Graduation 2026 at the Palau Sant Jordiwith EAE Barcelona

The ceremony

On 15 July 2026, EAE Barcelona held the graduation ceremony for its class of 2025-26 at the Palau Sant Jordi, the Montjuïc arena designed by the architect Arata Isozaki. The graduates were undergraduate and master’s students from a very international class.

The school is part of Planeta Formación y Universidades, a higher education network. The ceremony was presided over by Carlos Fernández, Executive Vice President of Grupo Planeta, and the patron of the class was Josep Sánchez Llibre, President of Foment del Treball and Vice President of the CEOE. In his speech, he asked the graduates for leadership built on trust, responsibility and teamwork: leading not as a privilege but as a responsibility, inspiring others to work together on a shared project.

Also speaking were Carlos Giménez, CEO of Planeta Formación y Universidades; Montserrat Civera, its Academic Director, who asked the graduates to hold on to critical thinking and ethical commitment in the face of the challenges of artificial intelligence; José Luis Fernández, General Manager of EAE Barcelona; and Pilar Saura, Dean of the school, who welcomed them into the alumni community.

This year’s new feature was the BRILLA Awards, which the school launched at this ceremony to recognise the undergraduate and master’s students with the best academic records in each class.

What we set up

For the speeches at the Palau Sant Jordi, we set up Captions. Every speech appeared on the arena’s big screens, subtitled and translated as it was delivered, so such an international class could follow each speaker without taking their eyes off the stage.