At European level, the outdoor sub-sector is a fast growing and developing activity area; as a consequence, employment needs are increasing rapidly and employers are seeking well trained professional employees, able to match the requirements of a more and more demanding clientele.Unfortunately until now, there has been no formal connection at European level, between the competences required by outdoor employers and the learning outcomes acquired by the employees through training supplied by the main training providers, no matter how good this training may have been.In other words, never have the European outdoor employers clearly defined as a group, the functions and competences they required, nor has a bridge ever been established between these requirements and the vocational and educational training provided by universities or other training bodies. This being said, the development of a “Competence Framework” for the outdoor animator role has been completed under the previous “EQFOA” project (www.eqfoa.eu) supported by LdV.The main aim of this new European outdoors project is to bridge from the “Competence Framework”, from the EQFOA project, to the skills and learning outcomes delivered by the training providers in the field. The objectives of the CLO2 project will be to first establish the importance and level of the competences required by the employers in line with EQF, secondly develop the learning outcomes and match them with the competences required bringing them together in a Unit and Credit Framework, and finally set a methodology for accreditation and verification process together with an organised pilot to test all of the above developments.