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## The UJI promotes renewable energies to generate employment for university students in rural areas The In2Rural European project led by the lecturer of Engineering Leonor Hernández was awarded a Diploma of Excellence in the fifth EDUManager Awards

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The Universitat Jaume I (UJI) has promoted the use of renewable energy for three years in order to improve the employability of university students in rural areas of Europe. This initiative has been possible thanks to the Erasmus+ In2Rural European project, led by the lecturer of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Construction Leonor Hernández, which was awarded a Diploma of Excellence in the fifth EDUManager Awards granted at the Romanian university Vasile Alecsandri.

The In2Rural project ("Innovative practices in renewable energies to improve rural employability"), coordinated by the UJI, has gathered students, universities and SMEs from Spain, Romania and Hungary in the various lines of work related to face-to-face and on-line training, dissemination and awareness regarding sustainability. "We are very pleased to show that the development of renewable energies can serve to increase employment options in rural areas for young people with university studies", argues Leonor Hernández, who is also coordinator of this initiative.

**SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC DIMENSION**

From 2014 to 2017, the development of In2Rural has made possible the organization of various training actions, dissemination sessions and applied research to boost the use of renewable energies in rural areas. All this, in Hernández’s words, "from a both sustainable and respectful perspective, thus giving technology a social, environmental and economic dimension".

Networking with key agents for rural development, such as local governments, SMEs and civil society organizations, has been prioritized throughout the project cycle. Other cross-cutting aspects that have formed part of In2Rural's identity are interdisciplinarity, combining areas of knowledge such as engineering, sociology and business administration, and the contribution to the internationalization of small municipalities.

The following data can give an idea of ​​the impact of the project: more than 30 students have participated in European courses on renewable energies for rural development and more than 35 lecturers and technicians have increased their competences in issues related to the project. Regarding visibility on the Internet, it is remarkable that intellectual products have been downloaded more than 9,000 times, videos have been viewed more than 1,000 times and the project website has received more than 4,300 visits.

In accordance with the strategic lines of the Erasmus+ programme, In2Rural has advocated promoting free knowledge through open access to all materials and project results. For this reason, the intellectual products have been published under Creative Commons licenses and can be free downloaded from the project website and from the UJI digital repository.

Leonor Hernández is a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Construction and a researcher in the Multiphase Fluids Group. Her recent research activity focuses on the use of nanofluids as advanced materials for solar collection, heat transfer and thermal storage. She is currently coordinator of the Nanouptake COST Action. In addition to In2rural, she is involved in other cooperation actions with developing countries and has coordinated two European Erasmus+ projects in the last four years related to renewable energies and rural development, such as ITforest.

**Information about In2rural:** <http://in2rural.uji.es/>

**Access to the intellectual products of the project:** <http://repositori.uji.es/xmlui/handle/10234/154485>

**YouTube channel of the project:** <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIdVHokBEfM&list=PLg4VBgL4sO8_XhDDm1ogsqfDNwqwZMnrk>

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