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The very first Blanquerna Winter School 2019 in Journalism and Art & Culture has just finished last week. We've received 13 students from different regions in China. Coordinated by Mei Huang, the program was taught by Judith Colell, Maddalena Fedele, Giorgia Miotto, Joaquin Beltran, Mei Huang, and Daniel Pifarre.

The Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, CIDOB, one of the most important think-tanks in the Mediterranean, hosted international relations students and their final debate on the future of Europe.

Dr. Lee Pelton, President of Emerson College, and the Dean of Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations, Dr. Josep Maria Carbonell, inaugurated an official plaque at the Emerson-Blanquerna Center for Global Communication, located at the Research Institute (Tallers, 77) to set the basis for new future joint ventures.

The Digilab research group has been distinguished with the WhatsApp Misinformation and Social Science Research Awards, which will allow the development of the project What's up with news? Fighting misinformation on WhatsApp: users' approach.

The Glob Com Project and the Center for Global Communication have been selected as one of the European best practices for internationalization of the universities.

The students of the Master's Degree in Advanced Journalism - Reporting have been closely acquainted with how a sector-leading SME works in the international arena and what relationship it has with the media.

The life of this successsful instagrammer, developed by two students of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication, has won the second Tube d’Assaig 2018. The grant of 5,000 euros in concept of purchase of broadcasting rights, will allow them to develop a second season.

Four projects by students of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication of Blanquerna as TFG have been selected among the twenty finalists in the fourth edition of the Pitching Audiovisual University - Industry, in which students from Catalan universities, as well as foreign invited universities, have participated.

During the inauguration ceremony of masters and postgraduate studies, which took place in the Auditorium of Blanquerna FCRI, Dra Mara Einstein, from Queens College, Cuny, in New York, was in charge of addressing an important issue within the field of communication: branded content, media influencers and the perils of covert marketing, all of which is written and explained in her book: “Black Ops Advertising: Native Ads, Content Marketing and the Covert World of the Digital Sell” (OR Books, 2016).

The professional association for public relations executives, the International Public Relations Association (IPRA), has recognized the work of FC Barcelona, ​​as one of the sports entities with the most social impact in the world.

Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations hosted one of the most important public relations events of the year: “Voices’-PR Global Conference”, a gathering of global professionals in Strategic Communication and Public Relations from Business Consultancies, PR Companies and Public Institutions, as well as Universities.

They study the same degree, they have common interests, but they don’t always know one another. For this reason, every year, the degree in Audiovisual Communication of the School organizes a meeting with the students, from first to fourth year.

The Dean of the School, Dr. Josep Maria Carbonell and the director of the degree in Global Communication Management, Dr. Enric Ordeix, participated in a new meeting of the IVCF City Marketing in Europe program in Amsterdam.

The audience went from applauding enthusiastically to complete silence. The director of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication, Judith Colell, had just introduced the protagonist of the day, which took place in front of a packed auditorium: Vince Gilligan, visiting Barcelona within the framework of the Serielizados Fest.

Within the seminar 7 «Role advertisers-agency I» of the Degree in Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing, taught by Professor Beto Sanz, we were visited by Mr. Stavros Georgakarakos, Director of Worldwide Communication of the Uterqüe brand (Inditex Group).

This year, the International Festival of Series of Barcelona, ​​the Serielizados Fest, will take place from September 27th to 30th. Most of the activities will be held at the CCCB, but there will also be important events in the Zumzeig room, the Fiu House and the Auditorium of our School.

Javier Curtichs, general director of the communication agency Tinkle, visited the School in order to build links that will allow our students to opt for international internships in Miami and Singapore.

The Palau Robert and DKV present the exhibition "Creators of conscience. 40 photojournalists committed”, which pays homage to Spanish photographers who risk their lives covering war conflicts, natural disasters or autarchical regimes.

This September, 47 students from all over the world have arrived at our School to take the first semester with us through the different mobility programs that we have in active use, such as Erasmus or bilateral agreements.