 gonna be it takes always a little bit all right how we are recording and so this can be that posted for all the other participants as a podcaster for all the other participants people from Vietnam okay I'm I'm also going to present although I I'm not particularly in love with PowerPoint but I think this time I can work to you know to have a little a little help from slides I'm not going to to get too much time and too many slides I think you can you can see now my my presentation I hope so because if I see the presentation I don't see the screen so I'm going to talk about the catch of diplomacy and in the catch of relation here in Siena this is a rather recent in a way experience in terms of teaching programs and teaching and learning experiences but it's well connected to a longer story let me check if I have someone to admit yes okay that someone is coming a long story I was saying of centrality of Siena within a context of intercatcher relation by the way in Siena is a sort of sent small but central University this is the the map of Italy and Siena is exactly not exactly but rather central in the region of Tuscany which is a central region in in according to the Italian geographical structure and somehow although as you may know Italy represented the south of Europe on the Mediterranean Sea in a way mainly thanks to this connection between Rome the capital of the classic holy empire in the old age and and and and the Nordic and the northern European University connection thanks to its University Siena was somehow representing the center of the intellectual life and into an academic life in Italy since the middle age so roughly eight centuries ago so a small place a small city campus in the middle of the European and Italian cultural system then there's something more I would like to address as a sort of you know kickoff argument to to explain why is Siena and the University of Siena in particular has been a sort of catalyst for intercatcher relations this because Siena used to be a proud city free city Republican city and to be a proud Republican city you need to be open you need to look for openness this inscription is what you see in one of the most important historical gate of the city of Siena the gate which is looking to the northern side where Florence another important city of Tuscany is located and Siena and Florence so used to be connected and then divided by the important real real re and basically this description is a to some extent a very provocative description for the Florentine people which say represent somehow the historical antagonist of the Siena Republic but at the same time it's representing the willing to Siena people to be open to the rest of the world Cor Magistibi Siena Pandit that can be roughly translated as a Siena opens it's hurt to your wider to you wider than this gate sort of commitment to to know the culture outside and this is from the middle age you know tradition up to now Siena has been considered an open city open to the foreigner open to the to the other Italians because we are also attracting number known native known people known originally from from from other regions in Italy so that's very much at the core of the traditional view of the University of Siena and then of course we try and this is more modern approach what we could talk to sort of a local and territorial branding the beauties of the of the Tuscany landscape and the beauty of the Tuscany territory as a sort of catalyst for keeping in Siena in the town of Siena in the University of Siena a number of people representing many many cultures and and this what we did in the last basically 20 years 30 years with the Erasmus Siena represents right now the University city with the higher with the highest percentage of incoming student from the rest of Europe thanks to the you know that we have a scheme within the European Union called the Erasmus since the 30 years which is a guaranteeing and continuous installment of resources for mobility of students and then we wrap slowly start overseas scheme of mobility including a number of people from everywhere from all the corners of the planet so Siena has even now under the pandemic hundreds of international students Siena is international city although a small one and Siena has also a little number of Vietnamese students in is in its recent experience so we attract even thanks to a number of degrees offered in English we attract a certain number of international students of course you can attract students and being a modern campus a modern University in the middle of nowhere this is a model which is rather evident in many in many and successful in many in many European realities Siena does not follow this Siena wants to integrate international students in what is and what used to be Siena for the last hundreds of its history that means it's town Siena it's basically a town and the campus at the same time it's true that the biotech medical laboratories the old hospital system is a little bit out of the of the cities for instance in this area because we need to develop a proper departments and and and labs for those activities requiring spaces and and and and say room or maneuver for for all the scientific members of the community but the basic idea is to keep all of them rather close to the city campus where you will find in a number of different buildings here and there economics a low social science culture heritage and so on so the idea is to keep going with this prototype of a social capital community based on its art the students they have to leave the city somehow and they have to leave culture heritage and civicness of the city and guys and girls who's who's come who are coming to Siena they are somehow requested to become Sienese and to be connected to this tradition which also which is also a peculiar tradition even to be an Italian city with a strong the sense of local identity when you know we have an important fast to two times per year with an important popular say celebration with this horse races at Ipalia which is famous all around the world you know people have to be part of it and that's why Siena is so at the same time open to the world and proud of its strong identity and this again has to do with the with the idea of inter inter related cultures in a way I mean what you're living in Siena as a personal experience is per se an experience of inter inter cultural life and Siena is able to give the city back Siena is able to give the city something which is from its knowledge but is for the city this picture is an important exhibition that we organize just a couple of years before the pandemic to celebrate one of the most important the painter of middle-aged in Tuscany and in Italy and in Europe and Brogio Lorenzetti and this exhibition was entirely organized by the city this is a famous Pala from Brogio Lorenzetti which was restored and applied again in its natural environment after a study from one of our professor or better from a team coordinated by one of our professor of history of art this idea that the university works with the city the city works with the university it's still a stronger and and and very much shared idea which has to do once again with the with the spirit of inter cultural is within Siena we we want to give all the people including one day tourists visitors exactly the same idea of a community of free students and scholars of work together with the city institution and the city community then I of course I try to close with the second short part of presentation with some