Spanish national service in CORDIS
Infrastructure
R&D Centres
Universities
- University of Valencia (UVEG)
- Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV)
- University of Alicante (UA)
- “Jaume I” University of Castelló (UJI)
- “Miguel Hernández” University of Elche
- “Cardenal Herrera” University CEU
- “San Vicente Mártir” University Catholic de Valencia
CSIC Centres in the CV
- “Torre de la Sal" Aquaculture Institute
- Agricultural Chemistry and Food Technology Institute
- Biomedical Institute of Valencia
- "Primo Yúfera" Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of Plants (with UPV)
- Corpuscular Physics Institute (with UVEG)
- Institute for the Management of Innovation and Knowledge (with UPV)
- "López Piñero" Institute of the History of Science and Documentation (with UVEG)
- Institute of Chemical Technology (with UPV)
- Centre for Desertification Research (with GV & UVEG)
- Neuro-sciences Institin.umh.es/ute (with UMH)
Technology Institutes
- ITC-AICE Ceramics technology Institute (with UJI)
- AIDIMA Furniture and Allied Technology Institute
- AIDO Optical Technology Institute
- AIMPLAS Plastics Technology Institute
- AINIA Agro-Food Technology Institute
- AIDICO Construction Technology Institute
- AIJU Toy Industry Technology Institute
- AIMME Metal & Mechanical Technology Institute
- AITEX Textile Technology Institute
- IBV Bio-mechanics Institute of Valencia (with UPV)
- INESCOP Footwear and Allied Technology Institute
- ITENE Packaging, Packing and Transport Technology Institute
- ITI Computing Technological Institute (with UPV)
- ITE Institute Electrical Technology (with UPV)
Other Research Centres
- Environmental Studies Centre of the Mediterranean (CEAM)
- Centro de investigación Príncipe Felipe
- Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas
- Instituto de Ecología Litoral
- Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research (IVIA)
- Water Management Services Centre (CESGA)
- Valencian School of Health Studies (EVES)
Valencian Scientific Research, Technological Development And Innovation Plan (PVIDI)
2006 is the last year of this multiannual plan. A new RTD is currently being designed that will start in 2007
Objectives
The Valencian Scientific Research, Technological Development and Innovation Plan (PVIDI) 2001-2006 establishes a general framework for action and proposes a set of solutions to the problems highlighted by diagnoses of the Valencian Science-Technology-Business System. The PVIDI propitiates an integral view of the government's action, coordinated by the Regional Ministry of Enterprise, University and Science, which brings a single overall perspective to the actions carried out by the different departments of the Generalitat Valenciana.
The PVIDI 2001-2006 is the principal instrument for planning, co-ordinating, energising and evaluating the activities of research, technological development and innovation aimed at strengthening the competitiveness of the Comunitat Valenciana productive system and improving the well being of its citizens.
In view of the starting situation and of the problems of Valencian RDI analysed in the preceding chapter, the PVIDI defines the following objectives:
- To improve the level of excellence and strengthen the competitive capacity of the Valencian Science-Technology-Business System.
- To increase the total resources (public and private) destined for RDI in the Comunitat Valenciana, up to 2% of GDP in 2006 and to improve the efficiency of their allocation.
- To foment vertical integration, co-ordination and interrelation among the different agents involved in the science, technological development and innovation system (university departments and institutes, research centres, technology centres and firms).
- To reinforce the mechanisms of transfer of research results and to increase the social and economic yield of existing ones, so that they can be of the maximum utility for Valencian society.
- To encourage the participation of the private sector in the development of technological innovation, as a strategic action of Valencian firms and as a driving force of technological development and research.
- To foment the public communication of science, and the diffusion and development of scientific and technological culture in Valencian society.
- To co-ordinate the activities of the Valencian Executive in matters of RDI with the actions of the Spanish and European executives in the Comunitat Valenciana, and to establish relationships of co-operation with other agents, both national and international.
Structure
Basic Structure
The PVIDI organises these actions by means of three types of programs established in Law 7/1997, of 9 December 1997, of the Generalitat Valenciana, on Encouragement and Co-ordination of Scientific Research and Technological Development in the Comunitat Valenciana (Science Law): general, sector and departmental programs. Each program defines its actions by spheres of interest for scientific research and technological development, describing the activities programmed around the following points:
- Training of personnel in RDI
- Scientific infrastructure
- Scientific research and technological development projects
- Special actions
- Other activities of interest
Within each program are set the specific objectives and the priority actions that are to stimulate the scientific and technical capacity of the Comunitat Valenciana.
Structure
The PVIDI is structured in three general programmes and six sector programmes of oriented research, as well as the specific programmes developed by the Presidency and the different Departments of the Valencian Executive
General programmes of knowledge
- Programme of General Progress of Science
- Programme of Innovation, Development and Transfer of Technology
- Programme of the Information and Knowledge Society
Sector programmes
- Health and Quality of Life Programme
- Agro-food Programme
- Environment Programme
- Infrastructures and Land Use Planing Programme
- Culture and Society Programme
- Socio-economic Programme