Mª Ángeles Martín Prats awarded in the 2025 Meridiana Awards

The Junta de Andalucía, through the Andalusian Women's Institute, organizes within the framework of International Women's Day, which is commemorated every March 8, the Meridian Awards. Its purpose is to publicly recognize the trajectory of those people, groups, entities or institutions that have contributed their vital or professional career to strengthen the presence and participation of women in all areas of society.

The Electronic Engineering Professor of the Higher Technical School of Engineering at the University of Seville, Mª Ángeles Martín Prats, has been recognized in this 2025 edition for her career in favor of equality, to end the gap in Stem races. 

Mª Ángeles Martín Prats is director of the Aeronautical Airplane Research Line at the University of Seville, Senior IEEE and founder of the Spin-Off Skylife Engineering. She is the European Coordinator of Universities of the European Defense Agency.

In 2011 he founded the Spin-Off Skylife Engineering to contribute to talent retention in our region. It is based in the Cartuja PCT and a template around 80 employees who develop projects 'to improve people's lives'. Its activity focuses on plane, power electronics and the application of new electronic technologies and advanced design to the development of systems and services for aerospace, naval and other sectors applications. In 2024 the Airbus company made it the first Spanish provider of the Eurodrone to develop the software load system of the Eurodrone airplane equipment.

He received the civil merit medal, awarded by King Felipe VI in 2015; and the Ada Byron Award to the Technologist Woman from the University of Deusto in 2018. He was a worldwide finalist of the Gedc Airbus Diversity Award International Award in 2013, and has been recognized with the Cortes de Cádiz Award in 2015, among others.

These awards, which this year meet their 28 edition, have a deep institutional character and promote that Andalusian citizens feel recognized by their institutions and those who represent them.

The Meridiana awards enjoy great public importance and a very special meaning for awarded persons and entities. With these distinctions, the Andalusian government defends equal rights and opportunities between women and men, while claiming real and effective equality as an essential requirement to continue advancing towards a more just, free and equal society.