Within the framework of a new cultural, political and social history, it is unavoidable to justify the creation of a Study Group focused on the European and American 19th century in the Department of Contemporary History of the Faculty of Geography and History. It is even more necessary if it is taken into account the history of the Department itself in the historiographical renewal of studies related to the crisis of the Ancien Régime, the subsequent revolutionary/counter-revolutionary upheavals and the development of the different political cultures of the nineteenth century. 

The chronological scope refers, albeit rather loosely, to what Hobsbawm called "the long nineteenth century"; loosely because, although 1918 fits in with the end of an "era", the beginning of that era is traditionally placed in France in 1789, whereas we place it at the end of the Seven Years' War in 19763. This was the starting point of a process of change that would sweep along with it the main European monarchies (Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, etc.) and their colonial territories. 

The consolidation of Great Britain as a major European power until almost the end of World War I was accompanied by the decline of other empires and monarchies, which had unusual and far-reaching effects on the international order. But the great changes, and thus the beginning of the contemporary era, did not only affect the European continent. The American territories were simultaneously the scene and protagonists of the processes of "reform and revolution" that have so often been approached from a unilateral Eurocentric perspective.

This motivates us to carry out the historical analysis from two perspectives: firstly, by integrating the contextualised study of discursive proposals with that of plural political practices and, where possible, with the actors' own experience. In a complementary way, secondly, by incorporating a comparative history in which, as we have already pointed out, the American approach is naturally integrated into the study of the historical processes of that long century. All of this from an interdisciplinary academic orientation that allows us to broaden the perspective of study to other areas of knowledge related, for example, to literature and its particular relationship with history. In this sense, cultural history, conceived in a broad sense, makes it possible to think about reality in a more complex and integrating way.

Our main goal is the study of fractional evolution equations, under appropriate initial and boundary conditions, posed on a Banach space. Such problems have their origin in different fields of science and engineering, such as linear viscoelasticity, diffusion processes in materials with memory, electrodynamics with memory or in the approximation of non-linear conservation laws. On the one hand, we are interested in analysing under what conditions it can be assured that the problem is well proposed in the sense of Hadamard, the maximal regularity property, etc., and on the other hand, we are interested in studying possible techniques for approximating the solution.

For decades, universities have progressively incorporated teaching and research structures related to affective-sexual diversity and gender identity. This trend soon spread beyond the English-speaking world to other cultural environments such as Europe and Latin America. The group Education and LGTBIQ+ Diversity (EDi) aims to fill a gap in terms of structures of this type at the UV, specifically in the educational field, and, on the other hand, is created with the intention of being an interdisciplinary research area for several people who have in common the concern for the educational world and the urgency of working (from research and practice) for a fairer and freer school, in which the diversity present in societies is reflected and valued.

The members of the group belong to different areas of knowledge linked to education. From general didactics and specific didactics, they participate in the training task in the degrees of Early Childhood Education and Primary Education of the UV and other universities in the state, in the Postgraduate Course in Reading and Literary Education in the 21st Century (UV), the Master’s Degree in Teacher Training (UV), the Master’s Degree in Research in Specific Didactics (UV), and the Master’s Degree in Psychology of Education and Human Development in Multicultural Contexts (UV-UASD), the latter taught in Peru and the Dominican Republic. The members of the group also supervise Degree Final Projects, Master’s Degree Final Projects and Doctoral Theses within the framework of the aforementioned studies.

Research on Medieval Spanish Literature: 

1. History, criticism, evolution, social, cultural and political context, literary production, textual transmission and reception.

This line of work brings together the research of the members of the group, which covers a large part of the genres and literary modalities of the history and criticism of Medieval Literature. In particular, the wide range of fictional literature (both short narrative and long fiction), wisdom literature, historiographical literature and travel books, medieval and Renaissance theatre, etc. The activities that project this line of research can be found on the several consolidated electronic pages of the Parnaseo portal [http://parnaseo.uv.es/] -information hub on the group’s research activity-, as well as in its databases [http://parnaseo.uv.es/Bases.htm] and electronic journals (Memorabilia. Boletín de Literatura Sapiencial Medieval (ISSN 1579-7341) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/memorabilia.htm]; Celestinesca (ISSN 0147-3085) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/celestinesca.htm]; Tirant. Butlletí informatiu i bibliogràfic de literatura de cavalleries (ISSN 1579-7422) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/tirant.htm] and LEMIR. Literatura Española Medieval y del Renacimiento (ISSN 1579-735X) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/lemir.htm]). 

2. Text editing: critical and digital. 

Critical edition and transcription of medieval texts and works from the Middle Ages printed in the 16th and 17th centuries. The editions are accompanied by complete introductory studies and exhaustive bodies of notes (some of them have been published in the Editorial Parnaseo Collection of the Universitat de València). The research team has a special interest in digital publishing and, in this respect, not only pioneered electronic publishing in html [http://parnaseo.uv.es/edicionesDigitales.html], but also created a library of electronic books [http://parnaseo.uv.es/AulaMedieval/aM_es/eBooks/index.html] and is currently working on editions with TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) mark up. 

3. Manuscripts and printed matter: physical invoice, text and image. 

The activities carried out in this line of research take the form of two databases [http://parnaseo.uv.es/Bases.htm]: Valencian printing production in the 16th century and Valencian typobibliography of the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as the celestinian Portal (in preparation) with sections dedicated to the testimonies of La Celestina (and the Celestinesque tradition), the biblioiconographical analysis of the engravings of the old editions of the work and the reception of the Comedia and the Tragicomedia. 

4. Digital Humanities applied to the study and research of Medieval Literature. 

This research line has as its main objective the electronic portal Parnaseo [http://parnaseo.uv.es/], consolidated project of innovation in Digital Humanities and new technologies: a hub of academic information for research, study and teaching of Spanish Literature, with special attention to Medieval Literature. Parnaseo has four electronic journals, fourteen databases, academic portals, an e-book library, a section of digital editions, an editorial collection and a platform for collaboration between different research groups and projects from Spanish and foreign universities. 

5. Contemporary cultural recreations of the medieval world. 

Storyca portal development. Contemporary Middle Ages [http://parnaseo.uv.es/AulaMedieval/aM_es/StorycaWeb/], focusing exclusively on the reception and presence of the medieval imaginary in the contemporary arts. The different sections of Storyca aim to offer researchers and students a variety of tools and resources for the study and knowledge of the Middle Ages in today's culture: monographs that deal with the study of the survival and recreation of the Middle Ages in cinema, literature (theatre, poetry and novels), comics, videogames, music, social media, etc.; a database of contemporary novels with a medieval theme (narrative production from the 1990s to the present day), and bibliographic catalogues. 

6. Link between Medieval Spanish Literature and Romance literatures. 

The research team coordinates the R&D&I platform [http://parnaseo.uv.es/PlataformaIDi/PlataformaIDi.html], created to promote the relationship between the research group with other groups and projects developed in Spanish and foreign universities, to broaden the lines of research and interest of our project with other lines of research both in the field of medieval Castilian literature and in the framework of Romance literatures and, in this way, to broaden the results of the research, its impact and internationalisation. A new way of disseminating knowledge and results as a platform for access and collaboration with other relevant projects in the Romanesque field.

The GRIECE group develops its research in the analysis of aspects related to the training of both nursing students and professionals in different areas with the aim of improving both this training and the processes of care for people with certain pathologies. Special emphasis is placed on the design of care processes that improve patient safety and advanced clinical simulation tools are used in this environment for the analysis and implementation of training processes.

Improvements in the training of nursing students and professionals enable nurses to become agents in the process of training people with chronic diseases in self-care and management of their illness (health literacy).

The activity of this group focuses on analysing and disseminating research on the political, economic and social characteristics and implications of the global economic order on different countries. In particular, the group’s research activity focuses on the analysis of the different actors that shape the global order. In other words, the group focuses its attention on the objectives, interests and strategies of multinational companies, international economic institutions, states and other actors that weave the web of power relations under globalisation.

In addition, it analyses the consequences of these behaviours on the everyday reality at national level. The dissemination of the group's activities is not limited to the publication of scientific papers in journals or books, but also includes other media such as the press, reports, social networks, etc.

The objective of our group is the methodological and applied research of Bayesian Statistics, especially in scenarios of epidemiological and environmental type. Our work is fundamentally based on three axes:

1. Hierarchical models in studies with correlated data.
2. Model selection.
3. Computational simulation models.

All of them are somewhat mixed in nature, methodological and applied, and in the compatibility and interrelation of many of their knowledge and objectives.

The first thematic block is the most extensive and is dedicated to research on models with correlated data associated with structures of a spatial-temporal, longitudinal, survival or non-survival type, and of blood kinship. Methodological research in disease mapping has a long tradition in our team, currently with unbalanced multivariate and spatial-temporal objectives. This block also contains new research proposals dedicated to joint models with longitudinal and survival data, methodology on species distribution, spatial-temporal surveillance of diseases and regression methods for scattered genetic data from genetically isolated populations with known family trees, which will undoubtedly lead us to Big Data.

In the area dedicated to the selection of models, marginal, conditioned, and combined measures are studied to quantify the contribution of a potential set of covariates in the explanation of a response of interest, and two new lines have been initiated, with a more applied orientation, which link the subject of variable selection with longitudinal and survival models and related data through structures of consanguinity.

Finally, in the block of computational models, the group continues with a line of action dedicated to the calibration of multivariate computational models and the implementation of the results obtained in a computer application and in a new application dedicated to uncertainty modelling in compartmental models.

The research activity of the GI-PVC (Research Group on Cenozoic Vertebrate Palaeontology) focuses on the study of seven main lines of research: 

• Cenozoic Macrovertebrates (Baetic Basins and Iberian Cordillera). 
• Study of the Mio-Pliocene transit in continental facies in the Valencian Community. 
• Study of the Lower Miocene and Middle Miocene faunas of the Eastern Iberian Peninsula.
• Study of the Tertiary and Quaternary faunas of Ecuador. 
• Isotopic analysis of fossil remains of micromammals. 
• Application of GIS tools (Geographic Information Systems - spatial analysis) in palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction based on fossil remains of microvertebrates. 
• Combined application of GIS (Geographic Information Systems - spatial analysis) and Image Analysis tools in the study of shape in Palaeontology.​

The object of study of the seven aforementioned lines of research are the remains of fossil vertebrates (mammals, reptiles, amphibians) from the Cenozoic of Europe, and especially from the Iberian Peninsula, as well as from the same period in the central and western regions of Ecuador. In both geographical contexts, the aim is to approach the detailed palaeontological study of this type of remains from the different sub-disciplines of palaeontology (taphonomy, systematics, biostratigraphy, biogeography, palaeoecology, study of shape, etc.). 

The main areas of study are the Tertiary and Quaternary basins of the Iberian and Baetic Domains in the Iberian Peninsula, and the areas with Eocene-Quaternary deposits in central and western Ecuador. The Iberian Peninsula is a region where a large number of palaeontological studies on Cenozoic vertebrate faunas have been carried out. Thus, since the middle of the last century, a large number of researchers from Europe and other latitudes have selected the Iberian basins as the preferred place to study this type of fossils. The magnificent exposition of the outcrops and the large palaeontological record found contributed to consider this area as the main source of palaeontological information on Cenozoic vertebrates in Europe. As a result of this work, the Spanish School of Vertebrate Palaeontologists was created, which over the years has become the largest and most powerful in our continent.

Our efforts are aimed at completing the large number of works in Vertebrate Palaeontology already existing in these basins, and especially at complementing the scarce works that have been carried out in the East of the Peninsula and which, as our latest works show, contain very relevant information that contrasts with the results from other areas of the Peninsula and the rest of Europe. Our results allow us to verify significant differences in the palaeontological record of Cenozoic vertebrates, as well as the discovery of new events of palaeoenvironmental changes hitherto unrecorded in other study areas.

In addition to deepening studies that complement existing information from other areas, our team is developing its research work on other fronts in order to create new approaches to the knowledge of the palaeoenvironmental conditions of the most recent past (Pleistocene-Holocene) and their relationship with the processes of climate change that have occurred in this time span. On the other hand, although closely related to this last point, we are developing new spatial analysis applications to handle environmental-climatic and biogeographical information that will allow us to tackle the process of paleoclimatic reconstruction of the recent past. From these new applications we analyse, for example, the extinction context of the last Neanderthal groups based on the Pleistocene microvertebrate record.

The group's research activity is developed through the following work lines:

To identify and describe the processes of formation of the climate and culture of the organisations. To determine the influence that leadership has on the processes of formation of the organisational climate and culture, and on its average levels and variability. To determine the influence of the organisational climate and culture, and leadership, on key processes in the functioning of work units (e.g., conflict, communication, reflexivity). To estimate the indirect effects of climate, culture and leadership on the results of the work units (e.g., performance, quality of service) and the quality of working life of its members (e.g., psychological well-being, job satisfaction), through the processes indicated above.

