The role of universities in support of voluntary guardianship of unaccompanied children: ideas to model a Third Mission experience and promote virtuous contaminations between social intervention, research and education.

Abstract

This paper analyses the role Italian Universities can play in favour of voluntary guardians of unaccompanied children under Law n. 47/2017. Specifically, we try to standardize the experience of Piedmont Region and we emphasize that public engagement, and in general the so-called Universities' Third Mission, has positive outcomes in terms of teaching and research and staff wellbeing.