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The HEIs third mission is to collaborate with external organizations. In this paper we focus on how SMEs in wood industry can collaborate with HEI by using a link that can translate SMEs needs and challenges to HEIs offer. This is a first attempt to describe this function that we call translator. We have identified and described four translator roles in different scenarios in this paper.