On the stage of pandemic times. When Cultural Organizations and Universities valorize their collaborations

European Universities supply their education in a very competitive and global market. During the pandemic, universities suffered of the rapid change into a challenging and remote activity. Above all, their multiple relations did not only and drastically evolve to online ones with students, but also with stakeholders like firms. Stages and internships evolved into online experiences with focus on adaptability, team building and evolving competences. Cultural organizations always supplied stages to Italian universities. During the pandemic cultural organizations and universities versatilely and virtually connect and valorize their professionalizing collaborations. The aim of this paper is a statistical research about the satisfaction of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations hosting interns of Arts degree programs and how much stages can be a very important check of the match between skills and needs of cultural industries. The methodology includes a stepwise multiple regression of corporate tutors’ satisfaction for stages of IULM University students.