Kenya, agricultural development cooperation
Forty farming associations, 14 healthcare centres and 186,000 indirect beneficiaries make up the numbers that testify to the success of the Italian Cooperation in Kenya, where an agricultural development and HIV/AIDS prevention project has just been completed. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreResounding success for Italy at Baghdad Theatre
The first Italian cultural event in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein was a resounding success, as an audience of over 1,000 filled the National Theatre of Baghdad to listen to Italian poetry and lyric, classical, folk and jazz music. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreChina, italian firms at the Pujiang Innovation Forum
Italy participated for the first time in the 2012 edition of China’s Pujiang Innovation Forum, with the presence of four Italia firms (FAAM in the electric cars sector, Granitifiandre for eco-sustainable building materials, Link Consulting for energy efficiency and Gnosis for the chemical components sector). The forum foregrounded, in particular, a new cycle of industrial […]
Read moreExhibit in Beirut of 60 machines by Leonardo Da Vinci
An exhibition opened yesterday in Beirut of 60 examples of machines designed by Leonardo da Vinci. The machines, built by skilled Italian artisans following the artist’s drawings and models and sent over to the Middle East, are divided into four categories: transport, war, mechanics and entertainment and are interactive so as to allow students to […]
Read moreSistema Paese: riunione tra vertici MAE e Gruppo Trevi, best practice nel sostegno alle imprese (in translation)
Lo scorso 5 novembre la Farnesina ha ospitato il secondo incontro tra i vertici del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e del Gruppo Trevi, rappresentati dal presidente, Ing. Davide Trevisani, dall’Amministratore Delegato Dott. Cesare Trevisani e dal Direttore per le Relazioni Internazionali, Ing. Claudio Piconi. Il Segretario Generale del MAE, Ambasciatore Michele Valensise, era accompagnato dal […]
Read more“Friend Iraq”: photo exhibit at the Foreign Ministry
The foreign ministry will host an exhibition from 12 to 19 November entitled “Friend Iraq: Iraqi artists for the Italian Cooperation”, consisting of 26 panels depicting social, cultural and human aspects of Iraq. The exhibit is being promoted by the DGCS on the 10th anniversary of Italy’s intervention on behalf of the reconstruction of Iraq […]
Read moreAngola: Hospitalar medical fair in January
Opportunities for Italian firms in the Angolan healthcare sector: the Hospitalar medical-healthcare equipment and technologies fair will take place on 25 and 26 January 2013 parallel to the 8th International congress of the Angolan medical association, whose theme this year is “Health in Angola: present and future”. This first edition of the Hospitalar Medical Fair […]
Read moreLebanon: Terzi to Italian troops, exceptional service for peace
“You are rendering an exceptional service to Lebanon, to Italy and to the cause of peace, and that makes me and all Italians very proud of you”, Minister Giulio Terzi wrote in a letter read today by Under-Secretary Staffan De Mistura to the Italian contingent of the UN UNIFIL force in southern Lebanon at the […]
Read moreCinemArena comes to Alice in the city
The Italian Cooperation produced a number of documentary films on CinemArena, an innovative development project carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lebanon, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal and Uganda. An extraordinary itinerant caravan Screenings will be held in the Alice cinema on 9 November at 19:00 and again on 18 November […]
Read moreObama re-election: A stronger America, Italy-EU opportunities, says Terzi
“America is stronger” with the re-election of Barack Obama, and his return to the White House “is another major opportunity for the European Union and for Italy”. Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi commented on Obama’s victory on RAITRE. “A stronger America” because “it will keep to a path that has been yielding results in […]
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