To determine the influence that the composition of work teams based on demographic variables (e.g., gender, education, seniority) has on the processes and results of the teams. To develop and validate measurement instruments (e.g., tests, questionnaires, scales) to measure the variables listed above. To determine the invariance of the psychometric properties of these measures through demographic groups (e.g., men-women), languages (e.g., Spanish-Portuguese), and countries and cultural contexts.

The COMINBRAND research group is an intercultural and interdisciplinary group that develops lines of research focused on communication, innovation and the latest marketing trends. Faced with the arrival of the 5.0 marketing stage, the research group contextualises itself in a highly interconnected and digitalised world, where communication plays a key role, and studies consumer behaviour and its connection with the brand, passing through different stages of brand creation. This process of developing a brand through its various assets is called branding. From there, communication, innovation, branding and consumer behaviour are COMINBRAND's main lines of research. To these are added two transversal lines of research, one focused on the study of the impact of culture, and more specifically national culture, which will allow us to obtain a cross-cultural vision of the problems addressed and another that includes the analysis of gender in current scientific research, with the aim of responding to a greater awareness of the importance of including the gender perspective in consumer behaviour studies. 

The priority sectors of the analysis are tourism and education, both of which are subject to major processes of change and digital transformation. The analysis of the tourism sector encompasses both various tourist destinations and the hotel and hospitality companies that operate in them. The study of the education sector focuses on higher education institutions and focuses its analysis on teaching innovation and new teaching-learning methodologies. 

The quality of the group's research is endorsed by the strong international collaboration of its members, their participation in multiple R&D projects financed by public calls, in educational innovation projects and in relevant R&D contracts with companies and/or administrations. In addition to this, there are numerous publications in journals of high international prestige indexed in the SSCI and SJR databases, participation in international conferences, including those oriented towards teaching innovation, participation in editorial boards of prestigious journals, acting as editors and a high degree of involvement in the field of tourism and education in general.

The creation of this group arose from the desire to consolidate and institutionalise a space for its members to collaborate in the contrastive study of German and the Ibero-Romance languages. It began to take shape as a result of the international conference "German dictionaries: new perspectives" held at the Universitat de València, which brought together some of its members.

That first activity was followed by five more conferences (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020), held both in Germany and Spain, which have brought together new specialists in this field who, from different perspectives and methodological proposals, have participated in the discussion of phenomena of common interest and have enriched the debate initiated by the original members of the group. Besides the works arising from the individual research of its members, the collaboration has so far resulted in the publication between 2015 and 2021 of 6 collective volumes and 1 thematic dossier for an international journal, coordinated by members of the group and with the participation of other members. The award of a grant within the call for grants for consolidatable research groups of the Regional Department in Education, Culture and Sport of the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Government), gave this group the opportunity to constitute itself as a research structure with specific goals. Seeking its full consolidation among the groups of Spanish German-Hispanic studies and, in particular, a greater projection in the international sphere.

The team is made up of 13 researchers from 9 different German, Portuguese and Spanish universities. The common denominator for all of them is their mastery of German and Spanish, although some of them have also devoted themselves scientifically to the study of other languages, such as Portuguese, Catalan, Italian and French. Although all the members have philological training, their lines of research have followed very different paths. The aim of the research group was to combine different perspectives and methodological proposals in order to identify and analyse the phenomena related to the object of study more adequately and in a more global approach.

In this way, the group aims to reach results and conclusions of relevance for fields as diverse as descriptive linguistics, discourse analysis, language contrast, discourse genres and traditions, L1 and L2 teaching for specific purposes or didactic lexicography, among others. Of the 13 members of the group, 10 are Germanists working in Spanish universities and 1 in Portugal. Of the 2 members of the team linked to German universities, 1 is a professor in Romance linguistics (Anja Neuss-Hennemann) and 1 in German language didactics (Kathrin Siebold).

It should be noted that several of the researchers have already collaborated in previous projects under their leadership, such as "InCrit. Incidentes críticos en la comunicación transcultural alemán/español/catalán", directed by Marta Fernández-Villanueva (2016-2018, FFI2015-70864-P), "La organización de la información en los discursos orales en su variación genérica: estudio contrastivo alemán vs. Spanish/Portuguese/Catalan" (2019-2020, AICO/2019/123), led by Ferran Robles, and "Systematizität und Variabilität: Konvergenzen und Divergenzen in diskursiven und pragmatischen Erwerbssequenzen der Lernersprachen Deutsch, Französisch, Spanisch und Italienisch bei erwachsenen Fremdsprachenlernern verschiedener Ausgangssprachen" (in force since 2015), led by Kathrin Siebold.

The group specialises in the design, programmed synthesis and characterisation of mono-and polynuclear coordination compounds with pre-established crystal structures and spin topologies. In particular, the group's preparative strategy is based on the conception and use of the complex as a ligand, i.e. a stable compound that acts as a ligand against solvated metal ions or complexes preformed with the unsaturated coordination sphere. This precursor species may already carry one or several functions (chirality, photo- or redox-active, paramagnetic, etc.), bearing in mind the multifunctionality of the desired final species. This work is eminently basic in nature, i.e. fundamental, and the main results obtained include the following:

1. Design, materialisation and characterisation of the first examples of one-dimensional bimetallic compounds with ferromagnetic coupling and magnet behaviour (magnet chains). 
2. First examples of chiral magnet chains.
3. First examples of rational design and materialisation of photomagnetic or redox-magnetic switches with oxamate-complexes. 
4. Obtaining and characteristion of the first molecular-based proton magnet.
5. Programmed preparation and characterisation of the first example of bimetallic oxalate-complex (tri-and tetranuclear) with molecular magnet properties.
6. Preparation of porous coordination polymers with gas and solvent absorbing properties.
7. Design of chemical switches based on pH-based oxamate-complexes that facilitate the emulsion of an organic phase in water with a view to accelerating catalytic processes in homogeneous phase.
8. Design and characterisation of hexa-coordinated mononuclear compounds of Co(II) and Mn(III) that constitute novel examples of Single Ion Magnets (SIMs).
9. Design and materialisation of the first examples of photoactive and magnetic molecular precursors based on oxamate-complexes.
10. Preparation and characterisation of multiferroic coordination compounds: coexistence of ferromagnetism, ferroelectricity and non-linear optics (true multifunctional compounds designed to order).
11. Modelling and interpretation of magnetic properties through the Spin Hamiltonian and theoretical calculations of the DFT and MonteCarlo type, both Quantum and Classical.

This inter-university, international and interdisciplinary research group revolves around a theory and methodology known as "critique as sabotage" (cs). The starting point for this critical modality is to be found both in the work that M. Asensi has been publishing since 2007 (culminating in the 2011 book, Crítica y sabotaje, Barcelona, Anthropos/Siglo XXI), and in the group that came together in the monographic issue of the journal Anthropos. Cuadernos de cultura crítica y conocimiento, no. 237 of 2013, dedicated to this theory. 

In fact, it can be said that it was the latter event that consolidated the research group that we present. Before describing the group, it should be remembered that this group has its origins in a previous one, already registered at the University, called "Grupo de investigación Literatura Comparada", with the number UV751. A key activity at that time was the holding at the Universitat of the 1st International Congress of Comparative Literature, directed by M. Asensi and B. Ferrús, with the participation of E. Peláez, M. Richart, N. Calafell and M. Zabalgoitia on the scientific committee. Practically most of the research group we are proposing today took part in that congress, one of the panels of which dealt with "cs". One of the most notable events that took place during that congress, which was to determine the future composition of this group, was the participation of professors from Latin American and North American universities. The conference ended with the publication of the proceedings, which can be found on the website of the Asociación Valenciana de Literatura Comparada (Valencian Association of Comparative Literature). 

It can be said that the panel focusing on "cs" attracted the attention of many of the attendees, who proposed their participation in the project. Among them were people from the fields of literary theory and comparative literature, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, as well as history of literature. This initiated a series of scientific activities, seminars and conferences, which can be summarised as follows:

• In June 2011 M.Asensi, B.Ferrús and M.Zabalgoitia carried out a research stay in Peru, at the Univ. Cat. de Lima and the Univ. de S. Marcos. At the former, M. Asensi gave the lecture: "Criticism as sabotage". In the second, the three professors participated as speakers at the "Congreso Internacional José María Arguedas: Los universos literarios", making applications of the theoretical foundations of "cs". 
• In November 2011, coinciding with the publication of the book Crítica y sabotaje, these three professors travelled to Mexico to present the text at the FIL (Guadalajara International Book Fair), considered the most important in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. At the University of Guadalajara, Dr Asensi gave the lecture "Criticism and sabotage", as part of the seminar "Surroundings and Interiors of Literary Criticism". Also, at the Benemérita Univ. Autónoma de Puebla, at the invitation of Dr Felipe Ríos, Professor M. Asensi gave a postgraduate course on the dialogue between "cs" and deconstruction.

M. Asensi's book was also presented at this university, with new examples. A similar activity, involving a conference, presentation of the book and examples, took place at the University of Guanajuato. 

This same format of lectures and presentations was repeated in the framework of the Doctorate in Humanities programme at the Colegio de México. At the ITESO in Guadalajara, M. Asensi gave a two-day seminar for professors and postgraduates, where B. Ferrús and M. Zabalgoitia presented other examples. Dr. M. Asensi also participated as a guest at the openly organised ITESO Scientific Café, where his talk "Why deconstruct, why sabotage?" received a large audience and great recognition.

The Research Group on Culture, Diversity and Development-CUDIDE was founded in 2011 in the Department of Research Methods and Educational Diagnosis (MIDE) of the Universitat de València. General Study (UVeG) with the aim of contributing, through research, to the theoretical and practical development of aspects related to cultural diversity and personal development.

In particular, we work on intercultural competences, intercultural education, cultural and gender diversity, mobility and migratory processes, among others. The conducted research is approached from an interdisciplinary perspective since the group, led by Carmen Carmona Rodríguez, is made up of professionals from different specialisations: Education, Psychology and Social Sciences. Moreover, by collaborating with different universities in different countries (Spain, United States, Germany, Holland, United Kingdom and Canada), we have the possibility of accessing a wide range of realities, social groups and policies that enrich the work carried out.

People who are part of this research team are interested in promoting research of quality and excellence, from a social and educational approach that provides results of social interest and usefulness. 

Research group on Curriculum, Resources and Educational Institutions (CRIE) already has a long history. It was established in 1991 within the Department of Education and School Management of the Universitat de València, with a group of lecturers from several universities. Over the years its objective remained unchanged: explore the policies and practices articulated in education systems, schools and classrooms. 

As members of the group, with specific academic interests, we share the motivation to advance in the knowledge of how new ways of becoming active subjects of citizenship, capable of actively moving through a plural world, apparently without borders, are being developed in the classroom. Along the way, we have been dealing with such complex objects of analysis as: reforms, teaching innovation, curriculum planning, evaluation, teaching aids, comprehensiveness, school leadership, organisation, participation, citizenship, diversity, technologies, etc. However, back then and now, the production of knowledge by participating in research projects does not meet the expectations of those of us who are part of CRIE. We want to socialise our achievements by training students interested in our lines of work; in fact, some of them are already active members of the group as interns, doctoral students or even PhDs. The presence of the research group in society is reflected in the publication of our work, our participation in forums and all kinds of events, as well as in institutions that invite us. We assume these aims with our enthusiasm, the energy of new members and renewing the website as a gathering place for those who share our interests and motivations.

DATS is a Research Group attached to the University Research Institute on Traffic and Road Safety (INTRAS). The research group was created in 1995 and is formed by professors and researchers of renowned prestige.

The aim of the DATS Group is focused on Consulting, Research, Development, Innovation, Training and Dissemination Projects in the fields of Transport, Traffic, Mobility and Road Safety.

It develops its projects both for administrations and institutions as well as for companies, whether public or private, national or international, in order to respond to the needs of its clients, as well as in general to solve the social problems represented by traffic accidents, poverty and environmental degradation across the world, with special attention to developing countries.

Therefore, one of the main activities is the accompaniment in the diagnosis of problems and detection of opportunities, as well as the definition of solutions and strategies to guide decision-making.

The work of the DATS Group has contributed to increase knowledge in the field. In this sense, the group has made an effort to disseminate findings through books, articles in scientific journals and/or scientific and outreaching conferences. Likewise, the group has actively participated in and with mass media with the aim of communicating and raising public awareness.

Consequently, the following services are included in its Service Charter:

• Preparation/Drafting of Strategic Plans for Transport, Logistics, Sustainable Mobility, Local and Urban Planning, Road and Workplace Safety (in-itinere and in-mission accidents).
• Definition, development and implementation of interventions, measures and counter-measures in the fields of Transport, Mobility and Road Safety.
• Legislative, Regulatory and Normative development.
• Deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
• Assessment and recruitment, especially of drivers, both positive and negative, including the development of instruments to achieve these goals.
• Design and teaching of training and education programmes, as well as the necessary teaching tools and resources (including those based on technologies such as Virtual Reality, especially simulators, and Augmented Reality). It is aimed at scholars, professionals, technicians and users/citizens in general.
• Creation of communication and advertising campaigns, including Corporate Social Marketing campaigns.
• Evaluation of Plans, Programmes and interventions, including those related to legislative, regulatory and normative development (Legislative Assessment).

