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In late January the closing session of the «Universitary Course in Marketing Expertise» took place. The course ran from September to December on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings, with the participation of 35 enrolled students, a pool of teachers, and coordinated by Josep Maria Picola and Antoni Solanilla.

Blanquerna has signed an agreement with the University of Chulalaongkorn, allowing an exchange of students and teachers between the two institutions.

A total of sixteen students from Blanquerna FCRI have participated in the latest edition of the 080 Barcelona Fashion, the most important fashion event in the city.

Fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is not over yet, even now that famous people have stopped posting videos on YouTube getting wet with the very-well-known 'Ice Bucket Challenge'.

Alumna Laia Costa (Advertising and Public Relations, 8th graduating class) and Alfred Perez-Fargas and Roger Danès (Audiovisual Communication, 10th graduating class) have won two prizes at the 8th Gala of the Gaudí Awards given by the Academy of Catalan Cinema.

The Spanish journalist Samanta Villar, anchorwoman of the TV infotainment show «Conexión Samanta», has visited our School.

This is a pioneering course, which aims to create a space for collaboration between professional and social action organizations and companies, with the support of Blanquerna FCRI as an academic partner.

In the framework of the Blanquerna Conferences, the university management team will award journalist and screenwriter, David Simon, the Special Blanquerna Communication Award, in recognition of "his contribution to the renewal of television fiction and the audiovisual language."

We present the third video of the campaign "I am Syrian", created by Publicitarios Implicados, the solidarity association coordinated by professor Richard Wakefield of the Degree in Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing at Blanquerna FCRI.

The following days 28th January and 31st March 2016, Blanquerna-URL, together with La Salle-URL, organizes the 4th University Orientation Session under the title “How to choose university studies in the XXI century: how to orientate your children”.

Students in their final year of high school or a higher level training cycle have the opportunity to learn about some of the activities carried out by professionals from the sector in our School.

Throughout January, Blanquerna FCRI will travel through the region in order to present our degrees in Communication and International Relations.

After Epiphany,1st semester exams will start on January 7th. They will last until January 22nd. The first day of classes the 2nd semester will be Friday 29th January.

Students in the second year of the Degree in International Relations participated in a mock session of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on Migration in the Mediterranean.

Two students studying for a degree in International Relations, Laia Segura and Judit Galí, participated - within the framework of their professional internships - in the United Nations Climate Change Conferences, which were held this month in Paris.

We have had with us the specialist in Human Rights Laurence Kwark, as visiting professor for the students of the Learning Unit on Human Rights, taught by Professor Farid Benavides within the Degree in International Relations.

The webseries «Mediocrity», that came out of a Final Degree Project of students studying the degree in Film and Television, received the audience award at the II Showcase «Pilotos de Ficción», organized by Serielizados and the Festival Zoom of Igualada.

On the 26th and 27th of November, Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations, in conjunction with the Ecole Superieure de Communication et Journalisme of Morocco, organized a conference with journalism universities from several countries of the Maghreb and the Middle East, in Casablanca.

What is God doing on Facebook? The online search for religiosity, the social media as new areas for religion to pray in are some of the topics included in the book Catholic Online Communities, a volume that reviews the biblical aspects of digital culture in the use of youth believers’ forums and the behavior of Catholics when they are surfing the Internet.

The vice president of FC Barcelona, Carles Vilarubí was the patron of the third graduating class of Blanquerna’s Master in Protocol, Institutional Relations and Strategic Event Management.