Schiller University Blog

The new IR & Diplomacy Advisory Board from Schiller International University met recently at the Madrid campus to discuss relevant issues to improve the academic program and the student experience for the Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Diplomacy.

Last week, the 3 cross-campus groups of students working on the Global Innovation Challenge with LOEWE Perfumes, presented their initial ideas to the project management team in a very intense, idea-packed session.

Last Saturday young students in their Junior Year (11^th grade) roamed the halls of our Madrid campus discussing issues such as the challenge of migration flows, the 32-hour working week or disinformation as an attack on democracy.

The new Public Speaking class from our Madrid campus graduated last month with the traditional challenge: a 5 minutes speech on how, each student, is going to change the world in front of a live audience.

Gabriel Giesen is an International Business Schiller alumni and a successful entrepreneur. As the founder of Chapnik & Giesen, he grew from a 55,000 euro company with 2 people to a 15 million euro company with 150 employees in 3 years, with the pandemic in between.

The global academic teams of Business, STEM and International Relations held a meeting in Paris last week, ahead of the new Schiller International campus opening scheduled for the end of next month.  

Students from different nationalities studying in campuses located in Madrid, Paris, Heidelberg and Tampa are working together in cross-campus teams to solve real challenges presented by LOEWE Perfumes. 

On April 6, 2022, Schiller hosted its first Young Researcher’s Awards on its Madrid Campus. The awards were open to 2nd year International Baccalaureate students in Spain, France, Germany and the United States. At Schiller, we believe that the process of applied research provides high school students with the complex reading, analytical, thinking, and writing skills that they will need to accelerate their growth and performance in higher education. 

In line with the objective of delivering cutting-edge learning experiences from top international experts, Schiller International University has partnered up with LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think tank of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, to offer its students a unique learning experience. 

A month to experience Cambridge student life at Girton College while expanding their views on Economics, Business and World experiences is what the recent agreement between Schiller and Cambridge University college offers for this summer.

Schiller International University CEO and president Marta Muñiz participated recently in the 1^st #DiversityTalks organized by EJE&CON, the Spanish Association of Executives and Board Members. 

Last Thursday, our Madrid campus hosted a new session of Professor José B. Pinto's School of Dreamers. On this occasion, we received the visit of Ryan Brady who presented his talk "Going through hell? This is how I kept walking".