2014
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino met the Ambassador of Sweden in Italy Ruth Jacoby.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Transports, Mobility and Metropolitan Area of the City of Torino Claudio Lubatti met a delegation of the City of Campo Grande, twinned with Torino since 2002, in order to discuss about urban mobility.
The Mayor of the City of torino Piero Fassino met the Mayor of Namyangju Lee Seok Woo, visiting Torino on the occasion of the Salone del Gusto.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino welcomed the annual general assembly, that gathered in Torino, of the food and wine network Délice, founded in 2001 by the City of Lyon and counting today 21 member cities from 4 continents. The Assembly, whose main theme was Gastronomy: what agriculture is needed for local products, had the goal to decide the main orientations of the network for the year to come.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture of the City of Torino Maurizio Braccialarghe met a delegation of Lyon, led by the Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture and Heritage Georges Képénékian.
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 President of Myanmar Thein Sein, visiting Torino with a governmental delegation which included, among the others, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Wunna Maung Lwin and the Minister of Information Ye Htut, in order to meet Piedmontese investors and entrepreneurs. On that occasion the association Italy Myanmar, the MAO Oriental Art Museum and the United Nation Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) organised an exhibition of laque objects realised in Bagan.
The High Level Summit on the European Social Charter, organised by the Italian Government, the City of Torino and in cooperation with the Council of Europe was held at the Teatro Regio. Different European Ministers took part in the many panels and sessions of the Conference, inaugurated and ended by the Minister of Labour and Welfare of the Italian Republic Giuliano Poletti and that scheduled also the President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament Laura Boldrini.
The President of the Cultural Commission of the Municipal council of the City of Torino Luca Cassiani went on a mission to Nagoya to take part in the 60th edition of the Festival of Twin Cities. The mission was the occasion to reinforce the relationships between the two cities, bond by a twinning agreement signed in 2005, and to improve reciprocal cooperation, mainly in the cultural and artistic fields.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Labour, Commerce, Productive Activities of the City of Torino Domenico Mangone met a delegation of Grenoble-Alpes Métropole, led by the Deputy Mayor in charge of Agriculture, Forests and Mountains Françoise Audinois, in torino to visit the Porta Palazzo market.
The City of Torino hosted some journalists of the Japanese magazine Excellent Italy-Bella Italia, published in cooperation with the Italian Embassy in Japan. The Expo 2015 theme Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life represents the opportunity for the journalists to write in detail about Italian and Piedmontese food in particular, showing once more to the Japanese public our great food and wine as well as cultural heritage.
The City of Torino hosted the works of the Committee for the Global High Level Dialogue on Localizing the Post 2015 Agenda. The representatives of 13 countries discussed the respective proposals on the most effective ways of implementing the future Global Agenda for Sustainable Development in order to tackle the planetary crisis.
The conclusions of the event will contribute to define the Sustainable Development Goals 2015-2030.
The Mayor of Torino Piero Fassino met Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Ghana, Hannah Tetteh, on the occasion of the works of the Committee for the Global High Level Dialogue on Localizing the Post 2015 Agenda.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino met the Mayor of Nablus Shakaa Ghassana on the occasion of the works of the Committee for the Global High Level Dialogue on Localizing the Post 2015 Agenda.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Labour, Commerce, Productive Activities of the City of Torino Domenico Mangone met some officers from the cities of Barcelona, London, Dublin, Suceava, Pecs, Tolosa, Wroclaw and the Attic Region, partners of the Urbact Markets project, financed by the programme URBACT II, in torino for two days of study bisits to the city markets.
Palazzo Chiablese, exhibition area of the Royal Pole, hosts from October 3rd to February 15th the exhibition Russian Avant-garde. From Malevic to Rodcenko, the masterpieces of the Costakis' collection: around three hundred exposed works and a hundred drawings on constructivist architecture. The exhibition, coming from the Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art, is intended to be a true encyclopedic presentation of the Russian Avant-garde.