The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino and the Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino, met the Ambassador of the Republic of Argentina in Italy Torcuato Di Tella.
Several Services of the City of Torino, in cooperation with the Piemonte Agency for Investments, Export and Tourism and the Chamber of Commerce of Torino met a delegation of technicians and officers of the South-Korean Ministry of Environment and of different South-Korean local authorities, in Torino to discuss the issue of urban flooding.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture of the City of Torino Maurizio Braccialarghe met a delegation from Nantes Métropole in Torino to discuss the cooperation between the two Cities within the framework of Nantes European Green Capital 2013.
The International Affairs Service of the City of Torino organised, for a delegation of student engineers from the Argentinean city of Cordoba, a study tour of the automotive in Torino.
The Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino, met the Consul General of the Republic of Romania in Torino Alexander Mugurel Buje.
The Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino, met the Honorary Consul of Rwanda Luciano Longo.
30 young people coming from the friend Cities Chambéry, Lille, Lyon, Cologne, Glasgow and Rotterdam, took part in the third edition of the Performing Now festival, expressing and sharing their creative skills in artistic workshops, meetings and opportunities to discover the youth culture of Torino.
The Central Division for International Activities and Youth and the Large Urban Projects Service of the City of Torino met a delegations of officers of the City of Hangzhou, in Torino to promote the cooperation between the two cities.
The Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino, met a delegation of officers and technicians coming from the two Chinese cities, in Torino on the occasion of a training week on sustainable development.
The President of the City Council of the City of Torino Giovanni Maria Ferraris met a group of students from the Primary School Caffe of Chambéry, within the framework of the friendship and twinning relations which historically link the two cities.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of District Decentralization, Equal Opportunities and Procurement and Office Services of the City of Torino, Maria Cristina Spinosa and the Deputy Mayor in charge of Development, Innovation, Environment, Green and Public Hygiene of the City of Torino Enzo Lavolta met the Mayor of Tallin Edgar Savisaar in Torino within the framework of the Tallinn-Montecarlo Electric Marathon 2012.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture of the City of Torino Maurizio Braccialarghe and the Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino met a delegation from Nantes Metropole, in Torino to develop actions of cultural cooperation between the two territories.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Training and Educational Policies of the City of Torino Mariagrazia Pellerino and the Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino met a delegation of officers of the Erasmus Programme, within the framework of the initiative Erasmus Day Live, European university festival.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino, the Deputy Mayor in charge of Road System, Infrastructures, Transports and Mobility of the City of Torino Claudio Lubatti and the Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino led a mission of the territory to Paris on the occasion of the participation of the City, as guest of honour, in the inauguration of the Transports Publics 2012 Fair.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino met an institutional delegation coming from the Albania to Torino on the occasion of the workshop "Albania: perspectives and opportunities for cooperation in the fields of environment, energy, infrastructures" organized at the Lingotto by the Piemonte Agency for Investments, Export and Tourism in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Development and Unioncamere. The Albanian delegation also met delegates from Iren, Smat, Amiat, Turismo Torino.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Development, Innovation, Environment, Green and Public Hygiene of the City of Torino Enzo Lavolta met a delegation of technicians and officers of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection.
Several Services of the City of Torino met a delegation of technicians and officers of the City of Marseille interested in analyzing different issues related to urban development: innovation and development, town planning and transformations, traffic management.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Development, Innovation, Environment, Green and Public Hygiene of the City of Torino Enzo Lavolta, the Deputy Mayor in charge of Town Planning Policies and Integration Policies of the City of Torino Ilda Curti and the Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino met delegates of the city of Barcelona and Busan in Torino as guests of the "Le Cittŕ Visibili-Smart City Festival" to take part in the first edition of the international prize Areté Urban Innovation.
The Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino, took part in the meeting between the City of Torino and the African Consular Corps, organized in cooperation with the Piedmont Centre for African Studies and the Piedmont-Africa Association.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino, the President of the City Council of the City of Torino Giovanni Maria Ferraris and the Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino, met a large economic delegation from the Republic of Macedonia, led by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedoni Nikola Gruevski. The Macedonian mission has been the occasion for signing an Agreement with the City of Skopje, represented by the Mayor Koce Trajanovski.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of District Decentralization, Equal Opportunities and Procurement and Office Services of the City of Torino, Maria Cristina Spinosa and the Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino, met a delegation from the Zhenjiang Province led by Li Zhihai, Vice President of the Permanent Committee of the Popular Congress of the Zhenjiang Province.
A large delegation representing the territory, led by the Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino and the Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture of the City of Torino Maurizio Braccialarghe, went on a mission to Lyon to revive the cooperation between the two cities by signing a new Agreement.
The President of the City Council of the City of Torino Giovanni Maria Ferraris led a mission of the City of Torino to Tokyo and Kanazawa, within the framework of the EU-Japan Urban Development Programme Exchange, exchange of experiences and good practices in the field of urban development, promoted by the European Commission and the Japanese Government.
The President of the City Council of the City of Torino Giovanni Maria Ferraris met a delegation coming from Elk, led by the Mayor Tomasz Andrukiewicz, the Vice Mayor Kamil Buksa and the Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture and Families Konrad Siemienkiewicz.
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