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In Italy I am very well off, I feel very much at home

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

Italians are people devoted to integration

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

How and what do people from other cultures think? How could diversity be turned into relevant scientific results? These are some questions that have always guided my steps

Away from her native India, Shree Madhu Bhat, 27, a virologist, arrived in Italy in October 2019, just before the Covid pandemic broke out, to attend a doctoral program in biological sciences at the University of Turin. After three years in Italy, Shree still uses Google Translate when she goes to the supermarket, and she

Everyone in their uniqueness must give their best

Malu Mpasinkatu has lived in Italy for over forty years and is the first professional sports director of African descent in Italy. Born in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo on August 14, 1976, Malu speaks French, English, Spanish, and Lingala in addition to Italian. Raised in Mondovì, where he graduated from high school,