ESADE offers much more than classes. In the classrooms, in the corridors, in the cafeterias, and of course on the Internet, a large number of students with different interests can be found, expressing their opinions, proposing improvements to day-to-day academic aspects and organizing activities with very diverse characteristics.

You can be one of them and participate in the activities on offer. You just have to decide which association is best suited to your interests and contact it.

1.- ESADE DOCTORAL SOCIETY: The ESADE Doctoral Society was founded in order to: foster links among doctoral students; provide better tools for research at ESADE; and promote Ph.D. candidates' papers and research in general.

2.- STUDENTS COORDINATOR: This ESADE body has very diverse functions, but the first and foremost is to look after the interests of the students. This means transmitting their proposals and complaints to the management of ESADE, carrying out the activities that are proposed each year and, above all, working together with the Associations and Representatives of each year.

3. DAC: Department of Cultural and Leisure Activities. The main asset of this association, which offers students cultural and leisure activities, lies in the diversity of its offer. The activities existing are therefore expanded this year, thus providing the student with new options for their leisure time.

4. EIS: Empresa i Societat (Company and Society) is a nongovernmental democratic organization formed by over 40 ESADE students. Ten of them form part of the hard core and the rest collaborate on individual projects. Its objectives are focused on promoting research and participation on projects on any subject which highlights the relations between the company and society as a whole.

5. EIJ: Empresa i Joventut (Company and Youth) is ESADE's Junior Company founded in 1986. Its main objective is to offer ESADE students who decide to form part of the association practical work experience which complements the knowledge acquired in the classroom. A Junior Company is a non-profit-making association, formed and managed by students, the main aim of which is to create collaboration ties between the University and the world of work.

6. AIESEC: Internship programmes in over 80 countries. AIESEC ESADE belongs to AIESEC, which sends over 6,000 students a year abroad.

7. CIE: The International Liaison Committee promotes the international environment, cultural trips, celebrations, getting to know people and, above all, lots of fun. It organizes the International Week.

8. SPORTS: ESADE's Sports Department is an association run by licentiate degree students with the aim of meeting the sporting needs of all students. This year sees the beginning of a new stage in the association and the challenge for new members is to offer the best service possible to support the sporting expectations of the students.

9. TOURISM: The newly created Tourism Association, based in the Sant Ignasi School of Tourism, organizes and offers ESADE students trips at inexpensive prices. It is likewise in charge of the logistics of the trips organized by the rest of the Associations.

10. CEMS: The CEMS Association, aimed at organizing exchanges and links between the participants on the CEMS programme throughout Europe, begins its activities this year.

11. InfoESADE: InfoESADE is the Information Systems and New Technologies Student Association. This is a new field which is increasingly widely accepted in the current market and which has had an impact on the subjects taught on our programmes and, in turn, on the student association movement. Its main activity is the information portal infoesade.com