The READit research group is interested in the study of the neurobiological, cognitive and behavioural foundations of reading. The methodological focus is experimental psychology and the collection of electrophysiological (EEG) and eye movement measurements as correlates of reading behaviour at different levels: decoding, syntactic processing and comprehension. Under these parameters, different lines of research are articulated, dedicated to the study of reading acquisition in children with typical and atypical development, lexical access in different languages or research applied to everyday life activities, such as the comprehension of digital texts in adolescents or the reading of traffic signs while driving a vehicle.

READit seeks to relate its findings to current models of reading, reading literacy instruction and intervention in developmental disorders or psychopathologies that affect reading.

Geostrategic issues and problems related to peace, security and defence policies are becoming even more relevant (and even urgent) today, given the new challenges and risks in these fields. For this reason, it can be said that this is one of the areas of greatest interest in terms of transferring the results of research activity in the social sciences. Universities and research centres cannot ignore this effort, both from the point of view of specialised postgraduate teaching (specialisation courses, Master's Degrees, PhDs) and research activity.

The Institute of Human Rights of the Universitat de València has set up the interdisciplinary team "Geostrategy for Peace, Security and Defence (GPS+D)", directed by Professor Consuelo Ramón Chornet and made up of professors of International Law, Political Science and International Relations. The aim of this group is to set up scientific, teaching and research activities aimed at developing knowledge in the field of geostrategy, security and the culture of defence and peace, based on the basic principle that lies at the origin of the Institute itself, namely, the development of the culture of human rights.

Likewise, the Group aims to contribute to the dissemination, diffusion and transfer of the results of its work, and contemplates the basic objective of specialised training typical of university institutes.

Naturally, the GPS+D maintains (and will try to develop) relations of exchange and collaboration with other groups and centres of higher research, both Spanish and foreign, and also with centres of similar characteristics in the Armed Forces and international organisations.

The research group Linguistic Variation in Catalan is interested in Catalan morphology, syntax and semantics, with a diachronic and synchronic vision. In particular, the group’s studies aim to describe the variation of the Catalan language and to explain the processes of linguistic change of languages, especially in the Romance context, using the methodology of corpus linguistics. Researchers are interested in processes of grammaticalisation, lexicalisation, analogy and reanalysis, semantic change, subjectivation, etc. They apply several theoretical approaches, especially cognitive-based ones, i.e. Cognitive Grammar, Conceptual Integration Theory, Prototype Theory, Construct Grammar, Natural Morphology, etc.

From Psychology, and with emphasis on methodology, the main themes or fields of application are:

• ageing and quality of life;
• comprehensive palliative care and humanisation of care;
• innovation and educational quality (commitment, entrepreneurship, employability in graduates with functional diversity, occupational health in education professionals...)
• and systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

The technological offer of the group is based on the development, analysis and technical report of predictive and/or explanatory models based on surveys and opinion studies on issues affecting quality of life. Design and study of the efficacy of interventions in quality of life. Cross-cultural validation, adaptation of measures and creation of surveys and new protocols in the field where there is a lack of the necessary tools. Unique characteristics of this group are its interest in training future researchers in the fields of our research, its commitment to transfer to society and internationalisation. With regard to training, in recent years, numerous PhD theses have been supervised, several of which have been awarded the Extraordinary Doctorate Award.

Most of the researchers in the group are competent in coordinating or directing interdisciplinary doctoral programmes (Promotion of Autonomy and Social and Health Care for Dependency) and the Master's Degree in Social and Health Care for Dependency. At the same time, we have experience in teaching in numerous fields focused on cooperation, health promotion and in general the improvement of the living conditions of citizens, such as the Master's Degree in Comprehensive Palliative Care for People with Advanced Diseases (UAB, Barcelona), the Master's Degree in Psychological Rehabilitation in Community Mental Health (UJI, Castellón), Master's Degree in Health Psychology, Master's Degree in Educational and Developmental Psychology in Multicultural Contexts (UV Master in Peru and the Dominican Republic in the context of cooperation), and the Expert Programme in Health Interventions (EVES). Several members of the team have received awards for their quality career (Valencian government and UV Social Council Award, 2015), Award for the transfer to the quality of life of citizens (award from the Valencian Federation of Neighbourhood Associations), national awards for our contributions in the field of vulnerable groups (Prevent Foundation Award, 2012; Asindown Foundation Award in 2017) and also recognition for innovation in care at local level (2nd prize for innovative ideas INCLIVA 2019).

Transfer to society is a strong idea in our research initiatives. In addition to the more orthodox conduits of publication in scientific journals and forums, it is disseminated in audiovisual formats (training videos for elderly care: “Tú que cuidas, cuídate (Unión de Mutuas)” and “Buenos Recuerdos sobre Deterioro Cognitivo Leve”) and apps (under the direction of the director of GESS-in Prof. Navarro-Pérez and in collaboration with IRTIC, the Liad@s app and later the DAP360º programme), but also establishing synergies with the administration, with professional associations and colleges and with neighbourhood movements, participating in working groups and various initiatives.
The international projection is deeply rooted, since the different lines maintain ongoing collaborations over time with prestigious centres with renowned academics such as: Kenneth A. Bollen (UNC Chapel Hill), Alistair Cheyne (Loughborough University UK and later at ESSCA School of Management, Bordeaux, France), Barry Schneider (University of Ottawa and later Boston College) or Julian Montoro (UNCC at Charlotte), Shane Sinclair (U. of Calgary), Gustavo de Simone (Pallium Latinoamérica, Buenos Aires), Michael Silberman (Middle East Cancer Consortium, Israel), Tomás Caycho (Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Perú), Undergraduate and graduate school at ESAN University, Lima, Perú.

Although in the same way we could provide knowledge on the promotion of quality of life in the framework of palliative care, education, humanisation of care... We choose as an example of the clear emphasis in the methodology, of what our group can contribute in the research on the promotion of quality of life, the subject of ageing. This topic is at the intersection of biological, social and psychological processes, and since it is a biopsychosocial model, theories or models about it emerge from all these areas.

The ageing process, in addition to the physical-medical aspect, in psychosocial terms speaks of the relationship between individuals, their development in society and the interpretation of the events that happen to them according to the cultural framework. Starting from classical sociological theories, it has led to more psychological models that have described the strategies and ways people use to manage the difficulties associated with ageing in order to achieve well-being (Rowe & Kahn, 1997; Kahana & Kahana, 1996; Baltes & Baltes, 1990; Brunstein, 1993; Diener, Suh, Lucas & Smith, 1999; Rapkin & Fisher, 1992), among others, as well as “harmonic” models or models based on Eastern perspectives.

Our work as a group is, to a large extent, to use the most advanced methodology so that the data from our groups of interest respond rigorously to the questions we pose from the knowledge of all these theoretical approaches and models.

The research group "Applied Ethics and Democracy" has been working together since 1991 in three areas: Foundations of Ethics, Political Philosophy and Applied Ethics. It arose from a core group of professors from the Academic Area of Moral and Political Philosophy, originally Adela Cortina, Jesús Conill, Domingo García-Marzá and Agustín Domingo, and has grown to the present day. 

At present, the group is made up of 1 member, who belong to 4 different public universities: the Universitat de Valencia, the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and the Universidad de Murcia. 

At the institutional level, also the Étnor Foundation ("for the ethics of business and organisations") is one of the entities that supports the research and is interested in the transfer of knowledge and innovation of the group. 

Since 2003 the group has been recognised as a "Group of Excellence" by the Conselleria d'Educació i Ciència of the Valencian government. Initially, through the granting of aid to R+D+I Groups, reference Groups03/179. And, currently, through the PROMETEO Programme of Research Groups of Excellence. 

The group develops its research activity through joint research projects. So far, it has developed 9 national competitive research projects, 1 European project, and three projects funded by private institutions. With the aim of training new researchers, the core of the group runs a Doctoral Programme on "Ethics and Democracy", which began in 1986 and was recognised as a Doctorate with Mention of Quality and with Mention of Excellence, a recognition which it continues to receive today. Graduates of this doctorate achieve the highest scores in the evaluation of their research activity. It also offers a Master's degree in "Ethics and Democracy", with a research and academic profile, which enables those who enrol in it to train for research tasks in this area. The group disseminates the results of its research in the following ways: 

1. Publications, both books, published by prestigious publishers, and articles, published in quality journals. 
2. Organisation of congresses, some of which are held every two years, and also courses at other universities. 

