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19 October 2017
39th UNESCO General Conference and Executive Board: Italy’s engagements

In a few days the 39th UNESCO General Conference will start, with an Italian Chair to its  Culture Commission for the first time. The autumn session of the Executive Board has just ended with the approval of the Appeal for the protection of cultural heritage in crisis zones which was proposed by Italy and will […]

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19 October 2017
Franceschini, presentation of the “Culture Blue Helmets” at the UN Headquarters

Here you can find the press release issued by the Italian Minister of Culture after the presentation of the Italian Unite4Heritage Task Force at the UN Headquarters in New York.    

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13 October 2017
UNESCO’s Executive Board unanimously approves Italy’s proposal of Appeal for the safeguarding of cultural heritage in crisis zones

UNESCO’s Executive Board unanimously approved Italy’s proposal of Appeal for the safeguarding of cultural heritage in crisis zones. The Appeal will be launched by the Organization’s 195 Member States during the next General Conference, in the framework of the Culture Commission, which will be chaired by Italy. This initiative has two purposes : a) underline […]

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5 October 2017
Francesca Merloni named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador by the Organization’s Director-General, Irina Bokova

(ANSA) – PARIS, OCT 4 – Today the Italian poet and writer Francesca Merloni has been named UNESCO goodwill Ambassador by the Organization’s Director-General, Irina Bokova, for “her engagement in favor of UNESCO’s creative cities network”. She is the Organization’s younger goodwill Ambassador and this year’s only Italian nominee. During a ceremony which was attended, […]

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26 September 2017
Italy elected to the Approval Commette of the Fund for the Elimination in Doping in Sports

During the 4th Conference of State Parties of the UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport of 2005 which took place in Paris on September 25-26, Italy has been elected to the Fund’s Approval Committee for 2017-2019, together with the Russian Federation, Chile, China, Cameroun and Kuwait. This result rewards our country’s active role in […]

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12 September 2017
Agreement between Italy and UNESCO to foster girls’ education and protect cultural heritage through education in Pakistan

In the presence, among others, of the Pakistani Ministers of Education and Communication, the Italian Ambassador in Islamabad, Stefano Pontecorvo, signed an agreement with UNESCO pour a two-year project called “Support to girls’ right to education and safeguarding cultural heritage through education in Pakistan”. This project aims at supporting the Pakistani Government in its efforts […]

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11 September 2017
Italy and France work together avec UNESCO on the Ice Memory project

« Ice Memory » is an international programme which aims to create a climate archive in order to save the « memory » of the world’s glaciers from deteriorations dues to global warming.  The project was launched in 2015, thanks to the collaboration between the Italian National Centre for Research (CNR), the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and the […]

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8 September 2017
“Culture Blue Helmets”: lecture by the Carabinieri TPC Commander in Aquileia

The Commander of the Carabinieri Department for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC), Gen. Fabrizio Parrulli, gave a lecture at the National Archeologic Museum of  Aquileia, in the framework of a cycle of talks on « Wounded Archeology » which were organized during the exhibition “The Palmyra Busts in Aquileia”. Here’s a press article from Udine Today : […]

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8 September 2017
Vacancy for a local employee at the Italian Consulate in Paris (expires on September 29, 2017)

The Italian Consulate in Paris recruits 1 local employee to serve as driver-clerk-telephone operator. More detailed information is available here

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6 September 2017
“The art of the showcase. Technological innovation for museum conservation and communication” convention and launch of “The science of showcases. An analysis of conservation hazards”

The Italian National Research Centre (CNR), Goppion Ltd. and the Civita Association organized a convention on “The art of the showcase. Technological innovation for museum conservation and communication” under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Culture. The event took place in Rome in the presence of Italian Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini. “The science […]

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