The commemorative event began with the unveiling of the mural by the Valencian illustrator Ana Penyas. In this act, the principal of the Universitat de València, Mavi Mestre, highlighted that “it is essential to vindicate inclusion, attention to people, social rights, decent work, care, the Huerta, environmental protection and the values that the Universitat de València always has present and the Faculty of Social Sciences defends and represents”.

The principal was accompanied by the Dean of the Faculty, Elena Mut, and the vice-principal for Culture and Society, Ester Alba.

The vice-principal, in her speech, underlined that “the aim of the mural is to re-patrimonalise university spaces, giving the buildings a creative and artistic life, so that they become an integral part of how we live our university, It also seeks to enrich these spaces with art and all that it brings to the university community”. She also recalled that the artist “has a very unique way of creating, focusing on the role of women in the construction of contemporary cities, documenting the memory and stories of vulnerable people”.

For her part, the dean wanted to thank both the professors and the researchers, as well as the administration and services staff, for their work over the years, which has been key to making this centre one of the most numerous in the University.

She also wanted to invite us to “value the past” and also to “project ourselves into the future”. We live in a time of change that challenges us to rethink our work. we must continue to innovate and contribute with solutions to the problems that society faces, as shown by the “involvement of the faculty in a multitude if initiatives for the DANA”.

This was followed by the institutional act in which Ignasi Lerma and Ernnest Garcia, former deans of the Faculty, also took park.

Lerma recalled how the proposal for the creation of the Faculty was presented in 1997. “The ceration of the Faculty meant the completion of the process of integrating the old schools into our faculty, a process that was a success”. He wanted to define this process with two adjectives: “intense” and “inclusive”.

Garcia, who was the first dean of the Faculty, stressed the importance of dedicating a centre to the study, “not only of social issues, which has always been the object of study at the university, but also of work, education, processes and institutions that transform society, without leaving  social commitment behind”.

During the main event, Jordi Garcés, former director of the University school of Social Work and the longest-serving professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and also promoter of the School 25 years ago, gave the lecture “Interdisciplinary socio-technical long-term care”.

Garcés reflected on how interdisciplinary and socio-technical perspectives can contribute to social science research in general and in particular to the highly topical issue of integrated long-term care in the field of public policy. the professor pointed out that “as a result of globalisation and technological development, highly complex governance problemas arise that can only tackled if there is close interdisciplinary collaboration between the social and thealth sciences in public social policies”.

Garcés added, in this sense, that “in fact, social and health care is a real challenge for the sustainability of social sciences and European Union policies”.

The event ended with a musical performance and a fraternal wine of honour outside the Faculty