2013
The President of the Municipal Council of the City of Torino Giovanni Maria Ferraris went on a mission to Ekaterinburg on the occasion of the 290th anniversary of the foundation of the Russian city and the fifteenth anniversary of the agreement between the two Cities.
The Labour, Development, Structural Funds and Smart City Directorate of the City of Torino and the Marketing Director of Turismo Torino e Provincia Marcella Gaspardone met the Coordinator of the Economic Development of the City of New Castle in Australia.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino met a delegation of Kyoto, led by the Mayor Kadokawa Daisaku, in Torino on the occasion of the World Master Games 2013. In the meetings, that were aiming at identifying hypothesis for a future cooperation between the two Cities - Kyoto is candidate for hosting the World Master Games 2021, took also part the Governor of the Prefecture of Tottori,Hirai Shinji.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Road System, Infrastructures, Transports and Mobility of the City of Torino Claudio Lubatti met a delegation of Fushan, led by the Vice Mayor Peng Hui and interested in the subjects of infomobility and urban traffic management.
Tha Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino met the new Consul General of the Republic of Romania, Tiberiu Mugurel Dinu.
The International Affairs Department of Torino supported the ITES "Rosa Luxemburg" in sending some students on stage in some of Torino's twin cities through the tool of the Master dei Talenti, financed by the Fondazione CRT. Salt Lake City and Rotterdam took part in the initiative and on July 17th and 18th the selected students reached their respective destinations.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino met the Ambassador of Canada in Italy James Fox.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino and the Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture of the City of Torino Maurizio Braccialarghe met the director of the Gulbenkian Museum of Lisbon. His visit, an occasion to meet the heads of the main museums of Torino, followed the territorial mission of 2012, during which a letter of intent between the two Cities was signed in order to reinforce bilateral affairs.
The meeting of the joint initiative EUROCITIES & Open society Foundation was held in Torino. The initiative's aim is the exchange of good practices among European cities in the field of Roms' inclusion. Besides Torino, Grenoble and three Romanian partner took part in the event.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino met a delegation of Maribor, led by the Mayor Andrej Fištravec, in Torino for studying the STAR system of electric buses.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino and the Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture of the City of Torino Maurizio Braccialarghe met the Director General of the Italy-Israel Foundation for Culture and Arts Simonetta Della Seta, in Torino to design propositions of cultural cooperation.
The International Affairs Department 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 President of the Municipal Council of the City of Torino Giovanni Maria Ferraris and the Deputy Vice President of the Municipal Council of the City of Torino Silvio Magliano took part respectively in an economic focus on Ghana, held on July 5th at the Unione Industriale, and in the following cultural event, hel on July 6th at the Teatro Vittoria, on the subject of the cultural identity of second generations, promoted by the Embassy of Ghana in Italy and the Ghanaian Association of immigrants in Torino. The diplomatic delegation was led by the Ambassador of Ghana in Italy Evelyn Anita Stokes-Hayford, already in Torino on the occasion of the Focus Africa of Biennale Democrazia.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino and the Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture of the City of Torino Maurizio Braccialarghe met a delegation of the City of Utrecht in Torino from July 5th to 7th, led by Fritz Lintmejier, Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture and International Affairs of the Dutch city. The visits marked the final moment of the collaboration with the city of Utrecht, in the framework of the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Utrecht. The collaboration brought some artists from Utrecht to take part in the international festival “Teatro a Corte”, organised by the Teatro Piemonte Europa Foundation.
The hoped-for finals on June 29th 2013 ofPagella Non Solo Rock, that stage 6 different bands in a contest to award the best group of the present edition, thank to an interchange agreement for young music bands, subscribed by Torino and Lyon, host the band TRIGONES + which has the chance to perform on such a prestigious final stage. The City of Lyon in return offers the possibility to the winner of Pagella Non Solo Rock 2013 to perform at theBlogg, a music exhibition foreseen in Lyon on November 7th 2013.