Italy is ready to invest in renewable energy in Zambia
Italy can offer a strong support to the transition towards renewable energy sources in Zambia. This is what came out of a seminar held in Lusaka and attended by numerous Italian entrepreneurs of the sector. Access to energy in a Country in which 60% of the population does not have any is an issue of […]
Read morePhotography Exhibition ‘Fifteen Percent’ for Day of Persons with Disabilities
The photography exhibition “Fifteen Percent”, curated by the Italian artist Christian Tasso, opened at the Palais des Nations in Geneva to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Dedicated to persons with disabilities, who account for 15% of the global population, the aim of the exhibition is to celebrate difference and diversity and raise […]
Read moreItaly partner Country at Houston’s SpaceCom Expo
Italy was a partner Country in the 4th edition of SpaceCom international Expo in Houston, the most important exposition in the United States on advanced technologies applied to the aerospace sector. The Italian Consulate General, together with the ICE-Agency, took care of setting up an exhibition space grouping the 15 Italian companies that make up […]
Read moreItalian Cooperation system confirms its engagement to fight leukaemia
The Italian Cooperation system and the Cell Biology Unit UBC of the Universidad Mayor de San Andreas in La Paz have been cooperating for twenty years and have succeeded in achieving remarkable results in the fight against leukaemia in Bolivia. Over 1,699 children and 1,613 adults who had been diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukaemia and over […]
Read moreThe San Carlo Orchestra in Montreal
Naples’s Teatro San Carlo and its Orchestra, with Conductor Maurizio Agostini, held a concert in Montreal, at the Maison Symphonique, one of the world’s most prestigious temples of music. The programme included the performance of some of the most famous arias of the Italian music tradition and a special homage to Gioachino Rossini, whose 150th anniversary of his […]
Read moreThe Art of dry-stone walling inscribed in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO
The UNESCO Convention Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage has inscribed “The art of dry-stone walling” in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The transnational candidacy was presented by Italy together with Cyprus, Croatia, France, Greece, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland. The unanimous decision by the 24 States that […]
Read moreItalian technology to fight cancer in Prague
An experimental structure, ELIMAIA-ELIMED, opened at the physics laboratory in the Academy of Sciences in Prague in association with the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). The goal is to examine new ways of curing cancer with adrotherapy using particle beams. An Italian delegation attended the opening ceremony, led by Fernando Ferroni, President of […]
Read moreThe Ambassador of Italy visits the Commonwealth of the Bahamas
The Ambassador of Italy to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Armando Varricchio, made an institutional visit to the capital Nassau, where he met Prime Minister Hubert Alexander Minnis, assisted by the Minister of Finance, Marlon Johnson, and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Jack Thompson. The meetings reaffirmed the excellent state of bilateral relations, which this […]
Read moreBrasilia: exhibition on Italian painting between the two World Wars
The exhibition “Classicismo, Realismo, Vanguarda: pintura italiana no entreguerras” opened yesterday evening at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil. The initiative is the result of the cooperation between the Embassy of Italy to Brasil, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo and the CCBB. The exhibition will be on display […]
Read moreFestival of Italian and Albinian Films from the ’60s to date
The University of Arts of Tirana, in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute, hosted the Schermo a schermo /Ekrane Përballë (Screen to Screen) Festival which screened a selection of films and videos by Italian and Albanian artists from the 1960s to date. If, in Italy, art films mainly have their roots in the ‘60s, in the […]
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