For years now, the research group has developed a series of studies on didactic, historical and epistemological analysis of school mathematics, on arithmetic, algebra, problem solving and modelling. Its intention is to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics in school systems, not only by understanding the phenomena that occur in them, but also by providing well-founded information on the processes of teaching and learning mathematics, and by providing teaching models for use by practising teachers and curriculum designers. Part of these studies have been carried out within the framework of the agreement between the Universitat de València and the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados de México, signed in 1988 and renewed in 2004. The theoretical and methodological framework that organises the studies is that of Local Theoretical Models (Filloy, E., Puig, L., and Rojano, T. (2008). Educational Algebra. A Theoretical and Empirical Approach. New York: Springer), in which the processes of teaching and learning mathematics are considered as processes of communication and production of meaning. More recent studies combine three aspects:

1. The first is the study of problem solving, both, on the one hand, from the general point of view of heuristics or heuristic methods for classes of problems, and, on the other hand, in specific arithmetic-algebraic domains. But it also takes into account both aspects simultaneously, considering the role of heuristic elements such as control, management and decision mechanisms (which are usually described as metacognitve) in the resolution of arithmetic-algebraic problems, or in the modelling of phenomena by means of families of functions expressed algebraically.
2. The second is the use of interactive learning environments, be it the spreadsheet, the symbolic graphing calculator, GeoGebra, the intelligent tutorial system HBPS, or, more recently, apps for tablets.
3. The third is the historical analysis of mathematical ideas, from the point of view of research in didactics of mathematics.

In particular, we have carried out or are carrying out studies on:

1. The modelling process and the concepts of function family and parameter. Several studies for which we developed and tested teaching materials. One in Bachillerato, another in a first course of the Faculty of Mathematics of the Universitat de València and another in a first course of the degree of Economics and Administration of a university in Colombia.
2. Some with a symbolic graphing calculator, others with GeoGebra, others with iPad apps and one with Maple. Some with experiments using real data, and others using real data from official sources or based on a proposed model.
3. The teaching and learning of the algebraic resolution of verbal arithmetic-algebraic problems in secondary school, using a computer environment as a didactic artefact. In some cases the environment has been the Excel spreadsheet, in others an intelligent tutorial system developed for this purpose, which we have called Hypergraph Based Problem Solver (HBPS).
4. The study of the forms of demonstration of algorithms for solving second-degree equations in medieval Arabic texts and in the first algebra texts printed in Spanish, and the study of the representation of functions in historical texts. The study of the history of algebra and its teaching in Spain in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
5. The design and implementation of a proposal for teaching the concepts of reason and proportion, based on metacognitive practices and the principles of Socratic Maieutics. In particular, we study the understanding and teaching of the type of situations that in didactic phenomenology are considered to be reason-preserving applications in which the word "relatively" is implicit. Production of teaching materials for problem solving, arithmetic, algebra, modelling and ratio and proportion, aimed at primary and secondary education levels. Production of interactive learning environments for arithmetic-algebraic problem solving.

The Digital Design and Processing Group of the Universitat de València focuses its research on digital signal processing and the application of digital processing techniques in fields such as Biomedical Engineering, industrial systems and hardware architectures for the implementation of real-time algorithms.

The group that we present arises from the sum of professors-researchers of the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences of the Universitat de València who belong to the Departments of Research Methods and Diagnosis in Education (MIDE) and Comparative Education and History of Education (ECHE). This union is consolidated with the individual verification, after several years of relevant experiences in research projects, that working in collaborative projects would provide us with a more holistic and complementary vision of the educational research contexts in which we work, enriching our proposals and results.

Furthermore, due to the affinity of our lines of study, as well as the common objectives that we have as professionals in the field of education, we believe that the unification in a working group will achieve these objectives with greater success, as the infrastructures and structures will be expanded from different contact networks, proposals for actions, perspectives for in-depth work and expansion of the educational field, etc.

The researchers who make up the research team are full-time teaching and research staff with permanent employment or statutory links to the Universitat de València, as well as a part-time doctoral research staff member who has been a contracted professional at the Universitat de València since the 2004 academic year. This research activity focuses, on the one hand, on the need that we detect in different contexts of educational action (diagnosis, intervention, evaluation, history, etc.) to develop differential research processes.

And, on the other hand, in the differential response or result that we find if we take into account the existence of differences in and between people and between groups of people and the contexts in which they find themselves. These differences include physical, psychic, psychological and emotional differences, as well as social, cultural, gender and age differences.

Diversity, from an inclusive education perspective, provides our research with a systemic and interactive set of educational variables that must be investigated in an inclusive manner and from the multidimensional perspective that the individual and social development of people in any educational process requires. Thus, we start from a wide and varied range of possibilities for our research, which we focus both on issues of inequality and on issues of evaluative research as a procedure for implementing, managing and providing information to improve education and training processes.

Impact Indexes:

• X-index 7 in Google Scholar. i10-index total of 4. (Amparo Pérez Carbonell);
• X-index 6 in Google Scholar. i10-index total of 5. (Inmaculada Chiva Sanchis)
• X-index 9 in Google Scholar. i10-index total of 9. (María Jesús Martínez Usarralde)
• X-index 5 in Google Scholar. i10-index total of 5. (Genoveva Ramos Santana)

The Elcis research group has carried out research into reading, literary, media and linguistic training in multicultural and multilingual contexts at different educational levels in both L1 and L2 and foreign languages. It began when we were awarded the research project "Globalisation, exclusion and multiculturalism in Children's and Young Adult Literature" (UV-AE-20060713) in 2006.

Since then and until now we have been working on different research, cooperation and innovation projects. A determining factor for the consolidation and expansion not only of research lines, but also of members and collaborators was the award of the R+D+I project "Literary Education and Interculturality" of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (EDU 2008-01782/EDUC), National Programme for Fundamental Research in the framework of the 6th National Plan for Scientific Research.

We have taken part in other projects such as "Diversity and (in)equality in contemporary Spanish literature for children and young people" (UV-IMV-PRECOMP-13-115502), "Literary images of diversity: citizenship and identity through reading and literary education" (GV 2015-050). Or the centre innovation projects "Innovation, Research and Quality in Higher Education: Projects and Proposals in teaching research in the Complementary Activities Weeks" in different editions or "Work on the impact of the use of interactive whiteboards in the higher education of teachers of Infant, Primary and Secondary Education". As well as "Comparative study of DLL subjects in the new degrees of Early Childhood Education" project awarded by the University of Seville. Projects for Teaching Research (038-A6-2010) with researchers from the universities of Seville, Jaén, Granada, Valencia, Barcelona, A Coruña; the project DETERMINING FACTORS IN THE READING HABITS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION STUDENTS (PR2017-040) granted by the University of Cadiz. Or the cooperation project "Preparation of teacher training agents and institutional teams to enable innovation and improvement in research and teacher training in intercultural bilingual education in the Andean and Caribbean areas" of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (D/030992/10); "Linguistic competences and cultural identity of students of immigrant origin - integration variables in immigration contexts" (APE/2015/004).

We have also been part of the project "MEDIATIC COMPETENCIES OF THE CITIZENSHIP IN EMERGING DIGITAL MEDIA (SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS): INNOVATIVE PRACTICES AND EDUCOMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN MULTIPLE CONTEXTS of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. National Programme for R&D Projects (EDU2015-64015-C3-1-R) with 40 researchers from 11 Spanish universities and 8 Latin American and European countries or the project "YOUTUBERS AND INSTAGRAMMERS: MEDIATIC COMPETITION IN EMERGING PROSUMERS" of the STATE RESEARCH AGENCY - 2018 Calls for Knowledge Generation R&D Projects and R&D Projects and RESEARCH CHALLENGES.

The Elcis group has also organised all kinds of scientific meetings related to our research: among others, the 3rd International Conference on Catalan Literature for Children and Young Adults (2006); and the International Conference on Literary Education and Society. The teaching of literature to young adults (2007); Interdisciplinary Conference on Women's Studies (2009); : 3rd Conference on Teaching Innovation in Higher Education (2014); 1st and 2nd International Conference Teaching Literature in English for Young Learners (2012) and (2015); 15th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Language and Literature Didactics (2014); Conference on Research, Innovation and Best Practices in Early Childhood Education (2014), (2015), (2016), (2017) and ((2018) or the Conference on Reading, Literary and Linguistic Education. They are currently part of the network of excellence of the project EXCELLENCE NETWORK IN MEDIATIC EDUCATION of the Ministry of Economy, Programme of Dynamisation Actions Networks of Excellence R+D (Action 2016) (EDU2016-81772-REDT) participating entities: 10 R+D IPs 10 Spanish universities.

The Research Group on Educational Policies, Interculturality and Society (POLISOC) is attached to the Department of Comparative Education and History of Education of the Universitat de València-Estudi General and is closely connected to the Unit for Research in Educational Policy (UNIPE). It was created with the triple objective of, on the one hand, sharing ideas and joining forces to create a space for reflection on educational policy issues; on the other hand, to create a meeting place where different professionals concerned with its study can come together; in this sense, it is constituted as a space and open space for work and reflection on crucial issues of education in our time with the aim of making visible and recovering a space of its own for the Politics of Education. It therefore aims to reclaim political deliberation.

Research is, finally, another fundamental objective of POLISOC, which commits it to the development and consolidation of interdisciplinary research groups in the contents and competences of Education Policy. The research group is currently made up of lecturers and researchers from different departments of the Universitat de València and from Italian and Portuguese universities. Its composition will vary depending on the research projects in progress, and may include staff hired for projects and research, as well as teaching staff from other national and foreign universities.

POLISOC's research activity is reflected in the participation of its members in nationally and internationally competitive research projects, either as researchers or as principal investigators. Among the R&D projects in which POLISOC members have participated are "Decentralisation and social participation as indicators of quality in the project, management and evaluation in schools and the education system" (GV-3200/95), "Training of democratic citizens. Education as a builder of identity and civic competence" (CTIDIB/2002/307), "Education and socialisation in values" (GV04B-174). They teach in the subjects of educational policy in the undergraduate and official master's degrees "Policy, management and direction of educational organisations", "Secondary education teaching staff", "Educational social action", "Psychopedagogy", of the UV, "Social change and educational professions" (UMA), as well as in the PhD programme in Education of the UV. Some of its members have carried out predoctoral, postdoctoral, research and Erasmus PDI stays in prestigious foreign universities (University of California Davis (USA), University of Exeter (UK), Universities of Salento and Verona (Italy), University of Örebro (Sweden), Federal University of Alagoas (Brazil), El Colegio de México, IISUE of the UNAM (Mexico), CEDIGSO of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo (Mexico), Complutense University of Madrid, UNAM (Mexico), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, UNED, Universidad de Loja (Ecuador), Universidad Federal de Alagoas (Brazil), Universidad Federal Fluminense (Brazil), Universidad Simón Bolivar (Colombia), Universidad de Norte (Colombia), Centro de Estudios Mundiales (Sorbonne Université, Paris), Université du Franche-Comté (France), Örebro University (Sweden), Universidad Agraria de La Habana, Universidad de Peruglia (Italy) and Universidad de Almería (Spain). It has organised or is preparing the following national and international seminars: National Seminar on Education Policy: teaching and research; International Seminar on Quality policies in the initial training of secondary school teachers and I and II Conference on Absenteeism in the Valencian Community. Likewise, members of the group have led and participated in Teaching Innovation Projects, and supervised pre-doctoral and post-doctoral stays. Another of its activities has consisted in carrying out reports, audits and advice to public and private entities. Some of the members of the POLISOC team also lead projects such as Refuteach: Applied Linguistics for the Inclusion of Refugees (UPM/University of Kent), and are also members of the following projects: EELISA: Opportunities for everyone (UPM/EU); Emancipatory practices and transformative decolonising methodologies (FLACSO); Grup d'Estudis Transversals (UA).

Some of the POLISOC group collaborators participate as members in the activities of the Grup de Recerca sobre Intervencions Socioeducatives en la Infància i la Joventut (GRISIJ, which stands for Research Group on Socio-educational Interventions for Children and Youth), of the University of Barcelona, having participated in the European Project PAGE (Parental Guidance and Education 2016-2018). Also noteworthy, and since the year of constitution of the group in 2017, is the participation of members of POLISOC in the research project: "Analysing the situation of students and the education system in compulsory education in the city of Valencia and its historical evolution, as well as the training of students in this area", a project drafted with the aim of developing the "School Map of the city of Valencia", and emerged at the initiative of the Department of Education of the City Council of Valencia, an initiative formalised through an agreement between the City Council of Valencia and the Universitat de València. The research team that has worked on the different reports of this project, disseminated in 2018 and in May and December 2019, was made up of fourteen professors of the Universitat de València from the faculties of Geography and History, Teacher Training, Philosophy and Education Sciences, Economics and Business Studies, and Social Sciences.

