The opening ceremony will take place at the hall of the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences on Friday 14. It will remain open until the 14 January, when it will start its route around Valencian municipalities. The 32 panels of the exhibition reveal the growing social, economic, and cultural importance of the running phenomenon in the Valencian Community.

The Universitat de València, through the Office of the Vice-Principal for Territorial Projection and Society, in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Sports of the Valencian Regional Government and Caixa Popular, presents the new exhibition ‘Territori valencià, territori runner’. The opening ceremony will take place at the hall of the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences with the presence of the Vice-Principal for Territorial Projection and Society, Jorge Hermosilla; the dean of the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, Salvador Llana; the director of Institutional Relations of Caixa Popular, Paco Alós; and the curator of the exhibition, professor Víctor Agulló.

Most of the 48 authors that have participated in this exhibition are teachers and researchers of the Universitat de València, but there are athletes, sports historians, coaches or journalists, all of them runner experts. Thanks to this numerous participation, the exhibition acquires a multidisciplinary and diverse character. This enables the running from a wide variety of perspectives such as health, physiology, quality of life, nutrition, injury prevention, psychology, etc.

La muestra “Territori valencià, territori runner” realiza una “radiografía cuidadosa y científica de la situación actual del running, de sus capacidades y retos de futuro”, asegura el comisario Víctor Agulló, profesor de Departamento de Sociología y Antropología social, UV.

 “La Universitat de València ratifica una vez más su compromiso con la sociedad valenciana participando en un proyecto académico en el que se aborda el deporte del running desde varias perspectivas académicas, con una meta común, la transferencia de conocimiento y de valores en el escenario territorial valenciano”, ha subrayado el vicerrector de Proyección Territorial y Sociedad, Jorge Hermosilla. La muestra ha sido expuesta en varios municipios de la geografía valenciana, coincidiendo frecuentemente con alguna carrera popular del calendario oficial del running valenciano. La primera exposición se inauguró en la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias.