The shortage of trained assistant nurses is increasing within the municipalities of Gällivare, Kiruna, Jokkmokk and Pajala and in order to cope with the need for staff, the municipalities have been forced to employ people even though they lack a complete assistant nurse education. Investigations have shown that there is a relatively widespread lack of competence within the profession of assistant nurse, which is based on the fact that the profession is unregulated. In order for elderly care to be able to provide the necessary care, it requires that the availability of staff with the right skills is increased. In order to strengthen health care, the Government has decided that assistant nurse should become a protected professional title. There are large professional groups affected by the decision and this will lead to more people needing to validate their knowledge and train to continue to use the professional title. But for the very strained care of the elderly in our four municipalities, we see from the Lapland Municipal Association, which runs nursing education at our learning centres, that we must help each other with the supply of skills. The goal of the project is therefore to build an organization where health and social care teachers together with validation supervisors develop a method with working methods, routines and structures that streamline the validation process. In the long term, the model will lead to employees in elderly care being able to validate certain parts of the workplace. In addition to these challenges, Norrbotten and our four sparsely populated municipalities are facing an extensive generational change in the labour market. We have an ageing population that is growing at the same time as our young people are getting fewer and fewer. In addition, fewer and fewer people are applying for health and social care education. In addition to this, we have our large mining industries which, on the one hand, are vital for our sparsely populated municipalities and which create hundreds of jobs but, on the other hand, contribute to enormous competition for labour. The focus must therefore be on the provision of skills in health care. For this reason, we can of course state that it is not only a question of validating existing staff but also of managing to get more people into healthcare. The project therefore also aims to broaden the recruitment base through marketing that will reach out to more people, with great consideration for how gender equality looks in elderly care. The efforts will highlight our different educational pathways to the assistant nurse and show a positive image of the nursing profession. The project will be owned by Lapland Municipal Association and run together with our partners Kiruna Municipality, Gällivare Municipality, Jokkmokk Municipality and Pajala Municipality.