Deputy Minister Del Re visits the United Nations humanitarian response depot in Brindisi

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, visited the United Nations humanitarian response depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi, a logistics facility of the World Food Programme (WFP) that is part of an international network that enables its partners – presently 88 Government agencies, International Organizations and Civil Society Organizations – to “pre-position” its humanitarian aid […]

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Belgrade: Concert by pianist Alessandra Celletti

The Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade, in partnership with the Kolarac Foundation, organised an important concert at the Foundation’s Gallery. On stage was Italian pianist Alessandra Celletti, an all-round artist. After graduating from the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome, Alessandra Celletti has performed in Italy but also in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Denmark […]

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An exhibition opens in Muscat, Oman, to celebrate 40 years of Italian archaeological missions

The long-standing collaboration between Italian archaeologists and the Sultanate of Oman was celebrated by organising an exhibition at the National Museum of Muscat ‘Dreamers. 40 years of Italian archaeological research in Oman ‘. The exhibition, dedicated to the biographies of scholars who carried out their research in the Sultanate, was inaugurated by the Ambassador of […]

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Los Angeles: the Creativity Award IIC goes to Preziosi and Cucinotta

Alessandro Preziosi and Maria Grazia Cucinotta are this year’s winners of the Los Angeles Creativity Award organised by the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC). The presentation of the award took place at the end of the ‘Los Angeles Italia – Film Fashion and Art Fest’, which is celebrated every year in the week preceding the Oscars. […]

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NATO internship programme launched

The 2020 internship programme at NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) has been launched. Internship applications can be submitted online on the official website (www.nato.int/internships) by 17 March 2019.

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China: Holocaust Remembrance Day in Chongqing and Chengdu

The Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Primo Levi were celebrated with two events at the White Elephant 303 City Theatre in Chongqing and at the Yunduan Theatre Tianfu Concert Hall in Chengdu, organised by the Italian Consulate General in Chongching, in cooperation with the Consulate General of Israel in […]

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Italy-Netherlands: 2019 dense billboard of events paying homage to Vanvitelli​

A dense programme of cultural, economic and scientific events has been organised for 2019 by the Italian Embassy and Cultural Institute in the Netherlands. The events underpin the close bilateral relationship between the two Countries in the wake of having shared the seat on the UN Security Council for 2017-2018, and within the framework of […]

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London: fifth meeting of Italy4innovation

Italy4innovation, the series of meetings promoted by the Italian Embassy in London to assist bilateral collaborations and promote the image of our Country, has reached its fifth appointment. The focus this time was on the scaling up of start-ups with great potential that need capital injections to expand in international markets. This sector in the […]

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​Mission of Foreign Minister Moavero Milanesi to South America

Since Sunday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, is in South America on an agenda full of meetings at top government level in three Countries:  Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. The aim of the important mission is to reinforce, in tangible and operational terms, relations with a region of the world that […]

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The Foreign Ministry is worriedly following the recent and tragically conflicting events at the border between Venezuela and Brazil

​The Foreign Ministry is worriedly following the recent and tragically conflicting events at the border between Venezuela and Brazil and reaffirms its firm and clear condemnation for similar episodes, like for any other form of violence. As often reiterated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Enzo Moavero Milanesi: “The immediate entrance of humanitarian aid for […]

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Italian Cooperation service makes an emergency contribution for East Ukraine

Upon the initiative of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, the Italian Cooperation service has allocated an emergency contribution of 300,000 euros to the World Health Organization (WHO), which is engaged in providing healthcare services to the population living in East Ukraine, which is affected by the serious consequences […]

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Chicago: Muti holds a concert to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre

The 75th anniversary of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre was commemorated in Chicago with a number of initiatives promoted by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti, in partnership with the Italian Consulate General and Cultural Institute. On 21 February, Muti conducted Symphony N. 9 by American composer and Pulitzer prize winner William Howard Schuman, […]

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