Open Youth

http://roadsafety.open-youth.org

Open Youth

“Open Youth” is non-profit non-governmental volunteer organization, created and managed entirely by young people.

Its aim is to support the formal, the informal and the vocational education of the youth; to use and disseminate the good practice in youth work and to fight the negative social phenomenon in the present society.

Regarding the aim of the organization, the members of “Open Youth” are working in the areas of various activities as

  • youth exchanges
  • awareness-raising campaigns
  • debates on important themes
  • roundtables
  • youth rights protection
  • voluntary service
  • seminars
  • conferences
  • publications.


Through all these the organization is willing to promote the European values to its target group – the young people, in order to prepare them better for their future role as citizens with more responsibilities towards the society. In its work “Open Youth” regards the principles of independence, democracy, impartiality, equal opportunities, innovation, voluntarism and good making.

Member, volunteer or collaborator in the organization can be any person with no importance of his/her gender, race, colour, sexual orientation, background, religion, age and political views as far as he/she accepts the philosophy and the statute of “Open Youth”. “Open Youth” works in the domain of road safety since 2007 when the organization officially signed the European Road Safety Charter during the First European Road Safety Day (27th of April 2007).

Since then we actively promote safer roads through our projects “300”, “Youth and road safety”, "Drive responsibly", HEROES, "Ten D by night", "European Night Without Accident", etc. This in combination with our considerable experience in youth exchanges (more than 80 already implemented), including several environmentally oriented, builds our necessary know-how to successfully implement the currently proposed project. We also posses valuable experience in organizing awareness-raising campaigns on European topics outside the domain of road safety.

Our experience in raising public awareness was recognized by the European Commission by inviting us to participate for three consecutive years in the European Youth Forum on Road Safety and by the World Health Organization by inviting us to participate in the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, held on 19 and 20 of November 2009, which was the decisive step towards the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020.