Gentiloni attends international conference to relaunch an Action Plan against ethnic and religious violence in the Middle East
Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni is attending an international conference in Paris on the victims of ethnic and religious violence in the Middle East. The conference is being co-chaired by France and Jordan, with Gentiloni himself chairing a round table on “Facilitating the safe and sustainable repatriation of homeless people and refugees”. The representatives of 60 […]
Read moreItaly-Israel – 16 co-funded science and technology projects approved in Milan for implementation in Italy and Israel
Rome and Tel Aviv have stepped up cooperation in the science and technology field. A meeting of the 14th Italy-Israel mixed commission met recently in Milan, at EXPO 2015, to assess and approve 16 co-financed projects with the themes, this year, of water-treatment, pharmacogenomics and cyber security. The commission meets annually under a Bilateral Scientific […]
Read moreLatin America – Italian Development Cooperation at EXPO to discuss Andean grain
The Directorate General for Development Cooperation (DGDC) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with Oxfam Italia, has organised an event featuring Andean grain. The event, which took place on Monday 7 September, was part of the EXPO Milan and European Year for Development programmes. It focused on international development initiatives and the possible […]
Read moreDEI – Kuwait: Saipem wins 2 lots in new Al-Zour refinery project
Saipem has won the contract for 2 lots (numbers 4 and 5) for the new Al-Zour refinery. The lots are worth 475 Kuwaiti dinars (1.4 billion euro) and 454,256 million dinars (1.3 billion euro) respectively. The client for both tenders is the Kuwait National Petroleum Company. Lot 4 consists of storage tanks, pipes and underground […]
Read moreHong Kong – Red carpet for Cinema Italian Style
Hong Kong rolls out the red carpet for the fourth edition of Cine Italiano – Cinema Italian Style, which opens on 16 September 2015. Italian films featuring in the event include “Il nome del figlio”, directed by Francesca Archibugi, who will be attending the screening. Cine Italiano is organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and […]
Read moreBrazil – Film and food, featuring Italy and its pasta
The 6th edition of “Slow Filme – Festival internacional de cinema, alimentacao e cultura local” will take place from 10 to 13 September 2015 at the Cine Pireneus in Pirenopolis, a town near Brasilia in the state of Goias. This year, the festival will enjoy the support of the Italian Embassy in Brasilia and pasta […]
Read moreItaly-Malta – Earthquake response exercises by civil protection teams
Earthquake response exercises were conducted by civil protection teams in Malta from 3 to 6 September 2015 as part of the SIMIT strategic project funded by the Italy-Malta Operations Programme for 2014-2020. The exercises were organised by Malta’s Civil Protection department in collaboration with the Civil Protection Department of Sicily Region, with the involvement of […]
Read moreMoscow – Caravaggio on display at Italian Embassy
Caravaggio’s “Boy Bitten by a Lizard” is being displayed at the Italian Embassy in Moscow, with a presentation by Ambassador Cesare Maria Ragaglini and the director of the Pushkin Museum, Marina Loshak. The painting will then be shown at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts from 15 September to 10 January 2016, as part […]
Read moreNew York – Dissonanzen Ensemble pays homage to “Assunta Spina”
The Italian Cultural Institute of New York has organised an event for Monday 14 September dedicated to the Italian silent film masterpiece “Assunta Spinta” at 100 years from its production, with the Ensemble Dissonanzen providing the live soundtrack of the film directed and starring, among others, silent film diva Francesca Bertini, and produced a full […]
Read moreOslo – Italian ambassador speaks on Dante and Ibsen
Italian ambassador in Oslo Giorgio Novello will hold a conference on 16 September in which he will discuss Dante and Ibsen, drawing a comparison on the basis of a series of common aspects. The conference will be held at the Ibsen museum in Skein, birthplace of the renowned Norwegian author. Read more, in Italian.
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