2013
On the occasion of the rich calendar of events called TORINO IDEAS - New York Torino Days Autumn 2013, organised thanks to the cooperation of some of the most important local institutions like the National Cinema Museum, Biblioteca Reale, Teatro Stabile foundation, GAM, CRT Foundation for Arts, De Fornaris Foundation, Università degli Studi and Politecnico of Torino, within the framework of the year of Italian culture in the U.S.A., the Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino led a territorial mission to New York.
The Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino met the Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Milan P.M. de Waal.
On the occasion of the mission of the Deputy Mayor in charge of Development, Innovation, Environment, Green and Public Hygiene of the City of Torino Enzo Lavolta to Iguaçu in Brazil to take part in the second World Forum of Local Economic Development, at the end of the event, former President of Brazil Ignacio Lula announced that Torino was chosen as seat of the third World Forum of Local Economic Development, by unanimous acclamation of the delegates coming from 66 countries.
The 1991 Nobel Prize for peace, Aung San Suu Kyi, was received, in the presence of the highest civil and military authorities, in the Red Hall, for the award of the honorary citizenship, approved with a motion on June 14th 2010, for her political commitment in Burma aiming at affirming the principles of democracy, peace and protection of human rights and at ensuring a government system based on truth, justice and kindness.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino met the Ambassador of Great Britain in Italy Christopher Prentice.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino, the Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture of the City of Torino Maurizio Braccialarghe and the President of the Municipal Council of the City of Torino Giovanni Maria Ferraris met a large delegation of Nagoya, twin city since 2005 and friend city since 2002, led by the Mayor Takashi Kawamura. On the occasion, in the presence of the authorities and of the delegation, at the inauguration of the Exhibition "Spirit of Japan" at the MAO on October 28th, a movie on Nagoya was showed.
Following the previous visits of the Ghanaian Embassy in Italy to Torino, the city of Torino, the Chamber of Commerce of Torino, the Embassy of Ghana in Italy and the Honorary Consulate of Ghana in Torino, in collaboration with Unione Industriale and API Torino, organised, on October 25th at the Congress Centre Torino Incontra, a forum for local firms aiming at presenting the investment opportunities in Ghana. A large public took part in the initiative.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino met a delegation of Chambéry, led by the Mayor Bernadette Laclais, in Torino on the occasion of the inaugurationat the GAM of the exhibition on Renoir from the Collections of the Musée d'Orsay and of the Orangerie
The City of Torino welcomed, on October 20th at the Teatro Vittoria, Juha Pentikäinen, Professor of nordic Ethnography and Science of Religion at the University of Lapland and Helsinki, who inaugurated a cycle of conferences to present his last paper "The Kalevala mythology".
Rotterdam, twin city since 1958, launched the first edition of the wine & food event World Food Festival and dedicated a week end to Piedmont's special dishes to promote the Salone del Gusto.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino met a group of officers of different Ministries of the Russian Federation appointed to take part in the organisation of the Winter Olympics of Soči in 2014.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Labour, Commerce, Productive Activities of the City of Torino Domenico Mangone went on a mission to Barcelona for a study visit within the framework of the European Project Urbact Markets, financed by the URBACT II Programme.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino and the Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino, met the Secretary General of the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry, Amb. Michele Valensise.
The International Affairs and European Projects Department, the Public Space Redevelopment Department of the city of Torino and the Urban Center Metropolitano met a delegation of more than thirty Finnish urban planners, interested in visiting the areas of the city recently transformed.
whithin the framework of the European project Central Markets, financed by the Territorial Cooperation Programme Central Europe, on October 10th and 11th the Farmers' Shelter market in Repubblica Square at Porta Palazzo hosted the first edition of the fair Cinema at the Market.