Category: Barcelona

After successfully completing his internship in Barcelona in 2019, Tyler Yang was bitten by the travel bug and decided to continue his adventures in Dublin. Majoring in Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University, Tyler wanted to gain further experience abroad before graduating in 2021. We asked him a few questions on his internship experience in Barcelona […]

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An internship at an architecture firm presented an exceptional opportunity to strengthen my proficiency in my field of study before landing a job in London.

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Cherise is studying Communication Information Design at Mount Royal University. She spent the summer in Spain doing a three-month communication and digital marketing internship in Barcelona at a destination management company. Cherise had a great internship experience and is excited to share her story with Connectors and friends across the globe. How is Barcelona treating […]

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Meaghan Kincaid is studying Business Economics at SUNY at Oneonta. This summer she spent eight weeks in Spain, completing a marketing internship at a leading co-working company in Barcelona. “Our marketing department truly was a cohesive team that conquered the day in and day out changes of the community we strived to keep informed and the company […]

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Intern blogger (and now Connect-123 alum), Ashley Nave, is back with more stories about her Barcelona journalism internship. Thanks to the Connect-123 program for finding me one of the coolest internships, I’ve spent the last two months exploring the ins and outs of the city as part of my assignment at a leading publication for […]

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Our five internship and volunteer destinations may be major international cities: Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Dublin, and Shanghai, but that does not mean it’s all concrete and skyscrapers for our interns! These locations are extremely diverse, both culturally and geographically. And while there is adventure awaiting just outside the city limits, did you know […]

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This post comes to us from Ashley Nave, an American student pursuing a degree in English/Professional Writing and Spanish, who is a current intern in Spain. She has an interest in all sorts of writing: magazine writing, journalism, poetry, fiction and hopes to use her degree to document perspectives from other countries as a career and […]

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There are so many things that make Barcelona an irresistible destination for any wanderluster, it would probably be more efficient to enumerate the reasons not to catch the next plane to BCN. But after careful consideration, here are the top 10 reasons to drop everything and go to Barcelona: 1. The Beach You want party […]

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We first met Josh when he interned in South Africa in 2010. Three years later, he came to Barcelona to have a second Connect-123 internship. Now that he’s back in the US working as an Investment Analyst, we interviewed him to get his reflections about both international internships. We first met you when you interned […]

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A year after Amanda Schultz’s Barcelona internship, we caught up with her to discuss how her time abroad influenced her career path after her graduation from Michigan State University. You interned in Barcelona back in 2013. Tell us a bit about your Connect-123 internship. My internship at a social media agency in Barcelona was absolutely […]

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