Terracciano, Italy has fewer funds but wins with its assets

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 28 - On the cultural diplomacy front, there is a "beneficial competition" with our main European and non-European partners, and even if some of them allocate more resources on this front, Italy can respond with "strong contents "of its cultural offer.

Ambassador Pasquale Quito Terracciano, General Director of the Farnesina for Public and Cultural Diplomacy, told ANSA.

    For example, the ambassador recalled that "we have a ratio of one to ten with respect to the resources that Germany uses for cultural promotion".

At the same time, "we have such strong content that allows us to play the game with good chances".

    One of the most important projects in this sense is that of "spreading the Italian educational model even more, which is of the highest quality from the point of view of teaching, but also for the values ​​it transmits, and therefore is a particularly inclusive model".

For the ambassador, "the most logical and sustainable way is to increase the number of paritary schools (private institutions recognized by our Ministry of Education). With this in mind" we have renewed the agreement with the Dante Alighieri society, which will be able to help bring other schools on the path of recognition.

And then we will create an event in the autumn dedicated to the Italian training model abroad ", explained Terracciano.

    The ambassador, who today opened the Conference of Directors of the Italian Cultural Institutes, then underlined that the choice to host the Naples event was made with the ambition of "creating contact between cultural institutions and territorial cultural realities".

To enhance "cultural expressions that arise in Italian territories and which are different by vocation".

Furthermore, "the idea of ​​leaving the center to reach the periphery also has the objective of widening the public" of the users of the Italian cultural heritage.

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