The researcher, specializing in economics and Asian culture, Àngels Pelegrín, has been one of the three researchers bestowed with the Merit Award of the General Consul of Japan in Barcelona, which recognizes the most valuable academic contributions related to Japan and that facilitate relations and knowledge-sharing between Japan and Spain.

Pelegrín received the award from the Consul General Naohito Watanabe, who highlighted the work of the academic as promoter of the Master in Business and Culture of East Asia and her role as a specialist trainer and promoter of the university exchange with Japan.