Ägarskiftescentrum is a training and advisory centre within ownership issues and has during a previous and an ongoing project worked with ownership shifts specialised in family and owner-led companies in Dalarna. Dalarna County is early in the generation shift among entrepreneurs why new models and ways of working are needed to meet future changes. In the current project, the company will switch principal to Almi Gävle-Dala AB with the intention that there will be a permanent offer in Almi Gävle-Dala’s range of advisory services. Overall goal Small and medium-sized companies in Dalarna that have implemented a change in ownership have increased their growth, refinement and strengthened their competitiveness. Project goals The project will build up a competence node within ownership shift issues in Northern Central Sweden, offering process advice and other support initiatives for a change of ownership. Through the competence node, more entrepreneurs, who are facing a change of ownership, and professional business advisors will gain access to the specific knowledge and experience of family and ownership management. Sub-targets 1. Stimulate previous start-up and implementation of ownership shift processes in small and medium-sized enterprises. 2. Development of matching tools for buyers and sellers. 3. Package ownership change advice to also include financing advice. 4. Further develop process advice to include the entire ownership change process from start-up to completion. 5. Develop the prerequisites to widen the geographical area to Gävleborg. 6. Implement and adapt the current project-developed ownership shift model for external and generational shifts in Almi GävleDala’s organisation. 7. Disseminate the Ownershift Centre’s working model nationally through Almi. The project’s activities include advice to companies, dissemination of knowledge, implementation in Almi GävleDala’s activities and matching tools – a structured approach and meeting place for public actors. The Ownership Change Centre will exchange experiences with its partner VASEK in Finland. The project organises seminars for groups of companies and individual advice and coaching based on the developed models for companies facing a change of ownership. The approach in ownership shift advice has been well received by other specialist advisors and there is close cooperation with joint activities. The entrepreneurs and specialist advisers participate in the project’s reference and steering group. The project is expected to contribute to increased growth by simulating and facilitating ownership shifts. After the end of the project, a competence node must be present with pactetised information and knowledge about ownership shifts. The ambition is for the competence to be implemented in regular advice and thus become a permanent offer in Almi’s advisory services. The project is also expected to contribute to increased knowledge about the ownership shifts of advisors, growth and renewal of the companies that have changed ownership, more women and more people with an outside Nordic background who take over companies and ownership shifts that are started in time, before it becomes business-critical. Research shows that on average 5 jobs are preserved in each ownership shift.