The social role of peripheral universities and tax exemptions, the Italian case.

In the dynamic center-periphery, the universities located in the peripheral areas, characterized by income, employment and infrastructural gaps, as well as increasing rates of skilled migration, have experienced increasing difficulties in recent years in terms of enrolment, recruitment and the ability to intercept sources of funding. This dynamic is particularly present in the Italian system, characterized by structural weaknesses that persist for at least a decade. In Italy, this marginalization phenomenon is impoverishing peripherical Universities jeopardising their role as civic actors for the most peripheral territories.