Universities’ Emerging Missions to Foster Sustainability Of Rural Areas: Mu…

This paper explores a new emerging function for Universities: that of co-creation for sustainability (Trencher et al, 2013, 2014a, 2014b). Contribution to sustainability involves an engagement in place-based, multi-stakeholder partnerships able to solve real-world issues. This theory is applied to multiple case studies which involve the University of Macerata, located in a rural area in the …