With no maths support centre around, how do we support students in Italy?

The idea of a Maths Support Centre is (until now, at least) alien to Italian universities, but the need to support students remains. Almost every STEM degree programme in Italy requires prospective students to take some form of admission test, Mathematics being the core competence in question. For regulatory reasons, enrolment in public (state) university can be limited only to a certain number of students, not based on a specific test score. Thus, a not very competitive programme could have the majority of students with a subpar proficiency in Mathematics: these students will be subject to Additional Educational Obligations (OFA), which require them to fulfil certain educational requirements (to enrol in additional Remedial Maths classes and pass an exam; or to pass the Calculus course) to be allowed to sit any second year exam. Some students will choose not to attend these remedial classes, many students will not pass the remedial exam: they will be left with passing Calculus as their only option. I will present the post-pandemic projects which the Italian Mathematical Society (UMI) has being developing for the remedial classes, and an at- distance summer remedial school which I have been running since 2020 for those students that by the end of the first year will not have yet satisfied OFA.