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To be awarded to one or more outstanding Italian American students to study at a U.S. accredited college or university located in Italy for up to one year of study, commencing in the Summer/Fall 2025 academic year. The student must be a graduating high school student or college student, demonstrate financial need and have and maintain a GPA of 3.5...

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A long-time member of NIAF Board of Directors, Mr. Tosi is poised to help shape the future of the Rome City Institute and its students. With students from over 50 different countries, the Rome City Institute offers an innovative blend of international education and high-level collegiate sports, allowing students to balance collegiate athletics with...

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The Consulate General shares information about following 2025 Edition of the BookTuberPrize, sponsored by Italian Center for Books and Reading of the Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Merit and extended abroad by MAECI, for all Students in the Italian programs abroad.  The deadline for applications is next Apri...

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We welcome Prof. Paolo Scartoni as lecture of Italian at Washington University in St Louis. Paolo Scartoni’s research focuses on the relationship between music and language in medieval Italian literature. He earned his Ph.D. in Italian Studies from Rutgers University (2024) where he defended a dissertation entitled The Sound of Morals: Figures of G...

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The Italian origins of Pesce d’Aprile (April Fool’s Day) Puglia's growing aerospace sector Tuscany leads Italian luxury real estate market for European buyers Italian project teaches students to identify disinformation and fake news Italian culture has now recovered from the pandemic and is growing Italy at the forefront of high-performance and qu...

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“I always say I was born here, but my heart was truly born in Italy.” Those are the words of Anna Izzo, who studied in Italy, traveled the country extensively, and now teaches Italian at Elk Grove High School in suburban Chicago. Izzo, who calls herself “a student at heart,” holds several degrees. She has undergraduate degrees in Italian, Spanish a...

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Barilla has opened a school just outside Parma. This is not a university lecture hall named after the company thanks to a donation, or a conference room in a corporate HQ, but a real academy devoted to the study of one subject: basil. It’s easy to laugh at, until you hear the numbers: +17%. That’s how much pesto sales grew between 2023 and 2024. Pe...

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On March 7, 2025, the 92nd Street Y in New York launched an online course titled Reading Italo Calvino with Joseph Luzzi. Offered through Roundtable—92NY’s online learning platform—the program is dedicated to three of Calvino’s most celebrated works: The Baron in the Trees, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Luzzi—writer, scho...

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Young Europeans believe they frequently encounter fake news, but they are also confident in their ability to recognize disinformation: this is the picture that emerges from the European Parliament's Youth Survey 2024, which examined the views of citizens aged 16 to 30 across the European Union.   In Italy, the scientific outreach event of the...

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Venice: the upside-down forest In Sicily, school students work with inmates and learn together Italy reduces greenhouse gas emissions, but not all regions are moving at the same pace Made in Italy: Italian chemistry grows and accounts for 4.4% of the global total Innovation in Italy: AI, ultra-broadband and a chip 10 times faster that consumes les...

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