War and Peace in the 21st Century, a series of debates attended by leading international scholars and other senior officers from public service and government politics. For the 2021 edition, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the seminar was reformulated as a documentary named Bouncing Back. World Politics After the Pandemic, focused on the impact of the pandemic on scenarios of conflict and cooperation. Collaboration projects CIDOB has partnered with other think tanks and institutions in a number of networked academic and research projects. Some of these projects and programs, mostly funded by the European Commission, provide a significant part of its budget accounts. Teaching and IBEI In 1989, CIDOB began providing training programmes for university postgraduate students, in collaboration with the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2004, CIDOB transferred its teaching activities to the newly founded Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (Barcelona Institute for International Studies). Social influence The 2010 edition of Global Go-to Think Tanks—a list of think tanks from around the world issued by the international relations program of the University of Pennsylvania—assessed 4,567 centres from around the world and ranked CIDOB 37th out of the 50 best non-US think tanks, in the category Top 50 Think Tanks – Worldwide (Non-US). In this list, the Barcelona centre was the only Spanish think tank and the third from southern Europe, behind two French institutions. In the 2015 edition, CIDOB placed 58th out of 175 in the Top Think Tanks Worldwide (U.S. and Non-U.S.) category, 28th out of 137 in the Top Think Tanks Worldwide (Non-US) and 16th out of 129 in the Top Think Tanks in Western Europe. In the 2020 edition, CIDOB was listed as follows: 29th out of 154 in the Top Think Tanks Worldwide (Non-US); 36th out of 174 in the Top Think Tanks Worldwide (US and Non-US); 12th out of 142 in the Top Think Tanks in Western Europe; 67th out of 110 in the Top Defense and National Security Think Tanks; 64th out of 156 in the Top Foreign Policy and International Affairs Think Tanks; 55th out of 86 in the Best Think Tank Network; 3rd out of 109 in the Think Tanks to Watch in 2021; 8th out of 143 in the Best Independent Think Tanks; and 63rd out of 75 in the Best Quality Assurance and Integrity Policies and Procedures. References External links Barcelona Institute for Studies International (IBEI) 1973 establishments in Spain