The IBEI is an interuniversity institute founded in 2004 as a shared effort by the five public universities in the metropolitan area of Barcelona and CIDOB to promote postgraduate training and research in the field of international politics and relations.
Five institutions were added later that also believed in its mission and importance of the project, which are summed up in promoting scientific knowledge, with the aim of promoting the understanding of the global challenges for the governance of our world. After these first years, we can affirm that the IBEI has already consolidated in its first steps, obtaining a high research and academic recognition at European and international level.