<< Objectives >>This project centres around the18th gathering of the European Institute for Outdoor Adventure Education and Experiential Learning (EOE); this European network is made up of professionals from social workers and youth workers, teachers and educators, academics and students. We wish to bring 48 youth workers from across Europe to engage in an experiential learning programme with the leading experts in the world in the area of inclusion, disability and Outdoor Learning programmes.The objectives of our project are as follows:- We hope this project will bring together people who work with youths in an outdoor environment to exchange good practices, to share innovations and to provide support through transnational cooperation. - We wish to create opportunities to enhance the connection between young people and our outdoor environments across Europe, through up-skilling and informing the youth workers and other professional who support them. - We wish to raise awareness, begin problem solving and start to develop innovations for inclusion of young people from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds in outdoor youth work programmes. This event will highlight how youth workers, supported by educators, can start local actions to increase the opportunities for greater inclusion in Outdoor Adventure activities in a sustainable way. IT will focus on three main issues facing participating youth workers;•Disability •Economic obstacles •Social obstacles This event will not only allow for sharing of stories/presentations and case studies of good practice but for the practical development of skills and competence to enhance inclusion. On two days of the programme, practical training opportunities will be offered on land and on the water for youth workers and outdoor educators to explore adapting outdoor activities to include young people with disabilities in standard and bespoke outdoor activities. The cultural and other challenges faced by differing ethnic groups engaging in Outdoor Adventure programmes will also be explored in realistic situations outdoors. << Activities >>The experiential learning programme of outdoor workshops on land and on the water as well as interactive oral presentations will be the core of our planned activity. Skilled facilitators from Ireland the UK and Finland will support the participants in their development of action plans for the development of more inclusive outdoor practices in youth work in their home countries. 47 participants from 11 partners and 10 countries will participate in the event. They will include people with disabilities and from minority groups. They will generally be youth workers or those who work supporting youth workers in the delivery of outdoor learning based youth development programmes. Those 47 participants will join with approximately 90 other participants not funded through this project , but all working together to identify best practice for embracing diversity and achieving greater inclusion in outdoor youth work through this international event.<< Impact >>1. Reframing their approach to Outdoor Adventure to place Inclusion as a central element to their activity programme design.2. Bringing home a toolkit of skills and techniques to support the involvement of people with disabilities in outdoor youth work through adaptations3. Applying approaches and best practices to support those from minority groups or those socially disadvantaged in society when it comes to designing outdoor youth work programmes4. Contributing their experience as youth workers to the discourse on embracing diversity in youth work in the outdoors in Europe with academics and trainers who guide education programmes for youth workers and other practitioners5. Utilising innovative review and reflection techniques expereinced at the event which can be used in their youth work upon return to their home country and their daily work with young people.

Tourism and hospitality (T&H) make up over 10% of the European economy and 11.7% of employment. Many of the 13 million employees in the EU are from marginalised groups: women (54%), migrants (16% ) and youth (30%) (ILO, 2022). However, staff turnover and vacancies are high, with 1.2 million job vacancies (11%) in the EU. Many T&H workers are in non-standard forms of work, including platform work. This is detrimental for employees: a decent work deficit, lack of social protection, increased precarity and vulnerability, and increased in-work poverty (European Parliament 2021). Furthermore, algorithmic management impacts negatively on these workers. Generally considered as self-employed, platform workers risk exploitation, forced labour, mistreatment, and sexual abuse. Their precarity is increased due to legal, knowledge and financial obstacles they face in representation and social dialogue structures. FUTOURWORK will investigate how all T&H workers can be included in social dialogue, and understand and tackle the challenges of the associated distributional costs. While acknowledging a variety of social dialogue arrangements and processes, reflecting different historical, economic and sociopolitical backgrounds, this project researches the changes in the new world of work, examples of best practice and identifies common issues that can be tackled at a European level. Using an intersectional gender-sensitive approach FUTOURWORK will use quantitative and qualitative techniques including surveys, mapping, interviews, story -telling and multi-stakeholder learning dialogues. FUTOURWORK will produce an index that can be used by industry to benchmark their workers well-being. Workers stories will be collected and a documentary produced to enhance public understanding. We will develop an observatory to integrate the information produced and as a platform for dialogue for workers, legal and social dialogue organisations and employers.

This network brings together an exceptionally strong team of world-leading experts from a wide set of beneficiaries and partners in order to achieve breakthroughs in understanding how the transition towards a Circular Economy (CE) can be realised in a successful way in the European context, both within existing organisations and industries as well as through innovative and sustainable business models. The proposed approach is inherently multi-disciplinary, drawing upon research that will advance significantly the state-of-the-art in terms of the current understanding of the applicability of the CE paradigm from Economic, Environmental and Social points of view, providing policy insights and implications for practice. The consortium of 10 beneficiaries (including 7 academic and 3 non-academic groups) will design and deliver world class multidisciplinary training to 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), offering them an extended and valuable program of international exchanges and secondments through the wide network of partner organisations involved in the proposal. The network builds on the success of previous projects in which beneficiaries have successfully delivered high impact research and knowledge exchange. ReTraCE is specifically designed to train a cohort of new thought leaders capable of driving the transition towards a more sustainable mode of production and consumption in Europe in the next decades, who will directly facilitate the implementation of the recently adopted ambitious Circular Economy strategy of the European Commission, which is closely linked to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indeed, it is envisaged that ESRs will be employable not only by research institutions, but also by public sector bodies and within a wide range of manufacturing and service industries which will require new professional profiles for realising the transition towards the CE.