It has established agreements and collaborations with a large number of institutions. It has established agreements and collaborations with a large number of institutions, such as the following: 

• ÉTNOR Foundation for Business and Organisational Ethics.
• Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
• Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics (Oxford).
• Neuroethics Programme CIF of Argentina.
• Research Group "Evolution and Human Cognition" of the University of the Balearic Islands.
• Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) (Germany).
• Hans Jonas Zentrum / Freie Universität Berlin, Capability & Sustainability Centre (University of Cambridge).
• School of Public Policy. Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy. University of Maryland (USA).
• Official College of Psychologists of Catalonia.
• Department of Philosophy and the Grup d'Estudis Humanístics de Ciència i Tecnologia of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
• Institute of Philosophy (University of Bayreuth).
• Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.
• And the universities of La República (Uruguay), do Porto, de Chile, Nacional Autónoma de México, di Bologna, Sidney, Salamanca, Complutense de Madrid, Munich, de Westminter, Universität Manheim, de California (Irvine), Aahrus (Denmark), etc.

It also receives researchers from other universities, mainly from abroad, who wish to carry out a postdoctoral research stay with members of the group.

There is a clear concern about the use of alcohol and/or cannabis among young people and adolescents, as they give less importance to the health risks involved in the consumption of these substances. Thus, cannabis use, together with alcohol use, forms part of the habits and lifestyles of a significant proportion of young Spanish adolescents. The pattern of intensive alcohol consumption (also known as "binge drinking"), alone or together with cannabis, initiated at an early age, generates a range of undesirable effects on cognition and stress response in this at-risk population such as adolescents and on a brain that is still developing. A better understanding of the neurotoxic effects associated with heavy alcohol consumption in an at-risk population such as young people and adolescents can promote greater social awareness, involving society as a whole as an active participant. This greater social awareness will make it possible to delay the age of onset and reduce the consumption of alcohol and/or cannabis, and will help to establish better intervention strategies (pharmacological, social or educational) necessary for the prevention and treatment of the deterioration observed, contributing to the achievement of more specific and effective action programmes.

The research group on the social cohesion and local dynamics is part of the social cohesion field of the Inter-university Institute for Local Development in the Universitat de València. The research on the community-based social work is still a recent new field at the Spanish university.

The SOCIAL-COM group aims to contribute to the knowledge and a research visibility of local dynamics that occur in Communities due to inequality, discrimination and social conflict, all of which hinder social cohesion. Generally, in all areas of local communities, but more deeply in social welfare services, human development is seen as a tool that reduces social inequalities and promotes social justice. The SOCIAL-COM Group of the Universitat de València is designed to increase knowledge of the social problems of the immediate environment, directing its action towards the local level to contribute to the development of social structures and the well-being of citizens, whose participation is a strategic element.

Ultimately, objectives of the SOCIAL-COM research group are aimed to participate in creation and development of new concepts, tools and evaluations in the area of municipal services, so that excellent and sustainable territories can be promoted effectively from perspectives of social spending and social welfare.

Corpus linguistics (CL), with its decidedly empirical approach to language research, has greatly enriched previous paradigms to the point of becoming an obligatory methodological reference in the current landscape of linguistic studies. 

We are interested in highlighting two strands, one dealing with developments in corpus linguistics and the other focusing on its applications. Like other empirical research within linguistics, LC research straddles the humanities and the social sciences, on the basis of computational linguistics. From the humanities it takes its primary interest in the study of language in its multiple aspects, from the social sciences it has taken a large part of its methodology based on quantification (mathematics, statistics, etc.), and from computer science, the development of increasingly sophisticated analytical tools. In this respect, the methodologies used in LC, far from being static, continue to evolve and incorporate important developments, whether through the creation of increasingly sophisticated software packages in ad hoc corpus research, the creation of specific portals, or the creation of tools focused on a variety of research tasks.

Research on LC developments is related to qualitative analysis methods, to textual annotation and to the use of quantitative analysis. In addition, some recent computer science developments, such as so-called sentiment analysis or opinion mining, have turned their interest to the analysis of large amounts of data on the web (big data).

In terms of applications, corpus linguistics has no limits, its great strength being the investigation of large databases that the analyst cannot manipulate effectively through manual analysis. LC is now being applied to any area of linguistic research, be it digital genres of any kind or non-digital genres. In the case of non-digital genres, the solution necessarily involves digitisation, since LC necessarily operates on digitised texts. However, although LC is the fundamental methodology for many researchers, it does not dispense with qualitative or manual analysis, and in its scientific production it is articulated in synergies with other approaches. It is very difficult today to conceive of a dictionary or a grammar without corpus research. But beyond lexicography and phraseology, which have grown hand in hand with the corpus, we find applications in all types of linguistic analysis, whether pragmatic or discursive, including, more recently, stylistic analysis. Not forgetting applications to the acquisition and teaching of second languages, or research into specialised languages. Nor should we forget the invaluable contribution of LC to translatology, given that the corpus is a fundamental tool for translators. There are real networks of researchers working on specific aspects. 

However, returning to the starting point, we are interested in focusing our research on those aspects that evaluate the strength of proposals based on techniques developed within corpus linguistics in research on different fronts.

The group's research revolves around the study of the Middle Ages, both from a strictly historical perspective and from the perspective of written culture, art history and didactics, which are the different areas of knowledge to which the member researchers belong. The aim of this diverse research activity, which is at the same time united by its focus on the final centuries of the Middle Ages, is to try to understand and make explicit the complexity of European societies that were much more dynamic and changing than is usually considered. The analysis is based on a concentric vision that reaches from the ancient Kingdom of Valencia to the Crown of Aragon, and from there to the western Mediterranean as a whole. Starting, therefore, from the local reality, the aim is a comparative approach that makes it possible to identify the common trends and explain the particularities and their whys and wherefores.

Given the wealth of sources of all kinds that the panorama of medieval studies in the Valencian Country presents, and the tradition of research that has been typical of this University for some decades, research on this period is currently enjoying a great boost, recognised both at national and international level. The medieval kingdom of Valencia can thus constitute one of the privileged laboratories for the understanding of a fundamental period of the European past, only comparable, due to the possibilities of its archives, with Catalonia or some regions of Italy. This abundant and rich raw material allows us to tackle a wide range of subjects and raise a wide range of questions as part of a major research project.

Given the size of the group, and the presence in it of specialists from different areas of knowledge, the aim is also to consolidate multidisciplinary studies that include political, economic and social history, the history of culture, the history of mentalities, the history of art, archaeology and the study of territory, among others. This research activity takes the form of five lines of research, supported by five funded projects:

• The study of the fundamental change that took place with the Christian conquest of the former Sharq al-Andalus and the implementation of the feudal system, with the consequent demographic, economic, social and spatial transformations...
• The configuration of a macrocephalic kingdom, a kingdom conceived for its capital, Valencia, which articulated around it the economic, but also the social, political and cultural realities of its territory, with a peculiar version of rural-urban relations in the Middle Ages.
• This arrangement corresponds to a society in which its elites were basically concentrated in the capital, and formed an urban patriciate that tried to monopolise power and at the same time present itself as the spokesman for the interests of the kingdom. The formation of this ruling class is therefore also fundamental to the explanation of the historical development of the country.
• Within this elite, the group of converts from Judaism stands out. Their integration into the majority society and into the machinery of power, and the imposition of the inquisitorial court as a filter for this process, is another line of research to be followed.
• This society, basically urban in its behaviour, gave rise to an abundant and refined literary production, and used writing as a means of expression and communication. The edition of medieval Valencian texts and their contextualisation therefore allows us to penetrate a little further into a whole culture and the spirit of an era.
• Finally, the analysis of local society cannot be exhausted in itself, but can be better understood by looking in the mirror at other contemporary realities, especially those close to us, such as the Italian one. 

