ES+ | No.3 | 2025/2026 Andrea Garini is an expectations were exceeded. Garini 3 Italian student who acknowledges that Barcelona is an chose Barcelona to study ideal city to live in, and recounts that a Master’s Degree in International he has had the opportunity to meet Marketing in the Digital Environment people from diverse cultures whom he and Sales Management at IQS. His can now call friends. According to the reasons for choosing Spain? Above student from Italy, the Catalan capital all, he states, the balance between is “a new place to call home”. He still academic and personal life, as well does not know whether he will stay in as the high standard of the schools Barcelona for another three, five or ten he was interested in. Once he years, but he asserts that the city is his arrived in the country, he says, all his favourite place in Spain. 4 Flavia Landino is an she acknowledges that over time she Argentine student who chose has learned to “enjoy her free time with Spain to pursue a full-time less guilt” and to find a balance between MBA at Esade. After six years living study, sport and social life. In an ideal in Germany, she decided to make a world, Landino imagines herself in a job change, seeking greater proximity to that would allow her to live between her culture without leaving Europe, Spain and Germany. Although she motivated by the prestige of the struggles to decide on a place in Spain country’s business schools and by its as her favourite spot, she feels a strong food, people and music. Although she attraction to Plaza de España in Seville, was initially surprised by the lively the beach in Barcelona and the bars in social life of Spaniards in the streets, the centre of San Sebastián. María Daniela Navas, originally the lecturers, and that the experience 5 from the Dominican Republic will serve her well throughout her but with Argentine nationality, professional career. She also understands decided to enrol in the Executive MBA that the perseverance and drive of the Green & Tech Online programme at EOI. Spanish people are key to the country’s After considering various options in other international positioning. Although she European and Spanish-speaking countries, only spent a few days visiting Madrid, she Navas chose Spain because of the admits that she would move there without reputation of its universities and business hesitation if a job opportunity arose in schools and its international standing. She the capital, even though she is currently states that she was pleasantly surprised content in the Dominican Republic, where by the standard of the courses and she has work and family commitments. 113