2014
The City of Torino welcomed the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, in Torino to open at the Teatro Regio, together with the President of the German Federal Republic Joachim Gauck and the Mayor of the City of torino Piero Fassino, the first editionof the international forum Italian-German High Level Dialogue.
The City Hall hosted for two days the conference romoting stability and development in Africa: fostering cooperation between public and private sector, organised by the International Affairs Institute and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies in cooperation with the Piedmontese Centre of African Studies, with the patronage of the City of Torino and the support of Eni and Compagnia San Paolo. The debate was opened by the MAyor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino, the President of the IAI Feroci and D'Alema, President of the FEPS. Several important national and international speakers took part in the debate.
After the official delivery of the flag in Brussels and the first execution of the hymn “Turin 2015 Celebration Ouverture” by Andrea Ravizza, in the presence of the Premiership's Undersecretary Graziano Delrio, of the President of CONI and the President of the Italian Paralympic Committee, Giovanni Malagò and Luca Pancalli, of the Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino, of the Deputy Mayor in charge of Civic Services, Information Systems, Sport and Free Time of the City of Torino Stefano Gallo and of the Director General of RAI, Luigi Gubitosi,the programme of events Torino European Capital of Sport 2015 was presented during a crowded press conference at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino and the Deputy Mayor in charge of Urban Regeneration, Integration and European Funds of the City of Torino Ilda Curti took part in the conference on protecting the victims of gender violence whose main theme was "Women who suffered violence and abuses, how can they be protected? How can they be compensated?" and which was organised at the Palagiustizia by the International Observatory for Victims of Violence (I.O.V.V.), created in Torino following the Final Resolution of the International Women's Forum adopted in Volgograd, back in March 2012.
It was concluded in Torino the project C4C-Counternarrative for Counterterrorism, strongly supported by the Internal Affairs DG of the EU and carried out during the past two years by AVITER, with the support, among the others, of the City of Torino. The project allowed the creation of an online database of testimonies by victims of acts of terrorism, which is available here http://www.c4c-project.org. Such documents were then used as starting point for an educational path that involved some classes of the Albe Steiner Institute of Torino.
The City of Torino, the Chamber of Commerceand the University, with the technical assistance of ASSAIF organised the international conference "Turin Islamic Economic Forum" which brought into city some of the most relevant financial and economical actors from Arab-Muslim Countries. The City was represented by its Director General Gianmarco Montinari.
The internationally relevant events related to the Semester of Italian Presidency of the European Union continued during the month of November.
After a short introduction by the co-presidents Giorgio Zappa and Masami Iijima and by the Mayor of Torino Piero Fassino, the XXVI edition of the General Assembly of the Italy-Japan Business Group took place at Palazzo Madama. It was an occasion to analyse the strategies for a large scale economic cooperation between Italy and Japan, supporting a permanent dialogue between the two business communities.
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 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 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 Italian-Moldavian Chamber of Commerceand Industry, with the patronage of the City of Torino, organised the forum "Piemonte meets the Republic of Moldova" to present the investment opportunities in the country - that recently signed an Association Agreement with the European Union - an to create new relations between the respective economic realities.
At Torino Incontra in the Giolitti Hall, from 8.30 to 18.00 of September 25th, public conference closing the project CLimate neutral Urban districts in Europe, of which Torino is partner, financed by the Operational Programme of European Territorial Cooperation INTERREG IVC. The consortium of local authorities and universities involved in the project, international experts, politicians, stakeholders debated on the results of three years of work on the subject of the development of policies for the realisation of zero impact districts. Programme is available.
On Spetember 13th and 14th, around twenty producers and retailers from Chambéry in Palazzo di Città Square, from 10.00 to 18.00, to let discover the products from Savoy: cold cuts, wine, cheese, fois gras and beer.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino and the Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino, presented at the Foyer of the Teatro Regio, the Programme of Torino for the Semester of Italian presidency of the European Union and then the Report 2013 of the International Activities of a city that reaffirms itself as open to Europe and to the world as usual.