop in the North Africa-Middle East area in Algiers, in the prestigious venue of the “Palais de la Culture Moufdi Zakaria”, the seat of the Ministry of Culture. Hundreds of visitors had the opportunity to admire 17 high-definition life-size reproductions of the masterpieces of […]

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Bangladesh: Di Stefano: intensify economic relations

The Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Manlio Di Stefano, received at the Farnesina the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, Abdul Momen. The Undersecretary firstly recognised the positive contribution made to Italy’s economy and society by the Bangladeshi diaspora (amounting to 140,000 people, the largest community in continental Europe). Di Stefano then recalled […]

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Di Stefano receives the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh: intensify economic relations

The Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Manlio Di Stefano, received at the Farnesina the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, Abdul Momen. The Undersecretary firstly recognised the positive contribution made to Italy’s economy and society by the Bangladeshi diaspora (amounting to 140,000 people, the largest community in continental Europe). Di Stefano then recalled […]

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The Farnesina hosts a meeting on the safety of foreigners in an emergency

The Crisis Unit and the Civil Protection Department, together with Ministry of the Interior, organised a meeting at the Farnesina with the members of the Consular and Diplomatic Corps accredited to Italy to discuss national procedures to manage serious emergencies and to provide assistance to the foreign citizens involved. Taking advantage of the opportunity offered […]

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The Italian Language Week in the World: Boccaccio’s Decameron in Yangon

To celebrate the Italian Language Week in the World, the Italian Embassy in Yangon staged a theatre performance based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron to honour the theme of this year’s edition “Italian on Stage” and to pay tribute to the father of Italian literature in prose. The re-adaptation of Boccaccio’s masterpiece in a modern key […]

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Week of Italian Language: Washington hosts a conference on “The Secrets of Traviata”, with Maestro Speranza Scappucci

On the occasion of the 19th edition of the “Week of Italian Language in the World”, the Italian Embassy organised, in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute, a conference on the Secrets of La Traviata, with Conductor Ms Speranza Scappucci, to take place in the Embassy’s Auditorium.  Revolutionary, controversial, lashing the bourgeois society: this and […]

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Italian lights up the stage at the Palladium Tehatre in Rome

The Italian language goes on stage today at Rome’s Teatro Palladium, an event organised within the framework of the “19th Week of the Italian Language in the World”, an initiative promoted every year by the Farnesina. Roma Tre University has organised a focus on language, art and poetry with the participation of Italian and foreign […]

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