2025
Mayor Stefano Lo Russo welcomed Matti Lassila, the Finnish Ambassador to Italy, to the City Hall, in town for official business.
As part of the Interreg Europe NEBA project, the third study visit took place, during which partners had the opportunity to learn about the New European Bauhaus initiatives being carried out by the city.
Tokuko Nabeshima, the Deputy Consul General of Japan in Milan, visited the City of Torino to discuss the city's participation in the Osaka-Kansai Expo and its twinning relationship with Nagoya.
Mayor Stefano Lo Russo met with Jonathan Peled, Israel's Ambassador to Italy and San Marino, at the City Hall for an official greeting.
Eighteen projects, that received funding from the Bloomberg Philanthropic Foundation's second Youth Climate Action Fund call for proposals, were presented at the Museo A come Ambiente in the presence of Mayor Stefano Lo Russo and Deputy Mayor Chiara Foglietta. These projects cover various areas in line with the Municipality's Climate City Contract priorities and will contribute to Torino's commitment to achieving climate neutrality by 2030.
The City of Torino presented the FEMACT-Cities project at the European Project Festival in Ferrara, dedicated to understanding and shaping the future of Europe by listening to authoritative voices and representatives of European institutions, who presented the major challenges and strategies of the Union.
The City of Torino attended the first in-person meeting of this new Urban Agenda partnership, dedicated to water-sensitive cities. A multi-level approach to creating tools, measures and governance mechanisms with the aim of building urban management models that are sensitive to the promotion of integrated approaches.
Following the launch of an exchange programme between partners in the CoFarm4Cities project, and after visits to Torino by partners from Krakow (Poland) and Obuda (Budapest Municipality), project participants met in Ljubljana.
Within the framework of the EMERITUS project , the Torino pilot project was carried out in Collegno, dedicated to testing and validating key components of the project in a real-world context, with the involvement of local and international actors.
Mayor Lo Russo joined the first edition of the Arab European Cities Dialogue (AECD) 2025, a platform focused on boosting cooperation between Arab and European cities by promoting dialogue, sharing expertise, and building sustainable urban futures.
The Deputy Mayor for Culture, Rosanna Purchia, welcomed an Armenian delegation led by the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Armenia in Milan, Pietro Kuciukian, accompanied by the President of the Union of Armenians of Italy, Baykar Sivazliyan, to the City Hall.
As part of the CoFarm4Cities project, Torino’s follower cities discussed the development and governance of urban and peri-urban agriculture projects. Participants had the opportunity to visit Cascina Falchera and meet foreign delegations from the Cleverfood project.
Representatives from the cities of Limerick (Ireland), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Osmangazi (Turkey), accompanied by technicians from the Eurocities/Slow Food networks, met with their colleagues in Torino. They discussed food policies and citizen engagement initiatives and visited some of the city's most significant sites as part of the Cleverfood project.
Vice Mayor Michela Favaro welcomed a delegation from the Committee for European and International Affairs of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia to City Hall. The delegation was led by Wiltrud Kern, Deputy Consul General of Germany in Milan, and Stefan Engstfeld, Member of the Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and head of delegation.
A delegation from Nagoya led by Vice Mayor Hideo Nakata was welcomed by Vice Mayor Favaro to discuss relations between the two cities and the celebrations to be organised to mark the 20th anniversary of the twinning in 2025.