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Nine students do internships at embassies and consulates

Seven students belong to Schools of Economics and Law and two to Communication.

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Inside Amigos Building.
PHOTO: Manuel Castells
02/09/13 13:00 Miguel M. Ariztegi

Nine students from the University of Navarra have worked in embassies and consulates during the summer thanks to internship program from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. The students, who belong to the Schools of Economics, Law y CommunicationThe students were able to learn how Spanish diplomats work in places as diverse as the Ivory Coast, Buenos Aires, Greece, Sofia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Turkey and Indonesia.

Eric Laqueche, a native of Irun, is studying the double Degree bilingual ADE+Derecho, and has been at the Embassy of Abidjan (Ivory Coast). Marina Ayechu, also a bilingual ADE+Derecho student from Pamplona, has worked at the Consulate General of Spain in Buenos Aires. Javier Muruzábal, from Pamplona, from the same double bilingual program Degree , has worked at the Consulate General of Spain in New York.

Borja Miquel Cabrera, who studies Business Administration and is from San Cugat del Vallés, has collaborated with the Spanish Embassy in Athens; Ramón Baldomero from A Coruña, student of the double Degree of Economics and Law, has worked at the Embassy in Sofia; Flaminia González-Barba, from Seville and student of Law, has worked at the Consulate in Istanbul; as well as María Cristina Bravo, who studies the double Degree in Economics and bilingual Law and is from Simancas. Journalism students Elvira Coello (Vigo) and Mónica Iturriaga (Bilbao) have worked at the Spanish Embassy in Canberra and the Embassy in Jakarta.

The internships in Consulates and Embassies, despite not being paid by the Ministry, "can give a broad vision of what the foreign service and the diplomatic degree program entail for everyone", as explained by the representatives of the Ministry in the preparation session for the internships. Those responsible for the program explained in an informative talk at the University that "to be a diplomat is to owe Spanish citizens in other countries".

The Foundation business University of Navarra signed a partnership agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the 2011-12 academic year. Thanks to this initiative, since November 2011 some thirty students have had an international experience in destinations such as New York and Chicago, Salvador de Bahía (Brazil), Nicosia (Cyprus), Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), Astana (Kazakhstan), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Lisbon, Yaoundé (Cameroon), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Bata (Equatorial Guinea) and Cape Town (South Africa), among others.

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