The project focuses on transdisciplinary methodologies and their impact on university student learning and on reflective and creative thinking as a key to personal and professional development.

The project aims to offer students of Philosophy and Social Sciences a multidisciplinary and transversal training opportunity in contemporary problems of art and its relationship with today's society from the perspective of philosophy and sociology. The innovative nature of the project is focused above all on breaking down the barriers between, on the one hand, the way of approaching art and society from the aesthetics or philosophy of art and, on the other hand, from sociology, thus promoting, by breaking down the barriers between these two approaches, a transversal and interdisciplinary thinking.

Second Round is a consolidated innovation project (linked to the Consolidated Group GCID23_2584190) focused on promoting artistic education in the world of Secondary Education. During the 2024-2025 academic year we want to continue with the “Second Round: Art and Fight for Secondary Education” Project, after 9 consecutive editions, focusing on heritage education as the axis of our contributions, promoting alliances with institutions that defend heritage education, both secondary schools, museums, interpretation spaces and heritage environments. The fact of focusing on the subject is reinforced by the numerous actions we carry out working in the field of heritage education. We reinforce the study on the subject by organizing the 1st International Congress DECHADOS. Museums, Education Creativity in October 2024. All these initiatives make the University of Valencia an international benchmark for educational innovation in heritage and heritage education. It is essential to collaborate with secondary schools to support the incorporation of innovative theories and practices, as well as knowledge of the learning possibilities that exist in heritage environments. We believe that education should not be left out of the innovations that we are experiencing at a social, cultural and political level, paying attention to teacher training, through the Master's Degree in Secondary School Teacher Training. We are also concerned with maintaining the ongoing training of secondary school teachers, both in the specialty of drawing and in all other specialties interested in heritage education.

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.

TRAMEVIC (Transnational War-time Memories in East Asian Visual Culture) examines the creation of wartime transnational memories in East Asia through visual culture. The processes of visual remembrance of war-related issues as fluid and changing phenomena that constantly adopt new meaning. The topic is particularly relevant today as it includes unresolved issues that keep conditioning international relations today and regularly cause diplomatic tensions in the region. The project proposes an original transnational and transdisciplinary approach that focuses on how the extensive new usage of images (including films, tv dramas, animation, photos, and other visual material) has allow the representation of a new kind of memory based on often traumatic experiences that expand beyond national boundaries.

This project recognizes the relevance and need to value and promote creative thinking in adolescents. We propose a boost in the creative level of our adolescent students who attend secondary school, incorporating for this a highly relevant resource such as museums, powerful informal education environments that can help us improve the secondary educational scenario, generating synergies with educational centers. For this we propose to promote the encounter with the educational potential that museums offer us, activating mediation efforts between secondary schools and museums. Facing and approaching the challenge in advance will help to better understand the situation, emphasize the strengths that our students have and detect the points that can be improved around creative thinking.