The Universitat Jaume I of Castelló has secured nearly one million euros for five projects under the competitive call for grants aimed at strengthening research careers, within the Human Resources programme of the 2024–2027 State Plan for Scientific, Technical and Innovation Research. This achievement places the UJI fourth nationally and first in the Valencian Community in terms of funding obtained in this call, behind only the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the University of Barcelona and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and ahead of larger universities.

The 2025 call awarded a total of 130 grants worth almost 25 million euros. Its aim is to support the consolidation of the professional careers of national and international researchers within the Spanish System for Science, Technology and Innovation (SECTI), through the creation of permanent positions and by facilitating the launch or strengthening of research lines via funding for R&D&I projects and the improvement of laboratories, facilities and scientific equipment.

Promoters are key DNA regions that control gene transcription, but their activity varies greatly across different cell types. This heterogeneity makes it difficult for existing computational methods to identify promoters reliably. A team led by Professors Zhangyu Mei and Hao Wu from Shandong University, China, has developed MuSE‑Promoter, a deep ensemble learning framework that combines multi‑scale feature fusion, transformer attention, and a learnable weighted ensemble of neural network and random forest. The system outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods on human cell lines from different tissues and on Arabidopsis thaliana datasets, and shows excellent generalization in cross‑cell‑line and promoter–enhancer discrimination tasks.

Harvard’s Visual Computing Group developed BRIDGE, a simulation system that converts standard standing-basketball footage into realistic wheelchair-basketball videos.

The new “MIGHTY” system rapidly generates travel routes for autonomous robots navigating in uncertain situations, allowing them to react to obstacles in milliseconds while staying on a smooth flight path that minimizes travel time.