Last Monday, 19 September 2022, ERAIFT was honoured by the visit of Professor Frédéric FRANCIS, Dean of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech Faculty of the University of Liège. During his talk with the ERAIFT students in the conference room, Professor Frédéric FRANCIS transmitted an encouragement message to the students from the 3rd and 4th cohort of the ERAIFT regional masters and to some doctoral candidates EU/AGRINATURA Scholarship holder. In his speech, he highlighted the importance of networking between learners and doctoral students for more exchanges of experiences and approaches, the necessity of having a pension for what one aims to do. He also encouraged the learners to capitalise the networking established by ERAIFT in their research by strengthening their collaboration with teachers from the North and South.