Abstract
This paper describes the activities of the Consortium for Research and Continuing Education (COREP) founded in 1987 on the initiative of the Polytechnic of Turin in Italy. COREP was originally created to stimulate and manage university–enterprise cooperation with a focus on the continuing education of engineers. In partnership with chambers of commerce, local industry (SMEs and large corporations), it has constantly adapted to the needs of the market, in which the demand is now much more for joint training clearly related to the institutional context of the ‘customers’, rather than for short term courses. In the field of research, COREP has been acting as a liaison centre between researchers and the industrial world and has promoted the participation of Italian industry in European research programmes.
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