40,000 lives are lost in road accidents every year in the
EU.
An additional 1.7 million people get injured in those accidents.
This translates into an estimated cost (indirect and direct) of
€160 billion each year. Thus, EU Parliament passed a resolution in
2006 to halve the number of traffic deaths by 2010.
The White Paper, “European Transport Policy for 2010: Time to
decide”
In order to meet these challenges, Driving Instructors need to be prepared
with skills and knowledge of the pedagogical methods to be used in communication
with various client groups. Among them are elderly drivers,
pre-school children entering the traffic for the first time, school children
on their bicycles and teenagers with their first motored vehicles.
Driving Instructors need to know what road safety means especially for
groups aged 0–30 years, and how these issues can be taught and made
part of everyone’s daily behaviour, values and way of thinking.
The PROCADRIN project is an attempt, based on education, to cope with
the urgent problems of improved road security, The Project duration :
2007-2009
Visit the Wiki of the Project where you will find material and curriculums.
