The highly dynamic technological developments, the evolution of the socio-economic environment, the changes of the political conditions and other vastly influential factors greatly affect market trends, trigger growth, foster job opportunities and create new skill demands in a very fast pace. These powerful forces are identified as “megatrends”. Even though centres of excellence, such as Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), research centres, market innovators and emerging industries, may benefit, through megatrends developments it is also evident that educational centres, especially Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), seem unable to cope with this fast transformation due to the rapid pace of changing and in some cases due to inflexible learning modes. This mismatch becomes even more intensive in ICTs, an area where megatrends raise urgent challenges and needs of high-qualified personnel. As a result, an inefficient loop is observed: centres of excellence struggle to find talented and skilled young specialists while graduated students are in lack of practical skills required in labour market and industry. The main aim of the “pArtneRship foR AddressiNG mEgatrends in ICT” (ARRANGE-ICT) is to join together HEIs, entrepreneurships and industry in order to address the competences and occupational profile needs in the labour market, provide innovative solutions to skills mismatch and promote sustainable business opportunities. In this context, this project has the following key objectives: a) to bridge the current digital skills gap in southern Europe following the European Commission's 'e-Skills for jobs' campaign. ARRANGE-ICT will join representatives from governments, industry, academia and other key stakeholders across southern Europe through a Smart Job Hub b) to build an ecosystem of key partners for creating an access port in underrepresented talent pools c) to identify the underrepresented skills, the rationale behind the phenomenon of talented people who lack the traditional credentials to land a good job and the ICT domains with the most pressing needs d) to promote business opportunities, through a Smart Job Hub, between Universities and industry, including new ICT-based internship programs, common PhD student supervision between HEIs and industry and common Bachelor and Master theses supervision in SMEs, market and industry premises e) to envisage a range of new initiatives to ensure that these skills are adequately promoted in the curriculum, in teacher development, in assessment practices and in learning content The ARRANGE-ICT consortium brings together six partners from three southern European countries: 4 HEIs (TUS-BG, UoWM-GR, UCY-CY, ULSIT-BG), 1 research institution (SEERC-GR), and 2 industrial clusters (AIZ-GR, SCY-CY). In order to fulfill the aforementioned objectives, the ARRANGE-ICT project includes three teaching/training activities focused on: 1. HEI trainers 2. Industrial managers 3. Senior undergraduate and postgraduate students (bootcamp) Furthermore, the project involves the organisation of three multiplier events, for the dissemination of the six project intellectual outputs (“Research and Field Review”, “Smart Job Hub”, “Foresight Study”, “Guide for Instructors”, “Modernised Curricula & Short Programmes”, “Evaluation Metrics and Sustainability Report”). The methodology followed to perform the activities, organise the events, develop the outputs, and reach the set goal comprises five phases, as listed below: 1. Background research and field investigation 2. Analyse, Design, and Develop the Smart Job Hub 3. Co-Create content and material for revealing skill gaps and megatrends 4. Capacity building driven by megatrends 5. Dissemination and Impact Assessment The project results have a notable impact on several stakeholders, which is summarised as follows: - On HEIs: Mitigation of the ICT “skill-crisis” by supporting the design of evidence-based reforms of curricula. - On students and graduates: Preparation of high ICT-skilled, empowered, motivated and self-confident future professionals. - On industrial and market stakeholders: Sharing of knowledge and cooperation with the participating HEIs, since academic degrees (Bachelor’s and Master’s) will be promoted in the eyes of industry and market recruiters, while applied research will be conducted in their premises. - On society: Linking HEIs and business world is a pre-requisite, especially in South Europe, where the consequences of the on-going economic crises and the resulting unemployment, are more evident. ARRANGE-ICT aspires to offer better job opportunities for graduates and minimise the risk of unemployment, lower wages and poorer long-term prospects. In order to ensure sustainability, all project outcomes are publicly available, while the participating organisations are signing agreements on post-project output sustainability.