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Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.

<ul><li>The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.</li>
	<li>You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.</li>
</ul>

Admission

<ul><li>Registration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.</li>
	<li>Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
	<ul><li>Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.</li>
	</ul></li>
	<li>If you have a foreign degree you may need to submit additional documents.</li>
	<li>Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place</li>
	<li>If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program code for this course is 1244.</li>
	<li>The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.</li>
</ul>

Enrolment

Application for admission

Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:

<ul><li>Complete the online admission form.</li>
	<li>Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.</li>
	<li>Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
	<ul><li><a href="https://www.bsm.upf.edu/documents/admission-letter-video-upf-bsm-en.pdf" target="_blank">Presentation letter or video</a></li>
		<li>CV</li>
		<li>Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)</li>
		<li>Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)</li>
		<li>Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport</li>
		<li>Passport-size photo (jpg format)</li>
	</ul></li>
</ul>Additional documents may be requested in certain cases. 
Application rounds are subject to the number of places available on the program.

Complete your application within the next admission rounds:

The study plan for the Master in Professional Mediation is structured into 5 subjects and a Master's Final Project that is developed throughout the course. 
 

In each of the subjects, practical cases will be seen and monitored training will be carried out in professional mediation and conflict resolution. This is personalized training that has teachers and coaches in the classroom who support you in the development of a new professional role.

Mediation in the new social, political, and economic paradigm shift

Harvard's traditional-linear mediation

Transformative Mediation

Circular Narrative Mediation

Management and Mediation

Master’s Final Project

The information contained in these pages is for information purposes only and may be subject to change in the adaptation of each academic year. The definitive guide will be available to students in the virtual space before the start of each subject.

Note on the Curriculum

<ul><li>Mariano Aguirre 
	Director of the Norwegian Center for Peacebuilding and research associate at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. 
	Journalist and foreign policy analyst with expertise in international conflict, peacebuilding and peacekeeping, humanitarian action, and conflict and development.</li>
	<li>Raquel Alastruey 
	Magistrate at the Barcelona Court. 
	She was also a lecturer at the Judicial College from 2002 to 2004 and advisor for the Department of Justice of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government) for the implementation of the Judicial Office in 2006.</li>
	<li>Miguel Bonet 
	Professional lawyer and mediator.</li>
	<li>Isabel Cabós</li>
	<li>Andreu Calvet Cortés  
	Coordinator 
	Lawyer, mediator in centres for Mediation and Coexistence, S.L. 
	Associate mediator for Wilhelm-Munné &amp; Asociados. 
	Mediator for the Sant Pere de Ribes Town Hall.</li>
	<li>Joan Cambronero</li>
	<li>Enrico Cirla Bracchi 
	Coordinator 
	Psychologist and mediator for the Centre for Mediation and Coexistence in the Sant Pere de Ribes Town Council.</li>
	<li>Carme Guil 
	Magistrate of the Provincial Court of Barcelona. 
	Professional mediator (UPF). 
	Vice Preside.</li>
	<li>Marcos Hernando 
	He also has a degree in Political Science and Administration. 
	Human Resources Deputy Director at Mar Health Park Consortium (Barcelona). 
	Deputy Director of the Department of Human Resources at the Barcelona MAR Health Park. </li>
	<li>Dina Jansenson 
	Experienced Mediator and Arbitrator, mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution coach. 
	She is also ombudsman for one of the largest media companies in the world.</li>
	<li>Adrià Jofre Bosch 
	Economist, Negotiator, and Professional Mediator, Master in Sciences, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution from Columbia University.</li>
	<li>John Paul Lederach 
	D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado. 
	Professor of International Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana). 
	Distinguished Scholar at Eastern Mennonite University. Author of several books on conflict resolution and mediation.</li>
	<li>Rafael Llinás 
	Clinical psychologist and professional mediator. 
	Director of the mediation area of the Sant Adrià del Besós Town Hall.</li>
	<li>Miriam Markus 
	Degree in Education Sciences, mediator, and psychodramatist. 
	Evaluator of mediators for the Ministry of Justice of Argentina.</li>
	<li>Emilia Munné</li>
	<li>Anna Pérez Soto 
	Mediator at the Centre for Mediation and Social Harmony at Castelldefels Town Council. 
	She is also a judicial mediator and lawyer.</li>
	<li>Milena Prokajlevic Bugarski 
	Coordinator 
	Researcher on the White Paper on Mediation in Catalonia project. 
	Associate Mediator at Wilhelm-Munné &amp; Asociados. 
	She is a mediator for the Barcelona City Council.</li>
	<li>Charo Soler 
	Psychologist and mediator. 
	Coordinator of the mediation and technical advice service of the Generalitat de Catalunya.</li>
	<li>Marc Taravilla 
	Hospitality Management, MBA, Mediator (BSM-UPF), and Professional Negotiator.</li>
	<li>Ana Uzqueda 
	Vice-President and Director of Education at the Association Equilibrio &amp; R.C. 
	Bachelor in Law from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). 
	She is also Mediation Coordinator at the University of Siena, University of Sassari, the University of Sassari and the Polo Universitario Grossetano.</li>
	<li>Antoni Vidal Teixidó 
	Founding partner of Alter-Serveis Integrals de Mediació. 
	Diploma in Mediation from the Barcelona Bar Association (Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Barcelona).</li>
	<li>Arantxa Vilar López 
	Coordinator 
	Mediator, lawyer, and art therapist. 
	Mediator for the Castelldefels Town Hall.</li>
	<li>Carlos Villagrasa Alcaide 
	Judge at the Provincial High Court of Barcelona. 
	PhD in Law from the University of Barcelona. 
	Tenured lecturer of Civil Law at the University of Barcelona.</li>
</ul>

