This project aims at narrowing the gap between skills provided by universities and those required by the industry. This is to be achieved by improving the collaboration between the universities and industry. To this end, this proposal suggests a communication model, to be implemented in a web portal with ability to collate industry needs into a repository to inform training curricula, programme design, research agenda, and outreach programmes; with the university community, for the latter to provide solutions that can be accessed by the industry through the envisaged repository.

In addition, the communication model is envisaged to link the academia, industry and the national development planning. Already, the proposal is anchored on a tripartite partnership amongst selected university(ies), industry actors and the National Planning Authority (NPA). This kind of execution architecture has never been undertaken by the previous attempts.