Hanoi: Italian-Vietnamese Forum on Higher Education
Hanoi hosted the Italian-Vietnamese Forum on Higher Education. The event, organised by the Italian Embassy and by the Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, in association with Uni-Italia Vietnam and Van Lang University, tackled themes relative to the mobility of students, researchers and professors, joint research projects, financing options, visa-related issues, and the creation of […]
Read moreLondon: The Italian Embassy joins the Frieze Art Fair with ‘Italy at Frieze’
Italian contemporary art took centre stage at “Italy at Frieze”, an exhibition-event hosted at the Italian Embassy in London in the evening of Thursday, 3 October. For the first time ever, an embassy hosted an event that is part of the programme of the “Frieze” art fair which every year attracts to London collectors and […]
Read moreConference for the 60th anniversary of Italian Studies at the University of Skopje
The organization of an international conference entitled “Italian studies in the new millennium: new challenges in linguistics, literature and cultural research” was the result of a fruitful cooperation between the Italian Embassy in Skopje and the Department of Italian Language and Literature of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. The conference, which took place on 27 and […]
Read moreParis hosts the exhibition entitled: ‘Recovered Treasures – the art of saving art’
The Unesco headquarters in Paris will host an exhibition of art masterpieces recovered, in fifty years of activities, by the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage . The exhibit, which will run until 17 October, opened on 3 October and was attended by the Director General of Unesco, Audrey Azoulay, Italy’s Permanent Representative Massimo Riccardo, […]
Read moreSydney: De Giorgi exhibits his works combining the Mimetic Theory and echoes of Japan
‘When the gods walked the earth – Quando gli dei camminarono sulla terra’, is the title of the exhibition dedicated to the works of Mauro De Giorgi that will open on 10 October at the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney at the attendance of the artist. Organised with the support of the Raven Foundation, the […]
Read moreItaly-Jordan: 85 million euros for education and training
An intergovernmental agreement was signed this morning in Amman between Italy and Jordan under which Italian Cooperation will contribute 85 million euros to the education and training of children and young people in Jordan. The agreement was signed by Giorgio Marrapodi, Director General for Development Cooperation of the Farnesina, and the Jordanian Minister for Planning and International […]
Read moreBelgrade: chamber music concert, from Brahms to Paganini
“A Bridge for Music”, a concert organised by the Italian Cultural Institutein Belgrade, is part of the Italy-Serbia international cooperation project which bears the same name. Two are the events on schedule involving the Conservatorio “N. Paganini” and the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa, in cooperation with the Faculty of Music of the University of […]
Read moreAnkara: Italy-Turkey Innovation Day
Ankara hosted the first “Italy-Turkey Innovation Day”, organised by the Italian Embassy in conjunction with Tubitak, the Turkish research agency. The initiative was addressed to the R&D managers of some of the most important Italian enterprises operating in Turkey, who shared their experiences in the field of technological innovation. The conference was also an opportunity […]
Read moreSkopje: concert with music by Leoncavallo
To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Italian composer Ruggero Leoncavallo and the 60th anniversary of the introduction of the teaching of the Italian language in Macedonia, the Italian Embassy organised a concert with opera music at the Skopje Philharmonic. The tenor was Blagoj Nacoski, Macedonian-born but resident in Italy for over 210 […]
Read moreIsrael: Italian start-ups at the Tel Aviv Innovation Festival
Italy participated in the ‘Digital Life Design’ of the tenth edition of the Tel Aviv Innovation Festival with a very large representation. The event, which aims to exchange innovative ideas for sustainable development with a special focus on the new technologies sector, also thanks to the Italian Embassy and to the ICE-Agency, offered the delegations of 12 […]
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