 Dear students, it is a great pleasure for me on behalf of the University of Siena to welcome you at the beginning of your Erasmus Mobility Programme. The University of Siena is one of the oldest universities in the world with records of its presence in the city of Siena dating back to almost eight centuries ago. Since then the university and the city that hosts it have grown together and now the medieval city center represents the natural campus of the university. The University of Siena proudly participates to the Erasmus program since the very beginning of the program more than 30 years ago. And since then thousands of students from all parts of Italy have come to Siena as well as many students from the University of Siena have moved to several universities around the continent. Here in Siena 1500s of international students enrolled to undergraduate and graduate programs mix together the Italian students and the Erasmus incoming students and creates a fantastic environment in which students from all parts of the world interact with each other. They exchange their experience, their different cultures, their habits and by doing these they improve the knowledge of each other. We are very proud of you coming to Siena in this particularly year and we hope that this will be the beginning of a new post-pandemic moment. I am sure that you will have a fantastic memory of your period spent in Siena and I wish you all a fantastic stay here at the University of Siena. Thank you very much for coming and good luck.