On Friday, March 15, 2024, at 1 p.m., in the Aula Magna of the Central Building of the Piazzale Europa Campus, the opening lecture, titled "Sto Lat! The University of Trieste and ESN Italy at the Turning Point," of the three-day ESN Italy National Platform in Trieste (March 15-17, 2024).

This opening conference will mark the beginning of the three-day ESN National Platform in Trieste (15-17 March 2024). The National Platform is a quarterly meeting of all Erasmus Student Network volunteers from Italian sections where projects and issues related to the Erasmus experience are discussed at both a national and international level.

The ESN National Platform gathers almost 200 delegates representing more than 3000 active students and volunteers from almost all universities in Italy, in addition to the multitude of volunteers from international sections. This is a distinctly international event that highlights the high level of internationalisation at the University of Trieste.

The opening conference, which is open to all, will begin with institutional greetings and will be dedicated to mobility, internationalisation, European citizenship and the social impact of these elements. Thanks to figures heavily involved in internationalisation within UniTS and prominent members of ESN, the conference will also feature a speech by MEP Alessandra Moretti. Moretti’s speech will then be followed by the first session of the ESN Italy General Assembly.

On Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 March, the other sessions, open only to ESN members, will take place at SSLMIT in via Filzi.

The detailed programme of the opening conference on 15 March can be found in the attachment below.