The interdisciplinary nature of the arts: our new challenge

New Advanced Vocational Training Cycle in Audiovisual Project Production and Performance. Next academic year (2026–2027), at La Salle Barceloneta, we have exciting news: our academic offerings are expanding with the addition of the Advanced Program in Audiovisual and Performing Arts Production. This new advanced program will complement the intermediate-level program in Video, DJing, and Sound […]

Artificial intelligence and the new challenges for education

In the face of this new technological revolution, it is necessary to reflect on the teaching profession. The arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought both opportunities and challenges, from an educational perspective as well as in everyday life and society. It is now common to find AI-generated content that does not always accurately reflect […]

Open Days: April 8th and 9th

Open days are an important opportunity for prospective students to learn about our educational project firsthand. This academic year, our educational community has grown. As we announced, we have expanded the CFGS program in Transportation and Logistics and now offer both a morning and an afternoon class. Students can also pursue the CFGS in International […]

The Barcelona Nautical Institute at the 2026 Education Fair

From March 18 to 22, the Barcelona Nautical Institute participated in the Barcelona Education Fair with its own space open to anyone who wanted to discover the world of nautical professions. At our stand,young people and families learned about how to enroll in our programs, the vocational training courses we offer, and the career opportunities […]

The New Learning Context ( NCA )

The New Learning Context (NCA) is the pedagogical proposal with which La Salle is reinventing the way children and young people are educated in the 21st century. More than a method, it is a change of perspective: the student becomes the protagonist of their own process and the center becomes a true school for life. […]

First promotion of Canoeing in Calm Waters

This year, the Barcelona Nautical Institute is celebrating a very special moment: the graduation of the first class of students from the Flatwater Canoeing program, an official intermediate-level sports education degree that opens the door to a growing sector. The center, which specializes in vocational training in nautical sports and recreation, has thus incorporated a […]

New Basic Vocational Training courses at La Salle Barceloneta

At La Salle Barceloneta, we are delighted to announce that our center has been authorized to offer two new Basic Vocational Training courses: Office IT and Vehicle Maintenance. These courses are aimed at students who have completed the third year of compulsory secondary education and prefer more practical training geared towards a specific profession. Those […]

Start of the fourth academic year

The Barcelona Logistics Institute is starting a new academic year, now in its fourth year of operation. The Institute is located in the World Trade Center Barcelona building. We are an integrated vocational training center, where our students are trained in all aspects related to logistics and the internationalization of business, within the framework of […]

A traditional boat, now with an electric motor

At the Institut de Nàutica de Barcelona, we prepare students for the real world, which means tackling specific technical challenges that also have a positive environmental impact. One example is a project they recently completed: electrifying a traditional Mallorcan boat called El Pallus. This small boat, with a fiberglass hull, was powered by an old […]

IQBB

JOSÉ QUEEN JIMÉNEZ  Director from the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry of Barcelona ( IQBB) . This is his second year as Director . It fell to me to replace the previous director, Maria Mercè Sanz, when she retired in the 2022-23 academic year, after an excellent career, of which I would especially like to highlight her work […]

We work together for the training and integration of our students

During the month of June, educational centres face the final stretch of the academic year, a very important moment for the entire educational community. Students, teaching staff, companies, families and the educational administration itself work together for the training and integration of our students. In the logistics and port community there are many professional profiles […]

ERASMUS at INB

International Stays: Opening Horizons from Barceloneta The Barcelona Nautical Institute ( INB) , located in the heart of Barceloneta, offers its students the opportunity to broaden their professional and personal horizons through internships abroad. These experiences, part of the Erasmus+ program, allow students to complete internships in companies in the nautical sector throughout Europe. The […]

Specialized training

A reference center The IQBB offers highly specialized training because it is considered a leading center in the professional sectors of Chemistry, Health and Personal Care, Energy, and Sustainability. CFGM of Laboratory Operations. CFGM of Chemical Plant. CFGM of Pharmacy and Parapharmacy. CFGS of Laboratory Analysis and Quality Control. CFGS for Manufacturing of Pharmaceutical, Biotechnological […]

Nautical Institute of Barcelona

An opportunity for companies in the nautical sector The Barcelona Nautical Institute (INB) is a leading center for specialized vocational training in nautical and water sports. With a prime location in the Port of Barcelona, our goal is to establish synergies with companies in the sector to boost professional qualifications and contribute to innovation and […]

The Barcelona Institute of Logistics

Rooted in the Barceloneta neighborhood At the Barcelona Institute of Logistics, there’s one very important aspect we like to keep in mind: our immediate surroundings. Together, we create this space and sense of community, which is crucial for developing our educational work.   Guided tours for 4th year of ESO Each year, visits are organized […]

30 years of the Narcís Monturiol Institute

The Narcís Monturiol institute is celebrating its 30th birthday. The Centre began its educational services in the academic year 1994-95, with the then called Professional Modules of level 2 and 3 of the Chemistry family, specifically the MP2 Chemical Operator, the MP3 Laboratory Technician Assistant and the MP3 Environment. Since then, almost 800 students have […]

500 students, 500 future professionals

The Barcelona Logistics Institute continues its activity as a member of the port community. More than 500 students are currently being trained at our facilities in the following qualifications: Intermediate vocational training in Commercial Activities with a Logistics profile. Intermediate vocational training in Administrative Management. Intermediate vocational training in Microcomputer Systems and Networks. Advanced vocational […]

Barceloneta Education Project

An alliance for an Education Rooted in the Community The Barceloneta Education Project is an initiative that brings together schools, institutes and other agents in the neighbourhood with the aim of strengthening educational quality and establishing solid links with the Ciutat Vella community. To promote this collaboration, the schools and organisations that form part of […]

