Unlocking Women’s Outdoor Potential: Hiking Reimagined
3HUTS – Unlocking Women’s Outdoor Potential: Hiking Reimagined is a European Erasmus+ Sport project that aims to encourage greater participation of women in hiking and outdoor physical activity, while exploring how hiking infrastructure can better respond to their needs.
The project recognises that women may experience specific barriers and challenges when participating in hiking activities. For this reason, 3HUTS examines women’s experiences in the mountains and promotes a more inclusive approach to the planning and development of hiking trails, mountain huts and other outdoor infrastructure.
Through international study visits, hiking activities, practical workshops and exchanges of good practices, participants from Austria, Slovakia and Greece explored different mountain environments and evaluated factors such as safety, navigation, trail information, comfort, hygiene and accessibility. These activities provided valuable insights into how the outdoor environment can become more welcoming and accessible to women.
A key result of the project is the study “The Potential for Mountain Infrastructure to Better Address Female Preferences”, which examines hiking trails and mountain infrastructure from a gender perspective and provides practical recommendations for creating more inclusive outdoor experiences.
The project also aims to motivate more women to become physically active through hiking, build their confidence in outdoor environments and create opportunities for women hikers to connect, share experiences and support one another.
Physis Outdoor Training participates in the project as the Greek partner, working together with ACTIVE Austria and OTI Slovakia. Through its involvement, Physis contributes its experience in outdoor physical activity, hiking and active lifestyle programmes and supports the implementation of hiking activities and project actions in Greece.
As part of the project activities in Greece, women from the three partner countries participated in an international hiking experience at Mount Olympus, combining hiking with practical workshops on preparation, navigation, mountain safety and hiking equipment.
By bringing together physical activity, nature, social participation and inclusive outdoor planning, 3HUTS contributes to creating more opportunities for women to discover hiking, feel confident in mountain environments and enjoy the physical and mental benefits of being active in nature.
More women outdoors. More inclusive mountains.
🌐 Project page: https://www.euactive.org/unlocking-womens-outdoor/
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