Among the projects currently underway or recently completed, the participation of POLISOC collaborators in the projects stands out:

• "European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network. Reference: CA18114. Funding Entity: European Cooperation in Science and Technology. Call: 2018. Responsible researcher: Ivan Dodovski. Affiliation: University American College Skopje, North Macedonia Duration: 28/02/2019 - 27/02/2023. Amount: 300.000 €.
• "The Spanish poetic engagement of the 20th century in the current academic canon (1975-2018). Referencia: PGC2018-093641-B-100. Funding entity: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Call: 2018. Researcher in charge: Miguel Ángel García. Affiliation entity: University of Granada, Spain. Duración: 01/01/2019-31/12/2021. Amount: €24,200.
• "Reading and literary education: Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Federico García Lorca in Spanish and Latin American school culture. A historical and pedagogical study". Reference: RTI2018-098692-B-100. Funding Entity: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Researcher in charge: Juan Carlos González Faraco. Affiliation entity: University of Huelva, Spain. Duration: 01/01/2019-31/12/2021. Amount: 28.600 €.
• PID2020-114249GB-I00, "El giro copernicano en la política de educación y ciencia en el desarrollismo franquista: de la subsidiariedad a la intervención estatal", funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation. Researcher Antonio Canales UCM, Duration 01/01/2021-31/12/2024. Amount: 31.800 €.
• GV/2021/126, "Implentación del enfoque educativo STEM en el desarrollo de competencias (EDUSTEM)", funded by the Dirección General de Ciencia e Investigación de la Conselleria de Innovación, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad Digital de la Generalitat Valenciana. Researcher in charge: Laura Monsalve Lorente. Duration: 01/01/2021- 31/12/2022. Amount: €20,000.

Among the recently completed projects, in addition to those already mentioned: "A Global Youth in the Making: the 200,000 Residents of the Cité internationale universitaire in 20th-Century Paris" Reference: ANR-17-CE28-0005. Funding Agency: Agence nationale de la recherche, France. Researcher in charge: Guillaume Tronchet. Affiliation: École Normale Supérieurey Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, France. Duración: 01/09/2017-31/12/2020. Also noteworthy is the approval in 2020, by the Equality Unit of the Universitat de València, of the project assigned to another researcher of the POLISOC group: Personal stories of civil and feminist commitment for social change, within the framework of the Programme of Grants for the organisation of activities to promote equality between women and men of the Universitat de València. The POLISOC group has also been the starting point for the ABSENTIS sub-group, which is part of it. The ABSENTIS/POLISOC group, which focuses on the study of the dimensions, causes and consequences of truancy, has been carrying out research, collaboration and knowledge transfer tasks in this field, collaborating with various entities specialised in the prevention of truancy. Thus, as part of the research project "Truancy in the Valencian Community" (UV-INV-AE18-784553), financed by the Universitat de València, and "Truancy and the right to education in the Valencian Community, (GV/20019/136)", various publications, conferences, seminars and training courses have been supported in collaboration with various public and private entities. In relation to this last subject, the 2nd Conference on truancy: a community challenge was organised and held in November 2021, with the participation of different educational centres, local and regional administrations, and members of the research group from the Universitat de València and other universities.

In addition, many other seminars and conferences have been held to disseminate the results of research carried out by POLISOC members, or by members of other research teams with which POLISOC maintains collaborative links, including the most recent ones:

• "Lecture-seminar "School segregation, a human rights and social justice issue", by Javier Murillo, professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Director of the UNESCO Chair in Education for Social Justice at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), held in November 2021, in person and online.
• "Lecture-seminar "Neoliberalism and the Spanish public university", by Alexandra Carrasco, in September 2021, offline and online.
• "Conference: "Right to education and cultural identity", given on 20 May 2021, by the Professor of Theory and History of Education at the Universitat de València and director of the POLISOC group, Juan Manuel Fernández Soria. URL: https://youtu.be/R27Vz9YnTzg
• "Teaching innovation project: Visibilising voices and cultures in higher education. Politics and education", presented by the researcher Sandra García de Fez, on 28 May 2021. URL: https://youtu.be/jJ9m_Bp1oXo
• "Seminar: School absenteeism and social exclusion. A violation of the right to education", held on 18 December 2020, with the participation of: Mónica Añón Roig, technical advisor for Equality and Coexistence of the Regional Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, José Ignacio Cruz Orozco (UV), and Sandra García de Fez (UV). URL: https://youtu.be/pm4adyRVRxA
• "Conference-seminar: "From our feet on the ground so as not to remain on our knees. Considerations on the education pact", held on 11 December 2020, with the intervention of Professor Antonio Canales Serrano (Complutense University). URL: https://youtu.be/YTiwSV3OnQ8
• "The single school district: A segregative education policy in itself?", presented by the researcher Sandra García de Fez, in December 2020. URL: https://youtu.be/Sw-EsLMe5Kw
• "Web seminar: "What does the General Education Act of 1970 tell us?", by Professor Diego Sevilla Merino, Professor of Educational Policy and Legislation at the University of Granada, held on 20 November 2020. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nxZCoajw-0
• "Round table: Women and interculturality. Personal stories of civil and feminist commitment for social change, held on 11 March 2020, and organised by professors Sandra García de Fez and Donatella Donato, with the participation of different social entities.
• "Conference-seminar: "Cultural identity, citizenship and education" by Virginia Guichot, professor at the University of Seville, held on 15 November 2019.
• "Conference: "Migrant minors and the right to education", held on 12 December 2018, with the intervention of Professor Jorge Cardona Llorens Professor of International Public Law at the Universitat de València.
• "Seminar: "The governance of higher education in the Spanish context, Reflections on the influence of the European Union on the configuration of the Spanish university system", held on 12 January 2017, with Alexandra Carrasco, trainee researcher, as speaker.

Finally, it is worth mentioning the participation of the director of POLISOC, Professor Juan Manuel Fernández Soria, as a guest speaker at the International Colloquium: "Politiques éducatives et projets de société, discours et pratiques, 19e-21e siècles", held in June 2021 at the University of Orlèans, with the theme: "El discurso modernizador en la política educativa española del siglo XX" (The modernising discourse in 20th century Spanish educational policy).

Publications 2021

1. Doctoral theses
   1. Neoliberal policies as processes of privatisation and commercialisation of the public university in Spain. The role of the European Union and the Spanish case in the European context. Doctoral thesis by Alexandra Carrasco, FPU of the Department of Comparative Education and History of Education. Director: Juan Manuel Fernández Soria. Doctoral Programme in Education RD 99/2011, research line "Historical, political and comparative studies of education".
2. Books and book chapters
   1. Cinema as a pedagogical resource in Compulsory Secondary Education classrooms. Mª José Ruiz Romero and Laura Monsalve Lorente. In: Nuevas coordenadas para la formación y el aprendizaje, 2021, pp. 241-250. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7953959
   2. Neoliberal logics and social education: a critical look at socio-educational intervention. Vicent Horcas López and Elena Giménez Urraco. In: Nuevas coordenadas para la formación y el aprendizaje / coord. by Pilar Sanz-Cervera, María Dolores Soto González, Juan García Rubio, 2021, ISBN 9788418627088, pp. 111-120.
   3. Neoliberal logics and social education: a critical look at socio-educational intervention. Vicent Horcas López and Elena Giménez Urraco. In: Nuevas coordenadas para la formación y el aprendizaje / coord. by Pilar Sanz-Cervera, María Dolores Soto González, Juan García Rubio, 2021, ISBN 9788418627088, pp. 111-120.
   4. The College of Spain in Paris: a Franco-Spanish cultural crossroads. Mora-Luna, Antonia M.(coord.), Granada, Comares, 2021 (in press).
   5. "La production littéraire au service de la nation. Notes/remarques pour le professeur de littérature espagnole", Mora-Luna, Antonia María. In: Guido Furci and Cyril Verlingue (eds.), Je est un autre Nous. Enonciations collectives et stratégies de résistance, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2021 (in press).
3. Articles in specialist journals
   1. Career, work and pedagogical culture of Antonio Ballesteros Usano. José Ignacio Cruz Orozco. Perfiles educativos, vol. XLIII, núm. 173, 2021 doi.org/10.22201/iisue.24486167e.2021.173.59755 2
   2. Facing silent disentailment: Strategies of Spanish Catholic education, José Ignacio Cruz Orozco. Education XX1: Journal of the Faculty of Education, 2021.
   3. The modalities of teaching in the new normality for the academic year 2020-21 in Spanish public universities, Cristina Pulido Montes, and Santiago Mengual-Andrés. IJERI: International journal of Educational Research and Innovation, 2021.
   4. Privatising trends in the European higher education funding model: European Union proposals and analysis of affordable access, Alexandra Carrasco González. Spanish Journal of Comparative Education, 2021.
   5. Introduction: 50 years after the General Education Law of 1970, Juan Manuel Fernández Soria, and Diego Sevilla Merino. Historia y Memoria de la Educación 2021. 
   6. The General Education Law of 1970, a law for the modernisation of Spain?, Juan Manuel Fernández Soria, and Diego Sevilla Merino. Historia y Memoria de la Educación 2021.
   7. Validating the Gratifications Associated with the Use of the Smartphone and the Internet by 
   8. University Students in Chile, Ecuador and Spain, R. Tirado-Morueta, A. García-Umaña, and S. Mengual-Andrés. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 2021. doi: 10.1080/17475759.2021.1898449
   9. Opportunities and Hazards of the Internet for Students with Intellectual Disabilities: The Views of Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers, E. Chiner, M. Gómez-Puerta, and S. Mengual-Andrés. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education 2021. doi: 10.1080/1034912X.2019.1696950
   10. Chatbot to improve learning punctuation in Spanish and to enhance open and flexible learning environments. Esteban Vázquez-Cano, Santiago Mengual-Andrés, and Eloy López-Meneses.
   11. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 2021. doi: 10.1186/s41239-02100269-8
   12. Prevalence of sexting in young university adults: motivation and risk perception, Laura Monsalve Lorente and Enrique García Tort. Psychology, Sociology & Education 2021.
   13. The online classroom as a séance: Challenges and strategies in the face of pandemic pedagogies. Dulcinea Tomás Cámara. Atenas. Scientific-pedagogical journal, 4 (56).
   14. Undisciplined disciplines? Exercises in epistemic diversity for an inverse matrix pedagogy. Dulcinea Tomás Cámara. Trenzar. Revista de Educación Popular, Pedagogía Crítica e Investigación Militante, 6 (3), pp. 96-114.
   15. Education and literature in late Francoism and the Spanish democratic transition (II). Contenidos programáticos y experiencias editoriales (1982-1990)" Mora-Luna, Antonia María, History of Education & Children's Literature (2021) (in press).

