The Board of Trustees of the University of Valencia Science Park Foundation (FPCUV), convened in plenary session, yesterday approved the Action Plan and the Budget of the FPCUV for the year 2024. The meeting, chaired by the rector of the academic institution and president of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation, María Vicenta Mestre Escribá, addressed the activities planned for the coming year, which includes the new Action Plan for 2024.
The call was also attended by the Vice-Rector for Innovation and Transfer of the UV, Rosa M.ª Donat Benito; the general secretary of the UV, M. ª Elena Olmos Ortega; the director of Institutions of the Territorial Management in the Valencian Community and Murcia of Banco Santander, José Miguel Lorente Ayala; the director of the Science Park of the University of Valencia, Pedro Carrasco Sorlí; the Regional Secretary of Innovation of the GVA, Jerónimo Moya Pascual; the vice rector of Economics and Infrastructure of the UV, Justo Herrera Gómez; the vice rector of Sustainability, Cooperation and Healthy Living, M. ª Pilar Serra Añó; the Vice Rector for Strategy, Quality and Information Technologies of the UV, Joaquín Aldás Manzano; the Vice Rector for Internationalization and Multilingualism, Carles Padilla Carmona; General Secretary of the Trade Union Confederation of Comisiones Obreras del País Valencià (CCOO), Ana M. ª García Alcolea; the manager of the University of Valencia, Juan Vicente Climent Espí; and the manager of the FPCUV, Fernando M.ª Zárraga.
Boosting transfer and innovation
The board of trustees meeting reviewed the actions aimed at the management, maintenance, development and revitalization of the innovation ecosystem of the Science Park, which, in addition to the ten research institutes, already hosts more than 90 innovative companies employing around 600 people.
Following the guidelines set out in the aims of the Foundation, a series of actions will be carried out throughout 2024, in collaboration with the Regional Ministry of Education, Universities and Employment, aimed at boosting and promoting research, development and innovation in the Valencian Community that the FPUCV has designed to respond to various objectives such as boosting business growth, through the Program to Promote Business Development (PIDE); the promotion of innovation through the EXPOINNOVA project, consisting of live sessions broadcast via streaming on current issues in innovation by scientists from companies and organizations of the PCUV; or the internationalization and management of international projects through the Globaltech project, which in its fifth edition will focus on the use of major national and European research infrastructures. The dissemination of science and technology, through activities as consolidated as the open day EXPOCIÈNCIA and advanced services will also mark the agenda of activities in the new year, during which the FPCUV will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary.
The FPCUV will also collaborate in 2024, in addition to the City Council of Paterna, with a program to improve the infrastructure of the Science Park, with the Department of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism to develop initiatives to promote the transfer of knowledge and technology between university-business with actions that facilitate the transfer of knowledge to companies, through support for innovative entrepreneurship and support for independent R&D and improving the impact of actions to disseminate the results obtained.
The FPCUV will launch, with the support of the patron BANCO SANTANDER, a new call for the innovative entrepreneurship program VLC/STARTUP, which aims to promote the growth of spin-offs and start-ups of scientific-technological base through the installation in the PCUV and business advice in various areas such as financing and communication.
To carry out all these activities, the FPCUV has endowed a budget for the year 2024 of around 2.7 million euros, resources coming almost entirely from the Foundation's own activities.