The COVID19 pandemic has caused a seismic change in the delivery of third-level education with the widespread adoption of remote teaching and digital technologies to support over 220 million students whose studies have been disrupted. In science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses many complimentary activities including laboratory work, traditionally performed in presence, have been curtailed or substituted with a virtual or simulation-based experience. These approaches do not have the benefits of tactile, hands-on activities where students experiment using equipment encountered in professional settings to observe, manipulate and understand complex physical processes.The HELP (Home Electronics Laboratory Platform) project delivers an innovative response to the challenges of COVID19 for the operation of STEM labs. In the longer term, providing authentic lab experiences in the pandemic era has created an opportunity to rethink how students can best acquire practical competences and build their understanding of STEM subject. HELP is driven by research results that show active teaching methods promote effective teaching and learning and increase students’ satisfaction. HELP supports active learning with students having practical, constructive, industry-relevant learning experiences undertaking laboratory work off-campus using low-cost equipment which gives the same interface as a laboratory-based experience. Using the HELP approach, future STEM programme delivery could be revised to blend at-home, virtual and on-campus lab sessions to the mutual benefit of students, faculty and the institute management. This will also improve access to STEM programmes.The HELP platform integrates three core elements: 1) HELP KIT for students to undertake laboratory activities at home, 2) HELP COURSES to guide students through learning activities and 3) HELP ONLINE an online support tool for staff and students to collaborate. Thus HELP offers an innovative learner-centred process to maximise the remote lab experience during and after the current pandemic. The project actions will deliver:•Two generations of HELP KITs to enable STEM students to carry out lab work at home.•HELP COURSES for at least 8 courses to maximise the learning opportunity of the HELP kits•An online platform (HELP ONLINE) that creates a virtual community of practice for students and teachers to share experiences•An assessment of the impact of HELP on the learning outcomes and engagement of 500+ students with recommendations for further development.•A sustainable plan for scaling HELP availability during and after the project.The three core elements of the HELP platform will be delivered in an iterative development process. The developed platform will also be tested by institutes outside the partnership and the tools will be widely promoted and made available to interested target institutes.The consortium is comprised of four different Educational and Research Organisations, each of whom has a significant track record in project delivery and faces challenges in addressing the operation of labs in a COVID19 environment. The consortium brings together the necessary skills in STEM education, electronic system design, research-led teaching methods and impact evaluation, technology-enabled distance learning and project management and delivery to achieve the objectives of the HELP project.In preparation of this project, the partners have agreed on a project plan starting from a HELP prototype that will be trialled in academic year 2020/2021 while COVID19 constraints apply. The partners are enthusiastic about the potential of this platform to deliver student-centred laboratories that improve on the traditional experience both during and after the pandemic. The HELP impact on student learning will be assessed by deploying the platform in a wide range of courses and performing quantitative and qualitative measurements of the impact on student learning and engagement.The project will be managed effectively and efficiently and will follow the Lead Partner Principal. A project management committee (PMC), with equal representation of all partners, will be established and meet quarterly and will be guided by the project plan and a consortium agreement of all partners signed at the start of the project. Project actions are set out across 8 interrelated workpackages (WP). Each WP has a designated WP leader and agreed schedule, milestones and deliverables and all partners will be active in the realisation of every WP objective and deliverable. Ongoing internal evaluation of all aspects of project delivery will closely inform the management process.All intellectual outputs from the project will be widely disseminated, published in academic papers and open source. The partners will also supply low-cost HELP KITs to all interested institutions.