Industry collaborations
Academic expertise.Real industry challenges.
Connect universities, industry and professional bodies around practical learning, skills and applied research.
01 / Approach
Start with the challenge.
A clear focus helps bring the right partners together.
02 / Opportunities
Different ways to work together.
Flexible models to match your goals, sector and timeframe.
Industry-informed curriculum
Bring practitioner insight into programme design, case studies, teaching or assessment. Academic institutions retain the responsibilities agreed for their programmes.
Start with: The capability gap and the learners the programme should serve.
Discuss this optionApplied student projects
Turn a real organisational challenge into a supervised learning project with a defined brief, access to relevant information and a review point.
Start with: The problem, project duration, supervisor and expected output.
Discuss this optionResearch partnerships
Connect a technical or sector question with the relevant academic expertise and research facilities.
Start with: The question, existing evidence, available resources and intended outcome.
Discuss this optionProfessional & executive learning
Shape continuing education around the needs of working professionals, leadership teams or a professional community.
Start with: The audience, learning priorities and preferred delivery format.
Discuss this optionSector skills programmes
Bring industry bodies, educators and public stakeholders together around a shared skills priority. Define the target group and a useful pilot.
Start with: The sector, region, skills gap, participants and intended learning outcomes.
Discuss this option03 / From brief to impact
A useful pilot has a clear brief.
From a shared challenge to measurable progress.
- 01
The challenge
Define the real-world need.
- 02
The academic partner
Identify the right expertise and capability.
- 03
The project brief
Agree scope, resources and expected outcomes.
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The review
Assess progress and explore what comes next.
04 / People and partners
Designed around the people involved.
STAAR helps identify relevant institutional connections and coordinate an agreed scope of work. A short pilot can establish fit before a wider programme develops.
- An industry challenge with a clear owner
- An academic partner with relevant capability
- Professional or public stakeholders where useful
Different perspectives. Greater possibilities.
Bring practical experience, academic depth and professional insight into the same project. The objective determines the people and model it needs.
Further reading: European Commission: Alliances for Innovation.
What challenge could become a collaboration?
A partnership, a programme or a new campus. Let’s explore it together.