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European Commission: DG MOVE
The European Commission represents and upholds the interests of Europe as a whole. It drafts proposals for new European laws. It manages the day-to-day business of implementing European policies and spending European funds. The Commission also makes sure that everyone abides by the European treaties and laws.
The European Road Safety Charter is an invitation by the European Commission to take concrete actions, assess results and further heighten awareness about the need to reduce road accident fatalities.
It wishes to afford all stakeholders (institutions, associations and companies) the opportunity to share ideas and practices across Europe, so that all stakeholders can learn from each other and gain inspiration as to how the road situation in Europe can be improved. In return the European Road Safety Charter offers European recognition to the associations that have signed up, and also makes the road safety actions they wish to carry out more visible on a European level.
European Commission Road Safety website:
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety
The European Commission represents and upholds the interests of Europe as a whole. It drafts proposals for new European laws. It manages the day-to-day business of implementing European policies and spending European funds. The Commission also makes sure that everyone abides by the European treaties and laws.
The European Road Safety Charter is an invitation by the European Commission to take concrete actions, assess results and further heighten awareness about the need to reduce road accident fatalities.
It wishes to afford all stakeholders (institutions, associations and companies) the opportunity to share ideas and practices across Europe, so that all stakeholders can learn from each other and gain inspiration as to how the road situation in Europe can be improved. In return the European Road Safety Charter offers European recognition to the associations that have signed up, and also makes the road safety actions they wish to carry out more visible on a European level.
European Commission Road Safety website:
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety
The European Road Safety Charter
The European Road Safety Charter is a European participatory platform made up of enterprises, associations, research institutions and public authorities. These actors undertake to carry out concrete actions and share their good practices in order to resolve the road safety problems that they encounter in their day-to-day environments. The objective of the Charter is to help reduce road fatalities. The Charter has more than 2.000 signatories. - See more at:
http://www.erscharter.eu/#sthash.f0G54PAx.dpuf
The European Road Safety Charter is a European participatory platform made up of enterprises, associations, research institutions and public authorities. These actors undertake to carry out concrete actions and share their good practices in order to resolve the road safety problems that they encounter in their day-to-day environments. The objective of the Charter is to help reduce road fatalities. The Charter has more than 2.000 signatories. - See more at:
http://www.erscharter.eu/#sthash.f0G54PAx.dpuf
The European Road Safety Observatory
ERSO (the European Road Safety Observatory) has been first developed as a pilot stage during the period 2004 – 2008. Since then, the content of ERSO has been integrated into the "Europa" Commission Road Safety website.
There are five areas:
European road safety policy: a comprehensive overview of European legislation, including when relevant the detail of national implementing legislation. In this section, you will find different European Road safety policies about driving licence, accident data collection, vehicles-front protection of vulnerable users…
Road Safety knowledge base: high quality information, scientifically founded, easy to read and ready to use on main road safety subjects. For each subject the information consists of an overview of the magnitude of the problem, prevalence and countermeasures. There is a lot of information about alcohol, eSafety, speed, young…
Projects: an extensive list of European-funded projects with the links to the projects websites, the main results and the links with the website of the project participants. In this part, you will find projects in different areas like accidentology, driving while under influence, rules and enforcement…
Statistics: a compendium of reports, with CARE (the European road accidents data base) as the primary source. The Europe publishes various statistics and other data on road.
Toolbox: manuals and best practice guides produced by various European- funded projects. The Europe funds many research projects on road safety whose results are available to the public. This toolbox contains reports, manuals and best practice guides which were published as part of these projects and which could be useful for road safety specialists. They cover a large range of issues, from accidentology and infrastructure to policy assessments. All documents can be downloaded free of charge. For example, CARE accident data is a common structure including a minimum set of standardised data elements. In this way, more variables and values with a common definition will be added to those contained in the CARE database, thus maximising the potential of CARE database and allowing for more detailed and reliable analyses at European level. There is also HERMES which underlines the high Impact approach for Enhancing Road safety through More Effective communication. Different skills for driving instructors are available.
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist
ERSO (the European Road Safety Observatory) has been first developed as a pilot stage during the period 2004 – 2008. Since then, the content of ERSO has been integrated into the "Europa" Commission Road Safety website.
There are five areas:
European road safety policy: a comprehensive overview of European legislation, including when relevant the detail of national implementing legislation. In this section, you will find different European Road safety policies about driving licence, accident data collection, vehicles-front protection of vulnerable users…
Road Safety knowledge base: high quality information, scientifically founded, easy to read and ready to use on main road safety subjects. For each subject the information consists of an overview of the magnitude of the problem, prevalence and countermeasures. There is a lot of information about alcohol, eSafety, speed, young…
Projects: an extensive list of European-funded projects with the links to the projects websites, the main results and the links with the website of the project participants. In this part, you will find projects in different areas like accidentology, driving while under influence, rules and enforcement…
Statistics: a compendium of reports, with CARE (the European road accidents data base) as the primary source. The Europe publishes various statistics and other data on road.