The strong development of digital genres or cyber-genres and so-called computer-mediated communication is an undeniable recent development. Their development at all levels, through the inclusion of texts and/or multimedia elements, has been shaping, transforming and enriching discourse. Here we must understand both the mechanisms of textual production and those of reception, given that the user, receiver or reader, who played a more passive role in traditional genres, participates actively in cyber-genres, becoming an agent, a discursive modeller in a medium, the Internet, which undergoes constant changes. In short, digital genres and media, both collective (blogs, websites, forums, social networks) and individual (narrative blogs, e-mails), have opened up a universe of possibilities and characteristics thanks to the incorporation of electronic media. We are thus witnessing the genesis of new genres with discursive proposals that need to be known and described in detail in order to understand their impact on speech communities and their implications in sociolinguistic fields. Our research group aims to analyse the multiplicity of linguistic aspects, pragmatic and discursive strategies, phraseology, vocabulary, multimodal features, etc., in five languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian and German. To this end, we have created databases containing samples of original versions and translations of cyber-genres where we can examine the construction of these texts and their behaviour from the point of view of contrast and interaction. We hope that this will allow us to carry out more precise and detailed research. Thanks to these databases, we hope to be able to use the various analyses to better characterise digital genres, their discourses, lexicon or phraseology, socio-pragmatic, cognitive or semiotic (multimodal) aspects. 

We are also interested in the interactive role of the recipients of all this vast digital production, since we know that the audience plays a decisive active role, for example, through the opinions expressed on social networks, or in various discussion forums, influencing more clearly the effective transformation of content and messages. We prioritise the use of corpus tools as they enrich linguistic description, and outperform simple manual, intuition-based analysis, particularly when aiming to empirically analyse large data samples. The introduction of corpus tools methodologically links quantitative and qualitative analysis. The implementation of these databases and the commitment to appropriate corpus-based methodologies provide systematicity and solidity to our research, not only based on the theoretical, but mainly on a strong empirical component to observe actual usage, in the hope that all this can serve as a model for further work.

Our research group intends to analyse the multiplicity of linguistic aspects, discursive strategies, phraseology, vocabulary, multimodal features, etc., in five languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian and German, and gradually incorporating Arabic. To this end, large databases will be created containing samples of original versions and translations of cyber-genres where we can examine the construction of these texts and their behaviour from the point of view of contrast and interaction. Progressively, these databases will incorporate annotations that take into account sociolinguistic or geolectal elements, and morphological, semantic and discursive tagging will be introduced. We hope that this will allow us to carry out more precise and detailed research.

Thanks to these databases, we hope to be able to more accurately characterise digital genres, their discourse, lexicon or phraseology, socio-pragmatic aspects, or semiotic (multimodal) aspects in the various analyses. Nor do we lose sight of their differentiating characteristics with respect to traditional genres which are precursors, but with which they coexist today. We are also interested in the interactive role of the recipients of all this vast digital production, given that we know that the audience plays a decisive active role, for example, through the opinions expressed on social networks, or in various discussion forums, influencing more clearly the effective transformation of content and messages.

We prioritise the use of corpus tools as they enrich linguistic description, and outperform simple manual, intuition-based analysis, particularly when aiming to empirically analyse large data samples. The introduction of corpus tools methodologically links quantitative and qualitative analysis.

In short, it is a matter of compiling and updating linguistic databases containing highly representative data on the so-called cyber-genres. The implementation of these large databases and the commitment to appropriate corpus-based methodologies provide systematicity and solidity to our research, not only based on theory, but mainly on a strong empirical component to observe real usage, in the hope that all this can serve as a model for further work on networked genres.

Study and philological edition of letters and other documents from the 16th century. Although the group has initially focused on the study and editing of the vast documentation that makes up the epistolary collection of Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, secretary of state to Charles V and Philip II, the team's interests include other correspondence from the period, such as private letters from women, family groups such as the Tassis, and letters relating to politics, administration and diplomacy in all the languages of the Empire. The texts are philologically edited and studied from different perspectives, both synchronic and diachronic, from aspects such as the history of language or coded languages, rhetoric and the cultural and anthropological, religious or secular elements of the 16th century.

Educational research methodology and implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to education.

Since 2006, the EDIFICA group (Evaluation and dissemination of science, promotion of knowledge of research methodologies and academic communication) has been developing different lines of research, including the performance of scientometric and bibliometric studies for the evaluation of research, as well as the development of materials based on e-learning, with the aim of providing a reference framework to enhance knowledge of research methodologies and written and oral communication skills in the academic environment.

The EDIFICA group has developed an outstanding activity in relation to these lines of research, with the publication of numerous works that analyse the production, collaboration or impact of research activity at analytical levels (authors, institutions, disciplines or countries). Likewise, since 2012, different projects have been launched to deepen the knowledge of the phenomenon of scientific collaboration in order to better understand this phenomenon and provide relevant information to both institutions and researchers in order to enhance and manage cooperative practices; and in relation to the development of materials based on e-learning, in order to provide a complementary reference framework to the tutoring process for the development of the final degree project as well as in the development and collection of resources to enhance the skills of written and oral communication in the academic environment.

Likewise, the EDIFICA group has been characterised over the last few years by an outstanding activity of dissemination of Valencian cultural heritage, participating in exhibitions, conferences and through different informative publications, particularly of its native sport par excellence, Valencian pilota. The development of control indicators to identify unethical practices in research activities is the group's most innovative line of work.

Within the latest theoretical contributions of social and political history, this project aims to study in depth both democracy and the construction and evolution of modern Spanish political cultures, insisting on the complex relationship between the main political cultures of republicanism, anarchism, socialism and democracy. It will focus on three historical moments:

1. The crisis of the parliamentary monarchy, 1900-1930; 
2. Second Spanish Republic, Spanish Civil War and Early Francoism, 1931-1959; 
3. Second Francoism, Transition and democratic consolidation, 1959-1986. 

The historical analysis will be carried out from within the three political cultures mentioned, in relation to Spanish nationalism and gender identities and from the comparative perspective with southern Europe and the United States. With this diversity of approaches and perspectives in three key historical moments, the mutual achievements and influences of this fruitful, but conflictive and difficult relationship at many moments in the 20th century will be seen. The project will focus primarily on three key historical moments:

1. The first third of the twentieth century was interesting for observing the response of the different political cultures to the limits and possibilities of universal male suffrage and to the transition from elite politics to mass politics. This was also the time of the first wave of democratisation in much of Europe, so that the different political cultures found themselves at a crucial political moment, as the masses not only assumed the leading role in political life, but also, increasingly in more and more places, control of the levers of power.
2. Spanish Second Republic, Spanish Civil War and early Francoism, in which attention will be paid mainly to the possibilities and influences of the first Spanish democratic experience, as well as to the attraction of revolution and reaction in a large part of the political spectrum, due to the growing influence of the anti-liberal and anti-democratic movements in the context of the inter-war period. To this is added the gender and national identity aspects of political cultures as a whole, and the analysis of the experience of the hardest years of Francoism (1939-1959) in the consideration of democracy as the central objective of the political cultures of the Spanish left (defeated in the civil war). Thus, the analysis of anti-fascism during the interwar period, as a mobilising mortar against the expansion of the enemies of liberalism and democracy and its main achievements (individual rights and freedoms, social reforms and gender equality), as well as the consequences of its triumph after the Spanish Civil War, especially in the form of repression from different perspectives, will be central elements of this group's research.
3. Late Francoism and the Democratic Transition, periods in which all points of the political spectrum converged towards a Western European-style democracy, in such a way that both the clandestine revolutionary groups of the last years of Francoism, the main traditions of the Spanish left and the more moderate positions of the liberal and Christian Democrat right evolved until they contributed decisively to making Spain a consolidated democracy integrated into the European context.

The analysis will be carried out from different perspectives:

1. From an internal analysis of left-wing political cultures, through which to observe their positioning in relation to the aforementioned processes (democracy, democratisation, transitional processes, gender and national identities).
2. From a comparative and even transnational perspective that leads to highlighting the aspects and processes in which the political cultures of the Spanish left participated in connection with those of other geographies, mainly France, Italy and Portugal, due to their thematic and geographical proximity to Spain; as well as with the United States, for acting as a radiator of democratising ideals and formulas since the beginning of the first third of the 20th century due to its position as a hegemonic country in the international order.

The research activity of the Innovation and Local Development R&D Group (INNODES) belonging to the Inter-University Institute of Local Development (IIDL) of the Universitat de València and Universitat Jaume I, focuses on aspects related to economic geography, spatial planning and regional development, in particular on the analysis of urban and metropolitan systems, innovation processes, planning of public services, geography of well-being, social innovation, tourism and its territorial impact, sustainability and processes of resilience and local development; as well as in the analysis of social dynamics, population movements and development cooperation in diverse territories.

The research group "Kant-València" is made up of researchers from the Philosophy department of the University of Valencia and other European Universities. Its members are specialists in the history of modern and contemporary philosophy. They are interested in different aspects of philosophy - theory of knowledge, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, theory of science - as well as in other disciplines, such as quantum physics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

They have growing synergies with researchers from Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy and other countries of the European Union and America. The germ of the group can be found in the permanent seminar "Kant and current problems of philosophy", whose trajectory began on April 8, 2013 at the Complutense University of Madrid. Within the seminar, seven Kantian Studies workshops took place between 2013 and 2018 and two collective volumes were published: Kant and the Sciences (Biblioteca Nueva / Universidad Complutense, Madrid 2011) and Contemporary Perspectives on Kantian Philosophy (in Proceedings of the 1st REF Congress, University of Valencia 2015). As a result of the creation of the Revista de Estudios Kantianos, international journal of the SEKLE, Society for Kantian Studies in the Spanish Language (University of Valencia, 2016), and of the celebration of the 4th International Congress of the SEKLE in October 2018, the optimal circumstances arose to bring the various synergies together. Pedro Jesús Teruel - coordinator of the seminar, editor of the collective volumes, founding director of the REK and organizer of the congress - took then the steps to collect this trajectory in an institutional research cell.

The so constituted research group is incardinated at the University of Valencia in 2020. It seeks to approach the current problems of philosophy in the light of Kant's thought, from both theoretical and practical perspective. Dialogue with sciences occupies a special place in it. It connects with the Kantian heritage in three ways: on the one hand, thanks to its role in the genesis and development of Kantian philosophy; secondly, because of its influence on the reflection about transcendental subjectivity, with the debate on freedom occupying a special place in it; finally, for his contribution when it comes to unravel the question about the human being, by Kant conceived as nuclear. Special attention is paid to the natural sciences and to physics, biology, and neuroscience, considering their ethical, social, and political projections

The research activity of this group focuses on two relevant fields of Linguistics: Lexicography and Contrastive Linguistics. The former, in its bilingual or multilingual aspect, has a very close relationship with the latter. For its part, language contrast is of great interest to linguistics in general and to lexicography in particular. 

Lexicography has been defined in two main ways: as the activity of writing dictionaries or as a discipline that studies, from a theoretical point of view, dictionaries and dictates guidelines for their better implementation. Although the two have often functioned separately, lexicographic practice should not be contemplated today without a sound knowledge of the principles of Lexicography (and of other disciplines, such as Linguistics and Computer Science, for example). Our group aims to contribute to a better knowledge of existing dictionaries by studying and critiquing them, whatever their type, although we focus mainly on general monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, both general and specialised, with the aim of contributing to the writing of increasingly better dictionaries that are better adapted to the needs of their users. 

Contrastive Linguistics brings two (as bilingual Contrastive Linguistics, the traditional and most common) or more languages face to face (Pluri- or Multilingual Contrastive Linguistics, also called, at the time, Interlinguistic? See for instance Mario Wandruszka 1971, English trans. 1980 or its epigones such as the translatological analyses of Valentín García Yebra 1982), with objectives that may be very different. It may only have a typological purpose, but it often has concrete applications in fields such as language teaching and translation, as well as in Lexicography, as we have already pointed out. There is no doubt that knowledge of a language is considerably deeper and more enriching when it is contrasted with one or more other languages, present or past, as this brings to the surface aspects of its functioning that independent study of the language might never have revealed. For this reason, we intend to continue studying languages by contrasting them with each other and with other languages in our geographical, cultural and historical environment.

The uncertainty arising from climate change and the pressure on natural resources leads to the proposal of procedures that help to establish new models for the management of civil society and the use of natural resources. Thus, sustainable development implies maximising the democratic participation of citizens and, therefore, a strong social awareness. The territory must open up areas of friendliness with its inhabitants.

The LOCSUS Group focuses on the analysis of the elements and variables involved in the sustainable development of territories and societies, the development of strategic planning methodologies, the study of the processes involved in the local approach to development, the monitoring and evaluation of public policies and the coordination and participation in local development processes.

LOCSUS is part of the Inter-University Institute for Local Development (IIDL) of the Universitat de València and the Universitat Jaume I, and is founded by Dr. Joan Noguera Tur and directed by Andrian Ferrandis Martinez.

Lines of research

• Sustainable development and urban planning: design of recommendations to achieve greater social cohesion, a higher quality urban environment and lasting economic development, all within the concept of local sustainability.
• Sustainable tourism: strategic tool for local economic development following the principles of sustainability.
• Social development in a historical perspective: saving the discourses of the past for a good democratic ascription in the present.

Fields of application: Management and promotion of local development; policies and strategies of interest to public administrations, associations and federations.

Technical advice and consultancy on:

• Analysis of the impacts derived from the implementation and start-up of new ideas and initiatives in local environments.
• Feasibility projects for the implementation of new industrial policies, preparation of regional development plans. Analysis and evaluation of resources, whether natural or heritage, and their incorporation into a territorial development strategy.
• Urban and territorial planning: analysis, diagnosis and solution of urban and territorial issues. Analysis of the competitive positioning of municipalities or companies in a given territorial system to serve as a basis for the design of future strategies.

LOCSUS carries out various analyses, the ultimate aim of which is the design of a more sustainable territorial development model that encompasses various objectives to be analysed (tourism, trade, urban and industrial planning, competitiveness, social coexistence, or the territory in general). The group has competitive projects and contracts with various public and private entities, through which it develops research and knowledge transfer aimed at both the revaluation of natural, cultural, educational or industrial resources of the territory, as well as the evaluation of the impacts derived from the implementation of new initiatives at a local level.

Single-person group dedicated to research in two fields, in works that often intersect both: studies in medieval Catalan literature from the perspective of the history of culture; and studies in methodologies and tools of digital humanities at the service particularly of Catalan Philology: digital novelties to facilitate research tasks; and monitoring of the world of digital book publishing and in particular of literary works and studies.

The InMIDE research group is made up of professors, researchers and professionals from different disciplines and institutions who analyse the links between migratory flows and development processes, from their social, economic, cultural and political dimensions. 
The main objective of the group's research is to reveal the impact of migration on the development of the countries of origin of migration. The research is carried out in the fields of co-development, development cooperation and transnationalism led by migrants themselves, as well as the role played by other institutional actors (public bodies) and civil society (NGOs and migrants' associations). The research is aimed at both the analysis of public policies and practices in these areas.

For years we have been working and publishing on the biological basis of personality, especially the brain and genetic mechanisms that underlie human behaviour. In this process we have proposed a theory on the General Personality Factor, and we have created an instrument to assess it. We have also proposed and investigated psychological intervention techniques (based on classical conditioning and suggestion) to modify personality and emotional states. At the same time, we have created complex mathematical models to study the dynamics of personality in the face of external stimuli, especially drugs. In this sense, we have mathematically modelled brain reactions to different drugs as a function of individual differences, while at the same time we have created a dynamic model that explains drug addictions.

The Research Group Personality, cognitive-emotional aspects and health has been working for three decades on the relevance and therapeutic usefulness of different psychosocial variables (personality dimensions, beliefs and attitudes, expectations of control, coping styles and strategies, social support, etc.), in general, in the psychological well-being of the person and, in particular, in special situations such as adaptation to chronic illness (prevalence of distress, quality of life, post-traumatic growth, etc.). From this perspective, and with a special emphasis on cancer, different moments or areas are considered in which it is necessary to address the disease and which include, in addition to diagnosis and treatment, other phases such as disease prevention and survival. The group's extensive experience in research and commitment to the field of psycho-oncology has crystallised in recent years in a structured training project for those psychology professionals interested in working in the care of cancer patients and their families through the implementation of the "Master's Degree in Psycho-oncology", UVEG's own degree. 