Collaborating faculty

All the teachers on the master are active professional mediators.

Career opportunities:

<ul><li>Judicial mediator</li>
	<li>Pre-judicial mediator</li>
	<li>Private mediator or hired by companies</li>
	<li>Professional negotiator</li>
	<li>Conflict situation analyst</li>
	<li>Conflictologist</li>
	<li>Promotion of occupational health in HR</li>
</ul>

Training in mediation and other alternative forms of conflict management and resolution gives you the tools and techniques necessary to analyse interpersonal conflict situations, plan and design methodologies, intervene to prevent and improve, or resolve the situation. In the master we prepare you to mediate in disputes between couples, intra-family, corporate, in work teams, community, organizational, with companies or in consumer issues. You will learn strategies and techniques for negotiation and conflict management when you have to represent an entity or have to manage your own problem, and you will understand the dynamics of a group or organizations to think about when and how to intervene. 
 

The Master in Professional Mediation includes the possibility of extracurricular internships. They are not part of the academic content of the master's or postgraduate courses. They are considered a complement to the class sessions. 
 

<ul><li>They are not mandatory. If you want to do them, you must state it at the time of admission.</li>
	<li>Includes the agreement management and advisory service</li>
	<li>The Professional Careers Service maintains active contact with companies, promotes your application and manages the internship agreement. Remember that the ultimate managers of the selection process are the companies and organizations themselves.</li>
</ul>

On the Master in Professional Mediation, you will share a classroom with national and international students and you will learn to be and to act as a professional mediator in conflicts that occur in organizations, companies, the family, or the community, among other fields of action. You will also acquire conflict management skills and techniques and create intervention programs in dialogue management of disputes.

Average number of years of professional experience

Graduates in Criminology and Public Prevention Policies

The Master in Professional Mediation brings together students from all over the world with a very heterogeneous profile in which graduates in Law and Criminology stand out. However, students from other disciplines such as architecture, business administration, economics, philology, engineering, social education, etc. also share the classroom.

