Graduation ceremonies
2021. Pol MORILLAS
The past 6th of September, IBEI celebrated the graduation ceremonies of the 2019-20 and 2020-21 promotions of its Master's in International Relations, International Security, International Development, Research Master's in International Studies and Public Policy (Mundus MAPP) at the Auditorium of the Ciutadella Campus of Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Academic year 2020-21
- Master's in International Relations and Master's in Public Policy (Mundus MAPP). Download the PDF Programme
- Master's in International Development, Master's in International Security and Research Master's in International Studies. Download the PDF Programme
The event introduction was in charge of IBEI's director Jacint Jordana, who inaugurated the ceremony and welcomed all the students, their families, and also all the IBEI community including professors and staff.
Pol Morillas, Director of CIDOB, attended the Graduation Ceremony 2021 as a keynote speaker.
Andrea Bianculli, Assistant Professor at IBEI; and Lesley-Ann Daniels, Research Fellow at IBEI; took part as speakers to address the students, congratulating and encouraging them in their promising future after their studies at the IBEI. You can access the transcript of Andrea and Lesley-Ann speeches.
IBEI students Louisa Cramer (Master's in International Relations), Ksenia Rodionova (Master's in International Development), and Viviane Ogou (Master's in International Security), participated as well giving a speech on behalf of the rest of their classmates. You can access the transcript of Louisa, Ksenia and Viviane speeches.
Finally, the Rector of UB Joan Guàrdia, IBEI's director Jacint Jordana and the President of IBEI Narcís Serra awarded the certificates to all IBEI graduates.
The Rector of UB Joan Guàrdia also made a final speech as a way of closure.
At the very end, there was an outdoors reception with some professors, family, and friends, who did not want to miss the special occasion.
Videos
2017. José Ignacio TORREBLANCA
Location: Paranimf of the Universitat de Barcelona
The welcome speech was in charge of Dr. Oriol Escardíbul, Vice-Rector for Finance of the Universitat de Barcelona, who mentioned the past unexpected powershifts in the world and how they adress to the present changes. His discourse was followed by some warm words of IBEI's director Jacint Jordana.
Prof. José Ignacio Torreblanca, Editor-in-chief of EL PAÍS and Professor of Political Science at UNED, attended the Graduation Ceremony 2017 as a keynote speaker with the lecture "The New International Disorder", available in video here.
After this lecture, Pablo Astorga, co-coordinator of the Master's in International Development at IBEI, took part as a speaker to address the students, receiving an enthusiastic response by the future graduates as he congratulated and encouraged them to be selfconfident. You can read his talk here, and also watch it in video.
The IBEI student Aaradhana Ramesh participated as well giving a speech in behalf of the rest of her classmates. You can access to her conference in video here.
Finally, the vice-rectors of the universities that issue the masters certificates (UPF, UAB and UB) awarded the certificates to all IBEI graduates.
The President of IBEI Narcís Serra also made a final speech as a way of closure.
At the very end there was a reception at the garden, accompanied with some beverages and appetizers, enlivered with live xylophone music and the company of professors, family and friends, who did not want to miss the special ocassion.
Our students took the initiative to organize and coordinate themselves to create a Yearbook, which they themselves distributed at the end of the act.
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