At the moment global society is witnessing environmental crisis which is accelerating due to climate change. Urgent actions need to be taken to reach the sustainability target for 2050 of the European Commission for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and net zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The majority of today’s buildings are designed and constructed in concrete and steel, producing large amounts of greenhouse gases. The concept of sustainable construction, which maximizes the use of timber materials, should be promoted. Use of engineered wood combines a potential for prefabrication and rapid construction with lower embodied energy and potential delay of carbon emissions during the building’s lifetime. Sustainable hybrid timber buildings will require some amount of steel and concrete construction materials to satisfy structural, fire prevention, moisture absorption and economic requirements. It is assumed that hybrid timber buildings will be the buildings of the future. However, now EU higher education mostly focuses on design and construction of buildings in steel and concrete. Therefore, there is necessity to prepare students with innovative applied skills in the area of design, construction and management of hybrid timber buildings. Institute of the Civil Engineering and Real Estate Economics of the Riga Technical University is participating in EU Erasmus+ project “Design and Construction of Environmental High Performance Hybrid Engineered Timber Buildings” (HybridTim). Project is aimed at fulfilling the future demands in higher education of students in design and construction of high environmental performance hybrid engineered timber buildings by trans-disciplinary innovative student-centered learning approaches.