3HUTS - Unlocking Women's Outdoor Potential: Hiking Reimagined

The aim of our project is increase participation in hiking and work out how women’s outdoor needs differ from men’s and to bring a broad change mind set for planning hiking infrastructure. Objectives: - to increase participation in hiking and reach out to female hikers, - to promote gender-sensitive and more convenient planning of hiking environment for women, - to promote equal opportunities in hiking and to overcome gender discrimination, - to review findings on gender preferences concerning hiking, - to strengthen the international cooperation between organisations active in the field of hiking and mountaineering and youth and create a core of transnational network promoting the ideas for equal opportunities in hiking, - to spread awareness about gender equality in hiking at all levels as a means that contribute to the development of the mountaineering field in general, involving all its potential. 3HUTS project objectives will be fulfilled through foreseen 3 international 3HUTS meeting in mountain huts (48 pax),2 national 2HUTS events (48 pax) in each partner country and awareness campaign. Lessons learned during three international 3HUTS meetings will be disseminated and multiplied during national 2HUTS events in each partner country. Awareness campaign about gender equality in hiking at all levels as a means that contribute to the development of the mountaineering field in general, involving all its potential will be achieved through collecting testimonies of participants during international and national events and publishing online Direct target group:Women hikers and women with fewer opportunities Outputs: Report - Potential for mountain infrastructure to better address female preferences Awareness Raising campaign to encourage female participation in hiking Collection of 3 after movies