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Acknowledgments

To the Ministry of National Education of Colombia, for making it possible for higher education institutions in Southwest Colombia, to participate in the “Call for the formation of a bank of eligible higher education projects that promote rural development through the formation of inter-institutional alliances”; an exploration of ideas to improve the conditions and quality of life of the department’s coffee growers.

To the institutions that participated in the inter-institutional alliance, led by the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia - Campus Pasto, the mediator for this research exercise, bringing together institutions such as the Corporación Unificada Nacional de Educación Superior (CUN) sede Pasto, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (UNIMINUTO), Centro Regional Pasto and the Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi (UPEC), as allies within International Higher Education; and to the National Federation of Associated Coffee Growers in the department of Nariño, who joined forces to achieve the proposed objective during the development of the research exercise with the implementation of various strategic proposals.

To the community, the coffee growers and rural youth, who opened the doors to their homes, their land and their experiences when accompanying them in the process of formation and active participation, and were willing to take on new challenges.

To the research groups that formed the articulation of research processes between higher education institutions.

To the authors who, with their dedication and effort, have managed to collect, experience, interpret and reveal to the academic community, the reality of our country and the reality of the communities that participated in this project.