Motivational letter for structured partnership

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Dear Sir or Madame,

I am applying for the Structured Partnership with Utrecht School of Economics (USE), as an important step for my personal growth as a person and as a student in such an international field, as economics is. My name is Giacomo X and I am attending the first year of the Bachelor’s Degree program in Economics and Business at X University.

The environment in which I have grown up has always been an incredibly stimulant one, making me set, as one of my life goals, the possibility to challenge myself studying in a foreign country, experiencing a new life-style and, above all, meeting a new culture which is quite unknown to me. The leitmotiv of my life has always regarded pushing me towards the “new”. A “new” which leads to a deeper knowledge of our inner self, to an improvement of one’s skills and to a widening of one’s horizons. Bearing in mind this personal philosophy, I have addressed myself to many different activities in different fields, from sports to education, practicing, with good results, swimming from 2001 to 2007, tennis from 2007 to 2009, martial arts from 2009 to 2010, soccer from 2010 to 2012, and attending afternoon classes of Spanish in 2008/09 and English from 2008 to 2013.

As a student extremely intrigued by International Economics and by all other kinds of exchanges and relationships at global level, this opportunity is an incredible one to me for experiencing them on my own skin, having the possibility to discover and live a new way of doing economics. My personal attraction for the foreign has shaped my personality in favour of great adaptability skills and deep interest in different cultures and languages. All this has brought me to develop my personal knowledge of the English language further and further, spending different weeks during the summer’s holiday at the Loyola University of Chicago in 2010 and at the Brunel University of Uxbridge in 2011 and now having chosen this English Bachelor’s Degree program, which has widen my points of view and given me an high international perspective.
I am sure that this opportunity of studying in Utrecht would definitely give me the possibility to exploit in the best way my capacities in such an international and highly recognized reality.

Last but not least, this structured partnership seems to be the perfect way to meet a completely different culture, learn another language, experience a new educational system and enrich my curriculum vitae, as well as gain more independence, in a country which is, as I believe, very different from mine and, above all, at a prestigious university such as Utrecht School of Economics.

Thank you for considering my request and I look forward to your positive response.

Faithfully,