Toolbox: manuals and best practice guides produced by various European- funded projects. The Europe funds many research projects on road safety whose results are available to the public. This toolbox contains reports, manuals and best practice guides which were published as part of these projects and which could be useful for road safety specialists. They cover a large range of issues, from accidentology and infrastructure to policy assessments. All documents can be downloaded free of charge. For example, CARE accident data is a common structure including a minimum set of standardised data elements. In this way, more variables and values with a common definition will be added to those contained in the CARE database, thus maximising the potential of CARE database and allowing for more detailed and reliable analyses at European level. There is also HERMES which underlines the high Impact approach for Enhancing Road safety through More Effective communication. Different skills for driving instructors are available.
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist
The European Action on Drugs
The European Action on Drugs (EAD) works around a simple idea: since a huge number of people and organisations have a role to play in disseminating information and raising awareness about the risks of drugs abuse, particularly among young people, the European Commission is proposing that anyone who carries formal responsibility of some kind, has decision-making powers, or acts in an economic, social or representative capacity, should make a commitment on a specific action that he / she will undertake.
The European Action on Drugs will be based on the principle of 'shared responsibility', a responsibility shared by all members of society, i.e. ordinary people as well as 'professionals'.
Join the action:
http://ec.europa.eu/ead
The European Action on Drugs (EAD) works around a simple idea: since a huge number of people and organisations have a role to play in disseminating information and raising awareness about the risks of drugs abuse, particularly among young people, the European Commission is proposing that anyone who carries formal responsibility of some kind, has decision-making powers, or acts in an economic, social or representative capacity, should make a commitment on a specific action that he / she will undertake.
The European Action on Drugs will be based on the principle of 'shared responsibility', a responsibility shared by all members of society, i.e. ordinary people as well as 'professionals'.
Join the action:
http://ec.europa.eu/ead
Youth for road safety
Road crashes are the leading cause of death among young people, aged 10-24 years.
In order to change the situation, young people face several challenges:
- A lack of awareness and recognition in the world of the vulnerable position of young people in traffic
- A fragmentized approach and divergences in strategies among youth and youth-led NGO's and their road safety initiatives. Youth road safety initiatives remain small -scaled and scattered
- Absence of one strong voice to advocate on the behalf of youth and road safety on a global level
- A lack of resources for youth road safety initiatives
- A lack of a next generation of leaders who are passionate about road safety and involved in decision making within the road safety field
- A lack of capacity development. Road safety knowledge and best practices from youth initiatives are not shared in a broader network
- Insufficient evidence based effective youth programmes targeting youth and road safety
The facts:
- Young people are generally inexperienced road users.
- Also social norms, including peer influence and the rebellion in youth culture can affect the behaviour while acting on the road.
- Furthermore recent research indicates that the parts of the brain responsible for decision making may be still under development until well after the teenage years, also impacting on the behaviour on the road.
Therefore YOURS believes that it is young people themselves who should talk with their peers and get the right message across. Many examples of peer-to-peer communication have been set by youth-led NGO's and are part of the YOURS network. Governments, private sector and media should help young people by providing resources, help developing their skills and give media attention to their efforts.
http://www.youthforroadsafety.org/
Road crashes are the leading cause of death among young people, aged 10-24 years.
In order to change the situation, young people face several challenges:
- A lack of awareness and recognition in the world of the vulnerable position of young people in traffic
- A fragmentized approach and divergences in strategies among youth and youth-led NGO's and their road safety initiatives. Youth road safety initiatives remain small -scaled and scattered
- Absence of one strong voice to advocate on the behalf of youth and road safety on a global level
- A lack of resources for youth road safety initiatives
- A lack of a next generation of leaders who are passionate about road safety and involved in decision making within the road safety field
- A lack of capacity development. Road safety knowledge and best practices from youth initiatives are not shared in a broader network
- Insufficient evidence based effective youth programmes targeting youth and road safety
The facts:
- Young people are generally inexperienced road users.
- Also social norms, including peer influence and the rebellion in youth culture can affect the behaviour while acting on the road.
- Furthermore recent research indicates that the parts of the brain responsible for decision making may be still under development until well after the teenage years, also impacting on the behaviour on the road.
