Mexico – Pianist Roberto Prosseda to perform in Mexico
Pianist Roberto Prosseda will perform a concert on Feb. 12 at the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Mexico City. For the occasion, the artist will play works by Felix Mendelssohn, of which he is one of the world’s greatest virtuoso performers, Carlo Boccadoro, Luca Lombardi and Nicola Campogrande. The musician also actively promotes Italian […]
Read moreToronto – Cinema, selections start for the Italian Contemporary Film Festival
The engines are warming up for the 2016 edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF): the fifth edition will run from June 9 to 17 and will involve the most important cities of Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Hamilton and Niagara, Mississauga and Vaughan). Event organisers have opened applications for the submission of short films. […]
Read moreLondon – Italy’s Chamber of Commerce in UK launches start-ups website
The London-based Italian Chamber of Commerce in the United Kingdom has launched a section on its website devoted to technological innovation. The main goal of the online page consists in promoting Italian high-tech start-ups (founded by Italian expats in the UK), facilitating their development and growth on the British market. The page includes a list […]
Read moreFood safety and security: Gentiloni’s first visit to the World Food Programme
Food security and a “zero-hunger world” are the themes still resonating following upon the efforts of the Italian government to give these issues prominence at the Expo Milan 2015 exhibition. These were also topics on the agenda for the first official visit of Paolo Gentiloni, the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, to […]
Read moreDEI – Russia: Pizzarotti wins a contract for the hospital complex in Saint Petersburg
The construction company Pizzarotti will be building a modern 504-bed hospital complex, Municipal Hospital no. 40 in the town of Sestroretsk, 40 km north-west of the centre of Saint Petersburg. The Italian group has been awarded the contract through a mixed company (Nevskaya meditsinskaya infrastruktura), of which it owns 71%, while the remaining 29% is […]
Read moreAsuncion – Italian surgeons perform hundreds of free surgeries throughout Paraguay
Three plastic surgeons from the AICEP non-profit organisation, Marco Stabile, Gianluca Alessandro Gatti, and Alessandro Giacomina, were presented to the Paraguayan press by the Italian Embassy for their pro bono work under the “Nemyatyro Paraguay” reconstructive surgery project. Developed by Paraguay’s Health Ministry through the national Burn Centre Unit headed by Paraguayan surgeon of Italian […]
Read moreLisbon – A journey through time at the IIC: Christian Greco illustrates Turin’s renovated Egyptian Museum
The famed 19th century scholar and Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion, who largely relied on Turin’s collections to decipher hieroglyphs, once wrote: “The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin”. The Egyptian Museum of Turin, the oldest Egyptian museum in the world and second only to Cairo’s in terms of importance, has recently been completely renovated. […]
Read moreArgentina -“Zorba, the Greek” goes back on stage in Argentina in February
Argentina’s “Festival de musica en Plaza Vaticano” in Buenos Aires will present “Zorba the Greek” on Feb. 11. The performance, produced by Naples’ San Carlo Theatre with music by Mikis Theodorakis, is a two-act chorus line ballet with 22 scenes designed by Lorca Massine in 1988. “Zorba the Greek” was inspired by the celebrated novel […]
Read moreBucharest – Roma Tre University presents Romania travel guide
The Roma Tre University presented the first volume of the e-book series entitled “Invitation to Travel” dedicated to Romania in the Auditorium of the University of Bucharest Central Library on Tuesday. The presentation, organised by the Italian Embassy in partnership with the Infoeuropa Centre of the Romanian Foreign Ministry, was attended by a large number […]
Read moreAnti-Daesh Summit at the Foreign Ministry – “We have made progress but the threat persists”
In the fight against Daesh, we have made “important progress, but we are facing a very resilient organisation and we must therefore not underestimate it,” said Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, in his opening remarks to the third Ministerial Meeting of the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, convened today at the Foreign […]
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