Be a hero Erasmus Project

Project Title

Be a hero

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Disabilities – special needs; Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

Project Summary

Traffic safety is a real and heavy problem at the global level. Traffic accidents among young people worldwide are still the number one for mortality, the average age of a person who is seriously injured in a car accident is 22 years old. Nevertheless, the topic of traffic safety in the youth sector is poorly represented, and youth workers are poorly trained in carrying out preventive activities in the field of traffic safety. Overall youth organizations and youth workers devote too little attention to the traffic safety, which undoubtedly should be an important topic among youth and represents a key challenge within the youth field for the future. The reason for the situation is lack of knowledge in the field of road safety among youth workers and the lack of appropriate competences – how to transfer this knowledge and bring the topic closer to the youth.
The essence of Be a Hero project is to empower the youth sector and to strengthen the quality work of youth workers through the upgrading of competences and the acquisition of expertise in the field of road safety. It is necessary to gain structured methodologies, strengthen the knowledge and then carry out the application of both in practice. Along with that the social inclusion of persons with fewer opportunities (victims of road accidents) in youth work will help to address the pressing problem of road safety in the youth sector in the future.
The empowerment of the youth sector and youth workers is therefore the first step towards the systematic introduction of solutions in the field of traffic safety among young people.
The project partners will jointly develop an appropriate methodology for the youth sector, and thus create concrete guidelines and approaches that will be specifically adapted for working with young people in the area of road safety. We will also define the criteria for the effective functioning of organizations from the youth sector in the field of awareness of traffic safety and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle among young people and develop concrete and innovative solutions at the level of program activity. We will also offer the youth sector guidelines for a quality and efficient implementation of a structured dialogue with local decision makers with the aim of introducing and ensuring lasting changes in the area of traffic safety among young people in the local environment.
By transferring expertise, knowledge in the field of youth work and proven effective project concept of innovative initiative Heroes drive in pajamas (European Commission Excellence and Road Safety Awards), we will strengthen the quality of the youth work of project partners, while the project partners will be exchangeing good practices, working methods and useful information among themselves. In this way we will jointly strengthen the competencies and upgrade the knowledge and further enrich the youth work of all project partners. With the implementation of training, study visits, multiplication events, Skype seminars, etc. we will provide a quality transfer of knowledge among ourselves and with the developed methodology with included guidelines for program implementation in individual countries (at national and local level) we will provide the dissemination of knowledge between other organizations, thus ensuring the sustainability of the project and increasing the quality of youth work even wider. In the framework of this methodology, which will be created as one of the results of Be a Hero project, we also want to develop a model that will present possibilities for involving vulnerable groups (with fewer opportunities, with special needs – disability) into youth work.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 115555 Eur

Project Coordinator

Vozim, Zavod za inovativno izobrazevanje & Country: SI

Project Partners

• ASSOCIACAO EDUCATIVA NACIONAL DE INCLUSAO E INOVAÇAO NAS ESCOLAS
• Prevenção Rodoviária Portuguesa
• TOP-25 EUROPE
• ZAVOD MLADINSKA MREZA MAMA
• RESPONSIBLE YOUNG DRIVERS VLAANDEREN