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"Open Youth" has experience in international youth projects since 2001. Most of the completed projects are published on our main internet site http://www.open-youth.org The association works for solving the problems of road safety since 2007 when the then European transport commissioner Mr. Jacques Barrot invited us to join the European Road Safety Charter on the First European Road Safety Day (April 17th, 2007). Our main road safety projects can be found on http://roadsafety.open-youth.org. |
- Heroes Campus Tour
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Responsible Young Drivers – Belgium
The Heroes Ca
mpus Tour is an awareness campaign on drugs and road safety organized in universities in order to reach all students. - Partypeers
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VAD – Belgium
Partypeers objectives are:- Informing and sensitizing about the effects and risks of alcohol and illegal drugs use in recreational settings.
- Informing and sensitizing about the effects and risks of alcohol, illegal drugs use and tiredness on driving skills.
- Informing about the legal aspects of driving under influence of alcohol and illegal drugs.
- Drivers take a break (pit stop) on their way home. - Alive
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Responsible Young Drivers - Luxembourg
Objectives:- Develop the sense of responsibility regarding risky behaviors
- Increase the awareness regarding the use of prevention tools
- Encourage indirect actors to sensitize their friends, lovers… to take up a responsible attitude on the road as in their relationship. - Drive responsibly
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Open Youth - Bulgaria
Objectives:- to reduce the road accidents, caused by young people;
- to improve the driving habits of the young drivers;
- to reach directly a large number of young people through positive peer-to-peer communication and attractive tools.




“Open Youth” is non-profit non-governmental volunteer organization, created and managed entirely by young people. Its aim is to support the formal, the informal and the vocational education of the youth; to use and disseminate the good practice in youth work and to fight the negative social phenomenon in the present society. Regarding the aim of the organization, the members of “Open Youth” are working in the areas of various activities as youth exchanges, awareness-raising campaigns, debates on important themes, roundtables, youth rights protection, voluntary service, seminars, conferences, publications. Through all these the organization is willing to promote the European values to its target group – the young people, in order to prepare them better for their future role as citizens with more responsibilities towards the society. In its work “Open Youth” regards the principles of independence, democracy, impartiality, equal opportunities, innovation, voluntarism and good making. Member, volunteer or collaborator in the organization can be any person with no importance of his/her gender, race, colour, sexual orientation, background, religion, age and political views as far as he/she accepts the philosophy and the statute of “Open Youth”.