The University of Valencia, through the Office of the Vice-principal for Participation and Territorial Projection, in collaboration with the Directorate General of Sports of the Generalitat Valenciana and Caja Popular, is presenting the exhibition "Valencian Territory, runner territory", which demonstrates the growing social and cultural importance of this phenomenon, based on the contributions of some 40 researchers from the University and other specialists in the field.

The Valencian territory has the highest rate of popular athletics practice in Spain. In this pioneering multidisciplinary and multi-faceted exhibition on the enormous importance of running in Valencian society, aspects that reach a wide variety of topics are analysed, among which we can find the following: health, physiology, quality of life, nutrition, injury prevention, psychology, biomechanics, physical preparation, doping, sponsorship, modalities, etc.