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8 April 2016

Italy-Mexico – Making an effort to boost cooperation

The Italian Ambassador to Mexico, Alessandro Busacca, is continuing his meetings with the country’s institutions to take stock of multi-sectoral bilateral relations and evaluate how best to implement them. The diplomat attended a meeting with the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress. Chaired by Victor Georgiana, the […]

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7 April 2016

Argentina – Focus on Galileo Galilei: The Man who Stopped the Sun

A series of meetings on “Italian scientists” has opened in Buenos Aires.  Sponsored by the Institute of Italian Culture (IIC), the first meeting will focus on “Galileo Galilei, the man who stopped the sun” and is organised by researcher Francesca Battista. As reported on the Institute’s website, perhaps the world’s most famous Italian scientist, Galileo […]

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6 April 2016

Panama – Italy donates 100 football uniforms to St. Kitts and Nevis

The Italian government, through its honorary consul Ernest Amory, donated 100 football uniforms to St. Kitts and Nevis. The uniforms were supplied by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). The presentation took place at a ceremony that was attended – in addition to the consul – by the Minister of Agriculture and Health, Eugene Hamilton. Over […]

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5 April 2016

Santiago – Leonardo’s Codex Urbinus to open “Encounters 1” project

“Encounters 1”, the annual exhibition project of the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Santiago, Chile, is due to open with the show “Urbinus Codex” by sculptor Franco Lillo on April 5. “Encounters 1”, an initiative sponsored by the Consejo de la Cultura y de las Artes (National Council for Culture and Arts), aims at […]

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4 April 2016

Argentina – “Literature in Italian opera” series of talks to open in Buenos Aires

The Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) of Buenos Aires has organised a series of meetings on “Literature in Italian Opera”. The series will take people on a guided tour of musical fragments to explore the fruitful and close relationship between literature and opera. Melodrama emerged in Florence in the late 16th century and has always […]

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1 April 2016

Mexico – EU diplomats take stock of cooperation

The heads of mission of the European Union met with the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, chaired by MP Victor Giorgana. Italy was represented by its ambassador in Mexico City, Alessandro Busacca. The focus of the meeting’s agenda was on the progress achieved and future developments in the relations between Mexico […]

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31 March 2016

Argentina – Cultural heritage conservation takes centre stage

The 4th International Meeting on Preventive and Interventive Conservation in Museums, Archives and Libraries will be held in Buenos Aires from Apr. 4 to 7. The event, organised by the National History Museum of the Cabildo and the May Revolution (Museo Histórico Nacional del Cabildo y de la Revolución de Mayo) in partnership with the […]

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30 March 2016

Chile – Archiart celebrates Giuseppe Rondizzoni

An exhibition on Giuseppe Rondizzoni, a Napoleonic soldier of Italian origin, has opened in Santiago, Chile. Entitled “Giuseppe Rondizzoni, a Hero”, the exhibition looks at the life a man who directly participated in the struggle for Chilean independence from 1816, when he travelled with General Jose Miguel Carrera to South America on the corvette Clifton. […]

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29 March 2016

Argentina, limelight on explorer Sebastiano Caboto in Buenos Aires

Italian diplomat Gherardo La Francesca will present his book “Sebastiano Caboto. Il primo italiano in Paraguay. Storia di un viaggio nel cuore profondo del continente americano” (“Sebastiano Caboto. The first Italian in Paraguay. History of a journey into the deep heart of the American continent”) on Apr. 13 at the Mitre Museum in Buenos Aires. […]

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25 March 2016

Brazil – “Casa Rio – Embaixada Brasileira de Negocios” opens in Rio

The “Casa Rio – Embaixada Brasileira de Negocios” project, a government programme to attract investment and encourage business networking in the host cities of the 2016 Olympic Games has been officially opened in Rio de Janeiro. The project is a follow-up of the investment promotions carried out at the “Rio conferences” in London 2012 and […]

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23 March 2016

Colombia – Italy too among the “European Professors”

‎The Universidad del Norte of the Colombian city of Barranquilla this year held the 19th edition of the “Cattedra Europa” (“European Professors”). The event, organised for the 50th anniversary of the birth of the University, was attended by over 200 lecturers from all over the world. The Country invited for this year’s edition was the […]

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18 March 2016

Italian schools abroad join the International Network of UNESCO Associated Schools

Once again this year Italian state and recognised private schools abroad will be able to submit applications, by 20th April, to join the “UNESCO Associated Schools”. Enrolments increased in the 2014/2015 academic year, and so far seven Italian schools abroad have joined the international network. The UNESCO schools include: state schools in Addis Ababa, Asmara and […]

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