I am a medical doctor and I recently concluded my residency in Nephrology. During the 5 years of the residency program I had the possibility to practice in all areas of the nephrology specialization: clinical nephrology, management of acute and chronic kidney diseases, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis and, of course, kidney transplantation. I was particularly interested in this last topic and during the residency I could gain experience in the clinical management of kidney transplant patients both at Ospedale Policlinico in Milan and during a short clinical internship in Barcelona. The experience of the ESOT Transplant Fellowship would be the occasion to deepen my knowledge on kidney transplantation by having the chance of working one year in a European reference center where large numbers of all the most important types of kidney transplantation are performed. As the Spanish transplant system has recently been recognized as a very successful model by the international scientific community, the clinical experience in this center would be very useful for my future career. Moreover, in Italy some practices such as non-heart beating donors and ABO-incompatible transplantation are starting to grow in the last years, while in Spain a solid experience in such particular cases has already been developed. The approach to the management of transplant recipients both in the pre-transplant, early posttransplant and long term is similar in the two countries, being mostly assigned to the nephrologist. Therefore, an intensive training with the Bellvitge Kidney Transplant group would give me knowledge and skills to be used in Italy in the clinical setting.