The claims in the frontier

University plays a significant role within social dimensions considered as frontier/periphery understood at different territorial scales: the global ones, concerning the imbalances between the North and South of the world; national ones, which consider the gap between advanced and weaker regions within a country system; urban ones, which indicate the marginal and/or distressed neighbourhoods of a city. Within controversial and heterogeneous geo-urban contexts, university can constitute the space where to question the dynamics of human relationships, stressing on intercultural considerations, pragmatic reflections and negotiable interests, as well as on fundamental issues to elaborate strategies of social empowerment.