Therefore YOURS believes that it is young people themselves who should talk with their peers and get the right message across. Many examples of peer-to-peer communication have been set by youth-led NGO's and are part of the YOURS network. Governments, private sector and media should help young people by providing resources, help developing their skills and give media attention to their efforts.
http://www.youthforroadsafety.org/
CAST
Commission adopted an ambitious mid-term strategic objective: namely to reduce the number of road fatalities in the Europe by half by the year 2010. It supports the realization of pan-European road safety campaigns to contribute to this objective. Consequently, the European Commission wishes to provide powerful and innovative guidelines to design implement and evaluate road safety campaigns to improve future campaigns.
The CAST project is assembled to meet the demand for such powerful and innovative guidelines to design, implement and evaluate road safety campaigns that can be used by the Member States, by the European Commission for its own campaigns (or campaigns financed by the European Commission) and by other stakeholders.
More precisely, CAST will provide two practical tools:
- An evaluation tool aiming at isolated effects of road safety campaigns on road crashes and other outcome variables (various safety performance indicators like safety awareness or seatbelt wearing rates, prevalence of drink driving, etc.).
- A manual for road safety campaigns based on existing research and new results produced in CAST. The design tool will be developed as a manual consisting of clear guidelines to design and implement a road safety campaign.
The broad objective of this proposal is to establish a temporary structure that will bring together relevant expertise within the Europe. This information will be fundamentally oriented to support the policy needs of the European Commission, i.e. the need for effective road safety campaigns aimed at enhancing traffic safety and the need for ready-to-use evaluation and design tools for fieldworkers.
www.cast-eu.org
Commission adopted an ambitious mid-term strategic objective: namely to reduce the number of road fatalities in the Europe by half by the year 2010. It supports the realization of pan-European road safety campaigns to contribute to this objective. Consequently, the European Commission wishes to provide powerful and innovative guidelines to design implement and evaluate road safety campaigns to improve future campaigns.
The CAST project is assembled to meet the demand for such powerful and innovative guidelines to design, implement and evaluate road safety campaigns that can be used by the Member States, by the European Commission for its own campaigns (or campaigns financed by the European Commission) and by other stakeholders.
More precisely, CAST will provide two practical tools:
- An evaluation tool aiming at isolated effects of road safety campaigns on road crashes and other outcome variables (various safety performance indicators like safety awareness or seatbelt wearing rates, prevalence of drink driving, etc.).
- A manual for road safety campaigns based on existing research and new results produced in CAST. The design tool will be developed as a manual consisting of clear guidelines to design and implement a road safety campaign.
The broad objective of this proposal is to establish a temporary structure that will bring together relevant expertise within the Europe. This information will be fundamentally oriented to support the policy needs of the European Commission, i.e. the need for effective road safety campaigns aimed at enhancing traffic safety and the need for ready-to-use evaluation and design tools for fieldworkers.
www.cast-eu.org
The Youth in Action programme
The Youth in Action Programme aims to achieve the following general objectives:
- Promote young people’s active citizenship in general and their European citizenship in particular
- Develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, in particular in order to foster social cohesion in the European Union
- Foster mutual understanding between young people in different countries
- Contribute to developing the quality of support systems for youth activities and the capabilities of civil society organisations in the youth field
- Promote European cooperation in the youth field
European Voluntary Service
The European Voluntary Service (EVS) provides young Europeans with the unique chance to express their personal commitment through unpaid and full-time voluntary activities in a foreign country within or outside the Europe.
In this way, it seeks to develop solidarity, mutual understanding and tolerance among young people, thus contributing to reinforcing social cohesion in the European Union and to promoting young people's active citizenship. Volunteers can benefit from specific training throughout the activity and agree on their expected learning outcomes, processes and methods in advance.
EVS is a mutually beneficial process, where everybody gains from getting to know the other's culture.
A successful EVS project requires close co-operation among at least three key players: a sending organisation, a host organisation and the volunteer.
EVS activities can be carried out both individually or in group. The European Voluntary Service spans a wide range of areas, such as culture, youth, sports, social care, cultural heritage, the arts, civil protection, the environment, development co-operation, etc. One thing all the activities have in common is a clear European and intercultural learning dimension.
http://ec.europa.eu/yout
The Youth in Action Programme aims to achieve the following general objectives:
- Promote young people’s active citizenship in general and their European citizenship in particular
- Develop solidarity and promote tolerance among young people, in particular in order to foster social cohesion in the European Union
- Foster mutual understanding between young people in different countries
- Contribute to developing the quality of support systems for youth activities and the capabilities of civil society organisations in the youth field
- Promote European cooperation in the youth field
European Voluntary Service
The European Voluntary Service (EVS) provides young Europeans with the unique chance to express their personal commitment through unpaid and full-time voluntary activities in a foreign country within or outside the Europe.
In this way, it seeks to develop solidarity, mutual understanding and tolerance among young people, thus contributing to reinforcing social cohesion in the European Union and to promoting young people's active citizenship. Volunteers can benefit from specific training throughout the activity and agree on their expected learning outcomes, processes and methods in advance.
