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There is not any existing mechanic for adding extra skill increases over downtime, no. If you want it in your campaign, you'd be houseruling it in.
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There is Retraining that lets a character spend downtime to move one of their skill boosts. It would have the effect of raising the skill they are training up, while getting rusty on the skill they are no longer practicing.
But that may not be what you are looking for. There isn't a way of gaining skill boosts and only paying downtime cost for it instead of losing a different skill boost.
My suggestion is that if you want to house rule this in you limit them to lores. It is easier to limit lore scope to prevent them from becoming unbalanced.
Another option to consider is bonus feats, which are easier to track than skill increases.
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My suggestion is that if you want to house rule this in you limit them to lores. It is easier to limit lore scope to prevent them from becoming unbalanced.
Another option to consider is bonus feats, which are easier to track than skill increases.
To the second point "skill training" let's a character become trained in a skill. The higher level the group, the less impactful hashing a few people just Trained in a few extra skills is, anyway.
In fact
A number of tables allow the Free Archetype system. Not doing that and throwing a few Skill Training feats at the group as a result of character experience or significant downtime would be somewhat similar in how much it unbalanced the game. Actually, it almost certainly unbalances things less than Free Archetype, and people love that system.
My suggestion is that if you want to house rule this in you limit them to lores. It is easier to limit lore scope to prevent them from becoming unbalanced.
Another option to consider is bonus feats, which are easier to track than skill increases.
To the second point "skill training" let's a character become trained in a skill. The higher level the group, the less impactful hashing a few people just Trained in a few extra skills is, anyway.
In fact
A number of tables allow the Free Archetype system. Not doing that and throwing a few Skill Training feats at the group as a result of character experience or significant downtime would be somewhat similar in how much it unbalanced the game. Actually, it almost certainly unbalances things less than Free Archetype, and people love that system.
That's not really true. While trained proficiency alone lags on level based DCs, at higher levels you can more than make up that gap through the many other bonuses you accrue. Ability boosts, Aid, Follow the Expert, cheap item bonuses, and such. And that's without touching on simple DCs. A caster being trained in athletics means not failing to climb a ladder in combat or burning a 4th level spell and three actions to overcome it.
And while I agree more trained skills is less unbalancing than free archetype, I think people are kidding themselves about how unbalancing free archetype actually is, so I don't find that persuasive.
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My suggestion is that if you want to house rule this in you limit them to lores. It is easier to limit lore scope to prevent them from becoming unbalanced.
Another option to consider is bonus feats, which are easier to track than skill increases.
As a reference for house ruling this in your own game, this is similar to one of the organised play boons where you can use downtime to become trained in a lore skill or a language. It takes 50 days of downtime in organised play, however for home brewing you might need to adjust this as in society play 50 days of downtime is quite a lot (Around 6 adventures) whereas a home campaign might use much greater or lesser amounts of downtime between adventures.
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As a reference for house ruling this in your own game, this is similar to one of the organised play boons where you can use downtime to become trained in a lore skill or a language. It takes 50 days of downtime in organised play, however for home brewing you might need to adjust this as in society play 50 days of downtime is quite a lot (Around 6 adventures) whereas a home campaign might use much greater or lesser amounts of downtime between adventures.My suggestion is that if you want to house rule this in you limit them to lores. It is easier to limit lore scope to prevent them from becoming unbalanced.
Another option to consider is bonus feats, which are easier to track than skill increases.
As an additional note, 6 adventures in PFS allow you to gain 2 levels.
There's precedent for giving free feats in exchange for plot movements. Wouldn't be out of range to award your player with Additional Lore for their efforts.