Educating safe cycling in European Schools

They key focus of this project is to reduce the amount of bicycle related accidents that occur each year in the EU by educating youth through creative and innovative approaches on themes such as r...

The SAFECY project objectives are: • The first objective is to form and educate European youth to be safer, more conscious and more responsible cyclists and future drivers in order to reduce the number of bike related accidents. • The second objective is to give teachers, formators and coaches the necessary tools to teach youth how to become safe cyclists in a fun and innovative manner. • The third objective is to promote and impulse cycling among youth across the EU by creating content that will be easily accessible and understandable for both formators and students.

The expected results are the following: • Teachers, formators and coaches will have the means to educate youth on the very important theme of road safety thanks to digital learning and ACLs. • ACLs will continue to be implemented widely in the EU: uptake of creative teaching and training methodologies to re-shape European educational policy and landscape and adoption of the strategic method of using ACL methodology to intertwine school education, environmental awareness and creative thinking. • Empowerment end users, inspiring teaching professionals and linking together all relevant and interested stakeholders in a living ecosystem. • European youth will become more responsible and safe citizens. Their personal empowerment and independence will be enhanced. • The number of cycling related accidents and deaths in the EU will diminish. • Cycling will grow in popularity among young Europeans. • The next generation will prefer using their bikes over cars or public transport. This will result in less air pollution in the EU, less traffic jams in EU cities, and improve productivity of EU workers. • Furthermore, European youth’s physical and mental health will improve.