Università di Padova e territorio: trasformazioni, sfide e opportunità della città universitaria metropolitana nel contesto veneto University of Padua and its territory: transformations, challenges and opportunities of the Metropolitan University City in the Veneto context

Through the analysis of the enrollment data of the students of the University of Padua and neighboring universities, examined and mapped through GIS technology, in the years 1977-2007-2017-2020, this contribution intends to highlight how the system of the university of North East has evolved and how student mobility in central Veneto and towards the city of Padua has changed over the years. At the same time, a comparison with other regional contexts will make it possible to highlight the difficulty of the Veneto production system in absorbing graduates, this last element helps to explain the greater difficulty for the University of Padua to collaborate with the business world of the territory.