The Vice-Principal of the Universitat de València Carlos Hermenegildo has been elected new president of the Valencian Network of Universities for the promotion of R+D+i, RUVID. The Deputy General Manager for Research and Innovation of the UV, Lucía Echevarría, has been elected as secretary of this candidacy.
The general assembly of the Valencian Network of Universities for the promotion of R&D&I, RUVID, has elected a new board of directors for the next three years.
The candidacy, which received all the votes cast by the member universities, is headed by the Vice-Principal for Research at the Universitat de Valencia, Carlos Hermenegildo.
Along with him, Juan Mora, from the University of Alacant, has been elected as Vice-President; Ignacio Pérez, from the Cardenal Herrera-CEU University as a member; and Lucía Echevarría, General Manager for Research and Innovation of the UV, as secretary.
Dr. Carlos Hermenegildo is Professor of Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the Universitat de València, and Vice-Principal for Research at the UV since 2018. Previously, he had been coordinator of the Central Research Unit of Medicine and deputy scientific director of the INCLIVA health research institute.
RUVID was created in 2001 through a collaboration agreement between the five Valencian public universities and, since 2003, with its own legal personality as an association, it has been open to the participation of other Valencian universities.
Its headquarters are located on the Tarongers Campus of the Universitat de València and you can find more information about this network on its website: www.ruvid.org
