The Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) guides and inspires schools in Flanders and Brussels (Belgium) to make their surroundings and cycle routes to them, safer. The aim is to have more children go to school by bike – and fewer by car. VSV uses the measures included in their Read more…
Recognising that many children are dropped off and picked up at schools by car, the Brussels Region motivates schools and kindergartens to adopt a school mobility plan to encourage children and their parents as well as teachers and school personnel to use the active modes instead, with a focus on Read more…
The Dutch website schoolroute.nl allows pupils from several provinces to register their route from home to school using Google Maps. It also allows the pupils to indicate troublesome or hazardous locations on the route and asks them several questions about these locations. Teachers can subsequently base their road safety lessons Read more…
The Charter on Construction Traffic is a project of the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge. Municipalities in Flanders (Belgium) can cooperate with the construction sector to maximise the safety, liveability and accessibility of their schools’ environments during private and public construction works of buildings and roads in their neighbourhoods, by Read more…
In several European cities, children have the opportunity to go to and from school by “bike bus”, which is a group of children (accompanied by parents and other adults, depending on their age) cycling together. Similar to the motor vehicle equivalent, it follows a set route and has stops and Read more…
The EU-funded Partnerships for Science Education (PAFSE) project looked at science education as a method to provide the knowledge, tools and skills necessary to make informed decisions on public health challenges. The project aims to involve pupils aged 12 to 15 years old in identifying public health challenges in their Read more…
To support systematic and long-term traffic safety education, a school-specific traffic safety plan is drawn up. To achieve the best results, the Finnish Road Safety Council (Liikenneturva) recommends schools pay attention to the following topics: a safe traffic environment that is evaluated on the basis of the capabilities and needs Read more…
Since 2017, the Norwegian national curriculum states that through work with the local community and society, kindergartens should help ensure that children “explore different landscapes and become familiar with institutions and places in the local community and learn to safely orient themselves and get around.” Life skills and health are 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…
In 2019, traffic safety was added to the regional curriculum for secondary education in Flanders. The educational goal set in the curriculum requires pupils to know the traffic rules and risk factors for pedestrians and cyclists, as well as strategies to safely move around in traffic. The goal is for Read more…