Isona Passola, professor of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication, will be the head of the the Catalan Film Academy, with a renewed board that includes professor Judith Colell, director of the degree.

The group of ex-students of our School who live in Brussels, accompanied by Blanquerna Dean FCRI, Josep Maria Carbonell, met with Javier López (PSC), with whom they chatted about the activation of the Brexit process on the day the European Parliament received the official request from the United Kingdom.

The Tel Aviv festival Cinematheque, in Israel, has chosen the two documentaries co-produced by our School and ORT Uruguay in commemoration of Israel's national day, the Yom Ha-Shoah (Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust victims), on 23 April.

In the framework of the subject «Theories of International Relations» taught by Professor Federico Guerrero, we were visited by Dr. José Antonio Sanahuja, Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and co-author of the manual «Teorías de las Relaciones Internacionales» (Tecnos, 2015).

Co-directed and co-written by Maria Medinilla and Roger Grau (19th graduation year), "Colgado" (Hung) is a 15 minute long take that explains the reaction of Marta, Irene and Mary when they learn that Andrea, the girl they bullied, has committed suicide.

Laia Servera, Alumna of our School, Editor and host of the television programme «Info K», has received the Zapping Award, which recognizes its Super 3 channel space as the best current television programme.

In a ceremony held in our school and 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 Mora Duñó and Núria Rabassa Batista, have been proclaimed the winners of the IV contest «A rose for a cause».

The handing over ceremony took place within the framework of Jornades Blanquerna, which focus on a reflection on Europe, now that we are faced with important challenges and risks, such as the refugee crisis.

Professor of the Degree in Journalism and Corporate Communication Vicent Sanchis has been appointed by the governing council of the Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation (CCMA) as the new director of TV3.

MEP Ramon Jáuregui (PSOE) and former MP David Fernández (CUP), are some of the personalities who are visiting us during the Blanquerna Conferences, which this year which reflect on Europe, as we as Europeans are now facing major challenges and risks.