Puglia Regione Universitaria Project as Action Research

In order to explore the unreleased declination of the relationship between the urban and the university system, the contribution aims to analyze the “flagship projects” of the regional research “PUGLIA REGIONE UNIVERSITARIA. Studiare e vivere in città accoglienti e sostenibili” verifying the impacts on the regional territory, practices, and community. As an example of research action project, the “flagship projects” and their verification are configured as the “active” part of the research, able to produce real effects and tangible impacts on the territory, with the aim of producing positive changes on reality. They belong to the third phase of the research, the more operational one, as application proposals, small experiments, funded and implemented by the proposing institutions, based on the knowledge framework developed in the previous phases of the project and returning a first, tangible feedback on the territories involved. The knowledge systematization of the “flagship projects” concluded, in progress and in the planning stage, could be useful for to extrapolate generalizable and replicable research action guidelines, new territorial policies and innovative choices in terms of right to university study.