Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Morocco: Italian Chambers of Commerce – biomedical sector trade mission
Morocco: Italian Chambers of Commerce – biomedical sector trade mission The Chamber of Commerce Consortium for Internationalisation, which includes the Chambers of Turin, Rome, Florence, Genoa, Modena, Padoua, Vicenza, Udine, Catania, Salerno and Matera, is organising a trade mission to Morocco (Casablanca). The mission, which will take place from 27 to 30 October 2014, will […]
Read moreIntervento del Sottosegretario Della Vedova in occasione delle celebrazioni della Festa della Repubblica (Seoul, 2 giugno 2014) (in translation)
(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato) • On the special occasion offered by the celebration of the Italian National Day, I would like to focus on the most important event that is about to take place in Italy, and in the whole Europe, for many years ahead. • In 2015 Italy will have the […]
Read moreWarsaw – An exhibition to celebrate the Italian Cultural Institute’s first 80 years
The Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw is celebrating its 80th birthday with an exhibition of drawings by great Italian artists, on loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The exhibition also includes letters and articles regarding the opening of the Institute, on 12 November 1934. Forced to close at the outbreak of the Second World […]
Read moreOman – Italy takes centre-stage at Royal Opera House in Muscat
Italy will be taking centre-stage at the next season of the Royal Opera House in Muscat, with performances of Macbeth (Teatro dell’Opera di Trieste), Falstaff (Teatro La Scala) and Don Pasquale (Teatro Comunale di Bologna), as well as a concert by Riccardo Muti in March 2015. As the Italian Ambassador to Muscat, Paola Amadei, pointed […]
Read moreExpo: An opportunity for growth, says Mogherini – “A showcase for Italian excellence and for a renewed effort to combat malnutrition”
EXPO 2015 will be the biggest global event for the coming years, with 147 official participants and more pavilions than the Shanghai edition. It will be “a unique opportunity for our agri-food industry, an encounter between the most dynamic businesses in the sector”. These were the comments of Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini as she presented […]
Read moreBuenos Aires – Lucilla Galeazzi to perform Italian folk music
Lucilla Galeazzi, a composer, researcher and lecturer specialising in Italian folk music, will be giving her first concert in Argentina on Saturday 21 June 2014. The event is being organised by the Umbria Centre in Buenos Aires, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Embassy, in collaboration with the Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos […]
Read moreLjubljana – Events celebrating the city’s links with Italy a great success
Ljubljana’s links with Italy have been showcased in a number of recent events organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in the Slovenian capital. Highlights were the exhibitions on “The Brain. Inside story”, featuring recent discoveries in neuroscience, and “Emona: A City of the Empire”, celebrating the city’s first two millennia. Both opening events were attended […]
Read moreTel Aviv – Italian cultural events are a great success
Italian music and theatre events have been a great success in Tel Aviv. The events, which included the first ever Italy-Israel Jazz Festival to mark UNESCO’s International Jazz Day, were organised by the Italian Cultural Institute “to disseminate Italian culture, in its various sectors, throughout Israel”. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreLondon – Italians in tour for Pontignano Conference
Ten young people, 5 of them Italian, are in London for the Pontignano Fellowship Scheme, an exchange programme organised in the run-up to the Pontignano Conference. The theme of this year’s Conference, which will take place in Pontignano, near Siena, from 3 to 5 October 2014, is “Better together or better apart?” Italian and British […]
Read more“Italy and space” – Parmitano and Cristoforetti meet the UN in Vienna
Italian astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano were guests of honour at “Italy and Space”, the event organised in Vienna by Italy’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. The event was organised with the support of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the collaboration of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Italian […]
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