Long-term unemployment in the areas of the North and South of the Mälardalen/Östergötland has increased during recent years. Considering that we have experienced a period of growth in economy, the development reflects an increasing division of the labour market that the Swedish Public Employment services has not been able to address adequately. In 2016, we expect an increased inflow of long-term unemployed people as the number of overseas-born who need to become established in the labour market has increased significantly. The analysis is troubling. Especially considering that the forecast for the market areas is that expectations of growth and demand for labour is now at a level that shortage of labour threatens to stunt growth in the economy. The aim of the Public Employment Service has to be that a high demand for labour is used as a positive force to reverse long-term unemployment with an apt utilization of skills. Based on this background the management in the North of Mälardalen and Southern Mälardalen/Östergötland has agreed to apply for ESF funding of a project with the purpose to create and develop conditions in order to succeed in this effort. The project shall: -Support the needs of the labour market. -Shorten the period overseas-born spend in unemployment. -Break up long-term unemployment. -Focus on reorientation and career guidance. -The premiss being that gender equality creates added value both for the individual and the labour market. The intention is, that through the project, improve methods and activities helping long-term unemployed men and women to acquire jobs, education or otherwise to find a way to become established in the labour market. The development of methodology in the project will focus on three areas; -Improved guidance methodology. -Improved cooperation with employers in matchmaking -Increased gender equality in the labour market. The starting point for achieving this result is to create working teams where the different functionalities strengthens the common result. The effects of the results of the project will be achieved when anchored, at a strategic level, in the Employment Services Organization, in the communes and at employers in the area in order to create new, more efficient working structures