EVS is a mutually beneficial process, where everybody gains from getting to know the other's culture.
A successful EVS project requires close co-operation among at least three key players: a sending organisation, a host organisation and the volunteer.
EVS activities can be carried out both individually or in group. The European Voluntary Service spans a wide range of areas, such as culture, youth, sports, social care, cultural heritage, the arts, civil protection, the environment, development co-operation, etc. One thing all the activities have in common is a clear European and intercultural learning dimension.
http://ec.europa.eu/yout
HERMES
The European HERMES created a training package for driving teachers on the subject of 'best communication skills especially coaching' in classroom, in car and on the track.
The use of coaching methods in driver training is seen to be a key way. Coaching is about raising awareness, developing responsibility and motivating the learner to make the right decisions in traffic.
This highly practical training package includes:
- What is coaching - the principles of coaching
- Why coaching - aims and rationale of coaching in driver training
- When - and when not - to coach: practical application in driver training
- How to coach - methods to be used by the driving teachers
- Scenarios for coaching: training exercises
http://www.alles-fuehrerschein.at/HERMES/
The European HERMES created a training package for driving teachers on the subject of 'best communication skills especially coaching' in classroom, in car and on the track.
The use of coaching methods in driver training is seen to be a key way. Coaching is about raising awareness, developing responsibility and motivating the learner to make the right decisions in traffic.
This highly practical training package includes:
- What is coaching - the principles of coaching
- Why coaching - aims and rationale of coaching in driver training
- When - and when not - to coach: practical application in driver training
- How to coach - methods to be used by the driving teachers
- Scenarios for coaching: training exercises
http://www.alles-fuehrerschein.at/HERMES/
TOYOTA FUND FOR EUROPE
TFfE has been creating partnerships with charities, non-profit organisations and educational institutions across Europe since 2002. The focus of TFfE closely follows the core Toyota sustainability issues of environment, road safety and technical education. With an annual budget of €1.0 million and the practical resources supplied by Toyota Motor Europe, TFfE tries to make a significant difference.
The Toyota Fund for Europe (TFfE) operates at a pan-European level and supports projects that operate across a number of different European countries or regions. TFfE supports projects in the fields where Toyota can join the force with our stakeholders to tackle the issues using our best competence: the environment, road safety and technical education.
www.toyotafund.eu
TFfE has been creating partnerships with charities, non-profit organisations and educational institutions across Europe since 2002. The focus of TFfE closely follows the core Toyota sustainability issues of environment, road safety and technical education. With an annual budget of €1.0 million and the practical resources supplied by Toyota Motor Europe, TFfE tries to make a significant difference.
The Toyota Fund for Europe (TFfE) operates at a pan-European level and supports projects that operate across a number of different European countries or regions. TFfE supports projects in the fields where Toyota can join the force with our stakeholders to tackle the issues using our best competence: the environment, road safety and technical education.
www.toyotafund.eu
Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020
The Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020 was officially proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in March 2010. Its goal is to stabilize and reduce the forecast level of road traffic deaths around the world. If successfully implemented, the Global Plan's activities could save 5 million lives and prevent 50 million serious injuries over the course of the Decade.
The Global Plan outlines steps towards improving the safety of roads and vehicles; enhancing emergency services; and building up road safety management generally. It also calls for increased legislation and enforcement on using helmets, seat-belts and child restraints and avoiding drinking and driving and speeding. Today only 15% of countries have comprehensive laws which address all of these factors.
Pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists collectively represent almost half of those killed on the world's roads. Most of the progress has been made in the last few decades has been towards protecting people in cars. The Global Plan suggests measures that may afford these vulnerable groups protection – such as building cycle and foot-paths and separate motorcycle lanes or improving access to safe public transport.
http://www.who.int/roadsafety/decade_of_action/en/
The Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020 was officially proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in March 2010. Its goal is to stabilize and reduce the forecast level of road traffic deaths around the world. If successfully implemented, the Global Plan's activities could save 5 million lives and prevent 50 million serious injuries over the course of the Decade.
The Global Plan outlines steps towards improving the safety of roads and vehicles; enhancing emergency services; and building up road safety management generally. It also calls for increased legislation and enforcement on using helmets, seat-belts and child restraints and avoiding drinking and driving and speeding. Today only 15% of countries have comprehensive laws which address all of these factors.
Pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists collectively represent almost half of those killed on the world's roads. Most of the progress has been made in the last few decades has been towards protecting people in cars. The Global Plan suggests measures that may afford these vulnerable groups protection – such as building cycle and foot-paths and separate motorcycle lanes or improving access to safe public transport.
http://www.who.int/roadsafety/decade_of_action/en/