Publications 2020

1. Doctoral theses
   1. Discourses and non-explicit interests in Spanish educational reforms: the Organic Law on Education and the Organic Law for the Improvement of Educational Quality. Doctoral thesis by María Torres Pellicer, Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences Director: Juan Manuel Fernández Soria.
2. Books and book chapters
   1. School absenteeism and social exclusion, a violation of the right to education. 
   2. José Ignacio Cruz Orozco and Sandra García de Fez (Editors). Editorial Tirant Humanidades. 
   3. From apprentices to university students: The configuration of the teaching profession, Juan Manuel Fernández Soria. In: Investigación educativa y cambio social 2020.
   4. Language and technology: A collaborative platform for the teaching-learning of varieties of Spanish. Rocío Díaz Bravo, Silvia Acid Carrillo, and Juan Manuel Fernández Soria. In: Educational Research and Innovation: Trends and Challenges 2020.
   5. Educational policies for the integration of ICT in Spain and the Valencian Community. Laura Monsalve Lorente, Enrique García Tort, Miriam Elisabeth Aguasanta Regalado. In: Estrategias didácticas digitales. Encounters between research and practice. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7881751
   6. European Union strategies and gender equality initiatives in STEM. Laura Monsalve Lorente and Juan García Rubio. In: Pedagogy and cultural changes in the 21st century. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7226965
   7. Towards an inclusive and democratic education in the context of secondary education in Italy Mª Teresa di Piazza, Isabel María Gallardo Fernández, Laura Monsalve Lorente. In: Claves para la innovación pedagógica ante los nuevos retos https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7758039
   8. Covidosofía. Philosophical reflections for the post-pandemic world. Dulcinea Tomás Cámara (Comp.) Barcelona: Paidós.
   9. Critical Thinking Lab: Maieutics for Millenials. Dulcinea Tomás Cámara. In E.J. Díez Gutiérrez and J.R. Rodríguez Fernández (Eds.), Educación para el Bien Común Hacia una práctica crítica, inclusiva y comprometida socialmente, pp. 242-251. Barcelona: Editorial Octaedro.
   10. Absenteeism at school and municipal intervention: an analysis of the Valencian Community. José Ignacio Cruz Orozco and Vicent Horcas López. In: Absentemo escolar y exclusión social: una vulneración del derecho a la educación / José Ignacio Cruz Orozco (ed. lit.) and Sandra García de Fez (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 9788418155857, pp. 55-78.
   11. " 20th century poetry and commitment in the Spanish school culture of the transition". Mora-Luna, Antonia María. In: Miguel Ángel García (ed.), El compromiso en la poesía española del siglo XX y el canon académico actual, Granada, Editorial Comares, 2020, pp. 275-306. ISBN: 978-84-1369-026-1
   12. Cruz Orozco, José Ignacio (2020), Pending revolution and socialisation of youth. The political utopia of the Spanish Falange in Bares, Juan de and Oncina, Faistino (coords.) Utopías y ucronías. Una aproximación histórico-conceptual, Barcelona, Edicions Bellaterra, pp. 229-250 Year:) ISBN: 978-84-7290-947-2.
   13. Monsalve Lorente, Laura (2020), Towards an inclusive and democratic education in the context of secondary education in Italy. In: Claves para la innovación pedagógica ante los nuevos retos: respuestas en la vanguardia de la práctica educativa / coord.. by Eloy López Meneses, David Cobos Sanchiz, Laura Molina García, Alicia Jaén Martínez, Antonio Hilario Martín Padilla, Editorial Octaedro, pp.... 545-553. ISBN 978-84-18348-22-8
   14. Monsalve Lorente, Laura, García Tort, Enrique and Aguasanta Regalado, Miriam Elizabeth(2020). Educational policies for the integration of ICT in Spain and the Valencian Community. In: Estrategias didácticas digitales: Encuentros entre la investigación y la práctica / coord. Diana Marín Suelves and José Peirats Chacón. Editorial Calambur. Pp. 43-62. ISBN 978-84-8359-499-5
3. Articles in specialist journals
   1. Neoliberal higher education policies as a response to a new state model. Pro-market practices in the public university, Alexandra Carrasco González. Journal of Higher Education 2020.
   2. Structural model of extrinsic factors influencing flipped learning, Santiago MengualAndrés, Jesús López Belmonte, Arturo Fuentes Cabrera, and Santiago Pozo Sánchez. Education XX1: Journal of the Faculty of Education 2020.
   3. School absenteeism in Spain. Datos y reflexiones, José Ignacio Cruz Orozco. Contextos educativos: Revista de educación 2020.
   4. Cultural identity and the right to education, Juan Manuel Fernández Soria. Contextos educativos: Revista de educación 2020.
   5. Computational thinking and coding in primary education: scientific productivity on SCOPUS, Annalisa Piazza, and Santiago Mengual-Andrés. Pixel-Bit: Journal of media and education 2020.
   6. Internet and people with intellectual disability: A bibliometric analysis, S. Mengual-Andrés, E. Chiner, and M. Gómez-Puerta. Sustainability (Switzerland) 2020. doi: 10.3390/su122310051
   7. Computational thinking and coding in primary education: Scientific productivity on SCOPUS, 
   8. A. Piazza, and S. Mengual-Andrés. Pixel-Bit, Journal of Media and Education 2020. doi: 10.12795/pixelbit.79769
   9. Structural model of influential extrinsic factors in flipped learning, S. Mengual-Andrés, J. López Belmonte, A. Fuentes Cabrera, and S. Pozo Sánchez. Educacion XX1 2020. doi: 10.5944/educxx1.23840
   10. New learning ecologies in the curriculum, Laura Monsalve Lorente and Miriam Elizabeth Aguasanta Regalado. RELATEC: Latin American Journal of Educational Technology 2020
   11. Epistemologíx transmodernx: Alternative genealogies of thought in the face of the pandemic. Dulcinea Tomás Cámara. Cuadernos Abiertos de Crítica y Coproducción: Autores colectivos institución y coproducción, 2, pp. 10-23.
   12. The classroom as space of welcome: Exploration of the current challenges of teaching Spanish for refugees. Dulcinea Tomás Cámara. Culture and Education, 32(4), pp. 776-795.

Publications 2019

1. Books and book chapters
   1. Teaching and learning the promotion of health education in schools. Laura Monsalve Lorente and Engracia Soler Pardo. In: Re-inventing research in health and education for a transcultural society. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7502710
   2. Emerging technologies and didactic trends in educational scenarios. Arturo Fuentes Cabrera, Eloy López Meneses, Jesús López Belmonte, Santiago Mengual-Andrés (coord.). Editorial Octaedro.
   3. "Miguel Hernández and Portuguese Neo-Realism: childhood in the literature of commitment". Mora-Luna, Antonia María. In: Carina Infante do Carmo and Violante F. Magalhães (coords.), NeoRealismo e Infância, Lisbon, Edições Colibri, 2019, pp. 181-195.ISBN: 978-989-689-839-7.
   4. José Ignacio Cruz Orozco, (2019, While we still don't like Spain, we can't have holidays. An approach to the camps of the Frente de Juventudes in the province of Valencia (1937-1955) in Mayordomo, A. and Paya, A, (eds.), Pedagogía. Thought, politics and practice. Historical readings in contemporary Valencian society, Valencia, Tirant humanidades, pp. 59-75.
   5. Laura Monsalve Lorente and Juan García Rubio. (2019). European Union strategies and gender equality initiatives in STEM, In: Pedagogy and cultural changes in the 21st century: rethinking education / coord. Laura Monsalve Lorente, Isabel Pardo Baldoví and María Isabel Vidal Esteve. Editorial Octaedro. Pp. 147-158 ISBN: 978-84-18083-18-1
2. Articles in specialist journals
   1. When Franco falls: Educational proposals for Spain from exile (1945), José Ignacio Cruz Orozco, and Sandra García de Fez. History and Memory of Education 9, (2019) pp. 101-138.
   2. The destruction of republican modernity: No (...) reasons for the Spanish pedagogical exile, Juan Manuel Fernández Soria. History and Memory of Education.
   3. The pedagogical exile of 1939, Salomó Marquès Sureda, and José Ignacio Cruz Orozco. History and Memory of Education 2019.
   4. The Great Red Scourge. Arguments for the extension of Secondary Education in Spain (1953-1961), José Ignacio Cruz Orozco. Revista Complutense de Educación, vol.30, nº 4, (2019), pp. 983-996. ISSN: 1130-2496.
   5. José Ignacio Cruz Orozco, (2019), The proposal on education of the Commission for the Study of Spanish Problems (1945), History and Memory of Education, 9, pp. 669-710.
   6. Cruz Orozco, José Ignacio (2019), Two pedagogical models with and in nature: The Explorers of Spain and the Youth Front, Sarmiento. Revista Galego-Portuguesa de Historia da Educación, 22, pp. 37- 50.
   7. Cruz-Orozco, J.I.; Fernández-Soria, J.M. (2019), Conversations with Antonio Viñao. Formative years (1943-1982), Interuniversity Journal of the History of Education, (37) pp. 481-525. 

This project analyses the linguistic mechanisms of persuasion in both English and Spanish and in verbal and non-verbal language. To this end, a review of the different linguistic (pragmatico-discursive) theories on persuasion, argumentation and rhetoric is carried out and different samples of business/institutional discourse are analysed to discover mechanisms of persuasion in each of the two languages. 

The results can demonstrate differences in the different mechanisms used in English and Spanish, which are therefore specific to each language, but also mechanisms that are comparable. These results will be basic to design ad hoc materials for the training plan of two different levels (ESO and University).

The Environmental and Biomedical Viruses Lab is located at the Insitute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio, UV-CSIC). Research at the EnBiVir lab is focused in the isolation and detection of viruses in nature with biomedical applications. Environmental virology, viral emergence, virus evolution, and phage discovery in the biomedical context, are the main research lines. Phages are ubiquitous in the environment and immensely diverse, making phage discovery a powerful source of new therapies against pathogenic bacteria, due to the emergence of multidrug-resistant strains. In addition, the lab is interested in environmental epidemiology, mainly in SARS-CoV-2 detection in wastewater and other natural environments, as a tool for monitoring populations and as early detection tool in surveillance. In addition, the group is interested in translational research, and has transfer contracts with national companies with biomedical and biotech purposes.

Our main research activity aims to answer open questions in particle physics and cosmology, which point to the existence of new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). The origin of the mass and hierarchical structure in the flavour sector of the SM remains a mystery. Deviations from the SM are most likely to be found by exploring the high-energy frontier, at the LHC, where we hope to unravel the mechanism by which particles acquire mass. 

The recent discovery of the Higgs has confirmed the basic mechanism of the SM, but the problem of hierarchies remains open. The exploration of the lepton flavour sector is equally important, since it is in this sector that the first clues to a new physics sector, in the mass of neutrinos, have already been found. An ambitious experimental programme involving experiments with neutrino beams produced in accelerators and reactors will determine the still unknown properties of neutrinos: the mixing matrix and the possibility of new sources of CP symmetry violation (which could be the seed of the baryonic asymmetry of the Universe), as well as the structure of the neutrino spectrum. The search for neutrinoless beta decay can determine whether neutrinos are Majorana particles. 

Finally, many of the theories beyond the SM predict significant deviations in quark flavour sector observables, which have been and will continue to be measured with increasing precision in flavour factories. 

In cosmology, a similarly ambitious experimental effort is underway, aiming to clarify fundamental questions such as the inflaton mechanism, the nature of dark matter (DM) or the origin of accelerated expansion. In particular, a significant improvement in the measurements of the background radiation (CMB) has recently been obtained by the PLANCK satellite. Plans are already underway for the next generation of CMB experiments (CMB-Pol, COrE). The BOSS experiment that started taking data in 2009 has already defined a new standard in the study of large-scale structure, measuring the redshift of light from 1.5 million galaxies, which will constitute the largest 3D map ever obtained. These experiments will offer a unique opportunity, complementary to particle experiments, to unravel the underlying dynamics of the EM. 

Progress in this field will be dictated by the new data, but a theoretical effort is also necessary for this programme to be successful. Models that explain some, or ideally all, of the unanswered questions must be identified and confronted with particle and cosmology experiments to be confirmed, falsified or constrained. The predictions of such models must be accurate enough not to limit the potential of the experiments. This is difficult in some areas such as quark flavour physics, where intensive numerical simulations are necessary. Also in cosmology, non-linear effects, galaxy biases and galaxy evolution must be taken into account to reduce systematic errors. These investigations can also guide the optimisation of future experiments.

The research activity will focus on the following lines of research:

1. Development and implementation of Food Quality and Safety.
2. Elucidation, research and study of extracts and/or bioactive compounds of food origin.
3. Development of new food products.
4. Basic and applied research through the development and study of clinical trials in the field of pathologies associated with nutrition.
5. Development of new tools based on information and communication technologies (ICT) for use in food education at teaching and care level.
6. Anthropometric and nutritional assessment and ergogenic aids in sport.

The main focus of the research group is on the confrontation of the predictions of the Standard Model with experimental data, paying special attention to the results of the LHC and the latest analyses of the Tevatron and B meson factories, as well as to the neutrino experiments and those relevant to the dark matter and dark energy aspects of the Universe.

The comparison of such experimental data with the Standard Model, as well as with its possible feasible extensions, is aimed at providing the necessary information to answer current questions in fundamental physics such as:

• Why do fermions appear replicated in three (and only three?) families with virtually identical properties?
• What is the origin of the hierarchy of masses and mixtures observed in the fermionic families, both in the quark and lepton sectors?
• Is there a fundamental reason for the observed left-right asymmetry in weak interactions?
• What dynamics are responsible for the CP symmetry violation?
• In this context, given the current precision and the amount of available experimental data provided by the above experiments, it is important from a theoretical point of view to develop the necessary techniques to properly analyse the experimental data. To this end, a precise and thorough study of the phenomenology of the proposed theoretical models, both of the Standard Model and its extensions, is essential. A fundamental aspect, towards which the project is oriented, is an adequate selection of those observables that allow a better identification of the effects sought. The final comparison between predictions and existing experimental data can corroborate or discard the proposed theoretical models. In this context, the topics under investigation by the group fall under the following headings: 

1. Flavour dynamics and CP violation: study of the fermion mixing matrix (CKM), proposal of time-reversal observables. Comparison of theoretical predictions with experimental results. 
2. Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics: study of the neutrino mass and mixing hierarchy. Implications for leptogenesis and dark matter. 
3. QCD and Hadronic Physics: non-perturbative study of QCD propagators at low energies, calculation of heavy meson form factors and light quark masses by means of sum rules in QCD. 
4. Gauge Field Theories, Higgs Boson and Form Factors: study of the magnetic dipole moment and the magnetic form factor of the tau lepton. 
5. Supersymmetry and beyond the Standard Model: study of the relationship between particle physics and cosmology by means of supersymmetric theoretical models involving the existence of new particles. Relationship of supersymmetric models and dark matter.

