Our guest speaker, Michele Nori from European University Institute will guide us into agriculture and the rural world in the EU, which offer an important opportunity for integrating a large number of immigrant communities. EU rural population is declining and ageing and the european agriculture sector suffers from the lack of skilled workforce and problems of generational renewal. The important and growing presence of foreigners in EU countryside represent an unvaluable opportunity to reverse these trends - as ongoing dynamics attest. A proactive approach is needed to capitalise on such opportunity, and to adequately tackle the related challenges.