Dear friend:
Allow me to offer you, as its Director, some general ideas about the Inter-University Institute of International Economics (IEI), in particular about its headquarters in Valencia.
The IEI is a center for research, knowledge transfer to society and postgraduate training. Its creation in 1995 was promoted by the University of Alicante (IEI Alicante); https://iei.ua.es/ ), the University Jaume I of Castellón (IEI Castellón; https://iei.uji.es/ ) and the University of Valencia-Estudi general (http://localhost/ ), of which it forms part as its own inter-university institute.
The main objective of the Institute is to promote a platform for research, training and transfer to society, open, multidisciplinary and of the highest academic level, through its own researchers and their collaboration with other specialists and research groups. The fields of action of the IEI at its headquarters in Valencia are, in a broad sense, the Analysis of the Economy and the Analysis of the business reality.
The IEI, for its operation, receives core funding from the Universities in which it is integrated as well as financial support from other public and private entities, through projects, agreements and contracts to carry out specific work within the framework of the research lines of the Institute and those others that, due to their socio-economic significance, are of interest to its environment. Among other projects of interest, which you can find in the Projects and Contracts section of this website, the IEI Valencia is currently responsible for the Chair of Port Economics, established through the collaboration of the Port Authority of Valencia and the University of Valencia (https://www.uv.es/catedra-valenciaport-economia-portuaria/es/catedra-valenciaport-economia-portuaria-apv-uv.html ).
At present, professors and researchers from the Departments of Economic Analysis, Marketing and Market Research, Economic Structure, Accounting, Applied Economics and Mathematics for Economics and Business (all from the University of Valencia) are attached to the IEI Valencia, and researchers from other national and foreign institutions and organizations also participate in its activities.
Due to its university nature, the IEI also develops a teaching activity linked, on the one hand, to the own responsibilities of the staff integrated in it, and on the other hand, from a more institutional perspective, being the body responsible for official postgraduate courses of the University of Valencia. In fact, since the 2006-2007 academic year (currently, with a modified structure from the 2013-2014 academic year), it has been developing the Master in Economic Internationalization: International Trade Management (http://localhost/master/ ) and, since the 2009-2010 academic year, the Doctorate in International Economics and Tourism.
The IEI has a clear vocation of public service, so it aims to respond to the demand for more applied research emanating from its environment, both public and private. Therefore, its activities include projects linked to institutional and business initiatives, within the local, national and international scope, to which it provides an analytical and methodological perspective in line with the principles and objectives of academic excellence that define it. All the above, under the commitment to economic sustainability -but also environmental and sociocultural-, the gender perspective and the welfare of society.
I invite you to discover more specifically on the IEI-Valencia website the research, transfer and teaching activities that we develop, and do not hesitate to contact the IEI (iei@uv.es ) or with this address (Vicente.pallardo@uv.es) for any consideration or question you may have.
Yours sincerely.
Vicente J. Pallardó
Director of the Institute of International Economics - Valencia