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According to the 2025 Management Report, the University of Valencia (UV) has allocated €43,641,462 to the implementation of 326 research, transfer and innovation projects across five fields of knowledge: engineering, arts and humanities, sciences, health sciences, and social and legal sciences. These figures are complemented by other research management categories, bringing total investment to €107,140,597 across 2,672 actions.
The total of 326 research projects comprises initiatives funded under the National R&D&I Plan, the Valencian Government and the European Union. These are further divided into research projects (230), collaborative projects (39), research groups and networks (3) and conference organisation (49).
This section is completed by one complementary action and another funded through FEDER funds from the Valencian Government, as well as seven special and mobility actions.
Other research programmes managed during the past year include the UV’s own funding programme for research and knowledge transfer, along with various initiatives from the Office of the Vice-Rector for Research, totalling 490 actions with a budget of €5,536,411.
The University of Valencia manages these projects through its Research Management and Transfer and Innovation services, which highlight the efforts made in research projects and actions, both competitive and directly awarded; in mobility actions and the recruitment of research staff; in calls under the University’s own programme for research funding and translational research and transfer; in promoting the University’s strategic participation in networks, platforms, consortia, R&D&I projects and national and international collaborative initiatives; in analysing and evaluating the scientific output of UV researchers, as well as in managing research results.
More specific aspects of knowledge transfer that stood out in 2025 include: the management of contracts within the framework of the new law on the university system (LOSU) and of research and transfer agreements, representing a business volume of over €18 million; collaboration with university chairs; management of the University’s scientific and technological offering (OCT), with a portfolio of 239 active patents; the promotion of collaboration between UV research groups and the socio-economic environment; and support for the creation of knowledge-based start-ups (24 active spin-offs, of which 13 are equity-participated).
KTO: increased government and European funding
The University of Valencia was accredited in May 2024 as a Knowledge Transfer Office (KTO). In addition to formal recognition of its transfer track record, this will provide access to new government and European funding, increased resources for internationalisation, improved technical support and advisory services and new infrastructure and equipment.
The KTO, registered in the official registry of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under number 13, was established as a result of the Ministry’s Transfer and Collaboration Plan to promote innovation, knowledge transfer, dissemination and scientific, technological and innovation culture. The Office’s organisational structure is integrated by the entire university ecosystem, carrying out the following transfer functions: protection of R&D&I results; exploitation of research outcomes, inventions and new technologies through any form of contract involving the transfer of use or ownership to third parties; collaborative research between public and private entities; provision of R&D&I and technological services; promotion of the creation of knowledge-based entities (formerly spin-offs); and the social dissemination of knowledge.