The team is currently composed of 9 University Professors: G. Barenboim, J. Bernabéu, J. Bordes, F. Botella, J. Papavassiliou, J. Peñarrocha, M. A. Sanchis-Lozano, J. Vidal and O. Vives, research fellows, contract and postdocs attached to the Department of Theoretical Physics (UV) and IFIC (UV-CSIC).

The GENTEXT research group has been working in depth for several years on the compilation, analysis and exploitation of different corpora of socio-ideological texts. In particular, we are working on the following corpora:

• GENTEXT-N (texts from print media) 
• GENTEXT-W (texts from virtual forums and social media) 
• GENTEXT-I (texts from the Internet)

In other words, the GENTEXT group has been compiling, analysing and exploiting media texts (from both print and digital media), in English and Spanish, focusing on issues related to gender and social/sexual (in)equality. In order to delimit this very broad thematic area, the preferred subjects of study are:

•  Gender-based violence 
•  Homosexuality 
•  Abortion

With this vast amount of study material, we aim to:

• Produce specialised corpora. 
• Analyse said corpora, combining quantitative (corpus linguistics) and qualitative (critical discourse analysis, lexical pragmatics, evaluation theory, gender studies) methodologies.
• Elaborate a pragmatic-ideological dictionary (initially in Spanish, and in the long term in English) including a detailed treatment of key words on gender and contemporary social and sexual (in)equality. 
• Didactically exploit both the corpora and the other materials produced.

The ISP research group, http://isp.uv.es, has a long tradition in statistical analysis of data coming from imaging systems. These measurements depend on the properties of the scenes and the physics of the imaging process, and their relevance depends on the (natural or artificial) observer that will analyze the data. Our distinct approach to signal, image and vision processing combines machine learning theory with the understanding of the underlying physics and biological vision. Applications mainly focus on optical remote sensing and computational visual neuroscience. Empirical statistical inference, also known as machine learning, is a field of computer science interested in making predictions, and models from observations and sensory data. The information processing tools in machine learning are critical to understand the function of natural neural networks involved in biological vision, as well as to make inferences in complex dynamic network systems, such as the Earth biosphere, atmosphere, and ecosystems. 

Problems in Visual Neuroscience and in Remote Sensing based geosciences require similar mathematical tools. For example, both scientific fields face model inversion and model understanding problems. In both cases, one has a complex forward model that is difficult to invert (to extract information from) either because it is not analytically invertible (undetermined) or because the measurements (or responses) are noisy in nature. In Remote Sensing, the forward model is the imaging process given certain state conditions in the surface and atmosphere. In Visual Neuroscience, the forward model includes what is known in the neural pathway from the retina to the different regions of the visual cortex. Inversion of such models is key to make quantitative and meaningful inferences about the underlying system that generated the observed data. Beyond such quantitative assessment, a qualitative interpretation of the proposed models is mandatory as well. Qualitative understanding is more challenging than prediction, and causal inference from empirical data is the common playground both in geoscience and neuroscience. Simultaneous observations and recordings from a phenomenon lead to multidimensional signals that may display strong statistical correlation between the components. However, correlation is not enough to establish cause-effect relationships. This is key when analyzing activation and inhibition in the communication between different brain regions, and it is also of paramount relevance when studying the causes, effects and confounders of essential climate variables for detection and attribution in climate science. Finally, another parallelism is the analysis of big visual data: hyperspectral imagery acquired by current and upcoming satellite sensors pose a big-data information processing problem in similar ways to that in the visual brain. Adaptation, pattern recognition, inference and decision making in the brain may be quite inspiring for remote sensing image analysis. 

The group is therefore organized into a theoretical research branch (A) and a more applied research branch (B). The theoretical machine learning core tackles model inversion, interpretation, causal inference from empirical data and inclusion of physical constraints and prior knowledge in big visual data. The applied research lines are devoted to apply and adapt the theoretrical developments for remote sensing, geociences and visual neuroscience. For the sake of simplicity, we have grouped together these activities along five conceptual research lines: machine learning, visual neuroscience, image processing, remote sensing and big data processing.

The main purpose of IDAL is the study and application of intelligent methods of data analysis for pattern recognition, with applications that struggle with prediction, classification or trend determination.

Its members apply classic statistical methods and automatic learning techniques to large databases: statistical hypothesis testing, linear models, feature selection and extraction, neural networks, clustering algorithms, decision trees, support vector machines, probabilistic graphical models, manifold visualization, fuzzy logic, reinforcement learning, etc.

The ultimate goal of the application of these methods is to generate mathematical models which enable the optimization of processes and resources, as well as to reach the optimal decision making stage. A clear example of this is the area of health, where IDAL has developed clinical decision support application based on data analysis. These applications make it possible to improve the patient’s quality of life (establishing optimal clinical guidelines) while reducing healthcare costs.

Complementing this knowledge, the group has extensive experience in signal processing (spectral analysis, digital filter, adaptive process, etc.) due to their work of over 10 years in biosignal processing (mainly ECG and EEG). With all this background, IDAL is able to analyse a wide range of data and signals. This fact is backed up by the large number of both private and public contracts it has developed in different areas of knowledge. Furthermore, most of the practical work carried out has been displayed in important scientific publications with high impact parameters and in a large number of communications to international congresses within the area of data analysis.

Among the developed applications, (outside the health area already mentioned) are the following, i.a: web recommendations, models for optimal incentive management to gain customer loyalty, measurement-based shoe recommendations, and other data analysis consultancy works. In addition to its practical work IDAL, it develops new data analysis algorithms improving the performance of the existing ones. This research work is also reflected in a wide dissemination in the form of different publications in journals of impact and in congresses of data analysis relevant to the scientific community.

The Laboratory for Earth Observation (LEO, http://ipl.uv.es/leo/) is part of the interdisciplinary research unit Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) from the University of Valencia. Led by Prof. J. Moreno, deals with most of the technical and scientific aspects of Earth observation, including design of new instrument missions, processing of new data types, in particular optical multi-angular and hyperspectral data. 

Research lines of LEO involve: Theoretical modeling of radiative transfer processes of natural surfaces, with emphasis on hyperspectral sampling of the electromagnetic radiation Development of algorithms and implementation of physical model inputs in Earth observation products: model inversion and data assimilation. Development of new instruments and techniques related to detection of fluorescence. Development of data processing methods (atmospheric correction, geometric corrections related to multi-angular systems, processing chains) Monitoring of natural vegetation, hydrological cycles, desertification, CO2 fluxes, and energy balances using Earth observation data. Definition of requirements, development of processing algorithms and data simulation for future sensors and missions (FLEX, CHIME, SPECTRA), calibration and validation of optical satellite data (Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3, PROBA) and airborne data (CFL, AHS, CASI, HYPER).

The LEO group started its work in the field of imaging spectroscopy in 1998 with the participation of Prof. José Moreno as coordinator of the field activities for ESA's DAISEX98 experiment. This experiment was set up to test the new hyperspectral airborne DAIS sensor developed by the German Aerospace Agency (DLR). Since then, LEO has been involved in more than 50 national and international research projects. In those projects, the group has dealt with most of the technical and scientific aspects of Earth observation, including design of new instrument missions, processing of new data types, in particular optical multi-angular and hyperspectral data.

The group has developed a processing chain for automatic image preprocessing; starting from raw data, identifying and correcting for all types of noise, until delivery of atmospherically and geometrically corrected reflectance data and derived products (e.g. cloud maps, aerosol optical depth) at the highest possible quality. This processing chain is currently implemented in the ESA Basic ERS & Envisat (A)ATSR and MERIS Toolbox (BEAM) and has recently been applied to new generation optical sensors. 

LEO has taken the lead in the ESA FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX) project running since 2007, which will be the first mission designed to globally map chlorophyll fluorescence emission originated from the terrestrial vegetation (http://ipl.uv.es/flex-parcs). FLEX was been accepted to become ESA's 8th Earth Explorer, which is planned to be launched in 2022. FLEX is proposed to fly in tandem with Copernicus' Sentinel-3 satellite to detect interrelated features of fluorescence, hyperspectral reflectance, and canopy temperature.
 

The Materials Technology and Sustainability Research Group (MATS) of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Universitat de València focuses its research activity on the design, development, characterisation and validation of technologies for the preparation and functionalisation of materials with a multi-sectoral character, and with a focus on sustainability within the concept of circular economy. 

MATS' lines of work include: 

• the development of technologies for obtaining and functionalising (nano/micro) polymeric fibres and films, composites and hybrids, and their transfer to industrial sectors based on membrane technology: effluent treatment, packaging and biomedicine, among others; 
• research into the correlation between the physico-chemical properties of polymeric and hybrid materials and their performance in service conditions, aimed at design re-engineering; 
• the evaluation of alternatives for the material, chemical, energy and biological recovery of plastic waste, under the concept of circular economy and the use of bio-resources; 
• the development of advanced reaction techniques using supercritical fluids or emerging solvents to obtain polymers of interest; and 
• the design of nanostructured catalysts using electrochemical techniques for the preparation of hybrid membranes.

MATS is made up of a multidisciplinary team, with expertise in (bio)polymer and composite technology, advanced reaction processes with sustainable emerging solvents, hybrid catalyst generation for environmental technologies and corrosion control techniques. In this way, they are able to address the challenges of industries and institutions committed to sustainable innovation in environmentally efficient and value-added products and processes. MATS is also committed to the transfer of research and innovation results to society, by means of

• the training of qualified professionals in a scientific-technological and international environment, through internships, academic stays and the development of doctoral and master's theses; 
• the preparation of specialised training courses and workshops in the field of sustainability and the circular economy of materials; 
• dissemination in general and specialised environments and 
• collaboration in networks and technological platforms for the development of Research, Development and Innovation projects.

Chemistry of Molecular Materials: Polyoxometalate chemistry, Inorganic magnetic clusters, Inorganic molecule-based magnets, New molecular conductors, Hybrid organic-inorganic molecular materials combining magnetism with conducting or optical properties, Organized magnetic films, Electroactive conducting polymers.

Physical Characterization of Molecular Materials: Magneto-structural properties (ac and dc susceptibilities, magnetization, ESR, Inelastic Neutron Scattering, single-crystal X-ray diffraction), Transport properties (single-crystal electrical conductivities, magnetoresistance).

Models In Molecular Magnetism: Exchange interactions in large magnetic clusters and low dimensional magnets, Energy levels and magnetic properties, Exchange interactions between orbitally degenerate centers, Double exchange and electron delocalization in Mixed Valence systems.

Molecular Electronics Devices: SPIN- OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diode), SPIN Valves, OFETs (Organic Field Effect Transistors).

This group brings together researchers from different universities and disciplines who share a common goal: to develop research aimed, firstly, at providing a comprehensive education that contributes to the personal, intercultural and social education of 21st century students and, secondly, at developing their reading, linguistic, critical and creative skills and abilities.

To this end, we combine educational research with didactic innovation to study the pedagogical value of the use and impact of multiliteracies and multimodal resources in the classroom, through the approach of several cross-disciplines related primarily to the humanities, art education, foreign language teaching and new technologies for learning and knowledge (TAC).

The aim of Lit(T)erart is to deepen the contribution of these areas, mainly in teacher training and in the development of curricular proposals that promote the cognitive, conceptual, socio-cultural and aesthetic dimensions, and then focus on the design of an evaluation system based on the creation of rubrics that show the progress of students and the validity of the proposed methodology.

In line with the EHEA guidelines, we propose to build a didactic scaffolding based on the pedagogy of multiliteracies that not only considers language as an exclusive form for the construction of meanings, but also incorporates multimodality as a mode of representation for creating and expressing ideas.

Research and study of the activity of products of natural origin, mainly plant-based, in in vivo experimental models of dermatitis and intestinal inflammation. Study of the mechanism of action in different in vitro models. Measurement of inflammatory mediators in cell cultures.

The research objectives of our group are the design and analysis of numerical methods that can make efficient use of available computational resources by adapting them to data from a numerical simulation of predominantly convective processes or from adaptive image and signal processing using multiresolution techniques.

The numerical methods for partial differential equations that we design and analyse are used in fields as diverse as gas dynamics, both compressible and incompressible, sedimentation of polydisperse suspensions, flows in porous media, dynamics of charged particles, shallow water models, etc. The ability to use approximation techniques within a multi-resolution environment has proven extremely useful in the compression of strongly gradient signals in applications such as image restoration, disparity calculations or optical flow. Techniques specifically designed to preserve other data properties, such as convexity and monotonicity, are also used, which is crucial in the data generation process in various applications.

