The Universitat de València convenes the third Dissemination Session of doctoral theses to emphasise the effort of researchers in training and to promote the accessible transmission of knowledge.
The event will include three awards and will be hosted next 15 July at theEspai Vives.
The initiative is organised by the Doctoral School and by the Science Culture and Innovation Unit. The objective is to facilitate predoctoral students to show their research in a more understandable way for the general public, fostering, this way, the dialogue between science and society.
The participation request can be presented by registering on the esdeveniments.uv.es website, until 27 May. Theses must be presented with a plain language, in an intervention of maximum 4 minutes long. The awards that will be given will be of 300, 250 and 200 euros. Moreover, one of the three winners will participate in the finale of the theses dissemination contest for researchers in the predoctoral initial phase of all partner universities of FORTHEM.
The FORTHEM Researchers Grand Prix 2026 will be hosted on 21 October 2026 at the University of Opole (Poland). The Universitat de València, through the Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Multilingualism, will offer training to the selected person, who will have to defend the thesis in English, in 4 minutes. The University will also be in charge of the expenses of the journey to Poland for the finale.
In the act of 15 July, people in training who are registered in any doctoral programme of the Universitat de València can participate, at least for the second year, with the registration activated and by being up to date with the payments of the 2025/2026 academic year. It is essential not to have defended the thesis before the 15 July 2026, and to have the approval of the thesis management. In the registration form, a brief description of the presentation needs to be included, where the topic of the research and the impact that may have is indicated.
Previously to this session, the Management of the Doctoral School will nominate a grand jury composed of three members, and will select a maximum of 16 people among the presented requests, who will be the ones who participate in person in the session. The criteria to select the participants are the clarity of presentation and the text structure (up to 3 points), the interest for research and coherence (3 points), creativity and originality (3 points) and the use of appropriate, accessible, non-sexist and inclusive language (1 point).
For the event of 15 July, the jury is composed of María Amparo Tórtola Baixauli–director of the Doctoral School of the Universitat de València (Department of Theoretical Physics)–, Gianni Gallello (Department of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History), Carolina Moreno Castro (Department of Language Theory and Communication Sciences), Carlos Romá Mateo (Department of Physiology), and Julia Suso López (Department of Financial Economics and Accountancy).
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