This project was developed in response to recent research highlighting the importance of intercultural competencies for graduates wanting to work in Europe and the employers’ needs and what intercultural competencies and skills higher education institutions provide. The objectives of this project are to:1) Explore and analyse the gap between cross-cultural skills highlighted by the studied organisations operating in Europe and studied students’ actual and perceived cross-cultural skills;2) Develop, test and refine teaching strategies, practices, and learning materials based on the research with students and employers in order to develop students’ cross-cultural skills and align these with the requirements of the studied employers operating in Europe;3) Disseminate the outcomes of the project to learners, educators and employers across Europe through the annual open and digitally connected conferences and on open access web platforms.Five Higher Education Institutions will participate in this study: University of Worcester (Project lead-UK), London South Bank University (UK), UC Leuven-Limburg (Belgium), Halmstad University (Sweden), and Bursa Uludağ University (Turkey). The diversity of these partners and their previous experience working together and with regional business achieves the research’s cultural aspect and ensures the project’s success. The project will be conducted over a 30 month period.The first output will entail conducting surveys and interviews to final year students and employers. This will gather a minimum of 500 student survey responses, 50 student interviews, 500 employer survey responses and 50 employer interviews. The aim is to capture student perceptions of the cross-cultural competencies and skills they posses and employer perceptions on the type of cross-cultural competencies and skills needed to succeed in the workplace. This will be followed by the analysis of this data to create the first output: an open source 'Industry-Graduates Cross-cultural Competencies and Skills Report’ which will highlight the intercultural skills needs. A digitally connected conference will be organised at each partner institution at the completion of the report to share the findings of this first output.The second output will entail the development of cross-cultural case studies and learning materials to form the basis of the second output: an open source ‘Cross-cultural Competencies and Skills Development Toolkit’. This Toolkit will contain 20 case studies (10 written, 5 video and 5 narrative video scribe) based in the research conducted. In addition, teaching material will be developed including a company profile, discussion questions and case study module answers. In developing this toolkit, feedback from students, educators and employers will be sought in the form of a feedback questionnaire and interviews. A digitally connected conference will be organised at each partner institution at the completion of the report to share the findings of this first output.The third output will involve revising the second output based on the feedback received and proceed to develop the third output: an open source ‘Cross-cultural Competencies and Skills Development Training Manual’. A digitally connected conference will be organised at each partner institution at the completion of the report to share the findings of this first output.The project will impact the higher education students participating in the modules which use the project outputs. Because of their participation in the different innovative delivery and learning methods, students’ cross-cultural competencies will be improved. The participating business organisations and academic institutions will develop stronger links with partner institutions and academic knowledge and skills that can be implemented in other parts of the institutions, creating a culture of international collaboration and focus on knowledge development and dissemination. The participating educators from these organisations will benefit from greater ability to collaborate internationally in an integrated series of activities, research and output. The participating employers will benefit from increased networks and collaboration with the institutions producing the next generation of graduate employees. They will appreciate a direct line of communication with these institutions and be able to share their needs and views and visions for the direction of future employability. Finally, this project has a positive impact on the wider local and regional societies in the four countries and the EU as a whole, as it enables the free and wide dissemination of the outputs to all students, employers, educators, higher education and governing institutions. The focus in developing cross-cultural competencies and skills translates to higher mobility of individuals who are better equipped to understand and interact with each other in an ever closer Union.