Budapest – Easter Concert with a Baroque wooden pipe organ
The Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest is celebrating Easter with a classical music concert by Maria Grazia Amoruso, accompanied by the Musica Sonora Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Péter Illényi. The works of Joseph Haydn will be played on a special wooden pipe organ, which was traditional in the Baroque era. Built by Giorgio Questa, it is a […]
Read moreCopenhagen – Cinema, history and mystery: Italian Cultural Institute screens a film on Ettore Majorana
“There are some truly extraordinary geniuses, like Galileo and Newton: Majorana is one of them”, said Enrico Fermi about Ettore Majorana, Italy’s greatest twentieth century physicist, the brightest of the ‘Via Panisperna boys’. His disappearence in March 1938, while on a ferry travelling from Palermo to Naples, is one of the biggest Italian mysteries of the last hundred […]
Read moreMoscow – Agreement between Italian and Russian research institutes renewed
The Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – INFN) and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) have renewed their framework agreement for scientific cooperation. The agreement was signed by INFN President, Fernando Ferroni, and JINR Director, Victor A. Matveev, in the presence of Italian President, Sergio Mattarella. The signing ceremony was attended by Cesare Maria Ragaglini, the Italian Ambassador in […]
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Spain: Fab Linkage kicks off exchange project between Italian and Spanish makers Madrid hosted the first “The Fab Linkage” business and exchange forum, a project falling under the “ITmakES 2017” initiative. The participants were selected from 9 Italian and Spanish cities (Alicante, Barcelona, Cagliari, Lecce, Madrid, Malaga, Milan, Rome and Valencia) by a Scientific […]
Read moreMinister Alfano in Udine
Speaking to an audience of entrepreneurs from Friuli, in the presence of the chairman of the Udine Chamber of Commerce, Giovanni Da Pozzo, the chairman of Confindustria Udine, Matteo Tono, and the chairman of Confartigianato – Imprese Friuli Venezia Giulia, Graziano Tilatti, Minister Alfano said: “Foreign policy is a strategic tool for supporting the growth […]
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Japan: MSC Crociere opens new routes from Okinawa MSC Crociere announced its plans to expand cruise routes to and from Japan. During a promotional event held at the residence of the Italian Ambassador in Tokyo, the company explained that new routes will be launched in 2018, starting in Okinawa and stopping over in the harbours […]
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Intesa San Paolo Bank has officially opened its onshore branch for corporate/wholesale services in Abu Dhabi. As the one and only Italian bank with an onshore branch, Intesa San Paolo can handle local currency operations, although only in the corporate sector. This represents a significant enhancement of the Italian financial presence in the United Arab […]
Read moreSeoul – Bilateral Symposium on Personalized Medicine to take place at The Plaza Hotel
Seoul hosted the Korea-Italy Bilateral Symposium on Personalized Medicine, organised by the Italian Embassy and ICE, the Italian Trade Agency in Seoul. The Symposium was opened by the Deputy-Minister of Health of the Republic of Korea, Dr. Ganglip Kim, and by the Italian Ambassador to Korea, Marco della Seta. Korean and Italian experts in biomedical […]
Read moreUnited States – Calvino and videogames: fusion in Jonathan Blow’s art
In 1984, Italo Calvino was invited to hold a series of lectures at Harvard University. Before his death, he completed five of the six Lessons planned on the imaginative possibilities of language and literature. His lessons were collected under the well-known title of “American Lessons: Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, now available with a […]
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