Editorial Dear Participants Of Bms 2006

Certainly you already heard about us. Not in a direct way, but rather through a product that travels around the world. I am referring to the Port wine. The persons who cultivate grapes it in the slopes of the Douro River call this wine ‘generous’. Certainly there are reasons for that designation. Homer said that the wine cheers the man heart, thus taking him out from a state of sadness. In the altar of the Christians mass, the wine is a symbol of a miracle that raises us to God. And, in the table of men, the wine celebrates health and fraternity. Therefore wine is indeed generous. Generous is also the attitude that leads you to participate in this congress. To share knowledge, to exchange and widen perspectives and points of view, to animate and deepen the reflections and discussions, are acts full of human generosity. Therefore, we classify as generous your stay at our Faculty, and our town. We feel very honoured and gratified with your visit. We will seek to correspond to your generosity with the warmth of our esteem and gratitude. The bread and wine that we will eat and drink together in the forthcoming days will establish the approach. We want that at the end of congress, when you return home, you also feel that distance does not exist and that we all stand closer together. This is our purpose, this is our dream. Welcome!