Last academic year oikos Barcelona already implemented the PIR at Esade, and yet this year we wanted to reach a high representative rate of participation. Therefore, we developed a very ambitious strategy to reach as many students as possible, and it is primarily characterized by working hand-to-hand with Esade’s Dean, staff and other student associations.

We finally achieved a total number of 1021 responses, which accounts for a quarter of all answers obtained by the PIR Association from all participants. Esade has been one of the small handful of schools that have jumped from Level 3 Progressing in 2020 to Level 4 Transforming in 2021. With such a big success, we managed to foster and accelerate many further changes but, more importantly, we underlined how important is sustainability to students