The PBC attributes a great deal of significance to strengthening the academia-employment spectrum, and encouraging innovativeness in the context of teaching and learning, which is also defined as a main objective of the PBC-CHE’s multi-annual program. Innovations in the context of teaching include, inter alia, the understanding that students need to finish their studies with a toolbox that will help them integrate within the job market, and deal with the many challenges that they face. Therefore, the PBC provides budgets to institutions to develop institutional departments that would be responsible for facilitating the academia-job market spectrum, including the development of courses that incorporate academic contents and practical experience in off-campus organizations, and which entitle students to academic credits. In 2019-2022, the program has been operational as a joint enterprise of the PBC, the Aluma Association and the Edmond De Rothschild Foundation. The project’s budget is NIS 24 million (over the course of 3 years). In addition, the PBC decided to expand the project for another 2 years (2022-2024), using a total budget that amounts to NIS 29.1 million. The additional funds are intended to expand the program at institutions and establish the necessary infrastructures needed for its implementation, the promotion and strategic development of studies that incorporate job market experience, and investments in the institutional agencies that oversee and lead this enterprise, human capital infrastructures and the establishment of monitoring, control and data collection systems.