Scientific Trajectory. Pau Rausell Köster started working at university at an early age, becoming a university assistant in 1989, just a few months after completing his degree in Economics and Business Administration. In 1993, during a study stay at the prestigious Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung at the University of Zurich, he discovered the speciality of Cultural Economics under the guidance of economist Bruno Frey. That same year he attended a first course on the Economics of Museums at the University of Venice directed by Gianfranco Mosseto, where the researcher had the opportunity to meet the fathers of the discipline, such as the Baumol couple, Dick Netzer, Alan Peackoc, and B. Frey himself. Frey himself. On his return to Spain, he quickly made contact with the few researchers in the Economics of Culture that existed in Spain at that time, and in 1995, he carried out a research stay at the Centre d'Estudis de Planificació in Barcelona, the only research centre that had a specific unit for applied research in the Economics of Culture. In 1996, with the reading of his doctoral thesis, he created the Economics of Culture Research Unit within the Department of Applied Economics, which he has directed since then. In 1999 he stayed at the prestigious Departament d'Etudes de la Prospective of the French Ministry of Culture. Since the late 1990s he has been involved in the development of the discipline of Cultural Economics in Spain, as editor of the journal Economía/Cultura, making notable contributions in the field of applied research and methodological development. Since 2009, he has participated as a principal researcher in European projects (SOSTENUTO and CANEPAL) and as a researcher in projects commissioned by multinational organisations such as the OEI (Organisation of Ibero-American States), participating and coordinating interdisciplinary and international teams. Due to his profile and his communication skills, Pau Rausell is required in numerous international conferences, events and seminars, as well as in postgraduate courses at national universities (University of Granada, University of Girona, Complutense of Madrid, Carlos III of Madrid, Jaume I of Castellón) and Iberoamerican (University of Antioquia, Polytechnic Simón Bolivar, Campinas). Since 2013, as a partner of the partnership and principal investigator of the University of Valencia, he has been leading several competitive European projects of the INTERREG MED call, such as 3C4Incubators (2013-2014), CREATIVE MED (2013-2015) and OPEN DOORS, culminating in 2017 with an H2020 project called DESIGNSCAPES (2017-2021), and finally managing to lead a consortium for an H2020 project called MESOC (2020-2022). The success rate in European calls for proposals of the unit he directs, Econcult, exceeds 65%, obtaining since 2009 success in a dozen competitive projects that add up to more than 1.5 million Euros of funding for the University of Valencia. In 2016 he developed a project for the exchange of cultural management professionals between Asia and Europe funded by the Asia-Europe Foundation. Also during this period it developed a continuous work from contracts with different administrations, organisations and companies, both national and European (Eurocities, Relais Culture Europe), obtaining about 600,000 Euros between public bodies, third sector organisations and companies. It has also obtained support as a research group in Public Economics from the Conselleria de Hisenda y Modelo Económico de la Generalitat Valenciana with an FPI contract. And at the moment (2020-2024) the team has a grant for an FPU scholarship..
