The researcher Juan Ferré and the Saint Juan de Ribera Hall of Residence are some of the award-winners in the 21st edition of the “University-Society” Award, organized by the Board of Trustees of the UV. The main objective of the award-winners is to recognise the labour of students, researchers and teachers of the Universitat de València, as well as show gratitude to the entities for their collaboration with this institution.
The prizes are distributed in four big modalities: Research and Development, Trajectory of collaboration Universitat de València, Alumni Plus and Awards for the Teaching Excellence of the Board of Trustees.
The award in the modality R&D is to acknowledge the R&D actions and projects of collaboration between groups or teams of the Universitat de València and companies, entities or institutions, in which an exemplary cooperation relationship is established. In this case, the researcher Juan Ferré Manzanero from the Genetics Department of the UV, is the award-winner by his collaboration with the enterprise Bayer Cropscience from 2003. The collaboration has been focused on the development of pesticides and other agrochemical products to obtain bio-insecticides not aggressive with the environment for the pest control.
