The Course for Adventure Related Vocational Educators (CARVE) provides staff and learners from the outdoor education and outdoor adventure sector in Ireland with work placement opportunities in the outdoor industry in UK, France, Spain, Greece and the British Virgin Islands. Our CARVE program developed from several work placement programs we delivered for the sector under the Leonardo Da Vinci aspect of the lifelong learning program. Our goal as an organisation is to develop European VET work placement programs for staff and learners/graduates, from the Irish Outdoor Education and Adventure sector that make lifelong learning and mobility within the sector a reality for our learners. We promote equity; social cohesion and active citizenship by enabling our participants acquire and develop new skills and competencies needed for their employability. Our placements foster further learning, active citizenship and intercultural dialogue. Within the CARVE program there are a number of placements for staff currently working in the sector and recent graduates from vocational training programs that qualified them as outdoor activity instructors. Over the coming year our placements for staff are aimed at providing them with the skills, knowledge and competencies required to improve the standards of the sector in Ireland. Our first Erasmus + staff placement in Sept/Oct 2014 is a two week placement with Action Outdoors in Chamonix aimed at providing staff with the knowledge, skills and competencies to effectively build and manage a group adventure experience in the Alps. Our second placement is for current diving instructors to spend 60 days in British Virgin Islands. The placement provides these staff with the opportunity to shadow and work alongside dive instructors with Sail Caribbean (autumn 2014 & spring 2015). We are also sending 3 wind/kite surfing instructors to work with Club Mistral in the Gran Canaries in autumn 2014 and another 3 in spring 2015 for 60 days. Our placements for learners or recent graduates provides 4 recent graduates with work placements with Club Mistral in May/June 2015 for 60 days in Spain and Greece. We also have one recent graduate travelling to the UK to work with Lindley Education Trust May/June 2015 and 4 recent graduates travelling out to work with Sail Caribbean in May/June 2015 for 60 days. This is a total of 25 placements, for participants from a large number of organisations in Ireland, in 5 different countries throughout Europe and its territories. We are seeking through our placements to improve the level of key competences and skills within the Active Leisure/ Outdoor Education and Adventure industry, with particular regard to their relevance for the labour market and participant’s contribution to a cohesive society. We will be providing the sector with increased opportunities for learning mobility and through strengthened cooperation between the world of education and training and the world of work. We foster quality improvements, innovation excellence and internationalisation at the level of education and training institutions, in particular through enhanced transnational cooperation between education and training providers and other stakeholders. We enhance the international dimension of education and training, in particular through cooperation between programme and partner-country institutions in the field of VET through the promotion of mobility. Our placements also improve the teaching and learning of languages and to promote the EU’s broad linguistic diversity and intercultural awareness.