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Framework agreement between AICS and Spallanzani: Italian know-how for the fight against infectious diseases
The framework agreement between the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and the 'Lazzaro Spallanzani' National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI)
Senegal: agricultural programs on display at the Africa Food Systems Forum 2025
Italian Cooperation promotes sustainable and resilient agriculture, contributing to food security and rural development for communities.
Democratic Republic of Congo: visit of the AICS Director to the Lubumbashi Museum
As part of the mission on the 'Global Gateway' organized by the platform that brings together the main European development cooperation agencies, 'Practitioners network', the Director of AICS, Marco Rusconi, visited the National Museum of Lubumbashi, in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“Business Impact Measurement”: public consultation on September 18. Here’s how to register.
This is a public pre-commercial procurement (PCP) aimed at identifying innovative, sustainable, and inclusive entrepreneurial solutions that can foster economic growth, decent work, and social inclusion - in compliance with human rights, the principles of the Global Compact, and the Kampala principles.
5% Global Fund 2025 Call for Proposals published in the Official Gazette
To be eligible for the procedure, proposals must be submitted, in the manner established by the Call, by the final and binding deadline of October 15, 2025, at 1:00 PM (13:00:00).
Awarded in Venice with the ‘Green Drop Award’ 2025, the project for the Aral Sea
IOn the occasion of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, the project 'Environmental and Socio-Economic Regeneration of the Transboundary Basin of the Aral Sea', promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and carried out with the technical support of SOGESID, was awarded a special recognition at the Green Drop Award 2025.
Cooperation, Ferrero and Save the Children: ethical cocoa for Ivorian children
An innovative project that involves institutions, the business world, and civil society aimed at protecting girls, boys, and adolescents living in cocoa farming communities in Côte d'Ivoire. This program, at the center of a multi-stakeholder partnership that will see the Italian Cooperation, Save the Children, and Ferrero working together, will be developed in the Haut Sassandra region and the Montagnes district.
Kenya: the program for training future professionals in cultural tourism is starting
An innovative project that involves institutions, the business world, and civil society aimed at protecting girls, boys, and adolescents living in cocoa farming communities in Côte d'Ivoire.
No Crisis Is Far Away: The Commitment of Italian Cooperation at the “Meeting of Rimini”
Once again this year, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) will participate in the “Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples” in Rimini (22–27 August 2025), collaborating in the pavilion organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), titled “No Crisis Is Far Away.”
New MAECI–AICS Agreement Signed for the 2025–2027 Three-Year Period
On 8 August, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, and the Director of AICS, Marco Riccardo Rusconi, signed the Agreement setting out the framework for cooperation between the Ministry and the Agency for the 2025–2027 period
Joint statement on behalf of 27 partners on aid to Gaza and restrictions facing NGOs
We call on the government of Israel to provide authorisation for all international NGO aid shipments and to unblock essential humanitarian actors from operating. Immediate, permanent and concrete steps must be taken to facilitate safe, large-scale access for the UN, international NGOs and humanitarian partners.
Joint Foreign Ministers’ statement on Gaza and the decision of the Israeli Security Cabinet
Joint Statement from Foreign Ministers of Italy, Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom and the High Representative of the European Union