Raquel Faubel and Santiago Vicente win the Jaume I de la Vila de Llíria award for their teaching and research career

The award ceremony took place on 9 October in an act celebrated at the Multiuse Centre of Camp de Túria, along with cyclist Enric Igual Úbeda and the Tyrius Housewives Association of Llíria. Winners received a statue and a certificate.

Santiago Vicente Llavatais a Universitat de València (UV) Professor who placed second in the Educa abanca awards last year for best university professor in Spain, with a lengthy career in teaching, research, and Spanish philology dissemination. He was a Lexicography intern at Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua for three years and collaborated with the Diccionari Normatiu Valencià writing. He specialised in Hispanic linguistics history with special emphasis in the study of the Castilian language and its relation with other languages and modalities of the peninsula. He has published over one hundred scientific pieces, with six particular and exceptional books.

Vicente Llavata is currently co-directing the ‘Variación y codificación fraseológica en la historia del español’ (‘Phraseological variation and codification in the history of the Spanish language’) project under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, aiming to elaborate a historical-phraseological Spanish digital dictionary. He also coordinates the Teaching Innovation projecto ‘Historia e historiografía de la lengua castellana en su innovación didáctica’ (‘Castilian language history and historiography in its educational innovation’) (HISLEDIDAC). As for his university management, he is Head of Initiatives of the Unisocietat programme, managing the university branches in Llíria and Villar del Arzobispo, created in 2024 and 2025 respectively. He became Director of the Lauro: quaderns d’Historia i Societat scientific paper, managed by the Llíria Municipality Network of Public Libraries.

Raquel Faubel Cava is a remarkable professor and educator of Universitat de València, with her own methodology, which has been presented in congresses and made her an international reference. Autonomous University of Madrid Doctor in Preventive Medicine and Public Health Care.

Raquel Faubel was selected as one of the fourteen scientists for the Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid while working on her Doctoral thesis, a prestigious centre of cultural and scientific exchange with celebrated residents such as Juan Ramón Jiménez and Federico García Lorca.

She became a Universitat de València professor in 2014 and she currently is in the Department of Physiotherapy. She is firmly committed with education evolution and is coordinator to a consolidated group of innovation authorised by Universitat de València.

She promotes knowledge transference from the University to society by making conferences in city halls and the media. Faubel professional highlight is her research in internationall projects funded by the European Commission in the area of biomedical engineering and epidemiology. She is the main researcher and a of CeBMI project and collaborator for six other European projects.

The Jaume I de la Vila de Llíria Awards aim to bring recognition to individuals and entities of the Valencian Community who have contributed to the defense of the language, the culture, traditions, territory planning, economy, society and social well-being.