{"id":5986,"date":"2026-10-29T10:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iicmumbai.esteri.it\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:47:34","slug":"enrico-piaggio-an-italian-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iicmumbai.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_istituto\/2026\/10\/enrico-piaggio-an-italian-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrico Piaggio: an Italian Dream at the University of Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian Cultural Institute in Mumbai, in collaboration with the Centre for European Studies and the Department of French at the University of Mumbai, organised a screening of \u201c<em>Enrico Piaggio \u2013 An Italian Dream\u201d<\/em> at Shankarrao Chavan Bhavan, University of Mumbai, Kalina.<\/p>\n<p>The event was introduced by Raffaello Barbieri, Director of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Mumbai, and held as part of <strong>26th Week of the Italian Language in the World<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The film tells the story of Enrico Piaggio, the Italian entrepreneur behind one of the most recognisable symbols of Made in Italy: the Vespa. Through his vision, determination and entrepreneurial spirit, Piaggio contributed to the transformation of Italy&#8217;s industrial landscape in the post-war years, creating a product that would become an international icon of Italian design and lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>The screening offered students and participants an opportunity to explore an important chapter of Italian industrial and cultural history, while reflecting on the connections between entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative also reaffirmed the Institute\u2019s commitment to fostering dialogue and collaboration with Indian academic institutions, bringing Italian culture and contemporary heritage to new audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian Cultural Institute in Mumbai, in collaboration with the Centre for European Studies and the Department of French at the University of Mumbai, organised a screening of \u201cEnrico Piaggio \u2013 An Italian Dream\u201d at Shankarrao Chavan Bhavan, University of Mumbai, Kalina. The event was introduced by Raffaello Barbieri, Director of the Istituto Italiano di [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicmumbai.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicmumbai.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicmumbai.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicmumbai.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicmumbai.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iicmumbai.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5999,"href":"https:\/\/iicmumbai.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions\/5999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicmumbai.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicmumbai.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicmumbai.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}