Dynamics of the labour market force both employees and unemployed to adopt their qualifications to employers’ new needs. Part-time studies (PT) aim to provide, to mostly adult employed students, appropriate modes of study. Short cycle higher education programs (SCHE) provide mostly professional studies, lasting up to two years, aiming to prepare students for specific jobs. They are suitable to students that cannot get bachelor degrees and want to get qualifications for employment. This project aims to propose, currently missing, the legislation framework for both PT & SCHE studies in Serbia (EQF Level 5). Two project partners, authorized for HE legislation (Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Development, and National Council of Higher Education) will be actively involved in this project. As PT & SCHE adult students have different starting knowledge and skill levels, the project aims to adopt a specific personalized e-learning system, allowing each student to configure his online lessons, selecting only needed knowledge units (learning objects). Each online lesson will have a specified learning and assessment process, managed for each student separately. These innovations will optimize learning paths of students according to their current knowledge, learning styles and specified learning outcomes.The proposed concepts, legislation and pedagogical and technological approaches for PT & SCHE studies will be tested and analyzed using pilot implementations of five PT & SCHE programs, realized in both face-to-face and online modes of learning. After first year of the pilot implementations, a detail analysis of its effects will be elaborated and reported, and implementation guidelines will be offered to HEIs interested to design new PT & SCHE studies. Expected impacts: wider access to HE, increase of enrolled students, increase of employment, lower staff costs (no overqualified employees), qualifications of employees are more in line with needs of new job