The University-Business Cooperation in the European context: an Italian experience with master degree students, managers, and instructors

In the European context the present Europe 2020 Strategy has still been urging the European Union Countries to strengthen University-Business Cooperation and the so called Knowledge Triangle, which considers Education, Research and Business/Innovation strongly linked together. The documents produced by the European Commission about it, highlight the evidence of the relation between Research and Innovation but also the great cultural gap existing between Education, on one side, and Research and Innovation on the other side (Commission of the European Communities, 2011). This contribution presents a University-Business Cooperation experience placed at Padova University: PARIMUN Project - Active Partnership of Research between University and Business which supports experiences of dialogue between humanities and, particularly, educational fields and business organizations. The paper explains the steps of research and the results of the interviews which have been made by tutors working for companies and instructors involved in 18 projects of intervention-research managed by graduating master students.