idEC. Universitat Pompeu Fabra

International ambition

Forging alliances

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).

In permanent contact

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.

International Networks

• 1995 EUCEN. European Universities Continuing Education Network
• 1997 RECLA. Red de Educación Continua de Latinoamérica y Europa
• 1998 TPC. Transatlantic Consortium for Public Policy Analysis and Education
• 2000 CLADEA. Consejo Latinoamericano de Escuelas de Administración
• 2000 EFMD. European Foundation for Management Development
• 2000 ACECU. Associació Catalana d'Educació Contínua Universitària
• 2001 RUEPEC. Red Universitaria de Estudios de Postgrado y Educación Continua
• 2002 forQ. Associació per a la Qualitat de la Formació Permanent / Association for Quality in Training
• 2002 READI. Red Euro Árabe de Organizaciones No Gubernamentales para el Desarrollo y la Integración

In Latin America and the Mediterranean

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.

Advisory Board

• Román Bartomeo - ARCOR
• Gonzalo Verdomar - BANCO FRANCÉS
• Jaime Fernández Madero - BRUCHOU, FERNÁNDEZ MADERO & LOMBARDI
• Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry - FUNDACIÓN CAROLINA ARGENTINA
• Horacio Cristiani - GAS NATURAL BAN
• Martín G. Etchevers - GRUPO CLARÍN
• Juan Miguel Thurburn - NOVARTIS
• Jorge L. Pérez Alati - PÉREZ ALATI, GRONDONA, BENITES, ARNSTEN & MARTÍNEZ DE HOZ (H), ABOGADOS
• Diego H. Etchepare - PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS
• Antonio Gomis - REPSOL YPF
• Constanza Grignani - TELEFÓNICA
• Cristian Pusso - URBANO EXPRESS

Secretary: Daniel Vitali, Representante en Argentina, IDEC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra