We are proud to present the official video showreel from the 4th European Road Safety Day in Nicosia, Cyprus which had a special focus on youth involvement in road safety. In addition, YOURS includes its presentation focusing on the active involvement of young people in road safety globally. Check out the videos here!
YOURS was asked by Reaction Cyprus to film its official video showreel capturing the key events of the 4th European Road Safety Day which took place in late July in Nicosia, Cyprus. Our Communications Officer Manpreet Darroch shot and produced both videos available to view here. At the conference, we at YOURS ran live updates from the action in Nicosia as it happened. You can read a live update stream from YOURS that took place on the day here.
On the 25th July 2012, young people from across Europe came together for the 4th European Road Safety Day in Nicosia, Cyprus. The day focused on a range of pressing road safety issues facing young people across Europe and was hosted by the Cyprus Presidency of the European Union 2012. Read the Cypriot Governmental press release and details of the Youth Conference on following day.
Over 200 delegates come together from across Europe to discuss youth involvement in road safety.
Our videos include a montage of the events of the 4th ERSD which include testimonials from some youth delegates from across Europe. They concluded that the day brought a renewed focus on key risk factors relating to young people and road safety and offered a chance for decision makers to hear the views of youth representatives as input for future policy making. The day paved the way for the involvement of young people in road safety solutions.
The interactive workshops of the latter part of the day enabled an open forum for young people and key European policy makers to discuss issues relating to enforcement, policing and road safety, life long education and training for young people and an addressal of emerging key risk factors relating to young people such as disctracted driving, two-wheel usage, drug driving and a reduction of alcohol consumption.
Some of the youth delegates share their thoughts on the day in our exclusive video.
In a separate video we showcase YOURS’ presentation from our Director Floor Lieshout which firstly looks at young people’s involvement in road safety in terms of ‘what can be done for young people’ and secondly ‘what young people can do themselves’ in terms of road safety action, improvements, initiatives and progress. Mr Lieshout then gives a focus on YOURS’ contribution to the active involvement of young people in road safety in the work we due including our three pillars of action and our new publication and capacity development workshops.