Cagnotto wins 19th continental title at LEN European Aquatics Championships as hosts keep up good form
Italy's Tania Cagnotto claimed her 19th continental crown after successfully defending her women's three metres springboard title here at the European Aquatics Championships today. Cagnotto, who also retained her 1m crown and won mixed 3m synchro silver on Wednesday (May 11), notched her second gold medal of the Championships with a score...
“Fatto in Italia”: eight centuries of “Made in Italy” in one exhibition
Until July 10th, the Sale delle Arti of Turin's Palace of Venaria will host "Fatto in Italia. Dal Medioevo al Made in Italy", an exhibition that tells the story of Italian artistic production from the Middle Ages to the 17th century. "Made in Italy as we know it", curator Alessandra Guerrini explains, "was not born out of thin air after Wo...
Genoa boat show draws 21% more exhibitors for new slot ahead of Montecarlo
by Raoul De Forcade Genoa's Salone Nautico is sailing towards its 2016 edition, the 56th in its long history (since 1962), with the wind behind it, according to data provided by trade group Ucina management yesterday, and by I Saloni Nautici (a company controlled by the association), which organizes the actual boat show. Recoveri...
Italian clean technology market value grows to over €30 bn as green companies find big benefits on their sales abroad
by Elena Comelli A market worth over €30 billion, which provides more than 150,000 jobs. Italian clean-tech's value is at least this much, according to figures provided by the Polytechnic University of Milan's Energy & Strategy Group - but it's much more than that. Since the beginning of the crisis, one out of four businesses...
La nuova console degli Usa: "Io, nella terra delle eccellenze"
Una delle prime cose che il nuovo console generale degli Stati Uniti ha fatto, appena giunta in città, è stata aprire un account Twitter. Sotto a una immagine del mare, cui fa da sfondo il Vesuvio, si legge: "A caccia di eccellenze nel Sud Italia. Food lover. Talent scout delle meraviglie nascoste". Insieme, un po' il programma e la grande...
AUR’s New Trustee
The Honorable Amato Berardi has been appointed a Trustee of The American University of Rome. A member of parliament of the Republic of Italy since April 2008 and a candidate for re election in the Italian Parliament next February, Berardi was born in Longano, Italy and migrated to the United States with his family aged 12. After a successful care...
Dall’Appennino alle miniere
Sarà presentato lunedì 23 dicembre alle ore 16,30 presso il Teatro Comunale Fossato di Vico, l'opera dal titolo "Dall'Appennino alle miniere. Gli emigranti di Fossato di Vico in Europa e in America dal 1900 al 1914" di Thierry Rinaldetti, per i tipi dell'Editoriale Umbra. L'edizione nasce in seno alla collana "I Quaderni del Museo dell'Emigrazione"...
This is the new Ferrari Formula One car
Ferrari's 2014 Formula One car will be called the F14 T after an online poll of fans, the Italian team said on Friday. The Italian team, who finished third overall last year, unveil the new car online on Saturday. Ferrari said 1,123,741 votes were cast from 208 countries – as far afield as Palau, Greenland and Equatorial Guinea – over...
Nissoli (PI) alla Inaugurazione di un Centro di Riabilitazione Costruito a Capestrano (Aq) con i Fondi degli Italiani d’America
Sabato scorso, 8 marzo, Fucsia Nissoli – deputata del gruppo Per l'Italia eletta in Nord America – è andata ad inaugurare a Capestrano (AQ) un centro di riabilitazione realizzato con contributi degli emigrati negli Usa, coordinati, per la raccolta fondi, da Gianfranco Gentile, originario di Capestrano. Il centro, dedicato alla memoria di F...
Italian museum offers aerial display of Alpine wildlife
A visit to the northern Italian city of Trento, where a unique science museum is making quite a name for itself. The museum has found an original way to showcase the wildlife of the Alps. Life-sized animals, seemingly floating in mid-air. The exhibition, named "From the glacier to the forest", has the animals displayed vertically in the centra...
Ferragamo's Restoration In Firenze
SALVATORE FERRAGAMO has pledged €600,000 to renovate part of Florence's most famous museum, the Uffizi Gallery. The donation will allow the museum to remodel eight rooms within a year, which will then house 50 works dating back to the 15th century. "We wanted to do something that would improve the city, to contribute to the Uffizi and Flor...
FoodSavingBEC – Bocconi EXPO 2015 Competition
Si comunica che l'Università Bocconi, in collaborazione con EXPO Milano 2015, Ministero delle Politiche Agricole e Commissione Europea e con il patrocinio di ONU, FAO e World Food Program ha aperto le iscrizioni per #FoodSavingBEC – Bocconi EXPO 2015 Competition. L'evento consiste in una competizione internazionale nell'ambito della quale l'Uni...