The research institutes are conceived as multi-disciplinary research
structures beyond the framework of the departments, and they are meaningful
as far as they are better prepared to meet the demand of the economic
and social context.
These are the university institutes:
- Institute of Robotics
- Institute of Creativity and Educational Innovations
- Institute of Women Studies
- Institute of Materials Science
- Institute of Molecular Science
- Institute of Traffic and Road Safety [INTRAS]
- Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
- Institute of International Economics (inter-university institute,
with Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, and Universitat d’Alacant)
- Institute of Valencian Language (inter-university institute, with
Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, and Universitat d’Alacant)
- Institute of Social and Cooperative Economy (IUDESCOOP)
With specific agreements with CSIC, Universitat de València participates
in the Institute of History
of Science López Piñero,
the Institute of Corpuscular Physics, the Centre
for Desertification Research, the Institute
of Agro-chemistry and Food Technology, and
the Biomedical Institute.