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London
21/10/2019

United Kingdom, uncertainty about Brexit favours Made in Italy

The climate of uncertainty about Brexit and the hypothesis of a no deal UK exit from the European Union on October 31st favour Made in Italy products. This is what emerges from an analysis carried out by Coldiretti on ISTAT data related to foreign trade for the period January-July 2019 [...]
Italian products
21/10/2019

Italian Geographical indications, the new dedicated portal is online

In Italy there are over 800 food products awarded with a designation of origin and geographical indications. Wines, olive oils, cheeses: these are just some examples of Italian products marked with abbreviations such as PDO (protected designation of origin) and PGI (protected geographical indication). Thanks to the Ministry of Agricultural [...]
Commissione Europea
21/10/2019

Funding 2021-2027, new partnerships for Horizon Europe

Horizon Europe will be the name of the new programme which, from January 1st 2021 to December 31st 2027, will replace Horizon 2020, maintaining its structure, objectives and aims. The budget allocated for the European research and innovation program is around 100 billion euros and the current Commission proposal - [...]
beer
17/09/2019

Semidas, from industrial chemistry to craft beer

Innovation does not consist only in the invention of a completely new product or process, but can also be represented by the radical transformation of a mature and consolidated production process through techniques developed in other contexts. For example, the world of beer production in recent decades has introduced incredible [...]
rainbow
17/09/2019

Agribusiness and fashion, entrepreneurial mission in Japan for Italian SMEs

ICE the Italian Foreign Trade Agency organizes, in collaboration with Confindustria and under the aegis of the Ministry of Economic Development, an entrepreneurial mission for SMEs in Japan from 10 to 14 November 2019. The objective of the entrepreneurial mission is to promote and increase the presence in Japan of [...]
pasta
17/09/2019

Food and wine, Italy showcased in Romania

As part of the IV edition of the "Italian Cooking Week in the World", the Bucharest office of the ICE, the Italian Foreign Trade agency, organizes the 3rd edition of the event "Degusta Italia" in order to promote Italian excellence in the food and wine sector, aimed at the retail [...]
Japan
17/09/2019

ICE Export Lab, on September 26 in Cagliari a Market Focus on Japan

As part of the operating agreement between the Autonomous Region of Sardinia and the ICE-Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of Italian companies, a Focus meeting on the wine sector in the Japanese market is organized. The seminar will be held on September 26th at the Cagliari Chamber [...]
Europe
17/09/2019

EU Funding 2021-2027: the Horizon Europe program

Last March, the European Parliament and the Council reached a provisional agreement on the European Commission's proposal for the new Horizon Europe initiative, the EU's research and innovation program that will replace Horizon 2020. Horizon Europe will have a total budget of 100 billion euros with an increase of 33 [...]
Export
17/09/2019

Exports from Sardinia to India, a 27 million euros turnover in 2018

Exports of products from Sardinia to India last year produced a turnover of over 27 million euros. In most cases, these are products derived from the processing of oil, the extractive sector and industrial systems linked to the refining of crude oil. Exports of these products, between 2017 and 2018 [...]