The Role of Urban Cultural and Youth Policies

Abstract

How does the University contribute to the growth of cultural life and of quality of life in the cities in which it is located? How does it promote the cultural inclusion of those strata of the population increasingly excluded from cultural life? How does it promote the development of cultural and creative enterprise? 

Culture represents one of the main keys to reading the relationship between universities and cities: it is the engine of participation, confrontation, and growth in urban communities, especially in the southern regions, where, according to the April 2022 Fair and Sustainable Welfare data, there is a particularly sharp decline in cultural consumption, well below the European average. This is a worrying picture that threatens to undermine the understanding of society's complex problems and the democratic frameworks.