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The student from the Faculty of Communication Studies has been recognised by the College of Marketing and Communication of Catalonia for her bachelor's thesis on influencer marketing and its regulation.

The 10th International Communication Research Conference of the Spanish Association for Communication Research (AE-IC), held on 19 May in Pontevedra, paid tribute to Dr Rosa Franquet Calvet, a leading figure in audiovisual communication and the first woman in Spain to attain a full professorship in this field

Professor of Journalism Santiago Tejedor, Director of the Communication and Education Office and lecturer at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the latest edition of the UAB Teaching Excellence Awards, an institutional initiative that recognizes faculty members for their commitment to quality teaching, pedagogical innovation, and the continuous improvement of university teaching.

Raúl Pernias Viñas and Marc Usón Brugal, currently at Ogilvy Spain, have won the Young Lions Print national competition with an outdoor advertising campaign promoted by JCDecaux and SCOPEN.

The jury of the XXV Premis Connexió, organised by the Catalan Federation of Telecommunications Companies (FECEMINTE), has awarded the UAB’s Arxiu Sonor de Ràdio a Catalunya project in the category of Institutional Initiative. The award, presented on 19 May, acknowledges the creation of an innovative project with social impact that preserves and disseminates the radiophonic heritage of Catalonia through the cataloguing of audio fragments, openly available to users.

The commitment to global justice and social transformation have been the central axes of the Final Degree Projects of Andrea Mendieta Sánchez and Núria Mir Dorn (Communication of Organizations) and Ada Solà Conesa (Journalism), awarded in the 9th edition of the Arcadi Oliveres Awards 2026.

Within the framework of the Talent Day with social impact, the Autonomous University of Barcelona will celebrate on April 28 the ceremony of the Arcadi Oliveres Awards and the TFG awards with Service Learning methodology. In this ninth edition, 41 final degree projects have been recognized that stand out for their commitment to global justice and social transformation.

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona will celebrate on April 22 the award ceremony for the best Final Degree Projects with a gender perspective, organized by the Equality and Diversity Service based on the proposals of the different faculties and schools. In this edition, several students from the Faculty of Communication Sciences have been distinguished for their work, which addresses key issues such as the representation of women in the media, the female voice in the digital environment or the social construction of gender identities.