Adela Cortina, Alumni Plus/Insigne UV Award

Philosopher, full-time professor and pioneer of applied ethics, Adela Cortina has received today the Alumni Plus/Insigne UV Award of the Board of Trustees of the Universitat de València with gratitude and a clear vision for current challenges. 

Adela Cortina has celebrated “the opening to the world the institution lives in today and has defended, once again, that philosophy has a key role in the construction of a more just society, free of dogmatisms and aporaphobia.”

She, who was the first woman to be a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, has reminded us today the need for good specialists to aid in ethical decision-making.

The award that Cortina has received today recognises her prestigious trajectory and contribution for the progress of society, whose work has influenced ethical contemporary debate, with a focus on the construction of more just and more democratic societies.

Vanessa Paredes, Teaching Excellence award

Vanessa Paredes, professor of the Universitat de València, has received the Teaching Excellence award, which recognises the bet on educational innovation and quality teaching. 

She, who is the Vice-Dean of Dentistry and co-director of the Master’s Degree in Orthodontics of the Universitat de València, has emphasised that “this award transcends that which is academic and also reflects the impact that teaching has in the education of responsible and committed professionals with their social environment.”

“The desire to help, to keep learning and to be a part of a community that bets on excellence, ethical commitment and shared growth always thinking about the patient” is, according to Paredes, “the engine that has pushed forward her career everyday as a professor and researcher of the Universitat de València.”

Carlos Simón, Knowledge Transfer award

The full-time professor and OB/GYN at the Universitat de València and Assistant Professor at Harvard University, Carlos Simón has been the award-winning researcher in the category Knowledge Transfer in this edition.

Simón has publicly recognised that “the Universitat de València is a place that has made it easeir for students, professors and researcher and where they’ve always received support, on the sidelines of the political, economic and social moment.”

To Simón, “knowledge transfer in the field of reproductive medicine has meant the improvement of diagnosis and treatment of infertility in thousands of women, as they’ve been conferred the possibility of becoming a mother.”

He, who is one of the most prolific scientist in the world in the subject area of fertility, has shared his enthusiasm about an award that he “proudly” receives because he considers it a recognition that validates the way he has always researched once more, “taking the results from the stool of the laboratory to the patients bed.”

Power Electronics, University-Society Collaboration award

Power electronics has been the ward-winning company in the category University-Society Collaboration in the 28th edition of the University-Society Board of Trustees Awards of the Universitat de València.

David Salvo, CEO of the company has emphasised that the collaboration of Power Electronics with the UV “is a fundamental and necessary project that, as we see it, benefits the whole of society.” Salvo stressed that “there are many involved people that have worked with great effort and dedication to accomplish such positive synergies.”

In the words of the CEO of Power Electronics, “university talent is essential for the development of innovative solutions. Not only for the contribution of ideas that haven’t been proposed before, but also for the use of new technologies, that allows for conceiving disruptive solutions in shorter periods. 

Salvo added that “a clear example is the mastery over Artificial Intelligence, an almost inherent tool in the education of current university students” and has emphasise the numerous challenges the company faces, acknowledging that “among the new generations there are leader profiles that will determine the course of the next decade.”

Through UV academia, Power Electronics seeks to strengthen the students’ talent by giving them opportunities and visibility that develop all of their potential.

Thanks to this collaboration, the Universitat de València offers their engineering students the most state-of-the-art knowledge on power converters, through the lifelong learning Master’s in energy transformation

25 years of Chair for Business Culture

The Board of Trustees has also payed homage to the Chair for Business Culture, during the event, celebrating 25 years of existence in which they have transmitted an entrepreneurial spirit in the university community.