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The Concept of Knowledge Society and Health Awareness at the University of Palermo

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In the last chapter of this volume, a series of activities and effects for the community will be illustrated in the Third University Mission (TM) context, namely those relating to knowledge society and health awareness. The TM of National Universi- ties includes traditionally the set of activities with which universities enter into direct interaction with society, providing a contribution that accompanies the two tradi- tional actions, such as research (in which mainly the interaction is with scientific communities) and teaching (in which an interaction takes place with the students). There are two possible forms of TM: 1) economic enhancement of knowledge (in order to encourage economic growth, through the transformation of knowledge produced by research into knowledge useful for production purposes); and 2) cultural and social (in order to produce public–social–cultural goods that increase the well-being of society and encourage the process of scientific knowledge aimed at improving well-being itself).