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Within the framework of Seminar 3 on Introduction to International Relations, second year International Relations students received a keynote speech about Non-Governmental Organizations and Social Movements by Nirajan Thapaliya, Director Amnesty International Nepal.

This Monday, November 9th, at 11 am, the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, will hold a meeting via Zoom with the students of Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations.

Institutional statement sent the October 30th to all the Blanquerna-URL community members

The European Commission, within the framework of the Erasmus+ program has funded the SIENHA project (Strategic innovative educational network for healthy ageing), led by the Blanquerna-URL professor Elena Carrillo-Álvarez.

The audiovisual reporter Nuria Martínez Ribot (Journalism, 14th promotion) has been given the International Mobile Journalism Prize, awarded by the UOC and the Efe agency, for «Coverage of Mission 75 of the Open Arms rescue ship».

The Audiovisual Talent Week will take place from December 1 to 4 and this year, and two projects from the Degree in Audiovisual Communication and four from the Blanquerna-Gestmusic Master's Degree in Entertainment Television Programs are participating.

At the end of September, the organizing bodies of the Joan Gomis Memorial Award, including the School, met to decide the winners of an edition where more than 50 projects with a high qualitative level were presented.

On October 29th at 4pm CEST, the Emerson-Blanquerna Center for Global Communication is organizing a webinar about Activism, grassroots movements and US elections, with the participation of the independent consultant Betsy Reed and Gregory Payne, from Emerson College, moderated by professor Jaume Suau, coordinator of the Global Communication Management Degree.

The former president of the CCMA and current CEO of the Portuguese media corporation Media Capital, Rosa Cullell, inaugurated the Postgraduate studies with her presentation: "Digital stridences: dialogue and monologue in social networks", in the auditorium of the Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations.

The «Blockat» TFG, created by the alumni of the degree in Journalism and Corporate Communication, Janira Planes, Laura Martínez, Jordi Albaigès and Marçal Llimona has been developed in its technological aspect as the TFG of the studies of the Degree in Multimedia Engineering at La Salle by the student Xavier Hernández.

The Media Pluralism Monitor 2020 (MPM2020) is a scientific and holistic effort to document the health of media ecosystems, detailing threats to media pluralism and freedom in European Union member states and some candidate countries.

In response to the communiqué of the Inter-university Council of Catalonia (CIC) regarding the temporary adoption of new measures by university campuses to contain the rate of infection of COVID-19, Blanquerna-URL would like to communicate the following information:

New webinar organized by the Global Communication Management Degree: What does Messi generate beyond football? The dimension of the Argentine star has surpassed the boundaries of sport and his image, and many more areas, beyond the field of play.

Its objective is to promote cooperation between degrees and give visibility to the discipline and teaching of International Relations in Spain.

The objective is to ensure the teaching and services quality but with special attention to the preservation of everybody's health.

On the occasion of this exceptional new course, Dr. Josep Maria Garrell is grateful for the effort in making and encouraging the start of the new school year.

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The central building of the School (Joan Coromines square) will remain open during August

The faculty of the School of Communication and International Relations Blanquerna-URL shared its success stories during confinement in a session dedicated to good teaching practices in times of pandemic.

Blanquerna Masters Live are the information sessions for Masters and Postgraduate studies organized by the School of Communication and International Relations Blanquerna-URL from July 13 to 17.