Permanently in Italy since late 2007, Magdalena is 42 years old and originally from Poland, specifically Chelm (20 km from the Ukrainian border), although she grew up in Slezia. She speaks Polish, Italian, French, Spanish, English and a little Russian. She learned Italian through an intensive course at the University for Foreigners in Calabria and

Paula arrived in Italy in 2016. Originally from Buenos Aires, she speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Italian. Arriving on a study visa, she managed to obtain citizenship (iure sanguinis, having an Italian great-grandfather), but not recognition of her entire university career. Of the six years she devoted in Argentina to obtaining a bachelor’s degree in

Justine is 31 years old and arrived in Italy from Kenya in September 2019 at the age of 28 to pursue a master’s degree in International Cooperation at the University of Turin, where she graduated in May 2022. As soon as she arrived in Italy as a native English speaker, she taught English through the

Born in Kyiv 48 years ago, Oleksii has lived in Italy for more than 20 years. He speaks Ukrainian, English, Russian and Italian, which he learned with ease, having taken several courses in our language. His choice of Italy, which occurred in 2000 and was stimulated by winning a call for a research project, was

Svetlana is from Belarus and is 41 years old. She has lived in Turin since 2013 and describes herself as “a Turin native”. She is fluent in five languages: Belarusian, Russian, English, Italian, and German (which she has also taught), and for work, she has also learned some French and understands both Ukrainian and Polish.

Samuel was born in Caracas and raised in Barquissimeto, where the Andes mountain range originates. Proud of his two surnames, Scarpato (from his father, a Venezuelan born and raised in Italy) and Mejuto (from his mother, a Galician Celt, Venezuelan born and raised in Spain), Samuel, 49, has dual citizenship, Italian and Spanish. His origins

Originally from Serbia, specifically from the town of Apatin on the border with Croatia, Doriana, 34, speaks English, Italian, Serbian and a little Spanish. In Serbia, she majored in General Mathematics and minored in Applied Mathematics at the University of Novi Sad. She arrived In Italy in November 2015, to attend the PhD program in

Oleh is 29 years old and was born in Volodymyr, a medium-sized city located in the western part of Ukraine near Poland. He speaks Ukrainian, English, Polish, a little Italian and Portuguese. He first came to Italy, specifically to Rome, in 2016 as part of an Erasmus Program that provided semester-long study stays in different

Originally from Alexandria, Egypt, Marwa is 31 years old and a biotechnologist and molecular biologist. She first came to Italy in 2014 to participate in an international Euro-Mediterranean master’s program in neuroscience and biotechnology involving the universities of Egypt, Morocco and Lebanon and three European universities, Turin, Valencia and Bordeaux. Returning to Egypt at the

Born in Mendoza 32 years ago, Ornella Baffini grew up in a neighbourhood in downtown Buenos Aires. A native Spanish speaker, she speaks English and Italian. Italy is in her DNA, however: her grandparents, in fact, were born in Abruzzo and then emigrated to Argentina…and Ornella decided to retrace their steps. The difficult situation in