The UOC Rural structures its lines of research between the different research missions of our university. It aims to be a meeting point for these missions and the units that form it, working transversally to achieve a framework of interdisciplinarity and broad collaboration.

Currently, we are working on the following lines of research:

• Regions in digital transition: socioeconomic, gender and environmental opportunities and inequalities created by global digitization processes
• Tourism, sustainability and regenerative processes in rural areas
• The role of tourism, art and culture in creating new narratives of rural realities
• Communities and participatory governance
• The role of artistic creation and art in mobilizing and empowering rural areas
• Housing in the rural world: factors and implications of rural depopulation and repopulation processes
• Social cohesion and equal opportunities from an intersectional perspective
• Employability and entrepreneurship: developing economic and social transformation processes
• The social and collaborative economy in the rural world
• Health, ageing and care in the rural world
• Digital literacy and the creation of connected and secure rural societies
• Configuration and impact of ecological and energy transitions in rural areas