Expo: An opportunity for growth, says Mogherini – “A showcase for Italian excellence and for a renewed effort to combat malnutrition”
EXPO 2015 will be the biggest global event for the coming years, with 147 official participants and more pavilions than the Shanghai edition. It will be “a unique opportunity for our agri-food industry, an encounter between the most dynamic businesses in the sector”. These were the comments of Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini as she presented […]
Read moreBuenos Aires – Lucilla Galeazzi to perform Italian folk music
Lucilla Galeazzi, a composer, researcher and lecturer specialising in Italian folk music, will be giving her first concert in Argentina on Saturday 21 June 2014. The event is being organised by the Umbria Centre in Buenos Aires, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Embassy, in collaboration with the Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos […]
Read moreLjubljana – Events celebrating the city’s links with Italy a great success
Ljubljana’s links with Italy have been showcased in a number of recent events organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in the Slovenian capital. Highlights were the exhibitions on “The Brain. Inside story”, featuring recent discoveries in neuroscience, and “Emona: A City of the Empire”, celebrating the city’s first two millennia. Both opening events were attended […]
Read moreTel Aviv – Italian cultural events are a great success
Italian music and theatre events have been a great success in Tel Aviv. The events, which included the first ever Italy-Israel Jazz Festival to mark UNESCO’s International Jazz Day, were organised by the Italian Cultural Institute “to disseminate Italian culture, in its various sectors, throughout Israel”. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreLondon – Italians in tour for Pontignano Conference
Ten young people, 5 of them Italian, are in London for the Pontignano Fellowship Scheme, an exchange programme organised in the run-up to the Pontignano Conference. The theme of this year’s Conference, which will take place in Pontignano, near Siena, from 3 to 5 October 2014, is “Better together or better apart?” Italian and British […]
Read more“Italy and space” – Parmitano and Cristoforetti meet the UN in Vienna
Italian astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano were guests of honour at “Italy and Space”, the event organised in Vienna by Italy’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. The event was organised with the support of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the collaboration of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Italian […]
Read moreDei/Sole 24 Ore: Romania: punta a investimenti automotive, turismo, infrastrutture (in translation)
Romania: punta a investimenti automotive, turismo, infrastrutture Si è tenuta a Sibiu, storica città della Transilvania, una conferenza internazionale sulle opportunità di investimento. La località è economicamente attiva con diversi parchi industriali di cui due particolarmente importanti (settori: componentistica auto e macchinari industriali, tessile, agroalimentari, elettrotecnica) ed è anche una delle principali mete turistiche del […]
Read moreDei/Sole 24 Ore:Brasile: apre a import da Italia di salumi breve stagionatura (in translation)
Brasile: apre a import da Italia di salumi breve stagionatura Le Autorita’ brasiliane hanno comunicato l’approvazione del nuovo certificato sanitario per l’esportazione dall’Italia verso il Brasile di prodotti derivati dalle carni suine. In particolare, le Autorita’ locali hanno riconosciuto la regionalizzazione della malattia vescicolare, come proposto dal nostro Ministero della Salute, e quindi autorizzato l’ingresso […]
Read more“Women & Diplomats” – at the SIOI, a collective view of women in diplomacy
The Secretary General of the Farnesina, Michele Valensise, will be opening the “Women & Diplomats – career and life pathways” exhibition at 12.00 on Thursday 19 June at Piazza San Marco 51, Rome. The exhibition was conceived and funded by the Association of Italian Women Diplomats (Italian initials DID) to present, for the first time […]
Read moreMadrid – Laura Giardino con ‘Aperture’ (in translation)
Si arricchisce il fitto programma di mostre organizzato dall’Istituto italiano di cultura di Madrid per promuovere l’arte contemporanea: Laura Giardino ha portato nella capitale spagnola la sua “Aperture/Aperturas”. Lungo il percorso espositivo, ospitato nei saloni dell’Istituto, hanno trovato spazio la serie pittorica “Vertigine”, la serie ‘installativa’ di disegni “Mirror-Mirror” e la serie pittorica “Tiles”. L’artista […]
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