6Time: The aim of the DuuniPolku project is to develop and pilot new services and operational models based on cooperation between operators to promote employment and entrepreneurship. Combining skills in employment and education services in new ways is key to contribute to this goal. The aim is to identify and respond to skills needs in the world of work by developing dialogue with employers. The aim is to identify the existing skills and potential of job seekers and those targeting the labour market, skills development needs and the need for support in transitions in education and working life, and to provide customers with targeted, customer-oriented and effective services based on it. The aim of the project package is to provide the six cities and their operators with tools to address the employment challenges and to complement the existing range of services by targeting development activities on the sites identified in each region. The implementation of the development objectives will be monitored during the project by means of internal and joint self-assessment and reporting of sub-projects. A common evaluation framework will be developed for the evaluation.6Time: The DuuniPolku project is implemented as a joint project of eight implementing organisations. In addition to the cities of Tampere, Espoo, Turku, Oulu and Helsinki, the project consortium includes three universities of applied sciences, Tampere, Turku and Metropolia. The project consortium enables effective peer review of the operating models and services to be developed and the cross-use of results between cities and universities of applied sciences. The project responds to the development challenges posed by changing employment services. Municipalities are in a situation where their role in promoting the vitality of their region and providing employment services will change. In this context, cities, together with partners, service providers and other stakeholders, are looking for and developing new operating models to respond to changing structures and to the evolving needs of local residents in need of support in the labour market and their employment. The project emphasises the co-development of actors and sectors and the new operating models and services created through it for the transitions in education and working life. Operating models are also being developed for work to prevent unemployment. Support measures are already targeted at students in the final stages of vocational studies by combining skills and processes in employment management and education in a new way. The key to the implementation of the whole project package is to support the active role of customers and the participation of job-seekers and employers’ customers in the development and production of services. Identifying a person’s skills and potential and building support/training activities on this basis is common to all parts of the project. One of the key themes of the project is the further development of cooperation between employers. The sub-projects will culminate in practices to better inform labour market needs and to address employers’ acute and longer-term recruitment and skills needs through cooperation between employment and education services. The project thus responds to changes in working life, which may also be structural factors in different regions. Skills requirements on the labour market are changing rapidly, with the aim of preparing, training or supporting job-seekers in different sub-projects in order to improve the matching between job-seekers and employers. The aim of the project is to provide support for employment in the form of piloted services to approximately 870 customers. About 64 % of customers are young people under the age of 30, either unemployed or threatened with unemployment. The result goal is that at least half of the customers find a follow-up path through the project to education, working life or other measures supporting their own employment target.