Every residue is a resource, waste can become an innovative product. If behind it there is a dream, the vision of a new way of producing. Labrenta, a company founded 40 years ago to produce cork, plastic and synthetic stoppers for the wineries of the Vicenza area in Veneto, thanks to "dreamy" entrepreneurs is following new paths towards sustainabil...
READ MOREIn 2021 italiana.esteri.it launched an ambitious project: Ritratti di donne, a gallery of ten short videos outlining a feminine Italy of great drive and personality, which successfully set out to tell the story of our country through the voices and stories of leading figures on the contemporary Italian cultural scene, including literature, art, mus...
READ MOREAfter the Miami Scientific Italian Community and the Texas Scientific Italian Community, it’s time for the California Scientific Italian Community. The California Scientific Italian Community is composed by Italian researchers, Italian Universities and Researcher Centers, private and public organizations, with the institutional aim of making a link...
READ MOREFor years, people living in Castelnuovo di Porto, a medieval village close to Rome, had put off doing maintenance jobs on their homes, whether it be fixing the roof or cracks in walls caused by earthquakes, because they could not afford it. So when the Italian government said it would foot the entire bill for a range of renovation works, on the sol...
READ MORETo encourage, support and develop entrepreneurial relationships between Italy and its best innovative realities with the Boston ecosystem. This is the goal at the base of the agreement signed between Entopan Innovation, an incubator/accelerator and open innovation hub based in Catanzaro, and 42N Advisors, B-Corp that aims to support Italian compani...
READ MOREHave you ever found yourself in front of your office window staring at the birds and trees beyond the glass and fantasizing about how nice it would be to work out there? Maybe you are envying those freelance writers who can work behind a screen on a wonderful beach of the finest sand, or in a desolate chalet with the scent of pine among the highest...
READ MORERome children's hospital Bambino Gesù has developed what could be a breakthrough in treating aggressive and currently inoperable brain tumours in children. The treatment involves a combination of gene and drug therapy which in laboratory trials inhibited the growth of gliomas, cancerous tumours that form when glial cells grow out of control, usuall...
READ MOREAccording to a recent report published by the Circular Economy Network — in collaboration with ENEA — Italy is the leader when it comes to circular economy application in Europe. Attention to circularity is becoming more prominent especially after the European Union’s Circular Action Plan was first drafted in 2015. Since then, more countries, busin...
READ MOREAn effort to help preserve Italian history in the Sewickley area is underway. What started as an idea from residents and members of the Sons of Italy social club has developed into the Sewickley Area Italian Heritage Archive Project. The goal is to amass a collection of materials and then digitize them for preservation and observation. Items being...
READ MOREIn the spring of 2013, my great friend Andrea Mancia, then Deputy Editor of the Italian newspaper "L'Opinione", asked me to collaborate by reporting on the world of relations between Italy and the United States. That was how the interviews began, which today are almost 300: We the Italians had not yet been born. Then, as now, the desire was to cove...
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