The proposal of the Renewable Energy Graduate Program (PPGER in the initials in Portuguese) comes from the efforts to take on research in renewable energy in Paraíba and the training of specialists and professionals to meet the growth of demands in the labor market and problems associated with renewable energy, and challenges in technical, economic, technological, geopolitical and environmental areas. The PPGER takes a stand in the direction of prizing the qualification of professors, researchers and other professionals in renewable energy, through the Academic Master’s Degree, enabling them to develop constructive educational practices, perform ethical and accountable activities and fostering researches that foment scientific and technological knowledge advancement and new products in its research lines, which are growing demand topics in the country and the North and Northeast regions as a vector of sustainable growth. Through the policy of expanding undergraduate programs (REUNI, the Portuguese initials for Federal University Restructuring and Expansion Plan), the PPGER foments the strengthening of the undergraduate program in Renewable Energy Engineering, sharing knowledge according to the state of the art for the undergraduate program. This also places PPGER in the position of facilitating undergraduate students to enroll in graduate studies. In this context, the Postgraduate Program in Renewable energy has the mission of promoting quality teaching and research in engineering applied to renewable energy. To foster and train qualified human resources and leadership in the renewable energy field, based on energy sustainability and scientific/technological development at regional, national, and international levels.

The PPGER has qualified human resources (professors) and individual, international partnerships (Spain, Canada, England, among others) that may enable greater internationalization for the Program. Besides these, it has a basic research infrastructure that has already made possible the development of products and processes (patents) that aim at regional development with a wide dissemination potential, involving students and professors of the program. A gradual improvement in the program's infrastructure, through project financing, as well as investments by the institution, is also noteworthy.