Since 2015, UPF Barcelona School of Management has been involved in a process of change, implementing a new educational model in response to its aim to transform higher education.
Ricardo Baronas and Gemma Amargant have a publisher and a master's degree in common. The publisher is Fragile Movement and the master's degree is the Master in Publishing, which they took together at UPF Barcelona School of Management-Pompeu Fabra University. The business was thought up as their final master's degree project. The publisher was set up last November with the motto 'Read with care' for books with fragile contents. Books written by strong people who convey their fragile message through literature. For example, people who explain what life with a mental illness is like. Duermo mucho and Estigma are the publisher's first two releases. "We saw the need to encourage people to reflect on the stigma many people with a mental disorder experience," said Gemma and Ricardo. So far the first two publications have been warmly welcomed by booksellers, readers, journalists and charities alike.
The writer and academic Antonio Muñoz Molina has lectured students on the Master in Literary Creation at UPF Barcelona School of Management – Pompeu Fabra University for a second year. He has thus become established as a permanent lecturer in the program. The master's program has also benefited from the contributions of MarÃa Negroni, a poet, writer, PhD holder and director of the Master in Creative Writing at UNTREF, Buenos Aires. From now on she will also be a regular lecturer in the UPF Barcelona School of Management master's program. "This collaboration has kicked off a stable exchange between the two most prestigious Ibero-American creative writing programs," according to Jordi Carrión, director of the Master in Literary Creation at UPF Barcelona School of Management.