The Italian Cultural Institute holds a New Year’s Concert in Budapest
The Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest organised a New Year’s concert to welcome in the New Year. For the occasion, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Claudio Morbo – who has often performed in Hungary, also collaborating with the Szeged Symphony Orchestra – performed pieces by Ottorino Respighi and Giuseppe Tartini. The concert also featured […]
Read moreA homeless shelter in Tirana thanks to the Italian-Albanian Debt for Development Swap Programme
Italian Ambassador, Alberto Cutillo and the Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, inaugurated a homeless shelter in the Albanian capital city. The centre forms part of the “Tirana Shelter for Homeless” project, which is managed by the Municipality of Tirana and supported by the Italian-Albanian Debt for Development Swap Programme. The Italian government is waiving repayment of […]
Read moreItaly trains the restorers of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The three-year restoration training project by the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione (ISCR) for the technical staff of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina wound up with a seminar on the outcome of the project. The project was promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) and each year focused on the […]
Read moreFarnesina “plastic free”
As part of the “Farnesina Verde” (“Green Farnesina”) project which sees the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) and its diplomatic and consular network committed to promoting environmental sustainability, the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Manlio Di Stefano, and the Secretary General of the MAECI, Ambassador Elisabetta Belloni, today presented the new […]
Read moreFarnesina “plastic free”
Nel quadro del progetto “Farnesina Verde”, che vede il MAECI e la rete diplomatico-consolare impegnati per la sostenibilità ambientale, il Sottosegretario agli Affari Esteri e alla Cooperazione Internazionale, Manlio Di Stefano, e il Segretario Generale del MAECI, Ambasciatore Elisabetta Belloni, hanno oggi presentato al personale del Ministero i nuovi erogatori di acqua potabile installati […]
Read moreCollaboration between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and RAI
RAI (the Italian broadcasting company) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) have launched a new project to showcase young emerging talents of Italian modern music as part of a cultural promotion of Italy throughout the world. A global tour will be organised in March with six young performers who are taking […]
Read more‘Mediterranean’ photography exhibition by Mimmo Jodice in Rabat
The ‘Mediterranean’ photography exhibition by Neapolitan artist Mimmo Jodice was opened at the Italian Cultural Institute in Rabat. The photographs on display are the fruit of the artist’s long research and years of travelling across the two shores of the Mediterranean: Naples and the South of Italy, Greece, Spain and France but also Turkey, Syria, […]
Read moreItaly present at Design Creativity Month in China
The Milan Polytechnic participates in the Creativity Month opened at the Jinsha Ecool Park, the Design District of Chongqing, in China. The Ecool Park, located in a decommissioned factory, is an enormous complex dedicated to creative industries in the perspective of becoming the major design district in all of Southwest China. It houses exhibition spaces, […]
Read moreAn Authentic Italian Christmas Celebration in Volkswagen’s Hometown
Every year, the Christmas celebration for the children of Wolfsburg, Germany, is a memorable event. Introduced in the 1980s for the children of the Italian community, thanks to the efforts of the Consular Agency of Italy, over the years this event has become an international celebration aimed at enhancing integration and dialogue between people of […]
Read more16th session of the Italo-Russian Council on Economic, Industrial and Financial Cooperation (CIRCEIF)
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, and the Minister of Trade and Industry of the Russian Federation , Denis Valentinovich Manturov, co-chair the 16th session of the Italo-Russian Council on Economic, Industrial and Financial Cooperation (CIRCEIF), convening the representatives of the two Countries’ Administrations members of the Council. The CIRCEIF […]
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