ABOUT THE PROJECT
VAMOS is a European wide initiative aiming to set up effective instruments and methods for the implementation of road safety activities in the participating countries, focusing on vulnerable road users. The project builds on the White Book, the European Commission action plan and the Commission work program for 2005's objectives to reduce the number of road deaths by 50 %. As a result, local organizations of volunteers will be set up, training modules and educational materials will be elaborated, training of volunteers, experts and trainers for road safety preventive activities will be organized and preventive as well as dissemination activities will be carried out in selected communities.
PARTNERS
• project coordinator: Ministry of Transport, Slovene Roads Agency, Road Safety Council (Slovenia)
• IBSR/BIVV - Belgian Road Safety Institute (Belgium)
• Liikenneturva - Finnish Central Organization for Traffic Safety (Finland)
• EAEE - Hellenic Association of Insurance Companies (Greece)
• PRP - Prevenção Rodoviária Portuguesa (Portugal)
• Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunication of the Slovak Republic (the Slovak Republic)
• PRI - La Prévention Routière Internationale
• model country: VVN - Dutch Traffic Safety Association (the Netherlands)
• quality manager: BfU - Council for Accident Prevention (Switzerland)
OBJECTIVES
General objectives
• The general objective of the VAMOS project is the contribution to the decrease in the number of car accidents, public damage and causes of those accidents at EU level and consequently to contribute to the general objective of the White Book to decrease road safety deaths by 50 % to 2010;
• To develop effective instruments and methods for the implementation of road safety prevention policy, focusing on vulnerable road users;
• To put examples of best practices of European road safety preventive activities into practice;
• To raise public awareness and public culture related to road safety behavior at local, regional, national and European level.
Specific objectives
• to set up pilot local networks of voluntary organizations;
• to establish a permanent road safety education and training system for volunteers, trainers and coordinators at local, regional and European level;
• to improve professional capacities of local, regional and national authorities, voluntary organizations, groups and individuals - volunteers for implementation of effective and coherent road safety activities ;
• to establish permanent professional support to road safety organizations and volunteers;
• to expand the project to other countries.
DURATION
The duration of the project is 36 months and is divided into 7 work packages.
• WP1: Establishing local networks of volunteers
• WP2: Set up training modules (activities) and educational materials
• WP3: Training the volunteers for prevention and road safety activities
• WP4: Implementing preventive road safety activities at local level
• WP5: Project finalization
• WP6: Dissemination activities
• WP0: Project management and quality assessment
