Cycling In Safety (C.I.S.) is an Erasmus+ funded youth project aiming to improve traffic safety and mobility education focused on safe cycling for young people. The project is coordinated by the Hellenic Road Safety Institute (RSI) “Panos Mylonas” and aims to bridge the gap between Northern and Southern Europe by involving organisations from countries with an advanced cycling culture and road safety performance, such as Norway (Trygg Trafikk), Netherlands (Responsible Young Drivers NL) and Iceland (Brautin) together with less advanced cycling culture and safety performance countries such as Greece and Romania (RSI “Panos Mylonas” and the Romanian Association For Youth And Students In Partium). Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) also participates and is responsible for the programme validation.
A virtual reality cycling training during during the train-the-trainer workshop in the Netherlands.
The project includes two train-the-trainer events in the Netherlands and Norway for road safety experts and youth workers who will later implement two training activities for young people (as members of youth and sports clubs, cycling and voluntary organisations, etc.) in Greece and Romania. The workshops aim to provide young people with a holistic approach to training on safe cycling skills as well as information on European policy issues. They also receive capacity-building training for the development of road safety awareness and advocacy campaigns for the promotion of safe cycling and sustainable mobility in their countries.
The project outcomes, as well as the training, will serve as the first material for the development and implementation of a road safety educational programme on safe cycling using state-of-the-art methodologies and educational techniques that could be further elaborated and disseminated.
The Cycling in Safety project was presented during the 2022 European Traffic Education Seminar.
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The Cycling in Safety project is funded as part of Key Action 2 of the Erasmus+ programme, which focuses on cooperation among organisations and institutions.