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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2024): Special Education, Third Mission and Social Impact: Reflections and practices for an inclusive community

Building inclusive cultures and practices between universities and territories. A multi-region case study on combating educational poverty

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/ess1-2024oa17648
Submitted
aprile 9, 2024
Published
2024-06-24

Abstract

Inclusive cultures and practices that emerge from the collaborative work between community territories and academic institutions are a crucial element in terms of concept and design to stimulate the emergence of communities oriented towards promoting education. This is why, in recent years, Italian universities have adopted this perspective in the field of Third Mission initiatives, in order both to make visible the social value of the initiatives produced and to evaluate the impact produced by them assessable in terms of effectiveness and success for all those involved.

From this point of view, the article presents a case study of a multi-regional project financed by the “Con i Bambini” call for proposals “Un passo avanti,” which aims to support interventions capable of triggering innovative processes, generating new relationships, and providing projects with social impact to counteract child educational poverty.

The results presented in the case study allow us to outline some useful avenues of reflection and some intervention criteria for universities to improve processes to promote inclusive cultures and practices about territories and local stakeholders in the perspective of sustaining educational communities.

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