Barcelona Institute of International Studies

IBEI is an inter-university institute created in 2004 as a joint effort of all five public universities in the Barcelona metropolitan area and CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) to promote postgraduate training and research in international relations, politics & development to advance the understanding of global challenges to governance in our world.

Research is one of the main pillars supporting IBEI's development. The challenges of the future will mean a commitment to publicising and strengthening our research work.

Boosting the field of research is particularly important for different reasons. Firstly, in order to establish a high-level international studies centre, which contributes to connecting Catalan society's interests and concerns with the strong currents of globalisation and internationalisation occurring nowadays.

IBEI is concerned about the professional success of all its students. For this reason, we offer advice and support in the design of the strategic professional career, we organize workshops and seminars to develop career skills and we offer a service of professional internships to favour the labour market insertion of our students.