Our research is focused on the neurobiological mechanisms of addictive disorders, specifically the environmental factors that influence cocaine-associated psychiatric comorbidities (including stress) and their impact on the different stages of development (prenatal, infancy, adolescence and adulthood), as well as gender differences. Cocaine remains the second most commonly used illicit drug in Europe, and levels of cocaine use are particularly high in Spain. The age at which initial consumption takes place is of special significance, as well as the environmental/epigenetic factors that modulate an overt clinical phenotype of cocaine addiction. Chronic consumption of cocaine can lead not only to addiction but also to several associated disorders, including psychiatric complications (depression, psychosis, attentional deficits/hyperactivity and anxiety disorders.

Cocaine remains the second most widely used illicit drug in Europe and levels of cocaine use are particularly high in Spain.

The age at which initial use takes place is of particular importance, as are the environmental/epigenetic factors that modulate the clinical phenotype of cocaine addiction. Chronic cocaine use can lead not only to addiction, but also to several associated disorders, including psychiatric complications (depression, psychosis, attention deficit/hyperactivity and anxiety disorders).

As part of our work, we develop animal models for translational research in humans. In addition, we assess the influence of cannabis, alcohol, heroin and MDMA use on the occurrence of comorbid disorders in cocaine addiction. Our specific objectives are:

a. To identify the neurobiological substrates underlying the increase in drug seeking triggered by social stress (brief and repeated social defeat), as numerous studies indicate that different types of physical and social stress are risk factors in the onset, escalation and relapse of psychostimulant use.

b. To identify the contribution of individual traits underlying the propensity for drug addiction, such as a high novelty-seeking phenotype

c. To study the long-term effects of drug use in adolescence, as this is a critical period in the maturation and final development of the CNS.

d. To study the neurobiological mechanisms of relapse in order to understand addictive disorders as a chronic and persistent disease.
 

We are currently working in collaboration with other groups of the Addictive Disorders Network (RTA), specifically with Dr. Consuelo Guerri, Dr. Jorge Manzanares, Dr. Olga Valverde, Dr. María L. Laorden, Dr. Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca and Dr. Paz Viveros. We have the following behavioural procedures in our laboratory: conditioned place preference (CPP), self-administration (SA), open field, elevated maze, water maze, active and passive avoidance boxes, ethopharmacological evaluation system (social interaction), prepulse inhibition (PPI), recognition test, computerised measurement of motor activity. The following neurochemical techniques are also frequently used in our research: high-precision liquid chromatography system to detect catecholamines in brain tissue; western blot to determine monoamine transporters; corticosterone and ELISA determination.

The Psychonomy Research Unit (PRU) is a research unit directed by Prof. Dr. Hector Monterde i Bort, who is also responsible for the Universitat de València-Estudi General (UVEG) in those projects in which the Psychonomy Research Unit participates, with the PIC Code: 999953019. 

The Psychonomics Research Unit was founded in 2002 as a research unit within the Department of Methodology of Behavioural Sciences of the Universitat de València, and is now internationally known, being referenced in several scientific and professional websites. Since its constitution, it has provided advisory services, survey design and data processing to professionals in psychology and other health sciences, to national and local institutions, such as the Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de la CV, the Consejo General de la Psicología de España or municipal offices, as well as international institutions, such as the European Federation of Psychologists Associations (EFPA), the Standing Committee on Traffic Psychology or the International Co-Operation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic Safety. The Psychonomics Research Unit has also been commissioned and has carried out tasks as an "expert" internationally in the three lines of research in which it specialises.
 
The research group has organised and organises scientific congresses and working meetings in different states or countries. The Psychonomics Research Unit has also participated as a partner (research member of the consortium) and responsible for the Universitat de València in 5 international projects, 3 of which have been funded by the European Commission (in the Framework Programmes), one by a global institution, and one by the Dutch national government:
 
2003-2005: Life Quality of Senior Citizens in Relation to Mobility Conditions (SIZE). 5th Framework Programme (EU): 'Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources', key action 6 ('The Ageing Populations and Disabilities'). Contract number: QLRT-2002-02399.
 
2006-2007: Implementation of urban mobility observatory in Bogotá -Colombia-. Projejct funded by the World Bank through the Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá (Colombia), and the private companies Organización Pablo Bocarejo Ingenieros-Consultores (Colombia) and TOOL-ULEE, S.A. (Spain). Main researcher on the Spanish Side: Hector Monterde i Bort (contract between Tool-Ulee, S.A. and the Universitat de València, through the OTRI). 

2006-2010: Pedestrian's Quality Needs (PQN). European Science Fundation (7th Framework Programme -EU-). Leader of the Working Group 1: "Functional Needs". Ref.: COST Action 356.
 
2011-2013: Road Safety in the Ageing Societies - Concerns and Solutions (CONSOL). European Commission (7th Framework Programme of EU). Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (MOVE/SUB/01-2010). Directorate C-Innovative and Sustainable Mobility. Contract ref.: 
MOVE/C4/SUB/2010-125/SI2.601704/CONSOL. 

2014-2015: Benchmark Traffic Safety Policy. Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. Ref.: D03091.000059.0100.

Models in molecular magnetism:

1. Exchange interactions in large magnetic clusters and low dimensional magnets, Energy levels and magnetic properties, Exchange interactions between orbitally degenerate centers,
2. Crystal field interactions in single ion magnets for quantum computing.
3. Double exchange and electron delocalization in Mixed Valence systems. Chemistry of polyoxometalates: Polyoxometalates for quantum computing: The possibility of using polyoxometalates to develop new magnetic clusters of interest as q-bits for quantum computing, and as single molecule magnets will be explored. Physical characterization of molecular materials: Magneto-structural properties (ac and dc susceptibilities, magnetization, ESR, Inelastic Neutron Scattering, single-crystal X-ray diffraction).

The group is made up of a group of researchers in experimental science didactics.

Our main objective is to diagnose problems in the teaching and learning of science and to propose treatments that can contribute to overcoming them, both in formal and informal science education. To this end, we research on teacher training, developing proposals for improvement; on the skills to be acquired by young people and teachers in Education for Sustainability and Health Education; on argumentation and critical thinking in science teaching; in the use of STS science-technology-society relations, CSC socioscientific issues and the history of science in science education; in the use of inquiry-based methodology in science teaching from the early stages of formal education; and in the application of neuroscience to science education.

The “Social Neuroscience” research unit is focused on the scientific study of different social issues from a biopsychosocial perspective, considering the humanistic approach to understand human behaviour. The work being carried out is mainly focused on the study of cooperation and empathy, violence and social stress.

Neurocriminology aims to apply the methodology and techniques of neuroscience in order to understand, predict, treat and even prevent violence and criminality. Neurocriminological knowledge could be used in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of violence, as well as in the estimation of the probability of recidivism. While this is not free of ethical-legal issues, neuroscience is becoming an important influence on the understanding and study of violent and criminal behaviour. In this context, positive neurocriminology focuses on positive processes such as empathy, altruism, positive emotions and prosocial behaviour, among others. This knowledge derived from the research lines implemented could be used in the development of crime prevention and intervention programmes.

Cooperation is a typically human behaviour focused on social relationships, which can be defined as an adaptive strategy consisting of acting jointly with one another, increasing the probability of achieving a common purpose. Such cooperative behaviour is the result of cognitive and emotional processes related to constructs such as altruism and empathy.

Therefore, the most relevant application of this research is the use of the results obtained in the promotion of prosocial behaviour and the prevention and treatment of antisocial behaviour. However, there is still little research, under controlled laboratory conditions, that has analysed the psychobiological changes that occur when cooperating. One particular situation where cooperation, altruism and empathy occur is surrogacy, in which many women freely choose to participate in order to help others who are unable to be pregnant with their child. They expose their bodies and endanger their health to help others achieve their dream of parenthood. There are few comparable examples, perhaps a similar situation is when a living person donates an organ to someone they do not know. One of the most satisfying parts of the process for these women is the sight of the parents' faces as they hold their own baby in their arms at the moment of birth. Studying how these people’s brains work, the neurobiological mechanisms and the psychological aspects that lead them to be able to do something so wonderful for other people can help us to a large extent to be a more caring society, with greater moral development and, in short, more empathetic and less violent.

All of the above gives this research line a special neuroscientific relevance, since its main objective is to analyse the changes in activation, emotionality and stress induced by cooperation, as well as by other modulating factors such as gender and the result obtained in it. The results we are obtaining could be extrapolated to educational, work, political and any other social context in which interpersonal relationships are established.

Knowledge of the psychobiological mechanisms of cooperation would provide us with relevant information to advance in the development of a more cooperative and empathetic social model. In recent years, mindfulness has established itself as a very useful intervention strategy in the healthcare setting, as it has a beneficial influence on the health of different populations. In addition, some research has indicated that mindfulness-based interventions positively influence empathy in university students and healthcare professionals. These results are promising for the introduction of mindfulness in the training of psychologists. However, the studies conducted so far have only included self-report measures to assess empathy, which does not allow us to affirm that these interventions are really useful, since the increase in the subjective perception of the participants does not ensure an improvement in their empathic ability. In this regard, further research that includes situational assessment of empathy is needed, including performance measures and biological markers such as oxytocin, a hormone that has been linked to empathy and bonding. People with alcohol and/or drug dependence problems present neuropsychological and psychophysiological deficits that lead to alterations in emotional, cognitive and behavioural regulation. As a result, they tend to behave impulsively, without considering future consequences, whether negative or positive, and fail to use the information available in the environment to foresee the consequences of their actions and inhibit their behaviour. These impulsive behaviours in men convicted of violence against women in intimate partner violence (so-called batterers) have been directly related to violent behaviour, with this association being modulated, in a high percentage of cases, by the consumption of alcohol and/or other substances of abuse. However, other types of abusers often use a premeditated or proactive type of violence that has been consistently linked to psychopathy and is often also associated with alcohol and/or other drug use. These studies provide additional information on gender-based violence by allowing us to concretely describe its neurocriminological profile and to delimit the role of alcohol and/or drug use in the propensity to violence. It also makes it possible to analyse the effectiveness of the treatments on the neuropsychological and psychophysiological variables analysed. The results of this work are being applied nationally and even internationally, and could be extended to a multitude of people in similar situations. The fact that it includes physiological parameters together with psychological indicators makes it very valuable. The increase in life expectancy, together with advances in current health systems, are some of the most relevant factors in explaining the phenomenon of dependency in our country. This fact, together with the social change resulting from the progressive incorporation of women into the workplace, is detrimental to the traditional family-based care system, where the family caregiver was solely responsible for the care of the sick person. However, the informal caregiver continues to represent the main care resource for dependent people, in most cases embodied in women. Prolonged caregiving is a chronic stressor that has serious consequences for the caregiver’s health, directly affecting their quality of life. Our studies are aimed at the analysis of specific variables of particular conditions, with the aim of creating explanatory models of the caregiving situation. The search for happiness is universal and as ancient as humanity, which has pursued it incessantly since its origins. This desire to be happy is so important that some countries have now begun to measure their development in terms of Happiness Index per capita. Moreover, in recent decades the science of Psychology has gone from studying only mental disorders and their treatment to deciphering how to achieve an optimal functioning of the mind that allows us to live happily. This latter science is called Positive Psychology. Research is currently being carried out into the origins of happiness and the pleasant feelings that accompany it: contentment, hope, optimism and joy. Thanks to the great advance in knowledge about the brain, we know that happiness is not a state that is reached by chance, but is the result of the activity of brain circuits designed by evolution to produce this state of well-being.

Happiness is therefore a product of the brain, which can be studied scientifically like any other function of the human mind. Knowledge on what activates these circuits allows us to act, voluntarily, to our benefit. We know that the brain is constantly changing throughout life, which is called neuroplasticity, no matter how old we are or what experiences we have had. Thus, by managing our thoughts and actions, we can bring about those brain changes that make us feel happy. This knowledge, based on the latest research in Neuroscience and Psychology on the neuroplasticity of the brain, enable us to restructure our brain in order to control our emotions and enjoy greater well-being and happiness. Scientific research shows that happiness is very beneficial, since it enhances the resources and tools that allow us to cope with the ups and downs that occur naturally throughout life. It also improves intellectual capacity and motivation, enhances creativity and increases interest in the world, cooperation and empathy, and is also very beneficial for health.

The research group on education for back health has a long history with studies published as early as 1997. The educational aspect of the group was set up in 2011 and was formalised as a group within the Universitat de València in 2020.

The group is interdisciplinary and aims to develop quality research that delves into issues of health education. Its work is oriented to the development of research on educational interventions at different levels of the compulsory education system, loyalty of educational implementations, research in teacher training on pedagogical knowledge of content, evaluation of educational methodologies and research and development of instruments for reliable documentation used in decision-making by teachers in educational contexts, research in evaluation of the educational system and the development and implementation of a curriculum that considers health and back care as fundamental aspects in improving the quality of life of citizens.

The aim of the group is to provide evidence of the need for health education from an early age, to develop knowledge and curricular material adapted to different ages and educational contexts, to design, develop and evaluate interventions in compulsory education, to train teachers in the development and application of interventions in educational centres. The group also aims to connect knowledge and scientific method with educational practice through the development of research and innovation projects with educational centres using socio-ecological models.

