It is a great pleasure for Patrik Ciba that, as a PhD student from Slovakia, he can attend an Erasmus Internship Programme at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Management (UP FM) in Koper. His home institution is the Institute of Economic Policy and Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia, where he is working on his PhD and research projects in agriculture and food. It is expected that international cooperation will strengthen our scientific activities between the institutions. He is grateful for the warm welcome at the UP FM and the opportunity to work closely with Prof. Dr Štefan Bojnec in the field of economics, applied econometrics, and the treatment of the topic of trade policy with fertilizers. In the field of econometrics, he is met Assoc. Prof. Dr Ana Grdović Gnip, Vice-Dean for Research and International Affairs at UP FM.