Emerging Science is a project in which the youngest research staff present their own research and experiences in an accessible language and through short videos. Emerging Science is a project of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+i) of the University of Valencia (UV), with the support of the Spanish Science and Technology Foundation (FECyT) and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU).
The Emerging Science project has begun by giving voice to the youngest research staff of the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), a joint research centre of UV and CSIC. This institute is a recently created centre where different UV and CSIC research groups have been incorporated from different disciplines: genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, computing, artificial intelligence, theoretical physics, virology, plant biology and biotechnology, among others. Therefore, interdisciplinarity is a central element of its conception as a research institute. In addition, I2SysBio has a clear vocation for social dissemination of the research it carries out. For this reason, twenty people from I2SysBio have participated in this first phase of the Emerging Science project, including doctoral students from the different current programmes (FPU, FPI and Industrial Doctorates from MICIU, Generalitat Valenciana, UV, etc.), post-doctoral researchers and principal investigators from the Ramón y Cajal programme of MICIU and the Scientific Excellence Grants for Junior Researchers (SEJI) programme of the Generalitat Valenciana.
