United Nations – Italy in the forefront on climate change
A Climate Summit was held on 23 September, convened by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in the margins of the UN General Assembly. Its aim was to maintain awareness among heads of state and government of the upcoming UNFCCC conferences in Lima and Paris for the drafting of a new global accord on climate. Climate change awareness […]
Read moreDei/Sole 24 Ore – Belgium: Selex ES signs 20m euro Post contract
Selex ES, a Finmeccanica group firm was awarded a 20 million euro contract with bpost during the Post-Expo 2014 trade fair in Stockholm. Selex ES will provide a 900-metre long Multisorting Parcel Handling System (MPHS) with a capacity of 30,000 packages per hour, to be installed in the new bpost logistics hub located in the […]
Read moreAlessandro Di Battista Fellowship 2015-16
In 2002, the Italian Government, in collaboration with the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), established the Alessandro Di Battista Fellowship. It is co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Finance in memory of the young Italian economist Alessandro Di Battista, who came from that Ministry […]
Read moreQatar – Infrastrutture: le aziende italiane volano (in translation)
E’ tutto pronto per la missione imprenditoriale organizzata dalla Camera di commercio italiana in Qatar e dall’Ufficio Ice di Doha. A partecipare un gruppo di imprese italiane che operano nell’edilizia, nell’arredo e nei trasporti, tutti settori collegati ai maggiori progetti infrastrutturali del paese arabo. Il mercato qatarino La missione partirà alla volta di Doha il […]
Read moreNew York – Lo ‘Stato di plastica’ della Finucci (in translation)
Dopo le tappe di Parigi, Venezia, Madrid e Roma, e’ in arrivo a New York il “Garbage Patch State” dell’artista italiana Maria Cristina Finucci, che intende cosi’ portare nel cuore delle Nazioni Unite il suo messaggio contro i residui plastici che inquinano gli oceani. Lo ‘Stato di plastica’ rappresenta la superficie occupata dai rifiuti di […]
Read moreBrasile – Il “Filmcup” scalda i motori (in translation)
Scadono il 26 settembre i termini per iscriversi alla “FilmCup Brazil & Italy” 2014. L’evento, annunciato durante la 71esima Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, e’ uno tra i piu’ grandi mercati audiovisivi internazionali che ospitera’ l’Italia dal 25 al 27 novembre nella Cinemateca brasiliana di San Paolo in collaborazione con il mercato di Ventana Sur […]
Read moreItaly in the UN – against child and forced marriages
Italy is in the forefront in the UN against the scourge of child and forced marriages. “The ending child marriages: towards a more gender equitable world” event was held in the margins of the General Assembly to promote more awareness of a phenomenon that is impacting dramatically on female populations and on socio-economic development prospects. […]
Read moreDei/Sole 24 Ore – Oman: presentation of DuqmSpecial Economic Zone Wednesday 24 at the Farnesina
At 10:30 on Wednesday 24 September 2014 a presentation will be made in the foreign ministry’s International Conference Room of the Duqm Special Economic Zone (Sezad Duqm), which covers an area of 1,777 square kilometres and 80 km of coastline along the Arabian Sea, halfway between Mascate and Salala. According to the project’s promoters, this […]
Read moreMascate – Verdi opens the Opera House season
The Royal Opera House of Mascate hosted 3 performances of Macbeth between 18 and 22 September and lyric concert on the 21st of the same month. The performances were held with the support of the Italian embassy in the Sultanate, conducted by Donato Renzetti and the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Verdi. Read more, […]
Read moreVancouver – Poesia e parole, due giorni con Corrado Calabrò (in translation)
Vancouver ospita per due giorni Corrado Calabrò: giurista, scrittore e poeta – presidente dell’Agcom dal 2005 al 2012 – Calabrò arriva in Canada in occasione della traduzione del suo volume di poesie “Dimmelo per SMS. 112+1 poesie d’amore in tre versi”, curata da Genni Gunn. L’appuntamento è lunedì (stanza n. 799, Buchanan Tower, 1873 East […]
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