Beijing – Made in Italy, Giro d’Italia makes a stop in China
The “Giro d’Italia” will be making a stop in China this year, but we are not talking about the celebrated bike race. This time the ambassador of Italy to Beijing will be wearing the pink jersey. The embassy, in collaboration with other institutional representatives of System Italy in China, have organised the second edition of […]
Read moreBuenos Aires – A meeting of Law and Philosophy
“Celso e Kelsen, per la rifondazione della scienza giuridica” is the title of a book by Filippo Gallo to be presented on 15 April at the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires. The event has been organised by the Consorcio Universitario Italiano para Argentina (Cuia) and the centre for Lain American legal studies of Rome’s […]
Read moreTokyo – “Money and Beauty” exhibition opens
Japan offers its public a look at how art, history and economy are entwined in an exhibition entitled “Money and Beauty: bankers, Botticelli and the bonfire of the vanities” at Tokyo’s Bunkamura Museum. Its aim is to show the complex relationship between the development of commerce, the birth of the modern banking system and the […]
Read moreCzech Republic – Italy bring 3 films to the European Film Festival
All eyes are on Italy at the 22nd edition of the European Film Festival under way in the Czech Republic, which continues through 16 April in Prague and moves to Brno from the 17th to the 20th. Italy’s three entries are Michele Alhaique’s ‘Senza nessuna pieta”, Daniele Gaglianone’s ‘La mia classe’, and Paolo Sorrentino’s award-winning […]
Read moreDei – Korea: EU-Korea Innovation Day in Seoul, focus on science and technology cooperation
Korea: EU-Korea Innovation Day in Seoul, focus on science and technology cooperation Scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and Korea was at the centre of the EU-Korea Innovation Day organised by the Delegation of the European Union and the European Chamber of Commerce in Korea, which was held on 25 march in Seoul. […]
Read moreBuenos Aires – The Genoa Aquarium “Teaches”
President of the Casa America Foundation of Genoa Roberto Speciale, and Costa Edutainment leader Giovanni Battista Costa flew to Argentina on a mission aimed at introducing the authorities of the city of Buenos Aires to the experience of the Genoa Aquarium, whose creation contributed to the relaunch of that Ligurian city in the early 1990s. […]
Read moreDiplomazia e Dintorni – 13th segment dedicated to “Writer Diplomats”
Radio Luiss will air a new segment of the Stefano Bald-conducted programme “Diplomazia e Dintorni” at 20:00 on Tuesday 14 April. The segment will feature a series of interventions by writer-diplomats that originally took place in the context of a cultural event devoted to publications by diplomats. This first part will include Gaetano Cortese, Marco […]
Read moreOman – Italian high fashion lecture and show
Italian high fashion took centre stage in Oman, where the embassy organised two promotional events. The first was a lecture on the evolution of Italian fashion since the 1950s by Guillermo Mariotto, Creative Director of the Maison Gattinoni, and the other a fashion show featuring the maison’s 2015 Spring-Summer collection. Both were for the benefit […]
Read moreAnkara – Turkish debut for Italian robot pianist
Italian robot pianist “Teo Tronico” and pedal keyboard played by Roberto Prasseda made their Turkish debut in Ankara, accompanied by the Orkestra Akademik Baskent conducted by Ertug Korkmaz. The event was a joint effort by the Italian Embassy in Ankara, Institute of Culture of Istanbul, the Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation and the University of Baskent, […]
Read moreDei – Kazakhstan: Italcementi signs MoU for Shymkent plant
Shymkentcement/Italcementi signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the local government of Shymkent, capital of the South Kazakhstan Region, involving the Italian firm’s commitment to maintain current employment levels for the next 2 years. The plant is working on modernising, with an overall investment of 100 million euro, for the transition of 4 production lines dating […]
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