Recently, we have incorporated a new line of research on emotional self-efficacy, from which we aim to deepen our understanding of adequate emotional management, as a key element of what constitutes optimal or healthy functioning of the person. Transversal to the aforementioned lines of research, the team also dedicates its efforts to the adaptation of evaluation instruments to our context as another way of contributing to the rigorous development of both research and healthcare tasks.

Sexual health research has a long history. In its beginnings in 1995, the focus of interest centred on the study of the factors facilitating and maintaining risk behaviours for HIV infection, given that at that time AIDS prevention was a major objective in Western society. Thanks to funding from various public agencies, we were able to isolate and analyse separately the various factors responsible for the spread of the pandemic. The results of our research, which were collected in several doctoral theses, were disseminated at conferences, in articles of national and international relevance and in books compiling the results.

From then on, the focus was extended to the promotion of sexual health beyond AIDS prevention, including different groups and new objectives such as health promotion in male sex workers, prevention of sexual abuse in adults with intellectual disabilities, affective-sexual education in adolescents and young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder or the identification of myths that hinder the healthy sexual development of both adolescents and older people. This broadening of the spectrum of themes and groups led us to modify the acronym with which we became known from the beginning, which was mainly focused on AIDS prevention (UNISEXSIDA), to another that, while maintaining the spirit of the previous acronym, would include a broader dimension of health promotion (SALUSEX-UNISEXSIDA).

In addressing the objectives associated with these areas, we have been forced to delve into aspects such as the search for sexual sensations, sexual compulsiveness, homophobia, the effects of involuntary exposure of children to pornography on the Internet, the influence of social networks on psychosexual development, generating phenomena such as sexting; and more recently, cybersex.

In the opposite direction to the specialisation required by the particular problems of the different objectives and groups, we have also been obliged to increase research into the basic aspects of not only sexual but also general development, especially in the child population, as sometimes certain behaviours and attitudes are only a manifestation of the peculiar development experienced, for example, by children who have spent an excessive and unfavourable amount of time in foster care. Emotional and affective development throughout the life cycle is therefore an essential line of study.

This broad line of work is the object of study of an inter-university team that brings together researchers from two universities, the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló and the Universitat de València, who have a track record of more than 15 years of collaborative work and high productivity that has generated numerous contributions to national and international conferences, book chapters, monographs, theses and above all publications in high impact journals in the area.

Labpsitec Valencia's research focuses mainly on the field of psychopathology, evaluation and treatment of psychological disorders, as well as on the promotion of well-being and quality of life in different populations. In the last 25 years, this group has focused on the possibilities that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can offer to Clinical and Health Psychology, and it is currently an international leader in the development and validation of ICT-based applications in this field. In this context, Labpsitec Valencia is a pioneer in the development of virtual reality (VR) applications for the treatment of emotional disorders and body image issues present in eating disorders.

Regarding the use of the Internet, Labpsitec Valencia has been working in the field of Telepsychology for 20 years, being a pioneer in integrating VR solutions in applications aimed at the treatment of various problems. The group's work within the European project "Online Predictive Tools for Intervention in Mental Illness" (OPTIMI), in which online systems for the prevention of depression are being developed, should be highlighted. This application is currently being tested within another European project (E-COMPARED). Similarly, new interventions for the promotion of resilience and the treatment of adaptive problems are being developed in another H2020-funded project (I-CARE).

Work has also been carried out on an application aimed at offering the elderly a technological solution to improve their emotional state (MAYODOMO). This solution is currently part of the European project EHCOBUTLER and forms part of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EPI- AHA). Another aspect to highlight are the developments that have been made in the field of obesity and healthy lifestyles, such as the ETIOBE platform, for the treatment of childhood obesity, or the ‘Vivir mejor’ programme, for people with hypertension and overweight problems.

The group is currently participating in the CIBER action in the area of Biomedicine and Health Sciences (www.ciberobn.es), leading one of the Ciber-OBN research groups. Labpsitec Valencia has participated in more than 50 research projects financed by regional, national and European funds. We have been the PI of the PROMOSAM Network of Excellence (PSI2014-56303-REDT) funded by the MINECO (Ministry of Economy), which has just concluded, and we are carrying out several projects funded by both the Valencian Community, the national R&D&I plan and the European Commission, as well as other projects funded by private entities. The results of all this research have been presented at national and international conferences, and have given rise to more than 200 articles published in journals with an impact index. Books and book chapters have also been published.

In general, and in summary, Labpsitec Valencia's main interest has always been in the field of Mental Health, trying to go deeply into the description and understanding of mental disorders, and in the development of effective treatments.

In the context of Social Psychology, a solid knowledge of the methodological aspects of research is becoming more necessary. Indeed, the analysis of social reality from the psychologist’s standpoint must be based on an understanding of concepts such as effect size, power or new techniques of statistical analysis. Likewise, the social psychologist must be guided in their research by firm foundations of design that guarantee the validity of the conclusions they reach.

On the other hand, the publication criteria of journals in the field of Social Psychology are increasingly stricter in this respect, and it is becoming more pressing and necessary for any type of social research to be clearly defined from the outset, as this ensures reliable results. Moreover, and given the heterogeneous nature of the causes of human behaviour, especially social behaviour, the members of the Unit are recognised specialists in different perspectives of analysis (from the handling of large samples, to the use of qualitative information, environmental studies, bio-physical analysis of behaviours, etc.) of people’s social behaviour. Thus, the objectives of this Research Unit are the analysis and study of the different research designs and techniques in order to establish clear and useful conclusions regarding their use in each of the different aspects of Social Psychology. 

We believe, therefore, that this is a field of research which, although in most cases theoretical, can be eminently useful and have a beneficial effect on the advances of studies in Social Psychology.

The Social Studies, Intervention and Innovation Group GESinn is made up of teaching and research staff with extensive and wide-ranging professional experience, currently linked to the academic world.

Its main object of analysis is in the areas of Community Social Services; Childhood, Adolescence and Youth; Women, violence and gender studies; International Cooperation; Co-development and Community Intervention in rural areas; Action in the Social and Health Sphere; Poverty, delinquency and exclusion, and Globalisation and Urban Studies, always considering the gender perspective as a cross-cutting issue in all actions.

It is attached to the Inter-University Institute of Local Development of the Universitat de València and Jaume I of Castellón. It was created with a transversal vocation and among its main values is the experience of researching and investing in social reality from a critical and constructive perspective. The coordination and IP of this Research Group is rotating, attending to the horizontality of its members in the collective commitment.

Analysis of gender inequalities in the socio-economic field, both in the area of public policies and in the relations between private subjects and within organisations, using the methodological tools of legal science, sociology, economics and social work.

Analysis through Experimental Economics, using laboratory experiments, theoretical models of Game Theory and Complex Systems of economic and social phenomena that are difficult to observe naturally. These include analysis of large-scale socio-economic networks and big social data, identifying patterns of human behaviour through modelling and simulation of the structure of society, both in the experimental laboratory and in natural field studies.

The concept of “language variation” is key for the study of the evolution of languages and of social, professional and educational communicative systems. Social, cultural, health, economic, technological and educational transformations are developed, conveyed and reflected through their linguistic and communicative manifestations. The aim of the group is to study the progress that current society is undergoing through the analysis of the essential linguistic variables that are involved and interact in human communication. These variables depend on the profiles of speakers (e.g. idiolectal, dialectal variation, according to gender, age, social status, level of education, etc.) and on the uses they make of language according to the interpersonal identities they adopt (i.e. register variation), the codes they use to communicate (i.e. variation of mode), the different textual platforms they use (i.e. variation of discursive genre) and the different persuasive strategies with which they convey their intention and image (i.e. stylistic variation). The analysis of these variables requires approaching the study of communication at different scales, from its macro and hyper discursive aspect (e.g. interrelation between the variables that interact in business or academic communication, or the complexity of multimodal communication of social media and digital platforms) and also of its micro discursive components (e.g. variation of phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic units). As highlighted by experts in language variation (Bayley, 2013; Chambers and Schilling, 2018), in order to address comprehensive and innovative studies in this field, it is necessary to keep up to date the methodology needed to define and classify the categories, criteria and parameters essential to understand and analyse these variables and their interrelation.

