Four projects involving research staff from the University of Valencia’s Science Park (PCUV) have been selected in the latest call for proposals under the Prometeo programme, an initiative of the Culture, Universities and Employment of the Generalitat Valenciana to promote research. Among them, will be funded the project of Pedro Carrasco, director of PCUV, which proposes a multidisciplinary study on the bioindication of lichens in protected areas of the Valencian Community
The Prometeo GVA Programme, which aims to finance projects and research groups of excellence in R & D & I in the Valencian Community, has selected four research staff projects from the institutes of the University of Valencia’s Science Park (PCUV).
Specifically, in the category of Physical Sciences, the professor of Applied Physics and Electromagnetism at the Institute of Materials Science (ICMUV), located in the scientific-academic area of the PCUV, Juan Francisco Sánchez-Royo will develop research focused on the control of excitons-particles that govern the emission of light, but which are tremendously slippery -to create a new quantum technology. This could be applied in ultra-low power optoelectronic devices, such as future displays or sensors.
In the area of chemistry, Eugenio Coronado, professor of inorganic chemistry and director of the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol), located in the scientific-academic area of the PCUV, has achieved his fifth consecutive Prometeo's project. Since the Generatitat Valenciana started this excellence programme in 2008, Coronado's group has been leading two emerging areas in Europe: molecular spintronics -also known as molecular magneto-electronics, and the molecular approximation to graphene-like two-dimensional materials. In this fifth project, Coronado integrates these two emerging areas by introducing innovative concepts that make it possible to prepare new nanostructures and ultra-thin sphintron devices based on two-dimensional magnetic materials of atomic thickness, as well as new hybrid materials -combining a molecular system with a two-dimensional material- of interest in quantum and neuromorphic technologies, or in the generation of clean energy (production of green hydrogen).
In this way, the Science Park is consolidated as one of the main institutions benefiting from the University of Valencia (UV) of the Prometeo GVA call, since 4 of the 13 selected projects of the UV are related to the PCUV
As for the area of Humanities and Culture, a grant has been awarded to a project in which works a researcher from the Institute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC), located in the scientific-academic area of the PCUV. Specifically, an interdisciplinary project that uses technologies and generative AI to the interaction of digitized data and images and aims to create a digital open access repository of artistic archives of contemporary creators and creators with a line specific recovery and preservation of personal archives of Valencian women artists. This project is led by Vice-Rector Ester Alba, a professor in the ValuArt research group at the Department of Art History and by Professor Marcos Fernandez from the IRTIC’s Artec research group.
On the other hand, in Environmental Sciences and Technologies has been selected the project of Pedro Carrasco, director of PCUV and professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Eva Barreno, professor of Botany and researcher at the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (ICBiBE), which proposes a multidisciplinary study on the bioindication of lichens in protected areas of the Valencian Community. The project addresses everything from the biodiversity of symbionts to their interaction patterns, and their biotechnological potential or applications in natural resource conservation.
Thus, the Science Park is consolidated as one of the main institutions benefiting from the University of Valencia (UV) in this call for grants, since 4 of the 13 selected projects of the UV are related to the PCUV. In total, between 2025 and 2029 the UV will carry out these 13 projects, for which it will receive an overall funding of 7,393,747 euros.
About Prometeo GVA Programme
The Prometeo GVA programme awards grants to identify and assist R & D & I groups of excellence in the Valencian Community, and enhance their international projection and knowledge transfer. They are directed to Valencian research centres and run by groups led by one or two principal researchers, who will act as grant applicants. It has a maximum duration of four years, with funding of up to €150,000 per year per project.
This year’s Prometheus programme call for 2025 has received 86 applications from groups of excellence, of which 40 have been awarded. It should be noted that in the vast majority of projects awarded (30 out of 40), at least one of the persons acting as principal investigator is a woman.
A total of 32 of the funded research groups are attached to Valencian universities (13 from the University of Valencia) and 8 belong to other Valencian research bodies, such as the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), the Valencian Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research (FISABIO), the Valencian Community Clinical Hospital Research Foundation (INCLIVA) and the Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research (IVIA).
Source: UV News
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