The Universitat de València created the Patronat Sud-Nord, Solidaritat i Cultura within the Fundación General to coodinate the actions of development cooperation.

It was created in 1991 to promote and coordinate solidarity cooperation projects with developing countries.

El Patronat Sud-Nord, Solidaritat i Cultura, 

• It administers grants
• It administers mobility
• It administers and gives a documentation and information service
• It manages and administers the UNESCO Chair of Development Studies
• It promotes cooperation in developing education
• It organizes awareness activities like conferences, courses, programms, exhibitions...
• It formulates and administers university cooperation in developing projects
• It incentivizes, coordinates and administers research for cooperation in developing
• It issues reports to NGOs, carries out activities and institucional relations in university cooperation in developing