The feasibility study aims to develop and test structures for collaboration between universities and small and medium-sized forest industry companies. The implementation project will then work to strengthen structures for collaboration between companies and also with and between universities in order to spread experiences, increase applied research and innovation among companies and attract more people to the industry. This is done through three sub-areas: 1. Systems for mentoring and practice. Create and test a system where you learn from each other. Connect students who do not naturally have the forest and wood industry in their studies. This is to bring new people and perspectives into the industry. The receiver is a sawmill, but the system should be useful also for other companies, mainly in the forest industry. 2. Develop an improved structure for exchange of experience between universities and companies, but also between companies. This is where the university’s different competences come in. Interesting areas can be pedagogy, data, entrepreneurship, in addition to forests and wood technology. 3. Formalise a test bed for ideas about structures that facilitate applied research on companies. Plan for three pilots to be carried out and evaluated. The focus should be on researching innovation at companies. Ideas should be of the kind that they can lead to new business opportunities. Connected to the test bed, a dialogue will also take place with actors working with company-promoting work. The aim is to achieve greater focus within the forest and wood industry.