The City of Torino hosted on June 29th the Annual Conference of the Strategic Cities Network focused on cities internationalisation and on the great events as a boost to urban development.
The Cities of Torino and Lyon have signed a cooperation agreement
for the candidacy of the latter as European Capital of Culture 2013,
year during which the title will be awarded to a French city.
The city of Lyon aims to develop an integrated candidacy with the
Rhône-Alpes region which should be opened to great European
metropolis.
The agreement plans the support of Torino to the Lyon’s candidacy
and schedules the involvement of the Piedmont's regional capital in
the organization of joint activities if the city of Lyon will be awarded
of the title.
The Mayor of Torino Sergio Chiamparino and the International Affairs Department met the Consul of the United States Deborah Ethel Graze
The International Affairs Department of the City of Torino organised for a delegation of student engineers from the argentinian city of Cordoba a study tour of the automotive in Torino.
A huge delegation coming from Rumania and led by the Mayor of Bacau Romeo Stavarache and the Consuls General of Rumania in Torino and Milan met the Mayor of the City of Torino Sergio Chiamparino and the Deputy Mayor in charge of Promotion, Cooperation and International Affairs Michele Dell’Utri in order to discuss an educationl project draft concerning the Rumanian language and culture given the presence of a large Rumanian community in Torino’s area.
A delegation coming from the City of Turku and led by the Vice President of the City Council Paulina De Anna met the Deputy Mayor in charge of Family, Health and Social Policies of the City of Torino Marco Borgione and the heads of some social cooperatives acting in Torino.
On May 31st and June 1st Torino hosted the Cooperation Platform of EUROCITIES, the network of European major cities, reserved for the representatives coming from the whole Europe, scheduling a two-days of workshops and conferences focused on the cooperation among cities in Europe in the fields of urban sustainable development, promotion and access to the EU funds.
The Mayor of Torino Sergio Chiamparino met the Ambassador of Albania Llesh Kola.
A delegation of the Chinese City of Shenyang led by the Mayor Li Yingjie and the Vice Mayor Song Qi, coming to Torino for technical-economc meetings with the heads of some local enterprises, met the Mayor of Torino Sergio Chiamparino.
A delegation coming from Bielorussia and led by the Vice Minister of Architecture and Building A. Nichkasov met the Deputy Mayor in charge of City Planning, Private Building and Property of the City of Torino Mario Viano in order to discuss of the building up and reconversion processes of the olympic ice venues in Torino.
A delegation led by the Mayor of Seoul Oh Se-hoon met the Mayor of Torino Sergio Chiamparino and the International Affiars Department to discuss issues related to the candidacy as World Design Capital.
On May 19th the Mayor of Torino Sergio Chiamparino led a delegation of the City to Chambéry in order to participate in the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the twinning between the two cities. Besides the Mayor there were present also the Chairman of City Council Giuseppe Castronovo, the councillor Carlo Zanolini and the Chairman of Torino Chamber of Commerce Alessandro Barberis.
From May 17th to 19th the Deputy Mayor in charge of Promotion, Cooperation and International Affairs of the City of Torino Michele Dell’Utri carried out an official mission in Shenzhen, China, with whom it does exist a cooperation agreement signed in January 2007.
From May 14th to 25th the restaurant of the U.N. Headquarters in New York was customized by the Torino + Piemonte Food Festival with the gastronomic proposals of the Piedmont’s Stars, the best chefs of the Region. Within the festival there were organized lunches and thematic presentations for media and insiders concerning Olympic venues, cultural resources, tourism, design and architecture. The Mayor of Torino Sergio Chiamparino took part in the activities on May 15th and 16th and meanwhile he carried out some meetings in order to strengthen the relations with the U.N.
A delegation made of Mayors and politicians coming from the Danish Municipalities of Roskilde, Gludborgsund, Thisted, Vallensbæk, Aarhus ed Esbjerg, members of the Local Government Denmark's political committee for environment, transports and planning, met the Mayor of Torino Sergio Chiamparino and the representatives of different City's Departments during its study tour in Torino focused on environmental issues.
A delegation coming from the City of Zlìn met some members of the Film Commision, of the Sottodiciotto Film Festival and visited the Virtual Reality and Multi Media Park, in order to create a cinematographic technological cluster/park based on Torino’s model.
The Mayor of Torino Sergio Chiamparino met the Consul General of Kuwait Abdullah Al Askar.
Text written by The International Affairs Service. For more information international.affairs@comune.torino.it