2021
The fifth edition of the Turin Islamic Economic Forum, titled “Resolve and Resilience”, was broadcast live from OGR Torino. The event, organized by the City of Torino, the Torino Chamber of Commerce, the University of Torino and ASSAIF with the support of Turismo Torino e Provincia, gathered high-level experts in the field.
The City of Torino attended the meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities of Design hosted virtually by Geelong. The convening was the occasion to learn about the cities’ projects taking place across the network on the theme “reimagine, renew, regenerate”.
The City of Torino hosted the second workshop of its community of practice in the frame of CONNECTION, the EU project funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund. Aim of the community is understanding how to develop a strategic approach to integration, participation and interaction.
During the Cinemambiente Festival 2021 some videos on energy saving were projected in the framework of the Italian-Palestinian project NUR. The event was attended live also from Bethlehem.
The City of Torino welcomed a delegation of CENEO, the association gathering the municipalities from Wallonia, for an exchange on energy transition.
The City of Torino, as representative for Italy of the UNESCO World Network of Learning Cities, attended the "III World Congress of Transdisciplinarity".
The City of Torino virtually attended the Culture Forum organized by the EUROCITIES network and by the City of Tampere on "Culture and creativity for health and wellbeing in post pandemic cities".
More than 20 cities in Europe and North America met for the seventh session of the CDIA network, organized by the GMF. The topic covered was the role of cities in migration policy nationally and internationally. The virtual meeting was attended by the Mayor's Cabinet International Affairs Department of the City of Torino.
The partners of MOLOC gathered for the final meeting in Lille, lead partner of the project. MOLOC allowed Torino to use a low-carbon approach to the Master Plan the city has been implementing over the last years.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Public Budget of the City of Torino Sergio Rolando met the Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Milan Kang Hyung Shik.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Chiara Appendino and the Deputy Mayor in charge of Commerce, Labour and Tourism Alberto Sacco met the US Consul General in Milan Robert Needham.
The International Affairs department of the City of Torino gave a speech during the roundtable on “Chinese science fiction and the ecologic thought” organized in the frame of the Loving the Alien Festival. On the occasion, it was presented the exhibit "Born Again. Primo Levi and the endless rebirths of Social Science Fiction" which will be set up next fall by the MUFANT and the City of Torino in Chengdu, during the Europe Culture Season.
The City of Torino, in the frame of Torino Design of the City and of the European Mobility Week organized a seminar on the Automotive Project, the international initiative coordinated by the City of Saint Étienne and involving Torino, Graz, Kortrijk, Detroit, Geelong and Puebla.
The City of Torino joined the second transnational meeting of the CO4CITIES project hosted by the City of Gdańsk. The project aims to transfer to the 3 partner cities (Gdańsk, Cluj-Napoca and Budapest) the good practices carried out in Torino thanks to the UIA Co-City project.
The City of Torino and the City of Wenzhou signed a Cooperation Pact to formalize the friendship relationship already existing between the two communities and the strong ties connecting Torino and Wenzhou. The Chinese municipality, located in the Zhejiang province, is the native area of around 90% of the Chinese migrants living in Torino.