Annual Report 2020 IBEI Annual Report 2020 1 Index Letter from the President and the Director 4 Thinking Graduate Programmes 5 Other Programmes 11 globally Alumni 14 Faculty & Research 18 in Barcelona About IBEI 22 Highlights 26 2020 the year of the COVID-19 pandemic 30 A community of just over Training professionals 200 students, in which in the areas of international there is a real possibility relations and diplomacy, to forge lasting global governance, friendships and development and professional contacts. international security, as well as related public policy topics, has been a goal of IBEI since its creation. 3 Narcís Serra, IBEI President Letter from the President and the Director Narcís Serra & Jacint Jordana This year 2020 has been exceptional for a very basic In this respect, all faculty and students – with very few reason: the COVID-19 pandemic that has strongly exceptions – continued to work relatively normally, impacted on our lives and professional activities while adjusting to and experimenting with the new in many respects. The COVID-19 pandemic has been digital environment.Their dedication and involvement an event with dramatic global consequences, which few were admirable and indicative of IBEI’s commitment could have foreseen. The entire IBEI community was to complete the master's programmes with all the committed to fighting it, and expressed its solidarity with guarantees of quality, despite all the restrictions we all those who fell ill or who lost loved ones. were experiencing. Research activities and projects at IBEI were also profoundly affected by the pandemic. In spite of the circumstances, at IBEI, day-to-day There was a great deal of uncertainty with regard to activities continued as normally as possible, even during COVID-19, and it was therefore very difficult to make the hardest times of lockdown, thanks to a radical and forecasts at that time, and in many cases, projects immediate move to digital. Students made a great effort requested extensions to reduce such uncertainty, to persist in their studies in the face of the difficulties while many activities moved to digital environments they experienced, and in some cases, in the less- and formats, from research seminars to personal Jacint Jordana, than-ideal conditions of quarantine, whether it was in interviews in field research. However, distortions were IBEI Director Barcelona or in their countries of origin. From the IBEI inevitable and researchers made great efforts under faculty and management, we did everything to make the extremely difficult circumstances resulting from study plans more flexible and adapt them to the new the pandemic. circumstances, by introducing a series of measures that allowed each student to find the customized solution In short, this has been a very special and difficult that met their needs and expectations best. year for everybody, including IBEI, but we rose to the challenge and new students continued to arrive at IBEI Fortunately, we were prepared: in late February 2020, in the autumn for our new courses and programmes. we started moving all IBEI activities to virtual platforms New research projects were launched throughout the and formats, implementing the necessary software, year, as the first ERC Consolidator Grant obtained preparing the corresponding handbooks and making by IBEI, in October 2020. This is why we warmly thank all kinds of adjustments to the organization of study the entire IBEI community for their enthusiasm and hard and work. This allowed us to make a comparatively work during this extremely trying year 2020. quick, seamless transition to e-learning, with students and teachers committed to continue the semester with the digital tools we made available to them. Even though it was an emergency situation, we managed to respond quickly and adapt syllabi, especially assessment criteria, to the new circumstances, with all the flexibility required. IBEI Annual Report 2020 4 Graduate Programmes IBEI Annual Report 2020 5 5 Master Programmes 234 Total master students 2020 New intake students 24 53 17 23 4 17 Master’s Master’s Master’s Master’s Research Master’s Erasmus Mundus in International in International in International in International in International Master’s in Public Policy Development Relations Relations Security Studies (Mundus MAPP) Full Time Part Time1st year Master’s Master’s Master’s Research Master’s Erasmus Mundus in International in International in International in International Master’s in Public Policy Development Relations Security Studies (Mundus MAPP) Previous year students The Master’s degrees are accredited by the Spanish Ministry of Education 27 41 20 8 and are awarded by renowned Barcelona universities: Master’s Master’s Master’s Master’s in International in International in International in International Development Relations Relations Security Full Time Part Time 2nd year Students by origin Student profile 2020-21 (intake) 14% 23% 43% Average age 25 years Nationalities 43 Gender 60% female 40% male Most represented countries Spain, USA, Germany, Italy, 8% 3% 9% 0% Netherlands & UK IBEI Annual Report 2020 6 Student profile by masters programme (intake) Master’s in International Development Master’s in International Relations Average age Average age 25 years 24 years Gender Gender 67% female 33% male 58% female 42% male Erasmus Mundus Master’s Research Master’s Master’s in International Security in Public Policy in International Studies (Mundus MAPP) Average age Average age Average age 24 years 24 years 25 years Gender Gender Gender 61% female 35% male 50% female 50% male 76% female 24% male IBEI Annual Report 2020 7 Professional Internship Programme Career Skills Workshops Curricular internships in 2020 46 IBEI organizes several workshops and lectures as part of the Internship Programme. The aim Extracurricular of these activities is to improve your professional internships in 2020 14 skills and to give you an insight into different Total internships conducted job profiles of the International Relations, by IBEI students in 2020 60 International Security, International Development, and International Studies sectors. Internship Placements In 2020 IBEI students completed internships in placements such as UNICEF Regional Office in Nairobi, United Nations Global Compact in Berlin, the Spanish MInistry of Defense, FIIAPP, ISGlobal, Sci Tech Diplohub, CIDOB or Metropolis, among many others. IBEI Internship Programme Career Skills Workshops · March 2020 03/03/20 · 09:30-13:30h · Room 20.055 04/03/20 · 16-20h · Room 24.009 06/03/20 · 14-18h · Room 24.104 10/03/20 · 12:30-15:30h · Room TBC Career Center Foreign Policy Making Global Cities, China since Deng Xiaoping Negotiation skills at Prime Minister’s Level Emerging Actors in the International System Eugeni Bregolat Antoni Matas Carles Casajuana Spanish Diplomat. Former Ambassador of Member of the Board,The Art of Spanish Diplomat. Former Senior Diplomatic Agustí Fernandez de Losada Spain in China, Rusia, Indonesia, Canadá and Newmanagement; Consultor at UOC; Advisor to the Prime Minister of Spain. Andorra. Honorary Professor of the Zhou Director of Studies and International Technical and Associate professor at ESADE and UPC. Former Ambassador of Spain to the United Assistance at Tornos Abogados, and director Enlai School of International Relations, Nankai Kingdom. of the Global Cities Programme at CIDOB. University Tianjin. Diplomacy workshops Diplomacy workshops Diplomacy workshops At the beginning of 2020 IBEI launched a 10/03/20 · 09-12h 10/03/20 · 16-19h 10/03/20 · 12:30-15:30h 11/03/20 · 16-18h · Room TBC 11/03/20 · 09-12h · Room TBC 11/03/20 · 16-19h · Room TBC 11/03/20 · 12:30-15:30h · Room TBC Institutions, Politics Workshop Implementing EU How to win new online platform oriented to professional and Development: Theoretical on Project Management Development Cooperation at a job interview and Field Perspectives Aleksandra Chmielewska Lluís Riera Nadine Kazeronian Diane Zovighian Project Manager at the European Institute of Mr. Riera worked in the European Commission Image consultant and career coach at Praxis Researcher and senior consultant for the the Mediterranean (IEMed). from 1987-2014. At present continues to Image Consultants. development of IBEI students and recent World Bank. cooperate with the EC on Forest management in Central America and on Culture & Development. 13/03/20 · 11-14h · Room TBC 20/03/20 · 17-19h · Room TBC 24/03/20 · 11-14h · Room TBC graduates. Workshops only for IBEI students. Public Speaking Shaping your career. An Business, International Registration is required. instructional and educational Development and Security workshop on traineeships The attendance of at least two career Antoni Matas with a particular focus on They can find job offers and internship calls, traineeships offered by EU Katinka C. van Cranenburgh skills workshops is compulsory Member of the Board, The Art of institutions Senior Strategic CSR Consultant, Community to participate in the IBEI Internship Newmanagement; Consultor at UOC; and Wisdom Partners. Visiting lecturer, Institute of Programme. Associate professor at ESADE and UPC. Philipp Trummer Social Innovation of ESADE Business School. IBEI Alumni, Consultant at the Inter-American a knowledge center and advice, or career Development Bank (IDB). Registration Form guidance appointments, among others. IBEI Annual Report 2020 8 Student Highlights 1 2 IBEI student Julián Andrés Villarreal Solano obtains IBEI student Andréane Williams wins the third the REEDES Award to the Best Master’s Final Dissertation place in the IEMed Aula Mediterrània Best Master’s on Development Studies Thesis Awards For the third year in a row, the 2020 REEDES (Spanish Network of Andréane Williams, student of the Master’s in International Relations, Development Studies) Award to the Best Master’s Final Dissertation was awarded the third prize for her work “Micro-level motivations in Development Studies was adjudged to an IBEI student. of combatants in inter-communal conflicts. The student Julián Andrés Villarreal Solano was awarded for A look into the cases of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al Tabbaneh”.