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title: "Technical University of Valencia: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "The Technical University of Valencia, shortened to UPV, is a Spanish university located in Valencia, with a focus on science, technology, and arts. It was founded in 1968 as the Higher Polytechnic School of Valencia and became a university in 1971, but some of its schools are more than 100 years old."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-technical-university-of-valencia
type: Organization
wikidata: Q2003976
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_University_of_Valencia
website: https://www.upv.es/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Technical University of Valencia

> The Technical University of Valencia, shortened to UPV, is a Spanish university located in Valencia, with a focus on science, technology, and arts. It was founded in 1968 as the Higher Polytechnic School of Valencia and became a university in 1971, but some of its schools are more than 100 years old.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: Spain
- Founded: 1971-03-26
- Headquarters: Valencia
- Status: private
- Website: https://www.upv.es/
- Also known as: UPV, Universitat Politècnica de València, upv.es, Polytechnic University of Valencia

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/UPV
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UPV
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/instaupv

## Key people

- Avel·lí Corma Canós (Valencian chemist)
- Francisco Sanz Fernández (Spanish politician)
- Alícia Sellés (Spanish librarian)
- José Bonet Solves (Spanish mathematician)
- Ignacio Araujo
- María Teresa Arredondo Waldmeyer (Spanish scientist)
- Ana Teresa Ortega (Spanish artist, sculptor, photographer and teacher)
- Pilar Roig Picazo (Spanish researcher)
- Matilde Alonso Salvador (Spanish architect)
- José Luis Carretero (Spanish botanist and scientist (1941-2007))
- José Manuel Vela Bargues (Spanish economist and professor (1962–2022))

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants, Institute of Chemical Technology

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Technical University of Valencia, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-technical-university-of-valencia#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2003976, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_University_of_Valencia

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