Italy’s Economic Diplomacy, 14 June: latest news from the world

The international opportunities of Big Science presented at the ILO Industrial Opportunity Days The INAF Astronomical Observatory in Capodimonte, Naples, hosted the second national edition of IOD – ILO Industrial Opportunity Days. The event was organised by INI – ILO Network Italia, the network of Italian Industrial Liaison Officers (ILO) working at major European research centres and […]

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Incontro del Sottosegretario Di Stefano con il Premio Nobel Nadia Murad

The Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Manlio Di Stefano, today received at the Farnesina, Nadia Murad, a Yazidi Human Rights activists and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2018, who is in Italy to pick up the “Premio Bellisario internazionale”. The conversation focused on the situation of the Yazidi minority mostly originating […]

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Meeting in Jazz: encounters between Italian and African jazz talents

On Saturday, 15 June at 9 p.m., the African Jazz Village in Addis Ababa, will host a performance by Stefano Carbonelli and Andrea Di Biase with the famous Kain Lab Ethiopian band. The concert scheduled in Addis Ababa on Saturday, 15 June 2019, kicks off the new “Meeting in Jazz” art project organised by the […]

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Crisis Unit and Universities partner to assure the safety of students abroad

The signing of two new Conventions – with the University of Bologna and the Catholic University of Milan – broadens the scope of partnerships entered into by the Foreign Ministry’s Crisis Unit with the Italian universities that are most involved at international level. “The issue of the safety of Italian students in the world has […]

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Minister Moavero meets Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, met with the Deputy Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, Marija Pejčinović Burić, at the Farnesina today. The meeting allowed for an extensive exchange of views and a review of the different issues which were discussed at […]

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Stockholm hosts a performance installation by Stefano Serretta

​The Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm hosts a performance installation by Stefano Serretta, which forms part of Vasco Forconi’s project entitled  ‘Shoegaze’, a veiled tribute to a subgenre of indie rock that was in vogue in the United Kingdom in the late ’80s. The project aims to develop a cycle of exhibitions throughout 2019 by […]

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Minister Moavero Milanesi opens the General Assembly of EUNIC (European Union of National Institutes for Culture)

Minister Moavero Milanesi opens the General Assembly of EUNIC (European Union of National Institutes for Culture)

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Brasilia: presentation of a photographic book paying homage to the Venice Carnival

The Italian Embassy in Brasilia hosted the presentation of the photography book “Cenas Venezianas (Scene Veneziane)”, by photographer Francisco De Assis Andrade, which pays homage to the Carnival of Venice. The winner of the Premio Pini 2017, the book contains texts in Portuguese, Italian and English. The book was written at the end of the photographer’s […]

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Minister Moavero attends the annual meeting of the Presidents and Secretaries General of the Economic and Social Councils of the EU and of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

Minister Moavero attends the annual meeting of the Presidents and Secretaries General of the Economic and Social Councils of the EU and of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

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Buenos Aires Exhibition by Martin Errichiello, the winner of the Premio Italia Argentina for art

The audio-visual installation “Il tempo che vivi è più forte di te” (“The Time You Live is Stronger than You”) by Martin Errichiello, on show at the Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires from 14 June, draws inspiration from the theme of exploring the body as a territory and as a source of political, civil […]

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The Foreign Ministry takes action to protect minors in Libya​

The Foreign Ministry has arranged a two-million-euro financing to UNICEF from the Africa Fund to fund actions aimed at protecting migrant minors in Libya, also by improving hygiene and health conditions in the area around Tripoli. The project envisages the creation of reception centres for vulnerable youths in Tripoli, with a view to assuring them […]

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Italian music on stage in Colombo as a sign of solidarity

“Italia ♥Sri Lanka” is the title of the concert organised by the Italian Embassy in Colombo to present a piece of Italian music which represents a symbol of our culture – Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” – and offer a sign of solidarity to Sri Lanka, a country dramatically hit by an act of terrorism […]

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