Road of illusions

Gramada

Date: 25 August 2011

Venue: in front of Gramada municipality

Zolder, Belgium

Date: 03 September 2011

Venue: Circuit Zolder

Sofia

Date: 09 September 2011

Venue: in front of Ministry of Health

Help me!

This world needs you,
as I need your hand…
This world loves you,
as I love your soul.
Help me, when I’m alone,
when something worries me,
and I will give you something else,
I will teach you what I know!
Help me when I need you in trouble!
Help me, when it is scary,
and I will free you from another danger!
Here is my hand, let it protect you, so you will not worry.
I give it to you, my powers, my heart…
Lets help each other with whatever is possible…
Lets live holding our hands!

Savina Atansova

Driving simulator

The driving simulator is a high-tech machine, designed to simulate as close as possible to the reality situation on the road, using 3D platform to visualize the driving experience. It supports the messages with enabling participants to acquire personal experience. Each of them can check their personal skills and ability to drive and in the meantime understand how important it is to stay focused on the road all the time not only for oneself but also for the other road users.
The driving simulator allows reaching large numbers of people in a relatively short time without reducing the quality. For the basic program, including discussion of the primary safety measures, breaks reaction measurement and simulation of a situation while driving, no more than 10 minutes per person are needed. A more detailed analysis is more time consuming (e.g. examination of the performed simulations, an analysis of driving after drinking, gap analysis, analysis of different angles, etc.).

Road of illusions

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

This particular campaign is an awareness campaign for young people and aims not only to inform them to drive safely without the influence of drink but at the same time to participate in an illusion of experiencing influence of alcohol to their health and their lives.
This campaign will take place at a University and also in the central municipal center called Technopolis (from now on be known as exhibition places), since it is for young people.
In the reception of the exhibition place there will be a stand with printed informative material regarding our subject: safe driving without alcohol.
Afterwards the young person will have the possibility to walk on a giant carpet which will be a virtual road with red cones as road obstacles. The volunteer will inform the visitor that this is the safe way to drive, without the influence of alcohol.
Then our volunteer will give the visitor/younger to wear a pair of special glasses called Alcovision goggles which is an awareness tool aiming at sensitizing younger on the effects of alcohol on the vision (balance, reflexes, etc), while the visitor is walking and the volunteer at the same time ask from him/her to imagine that he/she is driving.
It must be mentioned that once you wear the goggles, you are experiencing, how alcohol really affects your vision. Under the influence of alcohol, as your vision changes progressively, you are not aware of this modification.
This tool allows volunteers to dialogue with youngsters about the effects of alcohol on their driving skills (alteration of movement control).
At the end of the activity at the front desk the visitor/participants will have the opportunity to get some information for the basic First Aid by our trained volunteers, in order, for them, to be able to offer help in the case of a car accident.

For the campaign you need: a stand with leaflets and information material regarding safe driving without alcohol; a giant sticker which will be a virtual road with red cones as road obstacles; alcovision goggles.

Condom Race, sensitizing about the effects of alcohol: 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.
Come and take it: 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.
Safe Valentine: 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
Partypeers: 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.