Editorial. Young people, institutions, and territories

The subject of this issue has the same theme as the 5th Week of Excellence promoted and organized by the University of Macerata Department of Education, Cultural Heritage, and Tourism Sciences in October 2021. These weeks are cultural events of invaluable heuristic workmanship and specialist education, targeted both at the world of academia and research, but also at the department’s best students, in order to continuously and progressively reinforce the community of the budding and established scholars. After all, this is in keeping with the finest tradition, particularly during the initial period, of European universities: the forebears of all those that subsequently be established around the world. The first were founded almost 900 years ago and immediately afterwards, from Bologna to Oxford, etc., in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and onwards from then. At the time, the elected rector was the most deserving and accredited student. The secondary title of this Week of Excellence, which we are repeating implicitly for this issue, as evidenced by the contributions featured here, was “Networks for Innovation and Inclusion.”