information about the degrees we are and the activities we do in this story the story is as I say they're rather short because we had a let's say relatively recent engagement in the English based English offer degrees let's say plus 10 years where roughly speaking dedicated to this process of internationalization and within this this historical context that we we deserve some attention for public and cultural diplomacy which was the master program we found that I was among the the founders of this program roughly six years ago and and and I was the first chair of the faculty then I left to some colleague because it took another responsibility in the in the university community and the idea was to to put together some of our personal involvement as a as academics in different practices electoral events I'm a political scientist for instance and I was engaged with the international electoral observer plans democratic enforcement peacekeeping human rights local conflicts experience of their democracy some of us some of us were studying participation representation and so on so forth but then we wanted to to bring this experience together with other experiences from humanities for instance archaeologists who are studying how it's possible to design archaeology programs with people from other culture and this happens very very often in the Mediterranean area but nowadays even in Asia we have archaeologists working in China we have archaeologists working together with international enterprises in in in Iraqi for instance or maybe someone someone else in the mid Mediterranean East area we wanted to put together these different experiences to to start and we started I started actually 10 years ago with a one-year program in global governance catcher diplomacy and there was another master in genocide and human rights and studies and this our first laura magistrali our first master was somehow the connection of these different experiences and then four years ago we finally arrived to the lunch or better to the to the first graduation of the three-year master in public in catcher diplomacy which is now our current program in the field there was someone who's entering sorry that's okay this was then bringing us to to define a more strategic design for catcher diplomacy and this is also connected to another important aspect of our history the fact that sienna is connected to Europe because it's one of the typical stop of the Via Francija the the pilgrims through the connecting Spain to Rome passing through most of the European Western countries which were which used to be part of the Holy Roman Christian Empire and and and this was another reason to link university with other universities sienna is part of the Coimbra group of ancient European University which is a sort of a club of all the universe historical universities in Europe and of course our connection is very much leaning on projects in in terms of European cultures we are part of this network on conflict resolution we also have a vocational master in conflict management and the humanitarian action we are part of many networks on Mediterranean studies these are not only humanities and social sciences but above all I would say networks in the field of hard sciences and environmental sciences I'm not talking about that because we had already presentation on these issues but Mediterranean studies are particularly important for us right now and then and this was the the last in in in chronological order of our commitments that the important of culture diplomacy within the context of the United Nations sustainable goals sienna is that the venue of the Mediterranean association for sustainability goals and even in our master we offer a course on sustainable policies for the future world commitment University environment is per se as I said a sort of big laboratory for culture diplomacy experiences and we do run we want to practically approach within our classes the idea of cultural relations so we are using the soft powers we are doing classes opening our floor to international students we are looking for interdisciplinarity in different fields in the case of public and catch diplomacy master we have four big let's say larger disciplinary issues empirical social science which means basically political and social scientists humanities archaeologists law a particular humanitarian law international law and linguistic cognitive skills because we want to have a multilingual and multicultural approach from each of our students they can pick different languages from Chinese to Arabic and of course the European languages using English as a lingua franca but life in sienna is mainly a life of civic engagement and culture diplomacy so we are asking a student to to practice let's say catcher relations not just in class but every moment of their life because they have to be socialized to this small but international environment and this means also a particular cure for respect the recognition of culture diversity and cultural heritage a global intercache of dialogue and justice equality and interdependence and protection of international human rights these are things that are very much a recurrent thing in our syllabi and in our approach to training from one class to another more recently we did that but this is also as I said part of another master vocational master on conflict management and and humanitarian action and so we pay attention to global peace we have partnership with the OMG's international non-governmental organization working in the field of peacekeeping and social system this is our let's say current logo and our current brochure you will find the brochure in the in the web page of our event with Vietnam and you also have all our contacts if you want to know more about public and culture diplomacy just to conclude we want to ask our student to be proactive all the activities designed to generate entrepreneurial spirit and maximizing impact in terms of interpersonal intercultural exchange and even the organization of the of the work the assignments and everything our designer considers interdisciplinary experience we have the idea of case studies and each student that has to pick and to choose a number of case studies to be the protagonist of the piece of her work project so they may be an expert in I don't know archaeology in China or peacekeeping in Venezuela or or new agricultural policies in Southeast Asia but they have to be protagonist of their of their own approach this is the plan the study plan I want to go into this because of course I will be happy to respond to you if if you have question this and in any case the study plan and the brochure is online let me also add that we have recently started two important agreements as a double degree we are connected with a Polish important University University from Poland Krakow Jagiellonian University one of the most reputed and the ancient University the most ancient University in Poland and we have a double degree with them and particularly in the context of international security and development program which is twinned with our public cash of the month and then we are also connected to one Palestinian University University of Ebron and we have a double degree with them as well we are working to new double degree project and of course we are also interested to have a connection to Vietnam as well thank you very much for your attention I think that this is more than enough to present public in cash of the month now I don't have too much time because I can't