\u201cOur country is usually associated with ideas of wellbeing, art, taste, culture and sophistication. The Russian people have always seen Italy as a model of balance and a virtuous example of elegant joie de vivre\u201d. Thus spoke Professor Giuseppe Lo Porto, head of the Education\u00a0Office at the Italian Consulate General in Moscow in an interview with the Italian Culture on the Net consortium (ICoN). He was talking about relations between Italy and Russia, underlining how \u201cItalians\u2019 contribution down the centuries to developing these areas has certainly not gone unnoticed: from architecture to art and from technology to manufacturing, here in Russia, Italian-made goods are a byword for quality and style\u201d.<\/p>\n
It was also an occasion for presenting the Moscow Education Office\u2019s latest initiatives to promote Italy\u2019s language and culture. \u201cIn Russia\u201d, he continues, \u201cour diplomatic mission has been running the PRIA programme (to spread the Italian language in Russia) for several years. To date, around 150 educational institutions have signed up throughout Russia, from St\u00a0Petersburg to Vladivostok\u201d. This engagement is growing, thanks partly to a \u201crenewed interest from the regional and federal institutions\u201d, as Lo Porto confirms, recalling how the year has seen \u201can intensification of official meetings that have laid the foundations for the official recognition of the Italian language as an L2 in the federal ministerial programmes\u201d. In addition, Italian \u201chas been added to the programme of the federal Olympiads in school subjects, the final stage of which took place last April in Vladivostok\u201d.<\/p>\n
The fruits of this unstinting effort are there to see in the \u201cFestival of the Italian Regions\u201d and \u201cChe sia… poesia<\/i>\u201d (\u201cpoetry, please\u201d) competitions sponsored by the Italian Consulate Education Office itself. The former, \u201cin which Russian schools were invited to \u2018adopt\u2019 an Italian region and to stage some of its most characteristic folk traditions\u201d, says Lo Porto, \u201csaw the involvement of 35 institutions\u201d. But the real \u201cventure for us has been the poetry competition, complemented by the Demetrio Volcic prize for journalism\u201d. The competition was based on studying Italian and Russian romantic poetry and \u201cinvolved 15 Russian and 15 Italian establishments where Russian is studied\u201d, he explains. It culminated in an event in Moscow that offered a real feast of poetry, in which Russian and Italian youngsters recited extracts from their respective authors in the original language\u201d. Those two important initiatives were supported by ICoN and by the Eduitalia Association. \u201cAn attractive and serious project like this simply had to have prizes,\u201d Lo Porto concludes, \u201cand being able to offer online language courses and scholarships or bursaries to our young winners reinforces the concept of teamwork\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOur country is usually associated with ideas of wellbeing, art, taste, culture and sophistication. The Russian people have always seen Italy as a model of balance and a virtuous example of elegant joie de vivre\u201d. Thus spoke Professor Giuseppe Lo Porto, head of the Education\u00a0Office at the Italian Consulate General in Moscow in an interview […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,9],"class_list":["post-53111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-economica","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}