Some of these have been extensively studied (e.g. dialectal variation) and others are currently being studied (e.g. variation of discursive genre), but there are still many ambiguous and controversial aspects of other relevant variables, such as those involved in communicative register variation. This type of interpersonal and contextual variation covers the whole spectrum of human interaction, from that which takes place in the most sophisticated and conventional contexts to that which takes place in the most intimate and familiar settings. There are different degrees of dependence and interrelation between various registers in the same communicative act, which has posed a difficult challenge for experts, particularly when it comes to accessing real data and compiling large and representative corpora. Moreover, throughout history, its study has been approached from many different perspectives, including heterogeneous, ambiguous and confusing variables that have generated controversy within this field of research. This theoretical heterogeneity and methodological complexity have hindered the development of in-depth and wide-ranging studies on this language variety, which could effectively transfer their results to society and the labour market, offering practical methods and tools for understanding, learning and mastering it. There are other variables in a similar situation (e.g. idiolectal variation, stylistic variation, genolects, chronolects, etc.). 

With the aim of contributing to the advancement of this field, the main objectives of the SILVAGroup are the following:

1. To delve into the fundamental categories, criteria and parameters for the study and analysis of language variation, and the factors involved in its current behaviour in the English language and other majority languages, such as Spanish and German.
2. To investigate language variation from a comprehensive pragmatic approach, highlighting its interpersonal and multimodal dimensions in its fluctuation throughout everyday communication from public to private settings.
3. To work from emerging technologies, corpus linguistics and other multidisciplinary fields of human communication, contrasting advances and results between languages.
4. To design methodologies for the study of language variation, useful in the search and detection of distinctive features that shed light on definition and typology of its parameters of analysis, and also practical for learning and mastering them, especially at a social and professional level.
5. To participate in platforms and projects for the dissemination of research, especially in international conferences and impact publications, in order to encourage further study of RV and to publicise the results of the group’s activity.
6. To constitute a national and international support platform for research in this field and for its dissemination.

The group’s research activity will be structured from the IULMA, based at the Universitat de València, to which most of the members of the group belong, and is made up of a multidisciplinary team of both young and experienced researchers from the UV, UPV and UA.

All the members of the group share the essential research lines for the study of RV: language variation, corpus linguistics and contrastive linguistics. The group also has experts in other relevant research lines. This multidisciplinary nature provides this team with the advantage of approaching language variation from different but complementary areas of knowledge and research lines, allowing an innovative depth and perspective and results that can really bring a significant advance in the field.

The Research group to which this application refers is called “Sustainable development, global and regional governance, contemporary international and European order and values.” This is a subject on which the applicant Research group has been working for several years with the support of various regional, national and international research grants and projects.

In the current phase of development of the Research group’s activities, the focus is broadening from the perspective of environmental protection to the wider aspects of sustainable development, which includes three pillars: economic, social and environmental. This is an essential concern of contemporary international and European communities, whose constitutional foundations for the coming years have been set out in the document entitled “The Future We Want”, adopted at the Rio + 20 Summit on Environment and Development, held on June 2012 under the auspices of the United Nations. The main elements of the Research group’s activity, as its name suggests, are four.

Firstly, contents related to the paradigm on sustainable development in its international and European dimension, including, among other issues: the legal nature of the concept of sustainable development, the content of the notion of sustainable development in its economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects, the basic characteristics of the criterion of sustainability, issues linked to disparities in the development of peoples, the concept of common but differentiated responsibilities, the notions of developed countries, developing countries and emerging countries, as well as intergenerational justice.

Secondly, it will examine all the issues linked to global governance in the field of sustainable development, paying particular attention to the evolution of the international institutional framework, both at global level (institutions of the United Nations Organisation system) and at a regional level (Latin America, Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Arctic), proposals and implementations in the economic, social and enviromental fields in order to achieve sustainable development. In this context, particular attention will be paid to developments within the European Union and the Council of Europe.

Thirdly, as the Research group is mainly composed of internationalists specialised in Law and International Relations, particular attention will be paid, among other issues, to the impact of the concept of sustainable development in the various sectors of International Law (International economic law, International human rights law, International environmental law, International labour law), conceptual and normative developments at international and European level,  with particular attention to new legal instruments that have been recently adopted and those that will be adopted in the coming years. The results of the research will be issued in scientific publications, whether articles in national or international indexed journals, or monographs published by publishers of excellence.

Fourthly and finally, we will analyse the values that both the international community and the European Union consider necessary to govern their relations and therefore worthy of legal protection, both at international, European and national levels.

Continuing the tradition of the Research group, our activities will also include: participation in various research activities at transnational level, organisation of and participation in scientific conferences at international, European and national level, participation in the Meetings of the Parties on the International Conventions for the protection of the environment, contribution to the development of legal instruments in the status of international experts, membership in various bodies linked to the effective implementation of international and European standards in the field, etc.

Public management is a fact of life in tourism. There is no longer any doubt about the decisive role of the Administration (at whatever level it is divided), to admit that its presence provides tourism with a stable framework, not exclusively conditioned to the evolution of the market. This should be so, fundamentally, because tourism activity requires the use of public goods and services for its development, which, in most cases, were either not created for this purpose or do not exist. From a micro vision, the tourism products created for this consumption are made up, among their basic components, of public goods which, in general, constitute the most valued elements in the choice of those who consume them. Equally decisive, although less visible, are other components (such as infrastructures, regulations, safety or health) which, from a macro vision, in many cases condition the success of tourism. These public goods and services, which, by the way, are not generally the responsibility of tourism, generate friction between administrations, and between administrations and the private and civil sphere, which translates into areas of conflict. Consequently, tourism no longer only creates economic benefits, but also other externalities that were discussed until very recently, but have now been taken on board.

Thus, in the public sphere, tourism management focuses its attention on how to mitigate the negative effects of the activity and how to make the most of the opportunities that can be glimpsed in territories with potential. All of this considering the diversity of actors involved and their interests, and not having to prioritise between the social, economic, cultural and environmental dimensions.

Aperturism, as a research group, was created with the general objective of analysing, deepening and reflecting on the public management of tourism, with a special focus on the local level.

The Bioethics Research Group of the Universitat de València (GIBUV) works in an interdisciplinary way on the new ethical challenges that arise in health care and life sciences. It is currently made up of 39 researchers from various disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, nursing, psychology, law, pedagogy, social work and chemistry, and is open to the participation of researchers from other fields.

Among the entities represented, in addition to the Universitat de València (with the participation of five different faculties), are a number of hospitals and health centres in the Valencia region and central services. 
GIBUV was officially born in January 2004, when Juan Carlos Siurana, then Ramón y Cajal researcher, registered at the Universitat de València the group he coordinated with research fellows interested in bioethics from the Doctoral Programme in Ethics and Democracy. The registration reference is UV-0283. Shortly afterwards, its website was created and contacts with other researchers were initiated. Since then, the group has grown to take on the broad and diverse form it has today. It has developed five research projects funded by competitive calls, among which we highlight the following: The new challenges for bioethics: fundamentals of bioethics, ethics of the environment and biotechnologies, ethics of health organisations and clinical ethics, reference GV04A309, funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Government); Reciprocal recognition as a basis for intercultural bioethics, reference: FFI2008-06133/FISO, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation; and Els efectes del bon humor en el grau d'autonomia dels pacients en la fase final de la vida (Valencian for Good mood effects on the degree of autonomy of patients in the final phase of life.) reference PCC-8/13, funded by the Generalitat Valenciana. 
It has also developed two other funded projects on ethical aspects of health care for immigrants and the elderly, and is carrying out its own project on the reciprocal recognition of capacities for the sustainability of health care. 
The projects involve foreign researchers. Its members have spent several stays in foreign centres in Europe, America and Asia. They have published their results in quality indexed journals and books in prestigious publishing houses. Since 2004 they have been holding the Permanent Bioethics Seminar of the University of Valencia, which has already held more than 50 conferences.

