Washington: Amb. Zappia opens webinar on electric mobility
On the occasion of the Sustainable Development Festival 2021, the Italian Ambassador to Washington D.C. organised a webinar entitled “Driving Energy Transition Through Electric Mobility”. The event – which was held in recent days and also involved Michael Berube, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Sustainable Transportation at the United States Department of Energy – was […]
Read moreDevelopment Cooperation, Vive Minister Sereni chairs the Joint Committee
Vice Minister Marina Sereni chaired the fifth annual meeting of the Joint Committee on Development Cooperation. The meeting was attended by the Director-General for Development Cooperation, Giorgio Marrapodi, the Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Luca Maestripieri, and, limited to issues related to aid credits, by the Director of the International Financial Relations […]
Read moreIran: celebration of the centenary of Leonardo Sciascia
Today, the Italian Embassy in Tehran opened the 21st Italian Language Week in Iran with a lecture on the author Leonardo Sciascia, introduced and moderated by Giuseppe Perrone, Italian Ambassador in Tehran, and opened by Senator Emma Bonino, President of the National Committee of the Centenary Celebrations of Leonardo Sciascia. The lecture, held in a […]
Read moreLanguage Week: Los Angeles; books, exhibitions, conferences
The programme promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles on the occasion of the Italian Language Week” is rich. To begin with, the group exhibition dedicated to Dante Alighieri with installations, performances, and augmented reality is available online. It brings together the works of 150 internationally renowned Italian artists and illustrators, such as […]
Read moreBelgrade: This “Italian Language Week” is all about Dante
The Italian Institute of Culture in Belgrade is holding its “Italian Language Week” with an edition devoted to Dante, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of his death. A series of events will be organized starting October 24 with the inauguration of an photographic exhibition by Francesco Amorosino entitled “The Forest and the Stars”, […]
Read moreThe Farnesina Collection: the new catalogue on mosaics is online
For the series “I quaderni della Collezione”, the third volume entitled “Mosaici contemporanei nella Collezione Farnesina” [“Contemporary mosaics in the Farnesina Collection”], edited by Fabio De Chirico, has been published by Electa. Beginning with the large wall mosaics by Luigi Montanarini and Toti Scialoja in the Palazzo della Farnesina, and those in the Contemporary Art […]
Read moreAmbassador Lombardi presents his credentials to the East African Community
The Italian Ambassador to Tanzania, Marco Lombardi, presented his credential letters to the General Secretary of the East African Community, Peter Mathuki. During the meeting held in Arusha, Mathuki highlighted the importance for the EAC of its relations with Italy, and recalled the significant results of the “Meeting with Africa”, held in Rome on October […]
Read moreMetz: cycle of concerts of the Jewish Baroque
Organised by the Consulate General of Italy in Metz and the Italian Cultural Institute in Strasbourg, a tour by the “Salomone Rossi” Ensemble has begun, consisting of a cycle of concerts entitled “Musical Flowers of the Jewish Baroque”. This is a repertoire of songs and melodies from the Israelite tradition of the 16th, 17th and […]
Read moreItaly-Romania: exchange of views on the vaccination campaign
The Italian Ambassador to Bucharest, Alfredo Durante Mangoni, presided today at a videoconference between the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid-19 Emergency for the Italian government, Gen. C.A. Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, and the Coordinator of the Romanian Vaccination Campaign, Col. Valeriu Gheorghiță, assisted by their respective staffs. The exchange of views made it possible, among other […]
Read moreAmbassador Sebastiani at the presentation of the EISA 2022 Seminars
On 12 October at Palazzo Borromeo in Rome, the Ambassador of Italy to the Holy See, Pietro Sebastiani, introduced the presentation of the EISA 2022 Study Seminars and the Preliminary Forums. For more than twenty years EISA (the European International Studies Association) has been training Italian graduates and university students for diplomatic and international careers. […]
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