Spotlight on: TeamAlert – The Netherlands

Spotlight on: TeamAlert – The Netherlands

by | Nov 10, 2023 | News & Blog

This month, YOURS has been in conversations with organizations around the world and we are very excited to put the spotlight on TeamAlert. TearmAlert is an innovative, engaging and youth-led road safety organization that have engaged in a range of youth and road safety projects in The Netherlands.

TeamAlert is a youth-led NGO for road safety based in The Netherlands. TeamAlert started on initiative of the Dutch Minister of Transport in 2000. An important motive for this was that young people are highly at risk in traffic and, moreover, hardly aware of their vulnerability.

In 2000 the minister asked five young people to devise campaigns and activities with other young people to raise awareness on road safety. Who else reaches young people better than young people themselves? They were called “TeamAlert” and developed their own style of communicating. ‘Original’ and ‘a little risky ” were and still are the characteristics of all campaigns and activities. In 2003 TeamAlert grew into an independent and professional youth-led NGO, convinced of the principle for and by young people. Currently they have 14 young people working full-time on youth and road safety issues. Together they reach hundreds of thousands of young people every year with their road safety campaigns.

Activities
Today TeamAlert has many successful actions and campaigns developed and implemented, including: the Witte Waas (about drugs in traffic), Kruispunt (a road safety debate at schools) and BobZone (focused on drink driving). The campaigns can count on the enthusiasm of a large group of young people who together contribute to road safety in the Netherlands.

Peer education
TeamAlert speaks directly to young people and their responsibilities, openly discussing important road safety issues. TeamAlert does this on an original and contemporary way. The messages we bring is accepted by young people, since it is brought by young people who experience the same world as their peers. This allows us to highlight our road safety message on a realistic and effective way. During our campaigns and actions we never use the ´pointing finger´, but originality and humor. This goes along with a realistic and informative message that young people have to realize that traffic in The Netherlands is a serious matter.

XXIV World Road Congress – Taking place in Mexico 2011

XXIV World Road Congress – Taking place in Mexico 2011

by | Nov 10, 2023 | News & Blog

Since 1908, the World Road Congress has been the premier international event for roads and road transport. This XXIVth edition will present current research and best practice, provide a venue for discussion of advances in technology and practice and bring together road transport stakeholders to facilitate collaboration and information sharing.

Past congresses have attracted over 3.000 delegates from across the world working in government, corporate and international associations. The Congress will showcase innovation, progress and new directions in all areas of road transport ranging from road safety, administration, infrastructure, sustainability and maintenance.

If you work, or have an interest, in any field of roads and roads transport the World Road Congress is a must for you to attend. You are invited to visit the host country, Mexico, discover its well known hospitality, culture, and ancient history. You will experience the joy and excitement of a place where tradition and modernity mix in a constant effervescence for your delight. The World Road Association (AIPCR/PIARC) since 1909 celebrates every four years, the World Road Congress, an event which invites professionals of roadsand transportation to present and discuss presentations betweenthe country members and looking forward to identify,develop and share responsible solutions for today’s problems.

An event that great personalities of the world of roads attend; general directors, first level executives of companies related with this activity, in all the world and that has counted with the presence of several dozens of ministers in charge of the road infrastructure and the transport by highways in their respective countries.

You are cordially invited to the celebration of the XXIV World Road Congress. The World Road Association waits for you in Mexico City from September 26th to 30th of 2011.

MOBILITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT: YOURS INVOLVEMENT
At the Congress, YOURS’ Director Mr Floor Lieshout will present a 20minute oral presenation on YOURS: Youth for Road Safety and our activities for the Decade of Action for Road Safety. Here, YOURS will be publishing a paper at the event about youth and road safety issues.

YOURS is expanding across social networks and becoming more accessible!

YOURS is expanding across social networks and becoming more accessible!

by | Nov 10, 2023 | News & Blog

YOURS has began an expansion process increasing its visibility and presence online in the world of social networking and social marketing. In this respect, our goal is to raise awareness of road safety on a range of platforms and since we began, YOURS exitsts on host of social networking sites.

YOURS will become accessible from a range of portals online and is already available on the popular networking sites. YOURS wants to bring road safety into the 21st Century and in this sense, we are expanding into technological advances to make Youth for Road Safety more accessible and in tune with young road safety activists and campaigners.

As well as profiles on Facebook, Youtube, Vimeo and Twitter, YOURS is online on Myspace, Linkedin and Blogster and continues to expand its reach. If you are on these sites, come along and support us; like us, subscribe, follow and friend us to keep up to date with all the latest happenings at YOURS. YOURS is commited to raising the profile of road safety by advocating for youth and road safety issues on a global level; our expansion online is just one more tool for us to raise the profile of global road safety in the online world.

