REBOOT aims to reconcile HED curricula with industry needs in job-simulated environments for competitive degrees. New learning pathways counterbalance Gen-AI skills with an enhanced meta-cognition capital of HED students. Το boost innovation, an integrative SDG-driven approach addresses the ethical dimension of Gen-AI with new learning pathways to achieve a diversity of higher skills and transversal competences as required by the EU Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 and the DIGICOMP 2.2.