Diplomazia Scientifica

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9 January 2017

Conference of Scientific Attachés opens at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the presence of Minister Alfano and Minister Fedeli

There is a part of Italy that produces high quality innovation and is celebrated around the world, and could be promoted further. Based on this premise, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will host a new edition of the Conference of Scientific Attachés on 9 and 10 January, in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs […]

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29 December 2016

From New Haven the news that ​Italian research has identified a new mechanism regarding ALS

The Journal of Neuroscience, the prestigious scientific periodical of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, has published the results of a research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis carried out by the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”of Milan and funded by AriSLA, Italian Research Fondation. Moving from observations made previously, the study highlights an anomaly of the enzyme known […]

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Press Releases

25 December 2016

Thanks to an Italian mission, a young Greek patient is flown to Gesu Bambino Children’s Hospital in Rome from Athens

A health care air transport of a critically ill Greek child from Athens to Rome was concluded this evening, as requested by Greek authorities yesterday. A C130 aircraft of the Italian Air Force took off this morning from Pisa to reach the Elefsina military airport in Athens and then fly back to Ciampino in the […]

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14 December 2016

Training and Economic Diplomacy. Young Italian diplomats meet Enel management

The training process of ​the newly hired diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs continues. Today, they met with Enel management at the Farnesina to discuss the strategic challenges that lie ahead for Italy’s multinational energy corporation and the Italian economic diplomacy. The meeting focused on the main themes of creating “added value” and innovation […]

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12 December 2016

United States – Andrew Viterbi guest at the Italian Cultural Institute

Andrew James Viterbi is an Italian engineer and entrepreneur naturalised American. Born in 1935, Viterbi is the co-founder of Qualcomm – one of the major communication companies in the world – and the inventor of the algorithm that bears his name, the groundwork of a large part of the mobile telephony. He will be hosted […]

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7 December 2016

Vincenzo Grassi new Secretary General of the European University Institute

Ambassador Vincenzo Grassi is the new Secretary General of the European University Institute (EUI) of Florence. A long-standing expert of European Institutions, Ambassador Grassi was Head of the Department for European Policies at the Prime Minister’s Office, served in the Permanent Mission to the EU in Brussels and as Ambassador to Belgium. The European University […]

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1 December 2016

The Farnesina hosts the presentation of the ‘ReStArt – Regenerative Art in the Spirit of EurAsia’ Project​

As part of the integrated promotion action of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Foreign Ministry hosted the presentation of the ReStArt – Regenerative Art in the Spirit of EurAsia Project, developed in cooperation with the Rosini Gutman Foundation. The presentation of the Project was introduced by the Director General for Cultural and Economic […]

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23 November 2016

Japan – Advanced robotics, a new scientific agreement between Italy and Japan

Cooperation between Italy and Japan in consolidating in the development of new joint advanced robotics projects, particularly humanoid, and in promoting the exchange of teachers and researchers. A new agreement has been signed in  Tokyo between the Institute of BioRobotics of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa and Waseda University, one of Japan’s most prestigious universities […]

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22 November 2016

Italy – Vietnam. Rome and Hanoi confirm scientific and technological cooperation agreements

Concurrently with the state visit of the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Tran Dai Quang, and within the framework of meetings organised by Italian institutions with a view to enhancing  economic, scientific and industrial partnership opportunities, between the two countries, Italy and Vietnam signed the 6th bilateral Executive Protocol for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, on 22 November […]

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18 November 2016

Rome to host an earthquake hazard workshop as part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Italian-Japanese diplomatic relations

Earthquake risk prevention: a very topical issue in Italy today in the light of the earthquakes that have struck Central Italy during the last few months. This will be the topic of debate with Japanese experts in an interactive workshop to be held in Rome as part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of […]

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Press Releases

18 November 2016

Ambassador Michele Valensise is appointed president of Associazione Villa Vigoni

Following a joint proposal of the Italian and German governments, Ambassador  Michele Valensise, former Secretary General of the Italian Foreign Ministry, was  appointed today president of the Associazione Villa Vigoni by the assembly of the members of the Italo-German association.  The Association  has its head office in Menaggio, on Lake of Como, and works on […]

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11 November 2016

Argentina – INGV ionoprobe for new Ionospheric Observatory

The new Ionospheric Observatory in Bahia Blanca, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina has been inaugurated. The Observatory is equipped with an AIS-INGV ionoprobe, developed in the laboratories of the Roma2 Section of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INVG). The opening will kick off the experimental research of Argentina’s new Ionospheric Observatory thanks to […]

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