In its National Action Plan, the Danish Road Safety Commission recommends that all schools teaching children and youngsters aged 5-15 years old (Danish primary schools) develop a traffic policy, and that they should be supported by municipalities. In order to facilitate this recommendation, the Danish Road Safety Council (Sikker Trafik) Read more…
The Children’s Traffic Club, an initiative of the Norwegian Council for Road Safety (NCRS; Trygg Trafikk) focuses on day-care centres, because if good habits are established when the children are still small, it is likely that they themselves will become responsible road-users. Many day-care centres and families with small children Read more…
In order to encourage and support schools, nine provinces in the Netherlands have implemented a programme that rewards primary schools with a ‘road safety label’ when they implement road safety education as well as traffic safety measures in and around the school. ‘SCHOOL op SEEF’ is the programme in South Read more…
Many of the principles listed in the LEARN! Key Principles are low-cost measures. Schools can, for example, develop and implement a traffic safety policy plan and appoint a traffic safety contact teacher (see Principles #6 and #7) at little to no cost. The principles of materials needing to be up-to-date (see Principle #10) as Read more…
Road safety education at Portuguese schools is a complementary part of the curriculum on citizenship education, and is therefore not a separate subject. The road safety education competency framework, a guidance tool identifying the skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours that individuals must adopt to be safe on the road, consists Read more…
Traffic safety education is included in the core curriculum for basic education in Finland, which is a document schools must follow. Introduced in 2014, the core curriculum includes traffic safety education in various subjects as well as in one of the transversal competences called ‘taking care of oneself and managing Read more…
A policy document initially set out core aims – providing a broad description of the traffic education approach that should be taken – for six target groups (0-4 years old; 4-12; 12-16; 16-25; 25-60; 60+). The Dutch Ministry of Transport subsequently ordered a document setting out concrete learning and educational Read more…