The Chair of Environmental Engineering against Climate and Meteorological Changes, sponsored by the Conselleria de Medi Ambient, Infraestructures i Territori of the Generalitat Valenciana and affiliated with the IIAMA-UPV, has granted ten training scholarships to UPV students. These scholarships are for developing projects related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The research stems from ten proposals selected by the Chair's Commission from the 36 submitted in the 2026 call, highlighting the university community's interest in providing solutions from various fields of knowledge. Over the next three months, the selected students will work on initiatives linked to challenges such as the resilience of transport infrastructure, response to climate emergencies, urban renaturalization, circular economy, waste management, hydroclimatic prediction, irrigated agriculture, water regeneration and reuse, or mitigation of urban heat.
Each scholarship, endowed with 1,000 euros per month, aims to foster student training and promote applied research in assessing impacts, mitigation, and adaptation to climate change, thereby driving innovative solutions for the ecological transition. "These scholarships represent an opportunity to contribute to knowledge and action on climate change from very diverse perspectives," highlights Manuel Pulido, director of the Climate Change Chair.
Among the ten selected projects are works such as the resilience of the transport system against extreme climatic events in L’Horta Sud, visual narratives for climate change mitigation from cultural heritage, or the development of antennas for contingency communications in climate emergencies. Other research will focus on renaturalization and circular economy in vulnerable coastal promenades, and the valorization of plastic waste through conversion into biogas, as well as the analysis of disinfection technologies for the reuse of treated wastewater.
Hydroclimatic prediction and adaptive management for the Júcar–Vinalopó system, the impact of climate change on irrigated agriculture, waste management at the La Fe Hospital in Valencia, and the evaluation of evapotranspiration in mitigating urban heat are other topics that the scholarship students will address.
Through this call, the Chair reinforces its commitment to training, applied research, and the search for multidisciplinary solutions to climate change, involving students, faculty, and researchers from various areas of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
