The MaDE-for-UASs-Project aims to provide lecturers from Universities of Applies Sciences (UAS) access to workplace experience via virtual reality (VR) augmented reality (AR) and simulations. The needs analysis reveals that lecturers at Ethiopian UASs lack work experience in industry, but should educate “academically trained professionals” for the industries. The Ministry of Education (MoE) is discussing externships and sabbaticals for lecturers for years. From the 16.000 lecturers at UASs very few have had an opportunity to get one of the rare externships in industry.The main objectives are defined to contribute to the Ethiopian government efforts in realising the Reform Agenda (RA): preparing a highly qualified and employable workforce for Ethiopian and international companies. Supporting the Ethiopian government’s efforts, the MaDE-for-UASs-Project Consortium trains its Ethiopian higher education (HE) partners on how to develop and use VR, AR and simulation tools to mirror working processes in companies.MaDE-for-UAS-Project is structured in 7 work packages (WPs). The WP1 is the Project Management. The WP2 explores best practices from Europe in the field of VR/AR/simulations to gain understanding and its applications for training purposes. In WP3 the Project develops its own VR/AR/simulation training material as examples for selected HE priority fields. The acquired knowledge and skills are put into a Toolbox as a collection of step-by-step recipes. A training-of-trainer workshop prepares the trainers for the outreach in WP4: the piloting of the developed examples in HE fields of construction, electro-technic, ICT, manufacturing, smart factory/food processing. A monitoring and evaluation process (WP5) accompanies the piloting phase. The WP6 establishes a MaDE-Pedagogy Center and a MaDE-Technology Center to accommodate the Project outcomes and equips them with business plans to become independent entities within the Ethiopian UAS system. The dissemination in