NEXUS BQN is an experiential learning methodology unique to Blanquerna that complements the education students receive in their degree programs. Throughout the academic year, students take part in interdisciplinary events and challenges, working alongside students from other degree programs or years, faculty, and professionals to tackle real or simulated situations tied to their future careers.
A different way of learning that connects disciplines, builds skills, and brings students closer to professional practice, preparing them to face the challenges of a constantly changing world with confidence.
With the NEXUS methodology, students learn and work together in learning ecosystems that mirror the dynamics typical of the interprofessional world.
Today’s major challenges cannot be solved from the perspective of a single discipline. At NEXUS, students from different degree programs and academic years take on shared challenges, work in interdisciplinary teams, and learn from one another.
This exchange of perspectives enriches the learning experience, encourages collaboration, and helps students understand the complexity of today’s professional environments.
NEXUS complements the knowledge gained through each degree program by helping students develop skills that are essential in today’s professional world.
Teamwork, communicating ideas, critical thinking, adapting to change, making decisions, and leading projects are skills that develop naturally through hands-on experience.
At NEXUS, students take on challenges that reflect real-world professional situations and work in ways similar to those they will encounter in their future careers. The involvement of faculty, Alumni, and industry professionals brings experience, context, and new perspectives, turning each challenge into an opportunity to learn from people who are already transforming their fields.
When learning moves beyond the classroom, it connects people and disciplines and brings students closer to professional reality. This is NEXUS BQN: a methodology that turns knowledge into meaningful learning experiences.
You experience NEXUS BQN through activities and group work that connect what you learn with real situations, shared challenges, and settings close to the professional world. It’s not just a way of organizing classes; it’s a way of learning that is more active, more applied, and more connected to the real world.
Studying with NEXUS BQN helps you develop skills that go beyond theoretical knowledge, such as working in a team, communicating better, making informed decisions, and facing complex challenges from a more practical perspective.
With NEXUS BQN, you will work on the skills that the job market actually demands: building solutions as a team, communicating ideas persuasively, thinking critically in the face of complex problems, coming up with innovative responses, gaining self-knowledge and emotional maturity, leading initiatives that make a difference, and making sound decisions. You don’t learn them by heart: you practice them in real contexts from day one.
NEXUS BQN draws on international approaches that focus on the skills tomorrow’s professionals will need and on a way of learning that is more closely connected to social and workplace realities.
Yes. NEXUS BQN is presented as a cross-cutting pedagogical model at Blanquerna and is part of the way learning is understood across the university’s different schools.
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