 Hello, dear delegates, as president of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya it is a pleasure to be able to greet you and encourage you to attend the upcoming EDEN 2015 annual conference. It will be an honour for our university and for our city, Barcelona, to host you. EDEN is now the benchmark European network for open and distance education, and the WALK has played the same key role in online education for the now 20 years in 2015. Although the university is deeply rooted in Catalonia, its scope covers Spain, Latin America and the entire world. In 2000 the WALK hosted a great event in Barcelona, the Open Classroom Conference, which helped to drive the EDEN Open Classroom movement. A few years later, in 2006, many EDEN delegates returned to enjoy the Castell de Fells research workshop that contributed substantially to raising the European Open and learning communities research activities to a new level. Ara, d'acord, facem un futur fàcil de challenges, risques i oportunitats. El 2015 ha marcat un altre periodament important en l'open, distància i l'aliment. El breakthrough en la nova interpretació de l'openness ha posat un even greater transformation of educational systems than ever. El 2015 també serà el primer fàcil d'anar a la nova Unió Europea, que els programes educacionals són en operació. ¿Què és el millor way to celebrate our 20th anniversary than by hosting partners who share with us our views on knowledge, innovation and research, with whom we have shared valuable experience and who will be also celebrating an anniversary, their 50th? I'm sure that Barcelona will make the perfect venue for reflecting on the current and future challenges for relearning and for forging alliances between universities and professionals, from around all over the world to better equip all of us to respond to these evolving times. Barcelona and the Walk, look forward to welcoming you. See you in 2015. Moltes gracias. Thank you very much.