6Aika Digipoint project is a joint project between the cities of Turku, Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa, as well as Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. The aim of the project is to develop and provide smooth pathways to digital employment and education. The objectives of the project are the development of university cooperation, the strengthening of the social skills and life management of people entering the service, and the path to employment or education. The project will produce skilled and trained workforce for technology sectors suffering from labour shortages. The project develops skills development services and operating models adapted to the life situation of people who are difficult to employ. The aim is to have a positive impact on the life situation and employment conditions of the participants in the project. The project participant’s self-knowledge, social and interaction skills, a positive outlook for the future and the objectives of training or job search will be strengthened during the project. For example, many people would have a good chance to engage in education or work in the field of digital and ict skills, but the challenges of everyday management, the diversion of life situations and goals, and the lack of working life skills prevent this. The project will ensure adequate support for those who have been unemployed for longer and those who are not in education and training to increase the skills needed in working life, which will contribute to improving the position of the person on the labour market. Strengthening high school cooperation and flexible learning opportunities is necessary in order to ensure that as many people who are hard-to-work have access to skills development services and operating models adapted to their life situation. Higher education institutions need to better recognise the skills needed in working life in order to develop the competences of students and labour market actors according to the needs of the labour market and to identify skills acquired elsewhere as part of their studies. Digital solutions can shift the focus on personalisation of guidance and learning when teaching utilises scaling and automates aspects. The project seeks solutions to the skills requirements of digitalisation in working life and, on the other hand, solves greater use of the opportunities opened by digitalisation in the development of skills. The way in which work is carried out has changed and is changing rapidly in a number of areas. The skills required in the world of work are undergoing rapid change and, in particular, people with prolonged unemployment are at risk of falling from the labour market. Unemployment can be driven by already outdated skills, for which there is no demand on the labour market and is emphasised by the prolongation of unemployment. In general, job transition assessments increasingly assess the skills needed in working life, in particular those related to digital, creative and problem-solving skills.The project is divided into three work packages, two focusing on development measures and the third on project management. Work Package 1 — Developing customer-oriented social strengthening creates a modelable social support model that aims to improve the life situation and management of the project participant, taking into account individual needs. Work Package 2 — Flexible pathways for studies, the development of cooperation between educational institutions and higher education institutions focuses on building new flexible learning pathways. The aim is to make learning solutions more open and diverse.