User:Traffic Safety

40,000 lives are lost in road accidents every year in the EU. An additional 1.7 million people get injured in those accidents. This translates into an estimated cost (indirect and direct) of €160 billion each year. Thus, EU Parliament passed a resolution in 2006 to halve the number of traffic deaths by 2010. The White Paper, “European Transport Policy for 2010: Time to decide”

In order to meet these challenges, Driving Instructors need to be prepared with skills and knowledge of the pedagogical methods to be used in communication with various client groups. Among them are elderly drivers, pre-school children entering the traffic for the first time, school children on their bicycles and teenagers with their first motored vehicles.

Driving Instructors need to know what road safety means especially for groups aged 0–30 years, and how these issues can be taught and made part of everyone’s daily behaviour, values and way of thinking.

The PROCADRIN project is an attempt, based on education, to cope with the urgent problems of improved road security, The Project duration : 2007-2009

PROCADRIN aims to modernise the professional capabilities of Driving Instructors, and to facilitate the future of Lifelong Traffic Safety Learning.

This aim is fulfilled by different steps. One is to support participants in training and further training activities, in the acquisition and the use of knowledge, skills and qualifications. This will probably facilitate personal development, employability and participation in the European Labour Market.

A second step is to support improvements of quality and innovation in vocational education and training systems, institutions and practices.

A third step is to enhance the attractiveness of vocational education, training and mobility for employers and individuals and to facilitate the mobility of working trainees.

And the last one is to support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning.

The tangible outcomes include:

* Curricula for the Driving Instructors to teach various age groups (0–30 years old) in their work * Online learning material and discussion forum for the Driving Instructors that can be used to expand their abilities to meet both young children an d experienced drivers * Different media to spread the information about the project and its goals

Another important outcome will be a growing network supporting lifelong traffic safety learning and responsibility in traffic behaviour.

The online learning material and discussion forum will constitute a web based communication platform which will be free to use after.