The ValgrAI Foundation (Valencian Graduate School and Research Network of Artificial Intelligence) is strengthening its role as a driving force for innovation by securing five strategic projects from the RETech program, a state-funded initiative that supports competitive projects. This initiative aims to promote regional networks of technological specialization and is financed by the Regional Ministry of Innovation, Industry, Trade, and Tourism of the Valencian Regional Government.
The ValgrAI projects selected are part of the call for grants for experimental development in artificial intelligence and sectoral data spaces, within the framework of the recovery plan financed by the European Union-NextGeneration. In this way, ValgrAI is helping to mobilize €4,369,851.6 in initiatives aimed at applying artificial intelligence in sectors such as mobility, rural areas, industry, sustainability, and public services. It should be noted that three of these projects are being carried out with ValgrAI as the main partner, in collaboration with key entities in the technological ecosystem of the Valencian Community.
As part of the Revital-IA project, coordinated in collaboration with the company Wonderbits and the Diputación de València. The main objective of Revital-IA is to apply artificial intelligence to public databases in order to revitalize rural areas, optimize resources, and promote digital talent in municipalities at risk of depopulation. ValgrAI contributes knowledge in data governance, training, and technology transfer with the collaboration of Professor Rafael Berlanga, coordinator of the TKBG research group – Temporal Knowledge Bases at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón, and member of the ValgrAI Joint Research Unit.
For its part, the Exper Brain project, promoted together with Nunsys, AIDIME, and SCILING, is an initiative aimed at creating a hybrid cognitive AI model. The goal is to create a model capable of designing new components for additive manufacturing, thus facilitating smarter and more sustainable industrial processes. This project will be carried out with scientific advice from the VRAIN (Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence) group at the UPV, with professors Vicent Botti, Javier Palanca, and their team.
In the field of sustainable urban mobility, the UMDH (Urban Mobility Data Hub) project will be coordinated by researcher Vicente Julián from the UPV. The aim is to build an open, interoperable, and semantically structured data space that promotes collaboration between administrations, companies, and citizens for more efficient, sustainable, and connected mobility. This project has also been made possible thanks to collaboration with companies such as Josmar Turia S.L. and Sal i Brassa.
In addition, ValgrAI is participating as a subcontractor in two additional projects. Together with Pangeanic and the UJI, in EcoDrive Term Space, it is working on the creation of ontologies applied to sustainable autonomous mobility, with various tasks such as semantic development and validation of models, and dissemination of results. It also collaborates in the Savia project, developing virtual assistants applied to improving processes in SMEs and organizations in the fields of education, healthcare, and primary care.
These five initiatives reinforce ValgrAI’s commitment to the digital transformation of the Valencian region, aligning research, business, and public administration through the development and responsible application of artificial intelligence technologies.
