Aree interne e Università tra prossimità e reciprocità. Strategie attuali e prospettive future

The aim of the contribution is to analyse the relationship between internal areas and the university. Specifically, it examines the prismatic character of inland areas and the consequent analytical multiplicity of perspectives, the role entrusted to inter-municipal associationism, as envisaged by the SNAI (National Strategy for Internal Areas) as well as the opportunities unveiled by the synergic connection between peripheral places and the University, in order to show the need for a fruitful reciprocity between universities and the territory. Through research, innovation, training and collaboration with local communities, universities can contribute to reversing negative trends and promote the socio-economic growth of marginal territorial areas, where the exercise of citizenship appears complex and where inequalities emerge, mortifying places where there is a cultural, natural and landscape heritage of great strategic value that deserves to be uncovered.