Valentina Garbin

Master's Degree, Fall Semester 2019

The experience in Shangai was wonderful. This destination allows you to broaden your horizons by exploring an extremely fascinating new culture and challenge yourself outside your comfort zone. The city is welcoming, full of innovation and opportunities of all kinds. SISU offers an intensive and well-structured Chinese language course that helps you adapt better to the local environment. 

Marco Monini

Master's Degree, Fall Semester 2019

I had the pleasure to study at Shangai University in China before the advent of Covid-19. An indescrivable fortune in this space of 500 characters and at this time of lockdown, as it is unique. The university campus populated by both local and international students makes it easy to immerse oneself in this new, nuanced culture. If at the beginning I encountered logistical and organisational problems at the end I would not have wanted to say goodbye to Shangai. 

Davide Lorenzo Barattin

Bachelor's Degree, Spring Semester 2018 (March-June)

The experience at Zhejiang University was interesting from a personal point of view because it allowed me to study in a truly international environmment, sorrounded by cultures different from my own and therefore stimulating to get to know. From an academic point of view, I experienced a different method of learning, which is engaging and also useful for my future studies. The facilities provided by the host university contributed to creating a perfect environment, also in terms of extracurricular activities. 

Tommaso Pavanin

Bachelor's Degree, March-September 2017

I have started my exchange semester on March 21st and finished it on September 8th. During this semester, I had the chance to meet many interesting people and discover much about Japanese economy and, Kyushu economy. Being an exchange student from Italy, studying economics at the university of Nagasaki, and the internship at the 18bank gave me the opportunity to become more familiar with the Japanese working environment and to understand how important is the relationship between universities and companies. More on details of what I have done during this semester will be needed to understand better my experience. At the beginning of the semester I met many interesting and funny people. Those people were both foreigners and Japanese. After a while we were hanging out together quite often and this helped a lot to make even more friends (especially among Japanese student). As today I am still in contact with many of the people met in Nagasaki and I hope that I will meet them again. Nagasaki city is a very nice place to live, not too big not too small, there are many beautiful places to spend time at and it is somehow active also during the night. One of the few negative side of the city, and japan in general, is the very high humidity and the extremely hot temperature in summer. Overall, I would say that my exchange experience helped me to have a better understanding of Japanese working culture. Personally, the thing I found more interesting were some courses about the Japanese economy because I learned many useful information about Japanese trade and I also had an interesting discussion with the head of the office. Also, very important was the visit at the Castella factory where I visited the production site as well as the office JETRO during my internship. There I discussed with a consultant about the current sales strategies of the company and how they think to expand in the future. I was very surprised to find out that the trade ties with Europe (mainly the UK) are relatively few and they are much higher in the Asian countries and that they made an exposition of the Castella cake two years ago, in Milan. Overall, I think it was a positive experience and I am glad I have done it even if for a short period of only six months.

Beatrice Parentella

Single Cycle Master's Degree, Fall Semester 2017 (October-January)

Hebrew University is located in a huge campus designed as an American one and professors are most likely to be American or European rather than Israeli (even though some of them are). So the people I met were from all over the world. A very interesting experience I did was being a research assistant for a professor. I had not only a very good University and Erasmus experience, but even a strong personal one, due to the different culture I got to live with. In the picture you can see Jerusalem on Christmas day.

Prof. Marco Brunazzo

Academic staff for teaching, January 2018

In the Department of Political Sciences and Law, I found a dynamic environment with well-trained and helpful colleagues (many of them young) and highly motivated students. My lectures focused on different aspects of the European Union. By being in Thailand and engaging with the local university community, I was able to learn more about the "Asian" perspective on macro-regional integration processes.