Social Media

Check if your campus or your Study Abroad Office has an existing instagram account and ask if you can add a few posts to it. Send them some beautiful photos of Barcelona with information about your program and they'll be able to reach students around campus. Be sure to include info about your program and how to get more info in the captions.

Create a facebook group for your trip and add any students who are interested. You can post videos, news, photos and updates as your program grows. Once onsite it is a great way to communicate and share photos, and even to keep in touch after the program. We are happy to help set up a page for you and if you add your Barcelona SAE coordinator (Barcelona Onsite) we'll help post info for you!

Using twitter is a great way to reach your students. Here are a few fun facts you may want to use!

• Did you know that Barcelona’s soccer team, Barça, has a fierce rivalry with Real Madrid? More than friendly competition these games are packed with political punch! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cl%C3%A1sico

• “I am not strange. I’m just not normal.” – Salvador Dalí. Visit this abnormal man’s hometown and self designed museum while in Spain! salvador-dali.org/museus/en_index/

• “Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.” –Gaudí was an architect that left Barcelona some beautiful buildings. His masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, is still a work in progress, more than 100 years after his death.

• 10 things you didn’t know about Barcelona. Discover these and a whole lot more in Barcelona! homagetobcn.com/10-things- you-didnt- know-about-barcelona-infographic/

• Did you know that Barcelona hosted the Olympic games in 1992? The event changed the city forever and left a lot of things the citizens still use, like these pools with a view! socialphy.com/posts/travel-leisure/4727/Pool-with- a-View.html

• Barcelona is the best beach city in the world according to National Geographic! travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/top-10/beach-cities-photos/

• 10 facts about the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona’s most impressive monument. We’ll visit it (and much more) while studying in Spain! world-insider.com/top- 10-interesting- facts-of- the-sagrada-familia-in- barcelona/

• Tarraco was once the capital of the Roman empire in Spain. Now the modern city of Tarragona, it has some of the best preserved Roman ruins outside of Rome and is only an hour from Barcelona. nytimes.com/2011/06/05/travel/in-tarragona-roman- ruins-an- hour-from- barcelona.html?_r=0

• Want to learn the words to the Spanish national anthem? Done! There are none! This and 49 other fun facts about Spain: thecultureist.com/2014/02/18/50-fascinating- facts-about-spain/

• 130. The number of tons of tomatoes thrown at the Tomatina festival each summer in Spain!

• 11 fun facts about Spanish. You’ll see major improvement in your Spanish skills during your semester abroad. speakinglatino.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/11-Fun- Facts-About- Spanish.png

No need to create your own Pinterest page about Barcelona, but feel free to share ours with students or to use it to find posts for Facebook or Instagram. There are a lot of great links and materials available. Many of these links can be used on other platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

We highly encourage you to customize a signature for your study abroad program and attach it to your email. Any correspondence you have with students will now be a marketing opportunity! Here are some examples: