The JATKOT project is developing a customer-oriented, genuinely competence-based model of continuous learning that aims to provide students with a higher education degree in technology and engineering. The dimensions of the model being developed include the following: training services tailored to the needs of the workplace, competence development and the demonstration of competence at the workplace and in virtual environments, the development of workplaces as learning environments, employee involvement in the development of their competence, cooperation between the university of applied sciences and vocational education and training degree programmes as a provider of regional services, tripartite development discussions between the employee, the mentor appointed by the company and the teacher of the university of applied sciences, and equality and sustainable development. The model will be piloted in two Degree Programmes: Construction and Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Construction Management and Automation Engineering. The target group of the project are employed people in the fields of technology and engineering in the Kanta-Häme and Kymenlaakso regions who need to strengthen and renew their skills. The target group also includes mentors appointed by the companies, trained to act as operators under the model that is being developed. The need for the project emerged from companies operating in Kanta-Häme and Kymenlaakso. The project is a response to the shortage of professionals in the fields of technology and engineering and the development targets of regional programs, with regard to competence development of both. The project implements the Regional and Structural Policy Programme. The implementation of the project is divided into four phases, each of which constitutes an intermediate goal. The first phase involves mapping the competence needs and creating an operating method for anticipating competence needs between companies and higher education as well as vocational education and training degree programmes. In the second phase, a new customer-oriented continuous learning model will be drawn up based on the findings of the mapping. In the third phase, the model will be piloted in selected sectors, with the results of the pilot projects being evaluated. In the fourth phase, the model will be disseminated to other technology sectors and its applicability and the needs for further development will be assessed. The project produces written and audiovisual, openly accessible information and dissemination material. The new education model will lower the threshold for participation in continuous learning, especially for those employed, as competence development and competence demonstration can be implemented to a significantly larger degree than before alongside work, independently of time and place, on digital platforms, taking into account the needs of the workplace and students. The education model makes it easier to coordinate studies with work and private life. This way, the training model also supports the development of companies' activities and their functioning as a learning environment. It supports the development of an operating culture that supports learning in companies in the region and thus promotes the continuous development of their competitiveness and operations in accordance with the changing requirements of the operational environment. The project is being implemented as a group project. The main implementer is the Häme University of Applied Sciences, with the co-implementers being the South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences and the Tavastia Education Consortium. The project involves 12 companies in the fields that are piloted. The project will run from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2025. The project receives funding from the European Social Fund, and the national funding authority is the Häme ELY Centre.