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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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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. - 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 - Condom Race, sensitizing about the effects of alcohol
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SIDA STUDI - Spain

Objectives:
- Sensitizing about the effects of alcohol on driving skills.
- Sensitizing about the effects of alcohol on condom use.
- Make free condoms available to everyone who wants. - 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”.