NYU students during their visit to Fluidra at visit . PHOTO: Courtesy of Fluidra

A group of 200 students from the NYU Stern School of Business have completed an academic module of the 'International Studies Program-Europe' at IESE in Barcelona. This initiative is part of the agreement of partnership that New York University and School of Economics of the University of Navarra have as partners for exchange of students.

During the previous months, the participants studied in depth the knowledge of Spain from a triple approach: political, economic and cultural, as well as the status of five companies: Fluidra S.A., Bodegas Torres S.A., group Damm, Grifols S.A. and Banco Sabadell. Once in Barcelona, from March 12 to 16, the NYU students followed an academic-cultural program that included a visit to visit to the companies analyzed.

Nuria Mas, professor at IESE of the University of Navarra, and Antonio Moreno, Associate Dean of School of Economics and Business Administration, gave sessions on the Spanish economic environment and the financial crisis in Europe. The students also had the opportunity to hear the experience of Ferrán Nogué, graduate of the School of Engineering of the University of Navarra and MBA from IESE, in Holaluz. His business idea, supported by Barcelona Activa-Do it in Barcelona, is an electricity trading company that operates on the Internet and was presented as an example of project entrepreneurship.