Training to research : strategies to bring closer universities and firms towards joint research

The paper wants to highlight how, within the educational offer of the schools of architecture, the presence of lessons focused on the development of research projects linked to the construction sector could contribute to a rapprochement between universities and firms in joint research activities. Comparing, in fact, all the goals of the European Commission with the Italian targets concerning indicators related to training and research (rate of school dropout, percentage of graduates, investments in research and development), shows a distance where is essential to intervene: to strengthen research, and to bring together two often distant realities - universities and firms - but, actually, in close contact inside the same supply chain.