FutureDRV understands the way towards a well-qualified future workforce within professional driving as a joined effort that requires the engagement of different groups of stakeholders. It approaches not only a single set of competences or measures to be addressed/ undertaken by an individual stakeholder with its approach but takes this occupation as a whole into the focus. It, therefore, approaches the future of professional driving from different angles to address those aspects sufficiently and comprehensively.

In order to ensure the consideration of very different perspectives within the project the FutureDRV consortium is continuously involving associated partners in order to be in continuous exchange alongside project work.

Associated partners can be:
 

• institutions and organisations having an interest on the future of the professional driver occupation and professional driving in general and
• projects (national, European or international ones) dealing with the future of professional driving or directly related fields.
   

Associated partners receive prior access to the findings and the results of the FutureDRV project and are given the opportunity to bring in their own ideas on the project implemenation. They support the FutureDRV consortium by contributing themselves in surveys and consultations, spreading those within their own network and supporting dissemination of FutureDRV project results. Associated partners will be listed on the FutureDRV website and will be invited to the FutureDRV conference taking place in June 2019 in Germany gathering experts, stakeholders and policy makers to discuss the future of professional driving.