The Region of Uppsala, the City of Västerås, the Municipality of Uppsala have joined forces in this project to meet the big challenge we all face. Both the City of Västerås and the whole county of Uppsala will have more inhabitants, and the demographic distribution of the population will make the needs increase heavily while the income per inhabitant decreases. At the same time, there will be a shortage of labor. We therefore intend to significantly increase our ability to create new, more efficient and value-adding welfare services by increasing our innovation skills. At the same time, and partly as a result of the above, new working methods, processes and use of new technology will increase the need to continuously and rapidly build new skills among our current and future employees. We therefore intend to find new and more effective training concepts that suit the employees of our respective organizations. Both of these activities will strengthen the individual participants' competencies and competitiveness. Knowledge of the horizontal criteria will be integrated and linked to the respective themes in our planned competence development efforts. We will work together with SALAR and use and further develop the tools available within the framework of the so-called Innovationsguiden. In addition, we will conduct at least 6 courses in priority areas while developing and testing new and more efficient ways of acquiring knowledge.