2020
The Mayor of Torino Chiara Appendino and the Mayor of Volgograd Vitaly Likhachev remotely signed a Pact that provides for collaborations between the two cities in the economic, academic and cultural domains.
During a specific webinar, the Politecnico of Torino presented to the partners of the NUR cooperation project the Energy Plan for the Municipality of Bethlehem to improve the governance of renewable energy. The City of Torino is the lead partner of the project.
The City of Torino participated in the Lyon Light Festival Forum, an annual event organized by the LUCI network in partnership with the City of Lyon. The 2020 edition, which was held exclusively on line, was divided into several sessions featuring creative lighting professionals from all over the world.
The City of Torino attended the final event of the IUC - International Urban Cooperation program. Torino took actively part in the project with two exchanges, respectively with the ABC Consortium on urban mobility and with the City of Baltimore on social innovation and urban regeneration.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Innovation Marco Pironti met online two representatives of UNICRI to discuss possible collaborations in the field of crime prevention and the development of artificial intelligence.
Mayor Chiara Appendino met, in an on line meeting, Eleonor Sanders, Deputy Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Rome and Ben Greenwood, Consul General of the United Kingdom in Milan.
The photographer Josué Lopez Bernal dedicated to Torino and its citizens his online photographic exhibition entitled Sceneries for the affection and gratitude shown towards the Cuban health personnel who came to Torino to help during the health emergency.
51 start-ups selected from the Big Booster project, the international acceleration program, attended the Lyon Booster Camp to follow an intensive remote coaching that included speed-dating with experts, meetings with mentors and international workshops. The City of Torino is partner of the program.
The conference of the Recognize and Change project, funded with the contribution of the EU and AICS, was held online and aimed at disseminating among young people actions to combat discrimination and forms of violence, in particular gender and cultural ones.
The City of Torino participated, together with 200 other cities, in the workshop of the IAEC network on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Founding Charter.
The City of Torino participated in the online meeting of the European partners of the MOLOC project who met to discuss the implementation of local activities aimed at reducing CO2 emissions through more sustainable urban planning.
The City of Torino participated in the online conference on "City Diplomacy" proposed by the EUROCITIES network and by Metropolis, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne.
The City of Torino, Arci Torino and GAI-Young Italian Artists, all members of the BJCEM network, met online to present the works that the artists will bring to the Biennale, to be held in the Republic of San Marino in 2021, and for a discussion on the delicate phase that the world of culture and art are experiencing.
The Leone Sinigaglia Primary School participated in the drawing exchange project with the City of Nagoya. The works of the Torino students were displayed in the Nagoya City Museum, together with those created by the children of the other cities twinned with the Japanese metropolis.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Social Policies Sonia Schellino participated in the online consultation on the future action plan of the European Pillar of Social Rights, promoted by the European Commission.