Cooperazione mediterranea e comunità locali: il ruolo trasformativo delle università

This was presented during the XL ISPROM Seminar on Mediterranean Cooperation. The presentation brings together the theoretical framework provided by the PLACES project and the possible ambit for its deployement within the EUNICoast project. PLACES (Portraits and Landscapes of Academic Community Engaged Scholarship) is a research project on Academic Community Engagement funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under the PRIN funding programme (National Research Interest Projects). It is aimed at understanding the structural, institutional and personal enablers and inhibiters of Academic Community Engagement EUNICoast is a European University Alliance funded by the EC under the Erasmus+ Strategic Programmes fund. It is an alliance of 13 universities aimed at setting up a European University of islands, ports and coastal territories. The University of Sassari (IT) is the coordinator of the Community Engagement Work Package.