2022
Vice Mayor Michela Favaro and the Chairwoman of the Torino City Council Maria Grazia Grippo met the Vice Minister of Agriculture of Cuba Maury Hechavarría Bermúdez together with the Ambassador of Cuba to Italy, Mirta Granda Averhoff, for an institutional meeting with a special focus on food sovereignty.
The Cities of Torino, Antwerp, Athens, Buenos Aires, Guadalajara, Kuala Lumpur, Ljubljana, Sharjah, Strasbourg, Tbilisi and Wroclaw gathered to officially establish the UNESCO World Book Capital Network, consisting of former, current and future World Book Capitals.
The Vice Mayor of Torino Michela Favaro met a delegation from Quetzaltenango visiting Torino for Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, in the frame of the project on “Xela-Torino, Capitals of Chocolate”.
Vice Mayor Michela Favaro, during the Terra Madre Salone del Gusto event, met Francisco Carvalho, Mayor of Praia, for an exchange on cooperation and sustainable development common projects.
Mayor Stefano Lo Russo welcomed at the City Hall Art Devlin, Mayor of Lake Placid, host city of the 2023 FISU World University Games.
Mayor Stefano Lo Russo and Deputy Mayor in charge of Commerce Paolo Chiavarino went to Chambéry to join the celebrations for the 65th anniversary of the twinning between the two cities. The delegation from Torino held several institutional meetings and was welcomed by Mayor Thierry Repentin and by the Consul General of Italy in Lyon Pierangelo Cammarota.
Jacopo Rosatelli, the Deputy Mayor in charge of Social Policies, Rights and Equalities of the City of Torino, attended the 2022 Europride held in Belgrade. During his stay he met the Italian Ambassador to Serbia Luca Gori and the Vice Mayor of Belgrade Vesna Vidovic.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture of the City of Torino Rosanna Purchia gave a virtual speech during the 2022 UNESCO Creative Cities Summit with a speech on The Impact of Design Policy: Challenge and Innovation.
The Mayor of Torino Stefano Lo Russo met the Ambassador of Finland to Italy Pia Rantala-Engberg.
The City of Torino attended the webinar organised by the City of Dubai on “Creative Economy, a stimulant for growth, innovation and culture” in the frame of the UNESCO Creative Cities network.
The City of Torino attended the first partners meeting of RESPONDET - REgional Social economy POlicies for sustainable community-Driven Environmental Transition, the project aiming at promoting local and regional development in order to strengthen the role of social economy.
Torino hosted the summer event of the CityDNA network that gathered together meeting industry professionals coming from all over the world.
The Chief of Ho Chi Minh City Local Police, Le Hong Nam, met the Deputy Mayor in charge of Local Police and Security Policies of the City of Torino, Giovanna Pentenero, to exchange best practice.
Vice Mayor Michela Favaro met a legation of civil servants and public administrators from the Mancomunidad of Quetzaltenango. Their visit, coordinated by the local NGO MAIS, was carried out in the frame of an international cooperation project funded by the EU promoting a clear, responsible and shared governance.
In the frame of the activities foreseen by the twinning with Cordoba, the City of Torino in collaboration with AVEIT welcomed a delegation of engineering students visiting Torino for a series of onsite visits covering the innovation technology and automotive sectors.