The report of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy on Regional Development Perspectives (autumn 2019) for North Karelia identifies a number of challenges for which solutions need to be found. Companies should increase their ability to renew, in particular through digitalisation and/or technology.(http://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/161827/TEM_52_19_Alueelliset_kehitysnakymat.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y). Regardless of the sector, work tools turn into digital platforms, software services and large simulation environments. Competence and learning moves from classes to everyday work, part of the work day and workflow. This requires a completely new way of thinking into virtual technologies of competence, remote control and management, innovation in virtual environments and learning in VR facilities. In particular, following the Korona pandemic, customer behaviour and market behaviour will change, likely to change permanently. For companies, digitalisation and resilient ability to change mean new opportunities to renew their business, especially by utilising new digital solutions. The new strategy of the Karelia University of Applied Sciences (Karelia2030) has identified the transformation of work, digitalisation, population ageing and climate change as the main trends of change in our operating environment. The RDI environment of the future is the largest investment in the history of Karelia University of Applied Sciences to update digital competence at the level of the entire University of Applied Sciences. The future work development package consists of Karelia-amk’s own pedagogical investment, ERDF investment (this project) related to the new hybrid implementation of companies’ testing and development environments, and the ESF development package, which is responsible for the pool of skills developed in cooperation with working life. The project also contributes to the low-carbon objective of the RR programme. The investment to be undertaken is in line with the ‘low carbon society’ objective, which creates solutions and new policies and models to achieve low carbon. Digital services and remote access through the investment will reduce the need for travel and, as a result, greenhouse gas and other emissions. In the future, businesses will increasingly produce digital services that are produced and distributed online. Industrial internet, robotisation, cloud computing, 3D printing and modelling and other new technologies also change the way companies operate. The aim of the project is to: 1) invest in a digital flexibility-based innovation and RDI hybrid environment for working life, with the term “work of the future” as the roof name; 2) invest in a virtual technology environment that enables co-creation to create a collaborative structure for the production of virtual innovation services between public, private and Karelian teaching and RDI activities as a “Learning as Service” operating model 3) invest in VR/AR to support business-oriented customer service processes, software and simulation package “DigitalFluency” 4) invest in Karelia’s proactive investment in work interactions, in particular through remote access to knowledge, as well as a low-time university platform. It is not individual (sector-specific) technological solutions or practices, but rather a whole set of merging technological solutions and integrated remote technologies. The investment project will implement 2 investment compartments, which will form an innovation and RDI hybrid environment based on digital flexibility, with the term ‘work of the future’ as the roof name. The investments will be invested in two different campuses of Karelia-amk, Tikkarinne and Wärtsilä. Some of the investment targets are mobile versions (e.g. remote and mobile technologies). This investment project is accompanied by a pedagogical investment by Karelia-amk, which supports in particular the updating of the virtual environments of education. The investment packages are divided into three entities: 1. Wellbeing and Service Lab (Visual Colloboration Design Space, Telepresens Multitechnology Mode, Simula VR, FysiotikkaVR, MediaVR)/Tikkarinne Campus2. Business and Industry Lab (Visual Colloboration Design Space, Telepresens Multitechnology Mode, BusinessVR, LeanVR, DemoVR)/Wärtsilä kampus3. Teaching Lab (Karelia’s own parallel investment)/Tikkarinne and Wärtsilä campuses The investment package improves companies’ competence and adaptability to rapidly changing skills needs and accelerates the launch of research and development projects by SMEs and the quality and relevance of SME development projects. Parallel ESF procurement