The Interuniversity Institute of Valencian Philology (IIFV), was created in 1987, and took form with a decree of the Generalitat Valenciana

Generalitat Valenciana

The Generalitat Valenciana is the generic name covering the different self government institutions under which the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia is politically organised....

 that was issued in 1994. It is composed by he University of Valencia, the University of Alicante

University of Alicante

The University of Alicante was established in 1979 on the basis of the Center for University Studies , which was founded in 1968. The University main campus is located in San Vicente del Raspeig/Sant Vicent del Raspeig, bordering the city of Alicante to the north...

 and the University Jaume I, from Castellón de la Plana

Castellón de la Plana

Castellón de la Plana or Castelló de la Plana is the capital city of the province of Castelló, in the Valencian Community, Spain, in the east of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Costa del Azahar by the Mediterranean Sea...

, i.e., the three Valencian universities with superior philology

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

 studies.

Aims

• The linguistic and literary study of Valencian, inside the general frame of the Catalan Catalan language
  Catalan language
  Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
  
   and literature
  Catalan literature
  Catalan literature is the name conventionally used to refer to literature written in the Catalan language. The Catalan literary tradition is extensive, starting in the Middle Ages....
  
  .
• Teaching and researching aims.
• Advising in all the fields that have some kind of relationship with the Valencian linguistic and literary fact.
• Apart from the autonomy that each university has, the IIFV will be the only organism that, on behalf of all the universities that are its members, will be able to advise and to rule over the philological matters that are inside its domain.

Internal structure

The IIFV has a Board of Directors, a General Council and a Consultant Council, together with technical and auxiliary staff, and scholars. The Board of Directors is composed by 49 Valencian philology specialists. Its members choose every four years the Director. They are responsible of fulfiling the IIFV scientific aims. The Director rules with the Board of Directors. The Consultant Council is composed by eleven specialists from all the world, and its mission is to advise the General Council in all the scientific matters that it is requested of. The present IIFV director is the Catalan Philology Professor from the University of Valencia, Ferran Carbó.

External links

• Interuniversity Institute of Valencian Philology