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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. |
- 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. - 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. - Just say it!
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Responsible Young Drivers - The Netherlands
Making young people aware of the importance of talking/discussing with your partner/friends in risky situations, such as driving back home as passenger with an impaired driver, or having sex without condom and not daring to frankly talk about it with the concerned person, because afraid of consequences. The aim is not to change behavior, but to change attitudes regarding the intimacy between friends and partners. - Eight giant steps for health promotion
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LASER EUROPE - France
The campaign is a multi dimensional approach of health care. The health is a global topic and its education and danger awareness take a lot of figures. The interest in this Tour is to coordinate many health topics and to educate young people in one plenty day.
The action aims to sensitize the youngsters on important topics of health, to tackle the problem of risky behaviors among 16-29 years, to reduce the prevalence of not suitable health conducts.




“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”.