Italy and China, Innovation Week returns: Città della Scienza coordinates the mission.

Italy and China are celebrating 55 years of diplomatic relations by relaunching their collaboration in the name of research and sustainability. From November 13 to 15, the fourteenth edition of the China-Italy Science, Technology and Innovation Week will be held in Beijing and Hangzhou, coordinated by Città della Scienza together with the National Research Council (CNR) and the scientific authorities of Beijing and Zhejiang Province.

The initiative, promoted by the Ministries of Universities and Research of the two countries, represents one of the key moments of bilateral cooperation within the 2024-2027 Action Plan for Strengthening the Global Strategic Partnership . The goal: to foster new synergies between universities, research centers, and businesses, promoting knowledge as a lever for economic and social development.

The inaugural ceremony, on November 13 in Beijing, will be attended by Ministers Anna Maria Bernini and Yin Hejun . It will be followed by the Rectors' Forum , organized by CEAIE (the Chinese University Association) and CRUI (the Conference of Italian Rectors), which will lead to the signing of a framework agreement and approximately twenty new academic cooperation agreements between the two countries' universities.

During the Week, collaboration agreements will also be signed between institutions, universities, research institutes and companies, with a focus on strategic themes such as advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, life sciences, marine and polar sciences, cultural heritage protection and tropical agriculture .

There will also be space for one-to-one meetings between universities, research centers, and startups to develop academic and industrial partnerships.

The Week, held annually in alternating locations between the two countries, confirms its role as a laboratory for scientific and technological diplomacy, uniting two innovation systems called upon to address major global challenges—from climate change to the digital transition—in the spirit of dialogue and mutual trust.