The teaching staff of the research group is part of the teaching staff of the Teaching Faculty of the Universitat de València, participating in the Master's Degree in Teacher Training in Secondary Education, specialising in Physical Education and in the Master's Degree in Research in Specific Didactics, specialising in Physical Education, teaching and directing final master's degree projects. He also participates in the Doctorate in Specific Didactics, supervising doctoral theses.

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.

This group focuses on University Pedagogy, Lifelong Education and Sustainable Development. Its aim is to study the educational processes in these areas in order to build knowledge and to specify and apply proposals for improvement:

• In University Pedagogy (analysis of teaching-learning processes at university, transition, failure and drop-out processes, study of the impact of innovative methodologies, design, application and evaluation of good practices, teaching competences, use of ICT in e-a processes, etc.).
• In Education and Sustainability (curricular sustainability, analysis of the contents of university curricula, course guides, development of competences for sustainability, construction of models transferable to the different degrees, analysis and improvement of their approach in formal and non-formal education, etc.).
• In Family and Minors (family educational styles and their evaluation, family diversity, parental competence, parental abuse by children, mediation of family conflicts, training in family intervention, etc.).
• In Coexistence and Conflict Resolution (education and coexistence, education for peace, conflict resolution, teaching and learning of social norms, models of coexistence, disruptive and antisocial behaviour, etc.).
• In Citizenship and Values (moral education, citizenship, education in values, intercultural pedagogy, education and human development, ethics of professions, professional ethics, educational prevention of gender violence, etc.).
• In Media Literacy, ICTs and Video Games (media citizenship, media literacy, values and ICTs, video games and education, simulation games, serious games, uses of video games, etc.). In these fields, this team has already completed several competitive R&D&I projects and is developing others: 
• Teaching strategies and learning strategies at university. Analysis of the impact of key variables on the ways in which university students approach learning. MCyT. (SEC/2003-016787) (2003-2006)
• Introduction of sustainability into the curriculum at the University of Valencia General Study (ACUVEG). Valencian Government. (GV04B-166)(2004-2005)
• Prevention and protection against domestic and gender-based violence within the framework of LO 1/2004 of December 28th. A transdisciplinary perspective. MICINN (SEJ2006-15544)(2006-2009)
• Curricular Greening: design and analysis of interventions of disciplinary dialogue for the development of basic sustainability competences in university education (Early Childhood and Primary Education Degrees). MINECO (SEJ2007-67063) 2007-2010)
•  Excellence in university students from a longitudinal approach: analysis of incident factors and design of an intervention model. MICINN (EDU2009-08518) (2009-2012) 
• Family practices and co-responsibility: Analysis of values and proposal of educational strategies for the reconciliation of personal, social and working life. MICINN. (EDU2009-10250)(2009-2012).
• Prevention and eradication of gender-based violence. Its transdisciplinary study through the media. Education and the performance of judges. MICINN. (DER2010- 018498)(2010-2012)-Compulsory education in the face of audiovisual communication competence in a digital environment. MICINN (EDU2010-21395)(2006-2009)
• Learning-centred methodologies at university. Design, implementation and evaluation. MINECO. (EDU2012-32725)(2013-2015)
• Curricular Sustainability in the Degree Plans: revisions of the basic competences for sustainability in the Course Guides; development and evaluation. MINECO. (EDU2010-21485)(2011-2013)This research has resulted in a significant number of publications in prestigious books and journals and a constant participation in conferences and training activities.

Researchers involved in this research group have been working for several years on the study of youth in its different sides, in the central aspects of its development and of transition to adult life.

Education, participation and work are the three fundamental dimensions on which the analysis is focused, bearing in mind all the processes related to the transition to adult life and their life trajectory's design. Labour insertion in a world of work in deep transformation, the decision to become independent and the participation in public life are the central aspects of this group's research.

The intense stage of social change that Western societies have been experiencing for several decades now requires a thorough study of its consequences on a group that will be involved in future development stages. Work transformation, globalisation, new technologies, the crisis of national representative systems and, in recent years, the economic crisis are profoundly transforming Western societies and changing the processes of socialization.

Young people represent a group of great interest in the study of society in a double sense: on the one hand, because of their current condition and because of all the processes related to socialization and preparation for adult life, such as education, training for responsible participation in political life or transition to adult life in a phase of profound change and pluralization of family structures; on the other hand, because they are the foundation of the future society. The transition from Fordist society to post-Fordist society is entailing a deep crisis in the social structures of Western societies and a progressive decline in Institutions, as Dubet teaches us. This is linked to an intensive process of individualisation, in which the individuals themselves will have to build a new social reality, new social structures capable of organising collective life in a way more suited to the new challenges. This is the main challenge that new generations have to face, and the study of these processes must therefore be focused on the study of young people, their condition and the main processes of transformation in which they are immersed.

Globalisation, on the one hand, and the process of European unification on the other hand, also impose a comparative reflection that tries to separate the specificities of concrete contexts, of common patterns, that can help to read phenomena of global transformation, such as those caused by the digital revolution or by the intensification of international mobility. None of these processes can be properly read without resorting to the use of the gender perspective to provide the analytical gaze with the appropriate richness and depth. New phenomena such as precarious work and its consequences, new life paths, new family structures, territorial mobility and new forms of communication and participation are the phenomena at the centre of the group's research activity. For an adequate development of the research activity, the group has decided to formalize the richness of its studies in 3 lines of research.

The first one is focused on the study of work and its transformation in the digital and global society. The second one is directed towards the analysis of young people's different reactions to the crisis, and not only do we refer to the recent economic recession, but also to the structural crisis that is transforming our society at a very fast pace. Finally, the third line of research aims to analyse all the processes related to the socialization of young people, from the level of primary and informal socialization to education, understood as an institutionalized process of young people's insertion into society.

The research group brings together the consolidated trajectory of researchers with decades of accumulated experience, as well as promoting the already outstanding training capacity of young researchers. The basic defining axis of this group's research is the application of the perspectives of social history and cultural history to the study of contemporary Spain. This area is approached, however, from a comparative perspective and with attention to transnational processes and phenomena, particularly in relation to Europe and Latin America. 

The research group aims to deepen the study of 19th and 20th century Spain by opening up new approaches that transcend the traditional compartmentalisation between political, social and cultural history and address in all its complexity both the transformations of contemporaneity and the study of historical subjects, both individual and collective, and their relationship with nation-states. The aim is to apply renewed perspectives to the study of the social transformations of the Spanish 19th century and their relationship with the emergence of the new institutions of the national state, to the analysis of the changes linked to the emergence of mass society in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century, and to the understanding of the changes and crises of the inter-war period, which open up the configuration of the societies of the second half of the 20th century. 

The study of these problems is based on the development of various analytical perspectives. Firstly, through the study of so-called political cultures, a concept that encompasses not only the analysis of political ideologies but also the social history of politics, forms of sociability and associated cultural practices. In this sense, the possibilities of its application to the study of the political cultures of nineteenth-century liberalism as well as the cultures linked to its questioning will be developed. For the twentieth century, the emergence of new democratic forms of mass politics and their questioning by reactionary nationalism and fascism will also be addressed. Secondly, based on a methodological approach that relates perspectives of social and economic history with the institutional analysis of politics and its cultural dimensions, the analysis of the formation of the Spanish nation-state from below will be developed. The aim is to establish a periodisation of the major stages of the relations between the national state and civil society in nineteenth-century Spain, including an analysis of the trajectory of the notion of the economic subject in the liberal public space and the discursive and political strategies with respect to individual rights and their practical realisation. The third axis is articulated around the study of individual and collective identities. On the one hand, the analytical potential of biographical history will be explored with the aim of providing a complex interpretation of experience, identity, subjectivity and representativeness, all understood as an opportunity for the joint renewal of historiography and conventional biography. It will also address the study of collective identities in 19th and 20th century Spain, paying special attention to the national dimension and the processes of construction of regional and local identities in interaction with the national framework, as well as the study of gender identities. Finally, the forms of construction of cultural representations by literary, cinematographic and artistic materials will be specifically studied, integrating them into the historical analysis. From the approaches of the most recent socio-cultural history, its role in the construction of political and social imaginaries will be addressed, as well as reflection on the relationship between history and fiction.

The research group has extensive experience in the field of pulmonary pharmacology and its application in major respiratory diseases such as COPD, Asthma, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Pulmonary Hypertensions and Chronic Rhinosinusitis. Different cellular and animal models of these diseases are available, as well as human samples for different public projects and the transfer of results to the pharmaceutical industry for the development and characterisation of new drugs.

The research group has implemented different vitro methods (such as 3D reconstituted skin cultures, keratinocyte, fibroblast and melanocyte cultures, detection of reactive oxygen species and cell apoptosis by flow cytometry) and their modification by drugs; and in vivo (studies on healthy volunteers and oncology patients) to observe the modification of the physical, biomechanical and physiological properties of the skin both by cellular ageing and by the possible effect of drugs used in oncology, such as the group of taxanes and in particular paclitaxel, in this area.

Some highlights:

• The group’s research receives continuous competitive funding from various national bodies. It has also been financed by various grants from the Generalitat Valenciana, notably the PROMETEO PHASE I and PHASE II (PROMETEO/2008/045; PROMETEO II/2013/014) and with transfer contracts with the pharmaceutical industry, always through the OTRI office of the Universitat de València.
• Scientific output of the principal researcher who is an established figure in this field.
• Extensive experience in knowledge transfer to the pharmaceutical industry in this field (preclinical pharmacology in asthma / COPD), always through the University’s OTRI office as a way of promoting applied research and obtaining complementary funds from the private sector of entrepreneurs. e) Chronic lung diseases represent an important sector in terms of socio-economic costs to health. Hence the quest to establish in vitro disease models with human tissues to save in vivo animal use and to search for useful markers to predict clinical efficacy in the treatment of lung diseases for companies.
• Scientific career focused primarily on the pharmacology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and ASTHMA with experience in new target of potential clinical incorporation, both in experimental in vivo models and in vitro models using isolated human tissues and cells.

The dermatological pathway is also supported by several projects in collaboration with industry, such as the following:

• Safety and efficacy studies of substances and drugs on the skin in vivo in collaboration with different companies.
• Dermatological pharmacokinetics: validation of the ex vivo model in human skin to determine dermal absorption of drugs.
• Validation of the in vitro model in human skin to determine drug phototoxicity.
• Determination of the action of beta-2 adrenergic bookers on catecholamine-mediated vasodilation in the microcirculation of human skin tissues in vitro.

e-MARKETING, as a research group of the UV, develops activities in line with methodological innovation and thematic study in Marketing and New Technologies, trying to understand consumer behaviour in social media and mobile marketing and paying special attention to viral marketing. The group’s work addresses calls for research in these fields by choosing retailing, tourism and the education sector as priority application sectors. These topics make up its main lines of research.

The e-MARKETING experience and its consolidation as a team is endorsed by the participation of its members in more than 20 different R&D contracts of special relevance with Companies and/or Administrations in which trust seals in e-commerce, analysis of the implementation of ICT in retail trade, value creation through mobile applications, etc. have been proposed.

The quality of the group’s research and the importance of its results can be seen in its many contributions to conferences (more than 150). More than 100 research papers have been published in indexed journals, many of them in the JCR (i.e. Online Information Review, Journal of Services Management, Industrial Management and Data Systems, etc.) in ISI databases, in the SJR or in databases such as ABI INFORM, EMERALD Reviews, etc. The coordinator of the group, Dr. Ruiz, is accredited as professor by ANECA, has 2 six-year research periods, has supervised 6 doctoral theses in the core research lines of eMARKETING and is Associate Editor of the Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA) and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Product and Brand Management, Online Information Review and Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. She as been a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Marketing Association (AEMARK). She has been the main researcher of 6 research projects related to the group, one of them (not completed) of the Spanish National Plan (eWOM: neuroscientific and experimental analysis in services); she is also director of 5 educational innovation projects, one of the consisting of the creating of an international network of universities for the exchange of teaching experiences. Research areas:

• Information processing To study the determining variables in the processing of advertising information and the exchange of commercial information between individuals on social media and their impact on purchase, loyalty and recommendation.
• Mobile marketing. To analyse the perceived value drivers in mobile communications as well as the drivers of mobile commerce. To identify the motivation and brakes in viral marketing through mobile devices (smartphones and tablets).
• Complaint behaviour in social media. Research on the motivations for complaints, switching suppliers, anti-brand communities, boycotts and negative word-of-mouth communications in social networks Educational innovation and ICT.
• Study of new collaborative learning methodologies that incorporate new technologies (Ted lessons, gamification, etc.) and their impact on student satisfaction, perceived quality and relational variables. Viral marketing.
• Study of the background and consequences of viral marketing in digital channels with special emphasis on influencers. Influence of viral marketing on consumer perceptions, attitudes and purchasing behaviour. Analysis of the elements that generate a viral impact in communication campaigns.