The objective of this document is to analyse the status of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Furniture and Wood sectors. In this document, the partner consortium of the project “ALLVIEW - Alliance of Centres of Vocational Excellence in the Furniture and Wood sector”, analysed some legislative tools that regulate CSR in the various European countries. The research has been carried out taking into consideration the three pillars on which CSR is based. These three pillars are:

• Sustainability.

• Inclusivity.

• Accessibility.

Through this research the consortium wants to analyse the European, National and Regional policies related to the pillars mentioned above in order to identify the best practices and developing guidelines regarding CSR to spread within the furniture and wood sector. This document is the basis for future discussions on the potential impact of CSR in:

• Supporting a sustainable management of the resources, increasing the use of the renewables.

• Connecting the enterprises to the idea of circular economy.

• Supporting the employability of specific target group to the addressed enterprises, linked with the national and European policies.

• Supporting the enterprises capacity to hire and involve people with lower opportunity, developing win-win strategies.

• Creating centres of vocational excellence, able to train people with a different starting position (or profile or competencies or …).

• Identifying the weak points in regional and national policies about inclusion both in the field of job offers and in the environment of VET.

• Identifying the special needs that are not related to the (potential) job-tasks and develop networks for specific target groups through the links with the no-profit sector.

This report is a first part of a more elaborated full report, which consist of 3 specific reports which have CSR as guiding thread. The first concerns the CSR in relation to waste prevention and the circular economy, the other two documents are based on the themes of migrants and refugees and on the inclusion of people with disabilities in labour market and in training and education.

This complete report is based upon a structure composed of the following sections:

• A general overview on CSR.

• Policies on resource Circular Economy and waste prevention.

• Policies on inclusion of migrants and refugees to the labour market and VET system.

• Policies on the accessibility of people with special needs in:

o Education (VET) system.

o Labour Market. o Work environment.

o Work tasks.

• Conclusion.

Thanks to this research the partner consortium wants to enhance the awareness regarding the CSR at European level considering not only the aspects regarding sustainable environmental topics but also regarding inclusivity and accessibility, addressed to a wider range of people with fewer opportunities, such as migrants, disabled people and people with social disadvantages in general.