You can check out our profiles on:

YOURS continues to expand into the technological arena that is the world wide web. Stay tuned for more updates including the exploration of mobile applications for YOURS.

The Surreal Poster Series: now available in Spanish and Portuguese!

The Surreal Poster Series: now available in Spanish and Portuguese!

by | Nov 10, 2023 | News & Blog

YOURS is proud to announce that The Surreal Poster Series is now available to download in Spanish and Portuguese! The Spanish version comes with special thanks to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Portuguese version comes with special thanks to Autoridade Nacional de Segurança Rodoviária.

IDB have shared the Surreal Poster Series with their massive youth NGO network in South America; this means the posters focusing of the five key risk factors in global road safety have already reached a huge audience.

Autoridade Nacional de Segurança Rodoviária provided the translation of the Surreal Poster Series in Portuguese and have shared with their network on a national level. The results are impressive with the poster series reaching national television. You can watch the clip from national television on this page (in Portuguese).

YOURS is very proud to announce that the posters in Spanish and Portuguese are available to download right away. As demand for the posters reach regional and local communities, YOURS is continuously offering the posters in a range of languages. We are happy to announce that the posters will be widely available and accessible in South America and Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries.

You can download the posters here as well as in English and French.

The Surreal Poster Series hits Portuguese National TV from YOURS on Vimeo.

YOURS is to publish Youth and Road Safety: A Welcome Kit

YOURS is to publish Youth and Road Safety: A Welcome Kit

by | Nov 10, 2023 | News & Blog

YOURS is set to publish its maiden publication: Youth and Road Safey: A Welcome Kit. The publication will be a comprehensive guide for youth and road safety activists around the world. It brings together evidence based information about the current global road safety situation along with practical guidance on how to effectuate lasting change.

This work was the result of a grant and guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, in collaboration with the International Union for Health Promotion and Education, in Paris.

Youth and Road Safety: A Welcome Kit compiled by YOURS is set to be published very soon!

Every day, more and more young people around the world are recognizing the magnitude of the road safety problem. In response, many of them set out to become road safety activists, raising awareness of those around them and advocating their governments for a more serious approach to this problem. Other young people who are confronted with the road safety issue are eager to take action but do not where and how to start. In addition, there are even more youth who are not aware of the threat they and their loved ones face on the roads.

Therefore, this Welcome Kit is intended to introduce young individuals and organizations to the road safety field, particularly youth issues, and to motivate them to become actively involved.

Youth for Road Safety: A welcome kit is aimed at:

  • introducing young individuals to the global road safety problem and potential avenues for action,
  • supporting the efforts of young people working to prevent road traffic injuries among youth,
  • and inspiring youth and encouraging them to become road safety activists. 

This is YOURS’s first publication and will be the key document used in our workshops and events. YOURS will also disseminate this toolkit to its global youth network, support its translation into as many languages, and encourage its use and adaptation by young people around the world.

The kit focuses on key factors such as:

  • Understanding Road Traffic Injuries
  • Key Risk Factors
  • Getting Involed and where to start
  • What you can do
  • Introduction to Project Management
  • Networking, fundraising and campaigning

Be sure to keep an eye out for the launch of the Welcome Kit! YOURS will release more information in due course. The kit will be, of course, absolutely free to use for all road safety and young people’s organizations, projects etc. We look forward to releasing the finished project soon, so stay tuned….

Spotlight on: Awladna: road safety for kids – Oman

Spotlight on: Awladna: road safety for kids – Oman

by | Nov 10, 2023 | News & Blog

This month, YOURS puts te spotlight on the work of Omani delegates in the campaign, ‘Awladna: road safety for kids’. The campaign holds many resources and fact based evidence about the state of Omani road safety and some of their work can be found in this month’s spotlight feature…

Awladna’s mission is to spread awareness for protecting children from road and traffic accident dangers and to reduce the risks to which children are exposed due to being on the roads or playing close to the road.

The project is a three minutes awareness ad which is highly focused on the carelessness of some mothers which can lead to their child’s death. They shot all the scenes in three different locations in Muscat city in 10 days.

Young people were highly involved in this project since 80% of the crew is under thirties. The idea, planning, and execution all were done by young people who are under thirties supervised by the Campaign’s founder Ms. Amal Al Zadjali.

The campaign achieved its goal because the delegates believed in their own abilities and accepted the reality that sometimes, to make change happen people have to act quick. The group depended in themselves and thought of things they could do with a low budget which made everything clear for them from the beginning till the end. For the group, it was a great experience for where they learnt that nothing is impossible if there is a hardworking team with a creative idea.

The campaign set about thinking of a way to participate in Road Safety. It was a unique idea and the group brought it to life. Campaign founder Ms Amal Al Zadjali said, “We think that’s how young people should think and work for road safety, because if we wait for others help and support we will waste lots of time and enthusiasm”.

You can find out more about the campaign by visiting their website.