The Diplomat
The Instituto Cervantes and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation have signed their first collaboration agreement in Madrid to jointly develop cultural promotion activities and projects.
The agreement was signed this past Tuesday by the general secretary of the Instituto Cervantes, Carmen Noguero, and the general director for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Italian Republic, Alessandro de Pedys, to whose General Directorate the network of Italian cultural institutes abroad. The event took place at the headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid and was attended by the Italian ambassador to Spain, Giuseppe Buccino.
The agreement, as reported by the Institute in a press release, provides that the centers of the Instituto Cervantes and the Italian Institute of Culture in the world can launch joint projects and exchange programs in third countries, especially in Africa (Maghreb and Africa Sub-Saharan), Asia-Pacific and Latin America with the aim of maximizing the impact of their respective promotional actions.
The areas of intervention will be related to cultural diplomacy programs, arts, language, education, intercultural dialogue, research and creative industries. “The signing of this first agreement seeks to give continuity and reinforce the dialogue that Spain and Italy maintain in the field of cultural diplomacy,” added Cervantes.
At the end of the meeting and the signing of the agreement, Carmen Noguero expressed her satisfaction for “sharing agendas in areas of joint interest for the future.” For his part, Alessandro de Pedys declared that the collaboration between both institutions “is progressively assuming a high profile, which aims to be consolidated even more thanks to the agreement that we signed today: with it we have the opportunity to make two of the networks work in parallel. cultural diplomacy in the world that is historically most extensive and solid.”
The day concluded with the inauguration of the photographic exhibition ‘Palermo mon amor’, a project promoted by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura center in Madrid that has had the collaboration of the Instituto Cervantes of Palermo.
