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Culture and beauty in Italy are identity traits rooted in society and the economy. Hence the title of the Io sono cultura report, and thanks to their strong relationship with manufacturing, they have given rise to one of the world's strongest manufacturing identities, Made in Italy. Today, the cultural and creative industries are among the most str...

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We cannot afford the slow and uncertainties with which the implementation of the 2030 Agenda is proceeding. Even in some policies in our country. Think of the delay on renewable energy. Take action immediately, not postponing but anticipating and accelerating investments in the green transition and renewable energy, can not only increase the our co...

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The strength of our economy and made in Italy, in all fields, owes much to culture and beauty. More than in other countries. Culture and creativity, in addition to enriching our identity and feeding the demand for Italy in the world, can today, more than ever, help us decode the present and explore radical ideas to face together, without fear, the...

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Nearly 20 million passenger electric vehicles, 1.3 million electric commercial vehicles, and more than 280 million electric mopeds, scooters, and motorcycles are on the road worldwide, and according to recent estimates a global market share for electrified cars of more than 50% driven by BEV technologies is expected by 2030. The main markets are Ch...

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At times, the climate crisis, pandemic, devastating conflicts and inequality seem to prefigure a less user-friendly future. In order to change direction, each country, community, business and each individual is called upon to put their talents into play and share them. This applies to Italy too. Our country gives its best when it intermingles its a...

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“The lesson the pandemic has offered us cannot make us go back to square one. That would be a mistake, a waste of energy, and we wouldn’t have the chance to meet future challenges.” David Sassoli  As David Sassoli, EP President, recalled during the presentation of the Assisi Manifesto, the current crisis has forced Italy to undergo profound transfo...

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There is nothing new about the idea of a circular approach in the use of resources. Circularity is the strategy that nature and the human species, since its appearance on Earth, have refined to efficiently manage scarce resources. It is the strategy that Italy, historically poor in raw materials, has smartly adopted to find materials, to produce –...

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On the eve of COP26 in Glasgow, crucial for climate policies, the twelfth edition of the GreenItaly report, produced by the Symbola Foundation and Unioncamere with the collaboration of Centro Studi Tagliacarne, allows us to take stock, with data and stories, of the situation of the green economy in Italy and its strengths. Conai, Novamont, Ecopneus...

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Since last year the world hasn’t been the same. The pandemic has changed our lives and has put public health at the centre of many individual and collective choices. We have learnt how health may affect many aspects of our life: work, social cohesion and economy. Many countries have paid the price for the mistake of having cut the health expenditur...

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Last March, in the municipality of Peccioli in Tuscany, the first robotic shopping carts were taken into service. The carts go straight to the shops’ entrances and then reach autonomously the houses of the people who made the purchases. In May, at the Gran Caffè di Rapallo, which Hemingway was known to frequent, the first two robotic waiters in Lig...

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