The group has co-organised the I and II International Congress on Bioethics, held in Valencia in 2010 and 2012, with great success in terms of participation and international impact, and which continues to be held every two years. 

The GIBUV currently coordinates the Ibero-American Network of Bioethics Research Groups - RIGIB, which has obtained recognition and funding from the Ibero-American University Association of Postgraduate Studies (AUIP). The participating entities are currently the following: Universitat de València, Spain (coordinator); Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Universida de Federal da Paraíba, Brazil; Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia; Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Serafín Ruiz de Zárate, de Villa Clara, Cuba; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, Nicaragua; Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru; Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal; Universidad de la República, Uruguay; Fundación Fernando Rincón Canaán, Universidad del Zulia-Escuela de Medicina, Venezuela. The Ibero-American network RIGIB is made up of 171 researchers. GIBUV receives foreign researchers for postdoctoral stays.

Introduction
The aim of the Val.Es.Co. research group is to describe and explain colloquial Spanish at its different levels of analysis on the basis of a basically oral corpus, obtained directly from spontaneous conversation and other types of discourse. The initial hypothesis of this research project, confirmed by the analyses carried out so far, was that the functioning of colloquial conversation could be explained, not as a transgression of orational grammar, but as a set of structures and strategies, pragmatically based, constituted in the process of interaction. In order to test this hypothesis, it was essential to have a representative corpus of conversations, transcribed by means of a system capable of representing the conversational events which were the object of our study. The elaboration of a representative corpus was considered as a preliminary to the analysis. Two compilation volumes of this corpus have already been published (Briz, coord., 1995 and Briz y grupo Val.Es.Co., 2002), versions 2.0 and 2.1 of the web, and version 3.0, developed in 2021. The work carried out over these years has led to the creation of the following lines of work:

Characterising the colloquial register

On the one hand, through the analysis and explanation of the linguistic aspects and communicative strategy that generally identify this register of speech (Briz, 1996 and 1998, Ruiz Gurillo 2006) and, on the other hand, with the more specific description of various linguistic phenomena, such as word order (Padilla, 2001), intonation (Hidalgo, 1997, 2002 and 2019; Cabedo 2006 and 2007), the relations between prosody and (dis)politeness (Hidalgo 2009:; Hidalgo (2013; Hidalgo and Cabedo 2014) story sequences (Baixauli, 2000, Briz 2016), phraseology (Ruiz Gurillo, 1997 and 1998), connection (Pons, 1998; Estellés 2006; Montañez 2015; Hidalgo 2015), intensification and attenuation (Briz, 1998, 2007 and 2017; Albelda, 2004 and 2007, Briz and Albelda 2013; Albelda et al. 2014; Estellés and Cabedo, 2017-2018), linguistic borrowing (Gómez Capuz, 1998), the presence of slang (Sanmartín, 1998b), everyday metaphors (Sanmartín, 2000), direct style (Benavent, 2016), suspended structures and other syntactic issues (Hidalgo and Pérez Giménez, 2004; Pérez Giménez, 2015; Briz, 2018), humour (Ruiz Gurillo 2012, 2019), irony (Ruiz Gurillo and Padilla Coord. 2009), segmentation of conversation into its units of analysis (Grupo Val.Es.Co. 2014, Pons Coord. 2014), substructural elements (Pascual 2020), experimental validation of research on markers (Salameh 2021), research on approximatives (Pardo 2021), etc.

From the present and towards the future

At the moment, the almost thirty people who, in one way or another, collaborate in our group, are organised around the following lines of work:

1. Val.Es.Co. Corpus 3.0
   Version 3.0 of the Val.Es.Co. corpus adds to, and to some extent recasts, the previous versions. A new editing website has been built, a bijective correspondence has been established between the old transcription signs and the TEI tags that identify them, a new search system has been designed and, in addition, a reduced subcorpus, consisting of fifteen conversations, has been segmented into units and subunits following the theory of units developed by our group. It is thus demonstrated that the residue-free segmentation of colloquial conversation on the basis of pragmatic principles is possible (an answer, deferred in time, to the question posed by Antonio Narbona at the end of the seventies about "the syntax of spoken Spanish").
2. Ameresco Corpus
   The objectives and working methods of our team have been extended to other research groups through the AMERESCO project, which has collected similar corpora of Spanish spoken in different cities of the Hispanic domain. It currently comprises more than 50 conversations from Spain (Valencia and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Mexico (Monterrey, Mexico City and Querétaro), Argentina (Buenos Aires and Tucumán), Cuba (Havana and Santiago), Colombia (Barranquilla and Medellín), Chile (Iquique, Santiago) and Panama. The samples are representative of sociolect socio-cultural level, age and gender.
3. The Dictionary of Discursive Particles of Spanish (DPDE)
   Markers and particles are described in this collective work, developed over more than fifteen years, in which the leading specialists in the field in the Hispanic domain have collaborated. Its new version, developed over the last two years, has added an editing website, converted the initial format into a database and added information on the position and discourse units in which all the dictionary's markers appear. In this way, a uniform description of the interrelationship between the positions and functions of all Spanish markers is provided in a new way.
4. Tecnolingüística, S.L.
   This company, which was born as a spin-off of the group's research activity, is today a private entity that makes the transfer of the knowledge generated within the group its hallmark. With clients such as the RAE, the Ministry of Justice, different Spanish and foreign universities and some of the most prestigious Spanish law firms, our company demonstrates that it is possible to develop an economically profitable activity by offering the results of the research produced in the university departments as commercial services. This work of transferring research aims to promote, by example, other business initiatives of former students and to make visible in society the need for expert advice on linguistic issues.
5. The Val.Es.Co. model of conversational units
   Since its first version in 2003, this model has been extended with new units, new positions and, above all, a large number of developments which demonstrate its explanatory capacity: studies on the correlation between the functions of discourse markers and the position/unit binomial, applications to its diachronic evolution, its cognitive basis, the combination of markers, the study of direct style or approximatives are some of its ramifications.
6. Studies on attenuation and evidentiality
   Much of the group's efforts have been devoted to the characterisation and development of the pragmatic category attenuation, as well as to the study of evidentiality in Spanish. The projects Es.Var.Atenuación and Es.Vag.Atenuación are a good example of this.
7. Studies on the diachrony of the 20th century
   The 20th century is the first synchronic slice for which spoken registers exist. Such registers constitute invaluable material for the diachronic study of spoken Spanish. This opens up a field of work, still in its infancy, which poses methodological challenges and theoretical considerations, most of which have yet to be explored. And, undoubtedly, this means adding a new perspective to the study of colloquial Spanish.

The research group is basically articulated around the three axes that appear in the name and which are, from our point of view, inseparable: language, literature - in a broad sense - and the culture that derives from these first two terms. On the other hand, we have a clear territorial objective, which is the Valencian geography, from the medieval centuries to the Renaissance, insofar as the whole period forms a continuum that is sometimes difficult to section, given the relationships established between works, authors, linguistic or aesthetic options, etc. 

For years, the members of the group have been dedicated to the edition and study of Valencian and Catalan texts in general, especially those written in the country's own language, but also some in Spanish or Latin. On the other hand, we have also prepared different editions of non-literary -documentary- texts, whenever they are of historical-cultural or linguistic interest. Furthermore, our interest in language has led us to study different aspects of Catalan, especially in Valencia: lexicon, toponymy or more general linguistic studies, which are normally based on unpublished documentation, which is often edited. In this sense, we can clearly point out that many of the texts published by the Universitat de València are linked to our work as professionals in this discipline. 

As far as the study of literature is concerned, we have made many contributions, both in specific cases referring to specific works, and also, on other occasions, by tracing the biography and ideology of the authors we are dealing with. One challenge we have not yet achieved is the elaboration of a manual on the history of literature in Valencia during the 16th-19th centuries, which, however, we have set as one of our long-term objectives, given that we still lack many specific studies to be able to produce this work which, in due course, will be a compulsory reference. 

