195 Tecnun students celebrated Third Year Promotion Day
The Miramar Palace hosted the scholarship award ceremony and a lecture Ignacio Ferrero, professor at the School Economics and Business.
10 | 02 | 2026
On Friday, February 6, third-year students celebrated Promotion Day, one of the traditional events of their time at Tecnun. The workshop with Mass at the parish church of San Sebastián Mártir at 11 a.m. Afterwards, the student body to the conference room at the Miramar Palace, where the presentation of graduation sashes took place presentation of graduation sashes the discussion paper The world we want to change. The power of the gaze"was given by the professor of the School Economics and Business, Ignacio Ferrero.
In his speech, the professor addressed the students present and encouraged them to live the remaining years of their university life to the fullest. "I ask you to take advantage of this time to reflect on the truly important issues of human existence," he said. He also stressed the importance of cultivating an "authentic, peripheral, empathetic, and loving" view of the reality that surrounds us. For Ferrero, "this perspective is what changes the world" and allows us to transcend our daily struggles.
Following the visiting professor speech, the director development, Íñigo Gutiérrez, called out the names of the students in groups of four, five, or six to award them their scholarships, which were position professors seated at the presidential table. From left to right, the table was made up of Nere Gil-Negrete, Jesús Gutiérrez, Francisco Javier Planes, Tomás Gómez-Acebo, Marta de Zárraga, and Ignacio Ferrero.
The ceremony concluded with a speech the class representative, Joseba Iturralde, and remarks by the director Tecnun, Francisco Javier Planes. Iturralde encouraged his classmates to look to the future and what lies ahead, noting that "there are still many challenges, lessons, laughs, and stories to be had." Finally, Planes addressed the students, reminding them how "the daily decisions you make shape you as a person and, at the same time, mold your training your future in engineering."