The teaching and learning methodology in professional mediation is through theoretical and technical explanations, and mediation simulations to know how to apply the various methodologies and skills in the classroom, with actors and among the students. The objective of the master is to understand the consequences and the usefulness of the techniques to be acquired, from different roles that act in mediation and conflict management processes. 
 

The master teaches 3 models of mediation: Harvard, transformative and narrative, as well as the relational method in mediation.

Teaching team made up of mediation professionals

Connection with professional reality

Real and simulated mediation practices

3 mediation models

Master in Professional Mediation

Departament de Justícia de la Generalitat de Catalunya

With the Master in Professional Mediation you will be trained in professional mediation and conflict management in business contexts as well as in civil, commercial and criminal conflicts. At the end of the Master, you will obtain the recognition required by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Spanish Ministry of Justice to be registered in the official mediators registers.

The title is recognized by the Government of Catalonia and the Spanish Ministry of Justice to register you in the official registry of mediators.

Get an official accreditation

You will be able to carry out more than 120 hours of internship within the framework of the Chair of Citizen Mediation, with professionals in mediation and conflict resolution in public and private institutions in various municipalities in the Barcelona Province.

Research-action internships

You will work with simulated real cases of professional mediation and conflict resolution, case analysis exercises, and filmed training for self-assessment. In this way you will be able to visualize, deepen, and consolidate new learning.

Practice role playing

Train with mediators with extensive professional experience in interventions. They will show you a variety of tools for effective action and will give you personalised feedback on your progress and development in the program.

Teachers with extensive professional experience

Once the master's is finished, and for the following year, the students on the program will be supervised and monitored by the academic management so that their work projects in professional mediation and conflict management come true.

Follow-up after the master's

Study at a school accredited by EQUIS, an international distinction that guarantees the quality of our institution and makes us the 1st school of management linked to a public university with this accreditation in our country.

International recognition 

Grupo Europeos de Magistrados por la Mediación

In the Master in Professional Mediation you will learn how to apply the main theories of professional mediation, such as: Harvard's 7 elements, the empowerment of the Transformative model, the alternative history of the Circular Narrative school, etc. These will help you create your intervention model in labour, social contexts, financial transactions, insurance, family, or in disagreements between partners.

In the master, you will also be trained in Work Place Mediation, in order to introduce techniques of mediation culture in companies and organisations, and thus, effectively manage conflict resolution in work teams and promote prevention and occupational health. In civil and criminal mediation you will also study how to deal with family conflicts, disputes between neighbours and misunderstandings between people from equidistance and confidentiality.

The master's degree will also introduce you to concepts of civil and commercial law, the psychology of interpersonal and group conflicts, elements of the psychosociology of groups and branding, marketing, and management techniques necessary for good professional mediation.

The Master in Professional Mediation is endorsed by the Pompeu Fabra University, the first Spanish university and the 15th best university in the world (of those with less than 50 years of history), according to the Times Higher Education ranking. In turn, the UPF Barcelona School of Management has the EQUIS accreditation, the most prestigious institutional recognition for business schools worldwide.

The mediator is an increasingly in-demand profile for conflict resolution and intercultural, civil, and commercial mediation. The Master in Professional Mediation trains you in conflict management to act as a mediator both in business contexts and in civil, commercial, and criminal conflicts.

If you are a member of our alumni associations or of one of our partner universities, we offer you a series of applicable discounts on the amount of tuition for your program.

Alumni discounts 

If you are a member or family member of an employee of the UPF group or belonged to the collaborating institutions of the UPF Barcelona School of Management, you can enjoy a series of applicable discounts on the tuition fees for your program.

UPF Employee Discounts

If you are alumni of one of our Partner Universities, you are entitled to a discount of 10% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduate program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits).

*Discount not compatible with other scholarships, discounts and reductions.

UPF Partner Latinoamerican Universities Discount

Apply for our Merit Based Scholarship, awarded to those who prove they have talent and motivation.

Merit Based Scholarship

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