University-enterprise educational partnership models
This research study originates from the intent of Assolombarda to outline the overall picture of existing forms of educational partnership between businesses and the academic world.
This research study originates from the intent of Assolombarda to outline the overall picture of existing forms of educational partnership between businesses and the academic world. The term "educational partnership" refers to partnership experiences between universities and businesses which have as their object initiatives aimed at enriching and improving educational activities.
Conversely, partnerships focused on research are left in the background, as are orientation initiatives in the strict sense of the term. Except for the core activities, i.e. curricular training courses, this set of experiences are often difficult to define formally. Moreover, being mostly designed and implemented on the basis of direct relationships between companies and individual professors, the visibility of these partnerships is often limited, and there is a high risk of their fading over time without leaving a concrete trace or being replicated on a larger scale.
Based on these premises, this study aims to identify and analyze the distinctive traits of this "wealth of experiences", part of which is fragmented and submerged, so as to make it available to businesses and the academic community as a useful tool to identify and seize new opportunities in managing the relationship between highly qualified young people and the labour market.
In parallel, attention has been paid to a process for the identification of the feasibility conditions of the subject experiences, in order to make them "scalable" and replicable within the business system at local, regional and possibly national level.
The scope of inquiry was limited to Universities in the Milan area (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione – IULM, Politecnico di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Università degli Studi di Milano) and the University of Pavia, with which Assolombarda has a history of successful partnership.