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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. |
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Avenir Santé - France
The objective of the project is to reduce, among youngsters in recreational settings, drug consumptions which can also have bad consequences on driving capacities. - Road of illusions
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Road Safety Institute „Panos Mylonas” – Greece
Objectives:- To convince, mainly young people, to drive safely without being under the influence of alcohol
- To inform the participants about the results of hyper-consumption of alcohol when they are driving and not only
- To change the mentality of drink and driving - Safe Valentine
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SPI Forschung gGmbH – Germany
Objectives:- Informing about the incompability of alcohol and drugs while driving a vehicle
- General information about HIV/AIDS
- Informing about the dangers of unsafe sex
- Make free condoms available for everyone, who is interested in this action - 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”.