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At a European level, the outdoors sub-sector is a fast growing and developing activity area. The outdoors thrives in a wide range of delivery and employment contexts including public sector, commercial, charitable, not-for-profit and voluntary.
As a consequence, workforce needs (both paid and voluntary) are increasing rapidly and organisations operating within the sector are seeking well trained, quality workers (animators in this context), able to match the requirements of more and more demanding clients and users. Unfortunately until now, there has been no formal link at European level between the competences required by outdoor employers and organisations, and the learning outcomes acquired by the employees through training supplied by training providers, no matter how good this training may have been.
 In other words, never have European outdoor employers mutually agreed, the functions and competences they required, nor has a bridge ever been established between these requirements and the vocational and educational training provided by training bodies.
The first step, the development of a range of integrated documents including Occupational Descriptions for Assistant Outdoor Animator, Outdoor Animator and Specialised Outdoor Animator roles, plus a Functional Map and a Competence Framework for the Outdoor Animator role, has now been completed under the previous EQFOA – European Qualifications Framework Outdoor Animator project (www.eqfoa.eu) supported by Leonardo de Vinci.
The main aim of this follow-on European outdoors project called CLO2 is to bridge from EQFOA’s Functional Map and Competence Framework, to the skills and learning outcomes delivered by the training providers in the field. Read more...
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