Cycling is one of the symbols of the city with its 160 km cycle path.
Edward Henry
innovation Making a better city designed for people is the shared mission of Valencia’s citizens, inherited from generation to generation. And creativity and collective innovation Valencia’s DNA. If you take a trip to the past, it is easy to verify that this trait has always been present among Valencian men and women. This is how we are! In this sense, a trip back in time will help to discover the events that Valencia took to build the city.
Thanks to grandparents, fathers and mothers, and all the events that are part of the past, today’s generation can enjoy Valencia as it is known today. Valencia’s flag is innovation and therefore European Capital of Innovation 2022an acceptance European Innovation Council (EIC) to cities working to improve resilience, competitiveness and sustainability. In short, people’s lives and the environment in which they live and interact.
Accordingly, a trip to the past will serve to discover some of the most innovative milestones in the city and to reach key moments such as the birth of the world. University of Valencia The talent it produced in 1499 and for more than five centuries; with ‘Silk Road’with the creation of Great College of Silk and Lonja Artpart of their cultural heritage; The flood disaster that devastated the city in 1957 and València reinvented itself and demonstrated its resilience by taking advantage of the old riverbed that was on the verge of becoming a highway, making it one of the largest urban gardens in Europe. .
And innovation comes not only from disasters, but also from creativity. The tradition of exporting oranges, for example, led to the creation of labels for boxes, containers, and products, and promoted this design culture that has so much to us.
This historical excursion cannot be missing either. Valencia City of Arts and Sciencesan area that has become one of the greatest centers of cultural diffusion and scientific diffusion. Among these milestones is the birth in 1989. ‘Jaume I Awards’, which brings science and companies together to promote research, scientific development and entrepreneurship. It is worth noting that Jaume I is one of the most prestigious international research awards.
And this journey through time, in the present, especially Valencian Navy. with its location Shuttle It has become a new pole of creativity and entrepreneurship for its maritime region. UPV’s Polytechnic City of Innovation (CPI) and dozens of business ventures dedicated to innovation. It should be noted that Valencia has the largest per capita innovative ecosystem in Spain.
Innovation has always accompanied Valencia, who is always conscious of how to do it. In fact, the city has been characterized by a way of collectively deploying innovation and dedicated to solving humanity’s great challenges, such as the climate mission, which was approved by broad consensus of first social and then government and main political parties. opposition (#OnAMissionTogether).
One of the paradigmatic examples of this climate mission is: Valencia was the first city in Spain to build a bike path., specifically on Blasco Ibáñez Street, to promote more sustainable non-motorized mobility in 1982. The city now has more than 160 kilometers of bike lanes used by more than 8,500 people every day. In fact, the Valencia bike ring has already surpassed seven million users in its five years of existence. But it strives for sustainable mobility it doesn’t end there as the city is currently designing the sustainable mobility of the future. Valencian technology zeleroswhich leads tool development hyperloop in Europeis an example of this.
And the innovative vein of the city is not in the past, it is always present. Another current example of Valencia innovations related to sustainability is the project. ‘Requiem in power’by which city 7,000 solar panels in the city’s main cemetery, capable of supplying 2,000 homes per hour. It is an urban and public project that could transform municipal cemeteries into the most ambitious urban photovoltaic plant in Spain.
Thanks to the strategy, Valencia was named one of the six most innovative cities in Europe at the iCapital Awards in 2020. ‘Valencia 2030 Missions’ It is supported by the Las Naves innovation center and the Innovation and Knowledge delegation of the Valencia City Council. Now, the city has been selected as a semi-finalist once again; An example of the work carried out by the entire innovative ecosystem of the city that could lead to a new chapter in Valencian history, European Capital of Innovation 2022.
Valencia Tech City, innovation in the city of opportunity
In the last eight months, it attracted 1.5 million investments that created 380 jobs.
Suggested to be Valencia tech citya city ​​of talent where new age technology is renewed and developed; In short, the city of opportunities.
And from this goal Innovative Development of Economic Sectors and Employment Area VLC Tech City promoteda Platform for public-private cooperation whose mission is to position Valencia centre reference point in terms of innovation and technologyA core part of the ‘Entrepreneurial Nation of Spain’ strategy, the .
Within the framework of this platform, representatives of the Valencian innovation system work together, following the company’s strategic plan. VLC Technology City promoting local technology-based entrepreneurship, empowering and connecting the entrepreneurial community and attracting international talent, retaining local talent and encouraging investment and project creation; Contributing to Valencia’s self-consolidation centre a benchmark in terms of innovation and technology.
And following these predecessors, Town hallWith Valencian Roomrequested ‘Invest in Valencia’A new service created to attract quality foreign investment, offering personalized advice, simplifying procedures and reducing administrative barriers.
In its eight-and-a-half months of operation, it has attracted eight investment projects worth more than €1.5m, resulting in the creation of more than 380 jobs over the next two years.
Valencia continues to work #OnAMissionTogether be authentic VLC Technology City.
September 30 – Valencia, candidate for European Capital of Innovation
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