Globalisation dictates that EU 2020 will only be successful if member states bring out the best in people and their potential and extend education opportunities to all. The project is designed to contribute to the debate on policy reform by drawing lessons from good practices and expertise already existing in the partnership and by strengthening the connection between policy makers and practitioners, businesses and the educational community. The project's title “Tandem” should emphasize the synchrony and efficiency of business, VET and HE (higher education) actors by acting together for high quality VET aligned with regional and global labour market demands, proactively responding to emerging skills shortages. The project builds up upon the demands, analysis and best practices of the consortium's partners and advocates for flexible modular pathways across education systems and more differentiation regarding the level of education with the aim to drive change and support the policy shift from a local, limited response, towards anticipating, and managing systemic change. The project will provide high quality and accurate practicalities and expertise that are proven, relevant, credible and reliable, as they will be worked out by key actors (= consortiums partners), highly influential in the policy reform field. In line with a forward-looking approach, the project outlines the skills and workforce development from a number of different sectors and a collection of examples by consortium's partners= flexible modular pathways (from EQF level 4 to level 5 and 6 with corresponding credit points ) focused on identified areas of skills shortage which are not (yet) covered by related policies. Cooperation and discussion with European and national policy makers, European actors of VET and HE should help filling that gaps in the qualifications landscape; good practices, trans-national cooperation and mutual learning can be mainstreamed into concrete policy actions and have a systemic impact.