Intense collaboration with universities from all over the world on the development of training projects with an international scope has consolidated an extraordinarily valuable network which is growing by the year.
These relations go on to become agreements for certain programmes, such as the MBA with ESSEC (Paris), San Andrés University (Argentina) and Torcuato di Tella University (Argentina), the Masters in Public and Social Policies with Johns Hopkins University (USA) or the Advanced Health Leadership Forum with the University of California (Berkeley). Agreements have also led to dual degree programmes with outstanding institutions such as Tec de Monterrey (Mexico City Campus), Diego Portales University (Santiago de Chile) and Universidad de la República (Montevideo).
As a part of Pompeu Fabra University's academic community IDEC has access to the many collaborative and exchange agreements which UPF has undertaken with universities around the world. As a representative of the University it also takes part in the main European and Latin American networks which bring together the most important university institutions in continuing education and business schools.
A wide network of relations and contacts with IDEC alumni and active participation, especially in Latin America and the Mediterranean, contribute to its growing international prestige.
In 2004 IDEC set up a permanent delegation in Buenos Aires followed in 2005 by an Advisory Board made up of Argentinian, Spanish and multi-national companies which promotes IDEC's image as well as its activities. Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Uruguay offer either dual qualification programmes or others designed together with some of the most prestigious universities in these countries.
In the Mediterranean, IDEC takes part in joint ventures within the framework of European projects and collaborative programmes. Since 1997 it has contributed to the training of staff in the Administration in Algeria, -in partnership with the Ecole Nationale d'Administration- and to programmes aimed at the managerial staff of small and medium-sized businesses and in the banking and health care sectors.
Secretary: Daniel Vitali, Representante en Argentina, IDEC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"I have had the opportunity of closely witnessing the growth of IDEC, with its desire to offer excellent training, from within a public university like Pompeu Fabra, open to the world but without renouncing its roots."
Jaume GuardiolaDirector General
Banc de Sabadell
"I recommend this experience. The effort required was easily compensated by the quality of the content and teaching staff, and by the programme's practical focus and global vision."
Ana M. PereyraDirector Financial Services
PricewaterhouseCoopers (Uruguay)
Masters in International e-Business 2003
"The Advanced Health Leadership Forum, organised by the Centre for Economic and Health Care Research at UPF and the University of California in Berkeley, is an international programme which is unique in its training of senior chiefs in the world of economics and health care, centred on key elements to the innovation of health care policies and management."
Guillem López CasasnovasProfessor in Applied Economics
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Member of the Directors' Board Banco de España