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The dean of the School, Professor Josep Maria Carbonell; director of Journalism Degree, Professor Marçal Sintes, and Professor Jaume Suau have been to Helsinki, to attend the European project MedMedia and the World Press Freedom Day, which was held at Unesco.

The former Professor of the Official Master’s course in Advanced Journalism Xavier Vinader (1947-2015) has been awarded the prize given by Casa Amèrica de Catalunya of Freedom of Expression in Latin America and Spain.

Faculty professor and writer Enric Sòria has been appointed new Director of the Biblioteca d’Autors Valencians, edited by the Institució Alfons el Magnànim-Centre Valencià d'Estudis i d'Investigació.

The photojournalist Samuel Aranda, guest Professor at the Official Master in Advanced Journalism, received the 2016 Ortega y Gasset Prize 2016 of photography for the image «Arribant al paradís» published in the Diari ARA.

Next Saturday, April 30, there will be an open day at the School, in which future students, students and their families are invited to take part into a guided tour starting at 11:30.

The School has recently signed an agreement with Oklahoma University (OU), which will allow the exchange of students and teachers in the degrees of Communication and International Relations, and expand joint activities in the field of research, masters, degrees and postgraduate courses.

Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations and consulting firm Ideograma have signed a collaboration agreement to jointly organize the Official Master in Political and Social Communication and collaborate in offering internships and promotion of the training program.

Fourth grade students of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication, Paula Torrell, Dana Natera, Lidia Sala and Manu Arévalo, have been chosen as finalists at the WeartWater Film Festival with the short film «Mirage». This piece is imagined «between the wild beauty of nature and the devastating effects of man on it.»

Ex-students Andrea Marroquin (Advertising and Public Relations, 7th promotion, and Pablo Bujosa (Audiovisual Communication, 5th promotion) have been awarded prizes in the 59th edition of the New York Emmy Awards, presented in New York City.

D'Aclip, a project created by three students of the Master in Production and Cultural Communication in Blanquerna, organizes three events. They will be held within the framework of the International Auteur Film Festival of Barcelona in collaboration with the Sala Apolo, with the mission of raising awareness and bringing young people to the Catalan auteur cinema world.

In conjunction with Serielizados, the online magazine by former students of the School, the American journalist and writer David Simon received the Special Blanquerna Communication Award for "his contribution to the renewal of television fiction and audiovisual language ".

Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations has participated as a representative of the international inter-university agreements of Emerson College, in the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the North American center in the medieval castle town Well, southern Holland.

BTV will air the documentary «Mar de fons», made by former students Ariadna Rodríguez Masià, Javier Rodes and Nacho Amela during the Documentary Seminar classes taught by Professor Oriol Gispert.

In Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations there has been a meeting between various members of MedMedia programme, an initiative present in Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunis, that aims to strengthen the role of the media as a democratization exponent and promote freedom of expression in the southern Mediterranean.

Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations launches two new graduate programs in the area of ​​Journalism and International Relations, and a new Specialization Diploma in Cross Cultural Communication Strategies for Executives.

In a ceremony held in the framework of the XXII Blanquerna Conferences, attended by representatives of the IReS Foundation, the Majestic Hotel Group, the creative agency The Love Comes and the Degree in Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing, students Laura Castells and Lara Vázquez, have been proclaimed the winner of the III contest "A rose for a cause".

A delegation of Boston’s Emerson College sports students arrived in Barcelona, in order to visit, with the help of Blanquerna FCRI, the Olympic area, TV3, the Palau Blaugrana, and the museum of Barça, the Parlament de Catalunya, Barcelona City Council, Caixa Fòrum and several public relations agencies like Ulled y Asociados.

Television of Catalonia and the creator of the acclaimed American series «The Wire», David Simon, are the winners of the 22nd edition of the Blanquerna Awards for Best Communicators.

Serielizados has already put tickets on sale through Ticketea for the conference offered by the American journalist and writer David Simon on 7 April at 11:00 in the Auditorium of Blanquerna FCRI.

This year, Blanquerna Conferences will focus on the importance of Communication and International Relations as creators of narratives and the image we have of the world in which we live.