ICE Roadshow in Cuneo – Going international in order to grow, as a company and as a system
Today it was Cuneo’s turn to host the “Italy for companies, with SMEs towards foreign markets” Roadshow, organised by ICE-Agenzia in partnership with Confartigianato Imprese – Associazione Artigiani of the Province of Cuneo, a local partner of the event. This stop will show the production model that best characterises our economic system: only a few […]
Read moreChina – Chengdu kicks off Umbria Jazz
Chengdu, China’s south-eastern metropolis with the country’s highest growth rate and a population of 16 million people, will be playing host to the Umbria Jazz Festival until October 23. The festival, organized in partnership with the Fondazione Umbria Jazz, the Italian Embassy in Beijing, the Italian Consulate General in Chongqing, the Umbria Region and the […]
Read moreMicrofinance for the Development of Peoples
The Farnesina hosts the conference “Microfinance for the Development of Peoples”, organised by Banca Popolare Etica in partnership with the Directorate General for Development Cooperation (DGCS) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The Conference is organised into two thematic sessions respectively dedicated to the role of microfinance and of accessing loans for […]
Read moreItalian, living language
“A language is the carrier of identity values, the expression of the culture of a people,” said the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, when closing the Joint Action for the Italian Language, an event hosted in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. The central theme of the event, organised by the […]
Read moreItaly & Serbia Building together
Tomorrow, Belgrade will host a two-day conference focusing on the construction sector and designed to gain detailed information on projects, which Italian companies will be able to access in the years ahead. Italy& Serbia Building together is an initiative organized by the Italian Construction Contractors’ Association – ANCE, in conjunction with the Italian Engineering, Architecture […]
Read moreCanada – Montreal, Conference “Language and creativity: costumes, fashion and design”
Designer Alessandro Guerriero will talk about Italian as the “language of creativity” in a conference organised by the Italian Cultural Institute at the University of Quebec. He will illustrate how language grows out of the vivacity of the multifarious, of everyday life, when every element grows out of contrasting and reciprocal ties or through transformation. […]
Read moreBelgium – Italian Cultural Institute presents the 2nd issue of the Cartaditalia series
The new “CARTADITALIA” edition maintains its original goal: to propose to the international market instruments to guide users through the broad selection of art and culture that Italy offers today, through real “maps” (as in the title). In this second issue, the magazine focuses its cartography on one of the creative activities that has most […]
Read moreUnited States – Chicago, Dressing the Past: Outfits, Dreams and Memories of a 20th Century Italian Writer
The Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago focused on the original connection between fashion and literature in presenting the book Album di vestiti (“Dress Album”), written by Paola Masino at the end of the ‘50s and remained unpublished until 2015. The editor, Marinella Mascia Galateria, from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, will illustrate the memories […]
Read moreConference on “Italian and Creativity: brands and lifestyles, fashion and design”
The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Zurich will present at the Geneva University a lecture by Prof. Lorenzo Coveri, from the University of Genoa, and Ms Federica Fiori, fashion expert and journalist. They will especially focus on the book entitled “L’Italiano e la creatività: marchi e costumi, moda e design“ (“Italian and Creativity: brands and […]
Read morePostcards from the other Italy – Nicola, big event designer in Rio
The 12th episode of “Postcards from the other Italy”, the web series produced by the news agency ‘9colonne’ with the support of the Directorate General for Italians Abroad and Migration Policies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, comes from Rio de Janeiro. The postcard is sent by Nicola, an architect from the […]
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