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Between Veneto and Istria, the second study seminar The two shores
After the remarkable success of the first seminar (see the result of the teachers' self-assessment questionnaire) which took place in Pula and Piran on 18-19 April 2023, a second seminar is proposed which will take place in Buie and Koper for two days in April 2024. The first seminar was attended by 60 teachers from schools in Veneto and Istria and highlighted the need to further explore the topics covered in addition to proceeding towards the design of common educational paths and organizing twinning between schools in Veneto and Istria. The seminar is aimed at teachers from Veneto and teachers of the Italian minority in Slovenia and Croatia...
Competition for the youth of the Italian National Community
The call for applications by Unione Italiana for the educational excursion to Rome for young compatriots has been published. The call for applications requires a motivational letter of approximately one thousand words by 30 July 2023, in which candidates are encouraged to express the knowledge they expect to acquire, the skills they wish to develop and their opinions on youth issues in the Italian community. The results of the selection will be made public by 14 August. The EU Italian project aims to provide young participants with a comprehensive vision of the social reality that surrounds them, starting from the local level and including the opportunities...
The recomposition of the Julian and Dalmatian Italian community
We have received and are happy to publish this extensive open letter written by Dr. Claudio Deghenghi, exile, essayist and researcher. Distinguished Presidents of our major national social organizations, Prof. Attorney Giuseppe De Vergottini, president of the Federation of Associations of Julian and Dalmatian exiles in Italy, and Mr. Maurizio Tremul, president of the Italian Union, the highest political and organizational body of the Italian National Community of Julian and Dalmatian exiles native to Croatia and Slovenia – I thank you from the bottom of my heart, on behalf of all the Julian and Dalmatian Italian exiles, for having stipulated a “Programme Agreement for the creation of a...
«CNI rights, there is nothing to fear»
The meeting between representatives of the Italian Union and the new administration of Pula, which was recently installed, took place on Monday 28 June at the town hall in Pula. The meeting was between the deputy mayor of Pula Bruno Cergnul, the president of the UI Executive Board Marin Corva and Tamara Brussich, president of the Community of Italians of Pula. Here is what the protagonists had to say in the statements that were released to us at the end of the closed-door meeting. Marin Corva said: “A few days ago I asked for an audience with the new deputy mayor of Pula elected by the CNI, Bruno Cergnul, in the presence of the president of the Community of Italians of Pula Tamara...
The CNI remembers the victims of the foibe and the exodus
On the eve of the Day of Remembrance, the representatives of the Italian Union and the Councils of the Italian minority of the Istrian and Coastal Mountain Regions laid a wreath at the Surani sinkhole. The President of the Assembly of the Italian Union, Paolo Demarin, launched the proposal to place a stele near the sinkhole where Norma Cossetto was killed. “A dutiful tribute to the victims of the sinkholes and the exodus, a testimony of closeness and sharing of the tragic events that have characterized our land” with this spirit the Italian national community, represented by its institutions, laid a wreath...
