Match UPV
Meetings that connect companies with different UPV research teams to find solutions to real innovation challenges.
Match UPV
Match-UPV is an initiative that connects companies with research groups from the Universitat Politècnica de València to promote joint R projects.
Since 2016, more than 17 organizations have led Match-UPV events with a common goal: to transform needs into real innovation. Through dynamic and participatory meetings, companies present their challenges, and UPV teams respond with applied solutions based on their research experience.
What it involves
Match-UPV dynamics are organized in person, virtually, or in a mixed format where the company presents its strategy and innovation challenges to be solved. Subsequently, several groups, startups, and spinoffs from the UPV respond with their capabilities to address innovative solutions to these business challenges. This “match” exchange aims to foster collaboration and R&D&I relationships between the parties with the objective of developing fruitful projects in the medium and long term.
The events are structured in brief presentations where research groups present developments aligned with the proposed challenges. The result: new synergies, strategic collaborations, and projects with real impact on the market and society.
Team
Each Match-UPV event is possible thanks to the involvement of a multidisciplinary team formed by internal UPV agents and specialized collaborators. From i2T, the CPI Foundation, the DCN consultancy, and the CEV Innovation Unit, they work in a coordinated manner to connect business challenges with research solutions.
Trajectory
The first Match-UPV event was held in 2016 together with AIMPLAS, the Technological Institute of Plastics. Since then, this collaboration model has evolved, but maintains its essence: to facilitate the meeting between companies with an interest in R&D&I and UPV research groups aligned with their needs.
More than 20 organizations have relied on this format to enhance their innovation. Some, like AIMPLAS, have repeated in several editions, consolidating the value of these events as a strategic tool to strengthen business R&D&I.
Each edition is a new opportunity to generate new connections, share knowledge, and activate projects with real impact.
Request a Match UPV
These Match-UPV events are part of the UPV INNOVACIÓN program, for the promotion of UPV services to society in the field of innovation. Companies or investors wishing to organize a connection event with UPV researchers can contact our i2T Service team for the Promotion and Support of Research, Innovation and Transfer through this form.
