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Deputy Mayor Michela Favaro received a delegation led by Ryszard Schnepf, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland. The meeting was an opportunity to discuss the internationalization processes of businesses, the management and enhancement of the territory, and the development of mountain tourism.
Deputy Mayor Michela Favaro met with Paola Babos, Deputy Director of the ILO, at the City Hall during an official visit.
Mayor Stefano Lo Russo received at the City Hall Yassine Dadi, Consul General of the Kingdom of Morocco in Torino, and Lemrhoti Loubna, Vice Consul, as part of an official visit.
Rosanna Purchia, Deputy Mayor for Culture, welcomed a delegation of Cultural Engineering students from the Sorbonne University of Paris at the City Hall, who were interested in learning about the functioning of the cultural system in Torino.
At the Urban Lab headquarters, the Deputy Mayor for Urbanism Paolo Mazzoleni received a delegation of students as part of the workshop "Post-industrial Transition and Urban Transformations," within the international master's program "Governing Ecological Transitions in Cities (GETIC)," organized by the Urban School of Sciences Po, the largest European school dedicated to urban studies based in Paris, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Torino.
As part of the twinning that has linked the City of Torino and the City of Glasgow since 2003, the Ensemble Xenia Association has organized the New Year's Chamber Music Mini Course in collaboration with the Sermig Sound Laboratory.
Deputy Mayor Michela Favaro welcomed Arathi Krishna, member of the Legislative Council of the State of Karnataka and Hemegowda Mafhu, President of the Italian Kanada Association, to the City Hall for an official meeting.
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the twinning between Torino and Nagoya, Mayor Lo Russo welcomed a delegation from Nagoya led by Mayor Ichiro Hirosawa and City Council President Hisashi Nishikawa to the CityHall.
At the Pietro Micca Museum and the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento, it was possible to participate in the augmented reality trial of the TrialsNet project, funded by the Horizon Europe program.
Mayor Stefano Lo Russo welcomed the Ambassador of Latvia, Elita Gavele, accompanied by Honorary Consul Umberto Romano, to the City Hall for an institutional meeting.
The OGR hosted the 11th edition of the “European Innovation Capital” and “European Rising Innovative City” awards, competitions supported by the European Innovation Council, under the Horizon Europe programme.
Deputy Mayor for Culture Rosanna Purchia received a delegation at the City Hall led by Ambassador of Ireland Elizabeth McCullough and Consul General Maria Sheehy, who were visiting Torino for the Irish Tech Day – Space Tech event.
Domenico Carretta, Deputy Mayor for Tourism, Sport, and Major Events, and Maurizio Vitale, President of Turismo Torino e Provincia, opened the European workshop dedicated to smart tourism. The initiative, promoted and coordinated by the European Commission and aimed at cities awarded the titles of European Capital of Smart Tourism and European Green Pioneer over the years, aims to gather contributions and proposals for the new European Sustainable Tourism Strategy.
Mayor Lo Russo received Mario Nava, Director General of the European Commission's Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG, at the Town Hall for an institutional visit.
As part of the Climaborough project, the City of Torino discussed with the other partner cities the results of the circular economy trial of textiles and electrical/electronic waste and visited the sites of the trials taking place in Grenoble.