CESUR reaches 20,000 students in the 2024-2025 academic year

The progress of Vocational Training (FP) at a national level continues to rise and the demand for new students exceeds expectations. CESUR will begin the academic year with nearly 20,000 students, of which 60% opt for the online modality. This percentage has grown exponentially in the last 5 years, since in 2019 it represented 40%. […]

Training future professionals for the logistics and port community

The Barcelona Institute of Logistics begins its third year of operation with a fully deployed center. The Barcelona Institute of Logistics is a training centre long sought after by the entire port community, dedicated to the professional training of future professionals in the logistics and port community. There are more than 500 companies in the […]

We share our microorganisms

Being able to know the microorganisms that inhabit the human body and that we cannot see with the naked eye has been one of the key objectives for science and the one that motivates Mireia Vallès Colomer’s research. She heads the microbiome research group in the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences at Pompeu Fabra […]

10 years of training excellence

This academic year 2024-2025, the Barcelona Nautical Institute (INB) celebrates its tenth anniversary, a milestone that marks a decade of commitment to the training of maritime professionals. Founded in 2015-2016, thanks to the joint collaboration of the Barcelona Education Consortium and the Port of Barcelona, the INB has become an emerging model in the field […]

Responding to the needs of professionals in the port community

The Barcelona Logistics Institute opened its doors in September 2022, the result of an agreement between the Port of Barcelona and the Barcelona Education Consortium. It was born to respond to the needs of professionals in the port community and the internationalization of the company. A community, the Port of Barcelona, which is an infrastructure […]

La Barceloneta, a strategic point of connections with and through the ocean

Last May, the Institute of Marine Sciences connected two continents in an educational activity related to the ocean and continental waters within the framework of the PREP4BLUE project. Students of the Narcís Institute Monturiol connected remotely with students from the Metropolitan Technological University of Chile. The reason? Share experiences about what they had learned in […]

Research and scientific journalism work in synergy through the FRONTIERS project

Behind scientific research there are complex processes from start to finish, which generate numerous stories. Therefore, communicating the processes and results of research to society requires rigorous journalistic work, as Carolina Llorente, coordinator of the Center for Science, Communication and Society Studies ( CCS) of the Department of Medicine and Sciences, explains. Here is where […]

Studies with job opportunities

The Barcelona Nautical Institute (hereinafter INB) began its teaching activity in the 2015/2016 academic year. It is a public integrated vocational training center specialized in the nautical sports and leisure sector, located in the Barceloneta neighborhood. The objective of the INB is to train and qualify maritime professionals, with the technical and attitudinal skills required […]

The Beach Center reopens its doors in the most maritime year!

On April 2, the Centre de la Platja (CdP) reopens its doors in a year that promises to be very maritime. From April 8 to 12, Barcelona hosts the Week of the Ocean Decade, with numerous events around the UNESCO Conference of the Ocean Decade. Centered on “the science we need for the ocean we […]

9th edition of the «Blue Week» at the INB

Every year, the Nautical Institute of Barcelona experiences with enthusiasm a unique event: the «Setmana Blava» (Blue Week). Every February and throughout a week, we leave aside the conventional academic activities to immerse ourselves in a space of discovery and nautical learning. This year was the ninth edition of this event, which makes our center […]

Training for water sports enthusiasts

If you want to live the unique experience of combining your passion for the sea with a successful professional career, the Nautical Institute of Barcelona (INB) opens the doors to a future full of opportunities. We are a benchmark in the training offer for lovers of sport and the sea. With a vision focused on providing […]

Forging professionals of the sea

The Nautical Institute of Barcelona is considered to be the reference center of nautical training, offering a wide range of studies both medium and higher degrees, as well as continuous and occupational training. Situated in the heart of the Barceloneta district, in the middle of the Port and surrounded by sports and nautical entities, this […]

Get to know the sea in order to love it

Conèixer el mar per estimar-ho

El Centro de la Playa, environmental education space. The Global Ocean is home to more than 200,000 known species (and a minimum of 2,000,000 unknown), which are an essential ecosystem for the functioning of the planet Earth, climate, and atmosphere, are a source of food and resources for humanity and a treasure for its very […]

Turn the sea into your profession

Fes del mar la teva professió

The Institut de Nàutica de Barcelona (INB) is a public centre for integrated vocational training, specialising in nautical sports and leisure, located in Barceloneta. We train and qualify sea professionals through regulated, continuous and occupational training. RANGE OF TRAINING: Lifesaving and lifeguarding Sport diving Sailing with fixed and free apparatus Canoeing in calm waters Sports […]

The “Escola del Mar” (Sea School)

A benchmark for pedagogical renovation In August 1921 the Sea School was inaugurated on the beach of Barceloneta. It is, for many reasons, a very special school. Why on the seashore? At that time, almost 90% of the children in the municipal schools suffered from some health issues: tuberculosis, bronchitis, scrofula, or anaemia, among others. […]

UPF reopens to the neighbourhood

The Campus del Mar of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra opens its doors to all those who wish to attend a class taught by the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. Each trimester, sessions are offered with contents from various subjects, such as Neurobiology, Human Physiology, Bioethics, Basic Concepts of Biomedical Engineering and General Physiology, among […]

La Salle Barceloneta: Virtual reality for hospitalized children

Students of the advanced training cycle of 3D animation, video games and interactive environments of Le Salle Barceloneta, within the framework of the Training in Work Centres (popularly known as internships in the company), collaborate to develop a virtual reality application for hospitalized children, which helps reduce the anxiety caused by the toughest moments of […]