Good practice submission

Initiative details

Describe the characteristics of your target audience

Our target audience will be mainly young people and children, because this category is estimated to be more at risk.

Organisation details

Please describe the main road safety challenges/problems you have addressed or are addressing.

We wish to contribute in road safety in our region, our country and of course in the European Union. The main problem is the road fatalities concerning young people, and especially people between the age of 15-29.The fatal crashes take place mostly during the weekends and holidays. Education is the key word for us. On the one hand we intend to implement and develop the road safety culture (we want to educate and train as many young people as we can ) and on the other hand we aim at increasing traffic controls and applying the law enforcement.

What are your objectives?

Raise awareness of general public about the most important causes of road accidents( speed, alcohol drinking, using mobile phone while driving).

Project activities

List the actions you carried/are carrying out

Date

Monday, 6 October, 2014 to Friday, 10 October, 2014

Name of action

We will organize a Road Safety Week.A)It will include an exhibition with damaged cars by road crashes and panels showing the road accidents statistics for our country and for Europe, real photos from road crashes as well as the most common factors causing a road accident, B) Meanwhile, the visitors will have the chance to watch videos promoting the vital issue of road safety. C) We will distribute leaflets which have as main message the road safety. D) Children and young people (6-18 years old) from schools will visit the exhibition and attend specially designed programs about the road safety culture. The programs will consist of power point presentations and videos, as well as conducted tour in three road safety parks, where experienced traffic police officers will teach children how they should behave on the streets.

Date

Saturday, 1 November, 2014 to Wednesday, 1 July, 2015

Name of action

We will give lectures in schools (kindergartens- primary, secondary and high schools) as well as in military camps and other young organizations.

Date

Thursday, 22 May, 2014 to Saturday, 24 May, 2014

Name of action

We will organize an interactive seminar in association with the Road Safety Institute Panos Mylonas and the Hellenic Police Department in Athens. The seminar will include training in the Road Safety Institute’s simulators, by the trainers of the Road Safety Institute Panos Mylonas.

Date

Monday, 1 September, 2014 to Tuesday, 1 September, 2015

Name of action

We will carry out a campaign, in which we will produce and distribute leaflets to drivers powerful messages regarding the three most important causes of road accidents( speed, alcohol drinking, using mobile phone while driving). The leaflets will be given while the drivers will be subjected into traffic control- check by traffic police officers or while drivers receive their traffic fine, in order to make drivers realize how dangerous was it to commit a traffic offence.

Date

Saturday, 18 October, 2014 to Sunday, 23 August, 2015

Name of action

We will organize night operations outside of clubs and discos with distribution of leaflets to drivers with a message about drink and driving.

Evaluation

What has been the effect of the activities?

We will check the degree of satisfaction of the participants as well as of the organisers and managers. In addition to this, we will check the degree of compliance with the initial plan(our initial plan is to educate and train as many young people as we can and reduce traffic safety offences , consequently to reduce road accidents)

How have you shared information about your project and its results?

We will disseminate these results through social media(facebook, twitter, instagram)and certainly via local and national radio, television and newspapers.

How many people did you reach/have you reached?

1000-5000

Who carried/carries out the evaluation activities?

External evaluation

Internal evaluation

When did/will you carry out the evaluation?

Before, after and continuous monitoring

How many groups did you evaluate/have you evaluated?

Number of interventions groups

Number of control groups

Please list the indicators you use to measure success

Reduce the number of road accidents and victims

Decrease the number of traffic safety offences, especially the most serious ones (seatbelt use, speeding, alcohol and drug risk behaviours, etc.), because when there are fewer offences that means that drivers are more careful and they have obtained road

Please describe the evaluation tools you use (i.e. surveys, interviews, focus groups, etc.)

Statistics concerning the road accidents

Participants’ and Organizers’ interviews

Society’s and media’s positive comments.

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