Stefano Battaglia Trio celebrates the cultural agreement between Italy and Slovakia
The Stefano Battaglia Trio will perform on 20 February at the Concert Hall of the Slovak Radio building in Bratislava, in Slovakia, in a concert organised by the Italian Cultural Institute. The concert by this excellent Italian jazz band, which has a long-dated experience performing on the international scene, is also the first event […]
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Italy-USA, Varricchio in Alabama to promote industrial cooperation
The Italian Ambassador to the United States, Armando Varricchio, paid a visit to the State of Alabama, where he met with the Governor, Ms Kay Ivey. The talks took place in the State’s capital Montgomery and focused on strengthening political, cultural, and economic relations with Alabama, and also on cooperating in the industrial sector. […]
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”Italy, Cultures, Mediterranean” presented in Amman
The director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo and area coordinator Paolo Sabbatini presented on 4 February in Amman the extensive programme of the event entitled “Italy, Cultures, Mediterranean” to take place throughout the current year. From Dante to Petra and passing through Matera, the event will encompass conferences, exhibitions, and ornamental fountains. The presentation […]
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EUNIC Project: an Italian-German joint headquarters opened in Strasburg
Within the context of the close cultural cooperation relations binding Italy and Germany, the Italian Cultural Institute in Strasburg has been hosting the offices of the local Goethe Institut on its premises for several months. It is a targeted pilot project that was finalized last March through the signing of a convention between the two […]
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Five performances of the Verdi Festival to take in Oslo
The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) will kick off the first of the five instalments of the Verdi Festival in Oslo on 7 February with the screening of the opera Rigoletto at the attendance of Ms Anna Maria Meo, Director General of the Fondazione Teatro Regio, who will present the 2018 Verdi Festival programme running from […]
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Second edition of Italian Design Day Shanghai to be held in March
Italian Design has always been synonymous to global excellence thanks to the high quality of the materials, the great creativity and innovativeness of Italian designers, the respect for the environment throughout the production phases, in addition to the care for graphic design, advertising and packaging. Conceived by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation […]
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Maire Tecnimont and SOCAR sign contract for the Baku refinery upgrade
Baku hosted the signing ceremony today for the 800 million dollar contract between the subsidiaries of the Italian Group Maire Tecnimont and the Azerbaijani state-owned oil company, SOCAR. The aim of the partnership is to upgrade and reconstruct the Heydar Aliyev refinery, a major Azerbaijani crude oil refining plant. The Italian Ambassador in Baku, Augusto Massari, […]
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Italian Educational Fair in Belgrade and Podgorica
The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Belgrade and the Ino Agency present the Italian Educational Fair, a student fair on the educational opportunities in Italy. Present at the Fair will be the representatives of Italian universities to illustrate to the students of Serbia and Montenegro the courses taught in Italian and in English, the procedures […]
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Italy’s Cultural Promotion and Innovation Meeting held in Ottawa
The coordination meeting of the institutions to promote Italy in Canada took place in Ottawa on 26 January under the chairmanship of the Italian Ambassador to Canada, Claudio Taffuri. The meeting was attended by the Consul Generals in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, the directors of the Italian Cultural Institutes, the representatives of the Ministry of […]
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Brundibar staged in Zagreb to celebrate Holocaust Remembrance Day
To commemorate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute, in association with the Tolerance Centre and the City of Zagreb, will stage Brundibar, the children’s opera performed in the lager of Theresienstadt (in the modern-day Czech Republic) by young detainees, none of whom survived the imprisonment. It is the first time that […]
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