Next event
· 19:30–22:00 · Venue to be announced · English, with Spanish
First session of the Gospel & Academia Project study guide, then Christmas dinner.
Next event
· La Cristalera, Miraflores de la Sierra (Madrid) · Spanish
The national gathering of GBG Académicos, GB Unidos’ group for Christian university lecturers, researchers, postdocs and doctoral students across Spain: a weekend to get to know one another, share, pray together and keep building the group. On Sunday, Barcelona presents what our group does and how it began.
Registration opens in December 2026. We’ll post the link on this page.
Christian Academics Barcelona is a fellowship of PhD students, postdocs and academics across the city’s universities and research centres. We eat together once a month, think hard about the gospel and our disciplines, pray for one another — and, a few times a year, invite the university to argue with us in public.
You’re not the only Christian in your building. Come and find the others.
Welcome. English is our working language; Spanish and Catalan are always at the table.
Your presence tells younger researchers it can be done. Come once a year and we’ll be glad.
Talk through what faith changes in your lab, your seminar room or your next paper, with Christians from other fields who know the pressures from the inside.
PhD students, postdocs and professors at one table: honest advice on supervisors, applications and setbacks, and on staying a Christian in academia.
Research years can quietly pull the two apart. One evening a month with people who face the same is a simple way to stop that.
No Christian who researches or teaches in Barcelona should have to do it alone.
We picture Christians in every university and research centre of the city, newly arrived or born and raised here, who know one another, bring Christ into their work and their work to Christ, help each other flourish from the first year of a PhD to a professorship, and make the gospel a credible, welcome voice in Barcelona’s academic life.
From Christ to our academic work: we pursue creation’s flourishing, working excellently under Christ’s Lordship and in the light of Scripture.
From our academic work to Christ: as we trace the way our field points to God’s glory, we praise him and seek to bring others with us.
The Barcelona group of GBG Académicos (GB Unidos, Spain’s IFES movement).Part of the Association of Christian Postgraduate Groups ·Good News for the University (IFES Europe)
Next meeting, one good resource, one thing to pray for.
