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This chapter investigates the relationship between universities and the cities in which they are located. It explores the meaning of university campuses, how they are connected with the urban and the social/economic fabric by exploring the three-dimensional missions universities have: educational, research, and relations with the external. Focusing on the third mission, the author explores the ways universities today are facing their social responsibility and sustainability goals by pointing out some best practices and detailing the experience of his research team within Polisocial—the social responsibility programme of the Politecnico di Milano.
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It is not only about Chinese universities but also foreign ones. Thirty-eight overseas institutions have set up branch campuses on the Chinese mainland, and 14 of them are from the US, according to data gathered by the Cross-Border Education Research Team (C-Bert) at the State University of New York in Albany in January 2017. http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201801/25/WS5a699e74a3106e7dcc136a42.html accessed in May 2019.
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The QS world academics rankings together with the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) produced by Shanghai Jiaotong University are the most important systems of assessment of international universities. They are based on academic peer review; employer review; faculty to student ratio; citations per faculty member; proportion of faculty that are international; and proportion of students that are international.
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World Conference on Higher Education Partners, June 2003.
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Polimi Desis Lab is the research team the author belongs to. The team is a branch of the DESIS Network (the international network of Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability), founded in 2008 by Ezio Manzini and including more than 50 universities dealing with these issues. www.desis.polimi.it.
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The School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano offers MSc courses in: Interior & Spatial Design, Product Service System Design, Design for the Fashion System, Integrated Product Design, Design &Engineering, and Digital Interaction Design.
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Activities done in these courses are reported in https://temporaryurbansolutions.tumblr.com/.
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It is a concierge service at the entrance of the BASE social hub where citizens can find information not only on what is happening in the hub (www.base.milano.it) but also in the whole neighbourhood, using it as a touchpoint to collect online shipping delivery, find contacts for daily needs (electrician, carpenter, etc.). It was created by an inspiration from some results of the Tortona district course.
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Fassi, D. (2020). Campuses and the City. In: Fassi, D., Landoni, P., Piredda, F., Salvadeo, P. (eds) Universities as Drivers of Social Innovation. Research for Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31117-9_2
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