The article argues that a university-supervised chair at school is a new format of partnership between school and pedagogical university. The authors analyze socio-cultural background of the origin of university-supervised chairs and the possibilities for a qualitatively different research and methodology work of school teachers. The authors reveal specific features of the interaction of university faculty members and school teachers in their joint projects through the concept "transfer". Characteristics of such partnership are described (knowledge-based practice, mutually beneficial activities, practical orientation, efficiency) in the article. The article identifies and describes transfer zones, participants and forms of cooperation using theoretical analysis and focus group studies of cooperation between Omsk State Pedagogical University's departments and regional schools by a means of university-supervised chair. It is underlined that this cooperation should be undertaken by interdisciplinary teams.