The Fire and Rescue Services across Europe is perceived as a predominantly white, male dominated environment. The aims of the project are to design and develop transnational, vocationally deliverable training modules to promote the benefits of a diverse workforce, and create a culture of acceptance of difference in order to reach a balance of staff which are more representational of the populations of each partner country. The long term objective is to ensure acceptance of staff difference, thus enhance the recruitment, retention and progression of people from under-represented groups. The primary target group within this project will be the trainers of the Fire and Rescue Sector, as well as fire-fighters, operational support staff and managers including station, support and senior managers. Secondary target group consists of a mix of rural, urban and metropolitan fire services. Train the Trainer Modules will be developed encouraging a blend of training methodologies in order to encompass differing learning styles and transnational cultures. The final products/results will be transnationally produced Diversity modules with national accreditation across all six countries, which will be deliverable to the primary and secondary target groups. The medium of these results will be a multi-lingual handbook incorporating presentations, business games, case studies, handouts and interactive CDRom. Each transnational partner will take responsibility for translating into their own language. Valorisation and dissemination will be effected by the networks of the transnational partners, by the website and other measures, as e.g. conferences, publications, presentations, partners website, etc. The short-term impact will be to provide an environment of learning/development of the issues associated with diversity and to identify attitude and culture change within participating organisations. The long-term-impact will enable the sector to change attitude, culture and behaviour towards under-represented groups.