International competition and increased cost-effectiveness, as well as digitalisation, are constantly changing the skills needs of working life, putting pressure on staff, especially in small enterprises, as the opportunities for training provided by the employer are quite limited. The development of production technologies and the exploitation of new digital solutions such as artificial intelligence (AI) and High Performance Computing (HPC) require a skilled workforce in order to raise productivity levels and thereby succeed in international competition. Since competition for skilled labour has also become very tough and Satakunta has not always been able to cope with traditional university cities in its attractiveness, a flexible and effective reform of existing personnel’s know-how and know-how will become a significant competitive factor in Satakunta in the future. Changing the skills needs of working life and the desired learning habits are also putting pressure on higher education institutions to develop their own training offer and development services. New models of continuous learning based on the need for working life support the development of competitiveness in both enterprises and higher education fields. However, new approaches to continuous learning are of particular importance for the development of the competitiveness of company staff in demanding labour markets, where the COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant additional challenges. Increasingly, the field has become a demand for more effective and practical learning models. The provision of graduate-based and multi-month training is no longer meaningful, as the provision of this type of training to staff easily reduces already scarce labour resources, which, if negligently implemented, may increase the urgency of workplace burnout. Rather than graduate-based training, there is a need for well-organised and efficiently implemented and rapidly updated on a needs-based basis, which, in practice and in a solution-oriented way, conveys the latest know-how using online environments that are independent of time and place. Regardless of the industry, in particular the application and exploitation of artificial intelligence and its closely related HPC, as well as other new digital solutions, has the greatest potential to increase the productivity of the work community. The operational objective of the AI Tools project is to pilot an operating model where, in the open AI-Roundtable co-development forums, experts from universities and AI companies, together with staff from other industries, consider how to make the best use of artificial intelligence and other new digital solutions in their own work. In the AI-Rountable platform, the actors learn from each other and disseminate information on sector-specific challenges, practical framework conditions, patterns of progress, costs and best practices and existing opportunities. AI-Roundtable platforms provide participants with solution-oriented know-how, which will reduce the threshold for launching productivity-enhancing investments, especially in small companies, because AI-Roundtable enables staff to acquire and utilise artificial intelligence and other new digital solutions in their own work community. The project will result in an open and regular AI-Roundtable co-development platform, in which both company staff and students, as well as unemployed people, will have the opportunity to participate and build an overall picture, as well as to gather practical close know-how on artificial intelligence, high performance computing and other new digital solutions, thus lowering the threshold to participate in more demanding trainings, e.g. AI. It is seldom meaningful to go to technology-oriented training without basic training or practical experience in the field. The continuous maintenance and renewal of own know-how is a prerequisite for longer working lives, increased productivity and, in general, the maintenance of jobs in Satakunta. The project supports the implementation of the Satakunta Growth Opportunity Report (Satakunta’s Survival Plan), which was completed in December 2020, which aims at a rapid economic recovery in Satakunta after the COVID-19 pandemic. The objectives described in the report include the construction of a proactive and reactive continuous learning cooperation model, which supports the availability of skilled labour. The aim is also to develop tools that will help to respond quickly and to quality to changes in skills needs. Successful deployment and application of artificial intelligence, high performance computing and other new digital solutions