Five Global Challenges and the Role of University

Published: April 24, 2017, 4:36 p.m.

b"The world is facing five global challenges: democratic, environmental, technological, economical, and geopolitical. Challenges that will require both enormous amount of knowledge and citizens capable of using such knowledge in scenarios that today are hard to predict. The University is clearly the main institution that could help society on both counts. However, if University truly wants to maximize its social utility, it needs--as argued by De Martin in his book 'Universit\\xe0 Futura' (Codice Edizioni, Italy, 2017)--to critically question the last 30 years of its development and re-discover its roots, updating them for the 21st century. \\n\\nFor more about this event, visit:\\nhttps://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2017/02/DeMartin"