Opening of the new AP Racing production facility in Coventry
Ambassador Raffaele Trombetta attended the opening of AP Racing’s new state-of-the-art production facility in Coventry on 20 September. The company, part of the Brembo Group, is a world leader in the design and manufacture of braking and clutch systems for motorsport competitions, including Formula1 and MotoGP, and for high-performance road vehicles. The new facility, located […]
Read moreItalian Trade Agency London – job announcement
ITA London is currently recruiting for an Assistant Trade Analyst (Permanent, full-time)
Read moreLuca Cordelli is made Cavaliere OSI
Luca Cordelli, a lawyer at Belluzzo & Partners, has collaborated closely with this Embassy for many years, distinguishing himself with the accuracy and value of his contributions in delicate legal matters involving Italian public and private beneficiaries, including this embassy, which has consulted him on numerous occasions. He merits special mention for his excellent work, […]
Read moreBrexit EU Settlement Scheme – Ambassador Trombetta’s interview on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme
In an interview this morning on BBC 4’s Today Programme Ambassador Raffaele Trombetta stressed the importance for Italians living in the United Kingdom to apply for the Home Office EU settlement scheme and invited them to do so promptly. “I want to encourage Italians to register for the settled status – it’s something they have […]
Read moreConversation between Ambassador Trombetta and Italian correspondents in London
Ambassador Trombetta (middle) with the Italian correspondents in London (Picture – S. Mancuso) Ambassador Raffaele Trombetta met today at the ambassadorial residence in Grosvenor Square with London-based journalists representing Italian media outlets to discuss a number of issues of current interest. The ambassador gave an overview of some of the issues on which the embassy […]
Read morePeregrine Bryant GeM award in memory of Gloria and Marco. Young Italian architects in the UK
The memory of Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi, a young Italian couple who died in the tragic Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, lives on through the GeM Award set up by the architecture firm Peregrine Bryant, where Gloria worked. The award covers a three-month placement during which recipients study conservation of historic buildings, with both […]
Read moreGodspeed Luca!
As the world celebrates Tomorrow’s 50th anniversary of the extraordinary and momentous accomplishment of Apollo XI landing on the Moon, European Space Agency Astronaut Luca Parmitano will blast off from the Roscosmos Cosmodrome in Baiknonur, Kazakhstan as part of the Soyuz MS-13 (59S) crew with destination the International Space Station. Luca will become the first […]
Read moreItaly4Innovation and Digital Unbound London with the participation of Minister of State Stefano Buffagni
The Embassy of Italy in London hosted the ninth event in the Italy4Innovation series, an initiative launched to publicise the Italian innovation sector and to foster collaboration between Italy and the UK in the field of new technologies. The event, entitled “Italy and the UK: synergies and opportunities between the two start-up ecosystems”, was co-organised […]
Read moreApollo XI – 50 years
After the harnessing of fire, human kind’s greatest achievement is arguably the Apollo XI moon landing in the summer of 1969. As a testament to human endeavour and endless possibilities – like Christopher Columbus and Marco Polo centuries before – JFK famously said in 1962: “we choose to go to the Moon in this decade and […]
Read moreLuiss Networking Event
The 4th of July saw the Embassy of Italy host a networking event organised by LUISS Guido Carli University and its alumni association, to bring together successful Italians in London and publicise the role of alumni associations in creating links between universities and the world of business and civil society. The event was part of […]
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