ERIHAD.OS addresses a key dilemma: Open Science (OS) promotes data sharing for impactful research, but applying it to hate speech can raise ethical and legal issues due to restrictions on disseminating such material. To resolve this, ERIHAD.OS is developing a federated research infrastructure that enables safe and ethical searches and analyses across various repositories in Europe, facilitating interdisciplinary research to inform policy, education, and deradicalization efforts. The project aims to empower researchers, activists, and policymakers to study and counter hate, contributing knowledge that strengthens social cohesion.

The project “Creative, Reflective, and Sustainable Thinking: Transdisciplinary Competencies in Teacher Training” (PIEC) is an educational innovation and transdisciplinary research initiative. This proposal has been developed over several calls for proposals—PIP (2020-2021), RENOVAPID (2021-2022/2022-2023), and CONSOLIDA PID (2023-2024/2024-2025/2025-2026)—and is part of the Educational Innovation line of the Consolidated Innovation Group TRANSPR (GCID24_3199913).

The COMETA educational innovation project aims to promote the acquisition of professional teaching skills by using active methodologies in the initial training of teachers. It is designed to bring the training that students receive at university closer to the real demands of the educational system, society and the labour market through active teaching methodologies such as Design Thinking and Podcast to develop key skills. Fundamentally, skills in linguistic, multilingual, digital, personal, social and learning-to-learn communication, citizenship, entrepreneurship and cultural awareness and expression will be promoted. The mismatch between university education and the labour market has been highlighted in several studies and continues to be a problem today. That is why, to the extent of our possibilities and as those responsible for the academic training of future teachers, we aim to offer students up-to-date, useful and quality training. The need for greater connection between higher education institutions and professional work institutions (companies, media, educational, cultural or social entities) has led to a paradigm shift in teaching methodologies, so that the aim is no longer to simply transmit content but to apply it in a real environment, while promoting the development of student competences. This proposal is adapted to the training of teachers in different subjects of the degree in Early Childhood and Primary Education Teachers and to the Masters in Secondary Education Teaching and Specific Didactics of the University of Valencia. During the 2024-25 academic year, it will be extended to the students of the Degree in Journalism at the University of Valencia.

Second Round is a consolidated innovation project (linked to the Consolidated Group GCID23_2584190) focused on the promotion of the arts in High School.

Given the challenges we face in contemporary society, it is urgent to promote citizen participation in the evaluation of regional public services and policies in order to contribute solutions to social and environmental problems and achieve the goals of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda. From a historical perspective, citizen participation has been carried out through mechanisms and instruments that have had little transformative effect on citizens and public institutions and administrations. With the aim of improving citizen participation, new mechanisms and instruments are emerging, such as engaged citizen auditing, which contributes to advancing practices of transparency and co-governance.

DECHADOS DIGITAL is a type B oriented research project. The study is directly related to thematic priority 2, Culture, Creativity, and Inclusive Society, of the State Plan for Scientific, Technical, and Innovation Research 2024-2027. It focuses on identifying heritage in digital spaces and how this fosters the development of creativity. The proposal is a continuation of the project “Dechados. Inclusive Creativity in Secondary Education through the Relationship between Educational Centers and Museums” (PID2021-123007OB-I00), which analyzed in-person activities through qualitative analysis based on triangulated observation with secondary school teachers and museum educators, identifying the creativity strategies of 17 museums. We propose to analyze the digital resources and educational activities used by museums, incorporating digital environments, thus expanding the research into the digital context. It is also related to the strategic line of Demographic Challenge and Social Cohesion in the areas of intervention of Gender Equality and Diversity, Dependency and Accessibility, and Education. It fulfills the objectives set out in Science Law 17/2 regarding gender mainstreaming for real and effective equality. The team consists of 9 female and 8 male researchers.

The ANDANA project focuses on investigating how artistic and cultural actions can become effective tools for channeling children's voices and fostering their social inclusion in crisis and emergency contexts. In a global context of growing inequalities and challenges such as climate change, armed conflict, and natural disasters, children, as a vulnerable group, face significant limitations in expressing their needs and actively participating in society. Emergency situations amplify these vulnerabilities, relegating children to a position of invisibility in decision-making. The arts offer a universal, symbolic, and accessible language that transcends traditional communication barriers, allowing them to express emotions, understand complex situations, and participate in democratic processes from an inclusive perspective.

The TRACA project analyzes changes in post-compulsory educational trajectories, focusing on complex pathways that do not follow conventional routes. The study investigates factors such as social origin, gender, and location that influence these changes, and how social inequalities impact educational decisions. The project is divided into two sub-projects: one analyzing changes in vocational training and online university education, and another analyzing changes in upper secondary education and university. TRACA is comprised of two teams from the University of Valencia and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​working in a coordinated manner.

The project Tradiasia (Transculturality and Diversity in East Asia) offers free courses at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, University of Valencia, which are open to the university community and the wider audience. These courses are comprised of lecture series delivered by leading scholars in their fields who bring state-of-the-art approaches and critical perspectives that assess the complexity of the East Asian cultures and histories by looking into their diversity and transcultural elements. Their goal is helping the audience to challenge essentialist views on the region and its countries, going beyond Euro-American frameworks and promoting new ways of thinking the world from East Asian societies and cultures, assessing them not as isolated boxes but as fluid contexts which have evolved throughout the years through interactions that go beyond national boundaries and hegemonic cultural domination.