As for historical and cultural studies, the same work on texts and authors leads us to the need to know the cultural contexts that have been generated in each period, so that many of our editions are also studies of the spheres in which the works studied appeared or circulated. 

Finally, there are many specific contributions from members of the group, based on specific aspects of works, authors, movements, linguistic or any other type of particularity, which we frequently carry forward. 

The group's research activity is based, therefore, on access to archival sources or historical libraries, with which we work with first-hand documentation, taking into account, however, the bibliography generated previously, whether it is old or more recent in all cases. In this sense, our research work is directly included in what we could call humanistic research, bearing in mind that new technologies have led us to be in contact with and use the resources that are sometimes found on the net. A symptom of this has been the recent creation - by many of the members of this group - of the journal "Scripta", which is hosted by the OJS of the Universitat de València and which, in the long run, is destined to become a showcase for part of our research activity and to host research along similar lines, thus stimulating the exchange and dissemination of knowledge. Even more so, if we consider the high degree of internationality of the work of many of the members of our group, who are in contact with universities in Europe and America.

The area of work of this group is demographic studies aimed at the Valencian population. This group investigates classic demographic phenomena such as birth rates, fertility, marriage and the formation and dissolution of unions, ageing, morbidity, reproduction and migrations with special interest in their evolution from the existence of the first modern demographic sources to the present day and including projections of future developments. These studies focus on the population located in the Valencian territory, looking to locate it in the territorial breakdowns that go from the census section, the smaller entities, the municipalities and the counties.

In addition, this group carries out research on life trajectories or life courses. The life course perspective is applied to study life processes such as, for example, emancipation, entry into adulthood, training and work episodes, maternity-paternity or retirement. The analysis of life course trajectories takes into account temporal dimensions such as age, generation and time, gender and social class, origin and language. The object of study is also specific populations whose socio-demographic characteristics and social importance in the structure and change of Valencian society require specific analyses. Specifically, populations in situations of social vulnerability from a multidimensional perspective.

The group combines the production of data on population through the design of demographic surveys, the cataloguing of existing secondary data on the Valencian population (registers and population stocks from survey data), the cultivation of statistical modelling techniques, the calculation of indicators, the collection of discourses on life events and trajectories.

Both for the information it collects and for the analysis it carries out, DEMOVAL provides the business fabric, the administration at all levels and the third sector with valuable knowledge of the demographic, cultural and social characteristics, forecasts, diagnoses, situation in the territory, etc., related to the Valencian population. With all this, DEMOVAL potentially represents a substantial improvement in market studies, public policies, and social actions and interventions.

The group works on the following lines of research:

1. Social capital and territorial development: social networks, power elites and leadership in rural areas. In this line of research, the Social Media Analysis approach is used. This line of research is completed by the subject of crisis and resilience in local communities. 
2. Policies and strategies for local and territorial development in rural areas: socioeconomic transformation processes, new activities, actors in territorial management and territorial development policies.
3. Business network and socio-productive systems in rural and intermediate areas: culture and business networks, innovation processes, social media and, generally speaking, factors that contribute to social and territorial capital and to the social and economic transformation processes. 
4. Public services in rural areas (education, health, social services, commercial activities, infrastructures, leisure, tourism and cultural facilities, etc.) as factors of demographic attraction, economic dynamization (incomes and labour market) and social cohesion. 
5. Vulnerabilities, social exclusion and (new) poverty in rural areas as a result of the crisis and the Welfare State withdrawal (reduction and/or disappearance of the social benefits, privatization and/or deregulation of public services, etc.). 
6. Social networks in the health field, with particular reference to rural areas. 

The group's research activity focuses on the cognitive and affective aspects associated with stress processes in healthy people and those suffering from a long-term pathology, from a multidisciplinary perspective. To this end, it records neuropsychological, electrophysiological and endocrine variables, using non-invasive procedures, in various laboratory, field and clinical studies. The end goal of the research is to contribute to clarifying the mechanisms involved in stress processes and how these may impact on health, as well as to pay attention to the modular factors that may play a role.

In thematic terms, the interaction between stress and decision-making in healthy individuals may have implications for maladaptive behaviours that may influence the health of healthy individuals. In people with long-term conditions, stress can act as a predisposing factor, precipitating factor or impact on recovery, cognitive processing, functionality and quality of life in people diagnosed with epilepsy. The results of these studies represent a relevant advance in the generation of basic scientific knowledge on the correlates of stress and cognitive and emotional processes, as well as a possibility of transfer to the clinical care setting, favouring the detection of the key aspects involved in quality of life and which may be useful for the design of cognitive-behavioural interventions.

Institutionally, the Research Group maintains collaborations with other groups at national and international level. The different lines of study are financed by different research grants from the Universitat de València itself, the Valencian Government (PROMETEO Excellence Group) and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Excellence Projects).

The Anthropology, Heritage and Cultural Imaginary Research Group (ANTROPIA) was created with the aim of researching the processes of heritage and the transformation and reinvention of cultural imaginaries from an anthropological perspective. In particular, it proposes the anthropological study of the processes of heritage construction and activation, especially those that revolve around the categories of natural and intangible heritage, the new spiritualities as an expression of meaning, the reinvention of cultural imaginaries in the digital society and the study of inter-ethnic relations from an anthropological-historical perspective. A study especially oriented to urban, rural and virtual contexts, in the past and in the present.

 The processes of patrimonialisation have acquired a special prominence in the transformations of contemporary societies, with an extension and expansion that, among other things, has ended up merging categories initially constructed as segregated groups (cultural/natural) and explicitly incorporating social actors in the process of identification and recognition of heritage through the category of intangible heritage, the value given to the institutionalisation of activations and the appeal to memory as a legitimising resource. The study of these processes –and of the negotiations, contradictions and disputes they involve– allows us to approach the policies and practices of government, governance, urban planning, territorial resource management, tourism and the construction of collective identities, from the point of view of the actions of the administration institutions, of the different social actors and, in particular, of the responses of social movements. It is also a challenge to explore the articulations between the recognition of cultural diversity, with all its variability and openness, and the construction of imaginaries of homogeneity and cultural heterogeneity and authenticity.

Transformations in the forms of social organisation, uses and management of public spaces or urban policies, whether or not they are related to processes of patrimonialisation, have an impact on the ways of imagining and inhabiting cities and constitute another one of the main ideas of this research group. A question that includes the construction and destruction of neighbourhood identities and the role of urban movements in the founding of community spheres and in the response to these transformations.

On the other hand, modern and post-modern deficits of meaning go through the recovery and reconfiguration of old forms of transcendent knowledge linked to ancient philosophies and religions. They are thus transformed into new cultural creativities linked to innovative transnational forms of ecology, spirituality, economics, politics and social relations that involve the recovery of ancestral practices and knowledge, the emergence of new values and lifestyles, the arrival of new medicines and therapies in the West, as well as the complexity of cyberspace with its networks and communities. This “re-enchantment of the world” falls within a context of progressive de-institutionalisation of religion that promotes personal research in the individual sphere and generates the phenomenon of “believing without belonging” at the same time that is articulated in modern, psycho-physical-spiritual movements that offer an experiential, emotional, mystical, strongly eclectic religiosity, with a pragmatic salvationist orientation, here and now, and a holism or universalism tinged with scientism, ecology and generic humanitarianism. 

Historical anthropology plays a key role in understanding the modern paradox that manifests itself in the tension between the notion of shared humanity and the emergence of more or less exclusive identity particularisms. The contemporary world is shaped by this paradox, and globalisation brings to light new tensions between universalism and identity particularisms. The study of local responses to these global processes is another one of the group's research lines.

These main lines will allow us to approach a series of cross-cutting analytical issues, among which we must highlight gender (segregation and social stratification around imaginaries, insofar as in the articulation of these phenomena we can observe clear differences between women and men), as well as globalisation (imaginaries accompany different globalisations), identity (adaptation and/or resistance to the global), sustainability (tension between universal concepts and local realities), emancipation (utopian movements, suspicious thinking and narratives of science) and global communities (contemporary imaginaries built from the articulation between global social networks).