The FORCREST project aims at improving the employability of highly qualified young people in order to facilitate their insertion into the labour market. To do that the project will develop a set of innovative training tools focusing upon key technical skills particular to the environmental sector. The end results of the project will comprise a training needs analysis of the targeted group, a series of professional profiles and a range of newly developed training tools/materials (including ODL tools). Particular attention will be paid to training practitioners and guidance professionals in order to facilitate learning processes and to increase the potential for insertion of the target group into the labour market. Dissemination activities for the project will include the release of materials in electronic (via a web-platform) as well as printed format and the hosting of a series of workshops and seminars to present the end project results. Beneficiaries include highly qualified young people (with a particular focus upon women) and companies in the environmental sector.