School stories

100 students at an Iranian school decided that the best way to reduce the high number of deaths on their country’s roads was to become police officers themselves.

Students of a small Bulgarian town realized the surroundings of their school were not safe and they demanded to the mayor some improvements in order to reduce risks: pedestrian paths, speed limits and the prohibition to park in front of the school.

Students in this small Italian town decided to focus their campaign on the safety of cyclists, and worked hard to spread this important message to their schoolmates and to the community as a whole.

Lebanese students were stunned to discover that the majority of drivers ignore the basic rules. They decided to use several means to inform the people in their town and create a road safety culture.

Upon seeing the lack of road safety culture, 22 students at a Moroccan school decided to educate their neighborhood and to travel throughout the country to spread their road safety message.

Upon noticing that young people are one of the groups most affected by traffic accidents, 35 Spanish high school students decided to address primary school pupils and educate them to have a better road safety consciousness.

Students of this school of an english rural area created campaigns to promote the use of the seat belt with actions targeted at different age groups in different ways.

In this rural area of Brazil, the consequences of the traffic are also visible. But the pupils of the local school decided they could do something to avoid pollution and accidents: change their minds first and alert their fellow citizens.

Bad habits among road users and neglected road signs were not hard to find for these spanish students, they just went to the streets of their town and documented the road safety issues.

In the Italian town of Norcia, the students worked on a vision of mobility for the future and ended up requesting the reopening of a railway line.

Upon noticing the cyclists' ignorance of basic road rules, these romanian students decided to educate them and publish a brochure.

When they noticed that pedestrians in their town were not cautious, students of a Chilean school organized a fake accident to provoke the people's reaction.

For these croatian pupils, raising awareness of road safety among class mates is good but spreading the message outside the school is even better.

200 Indian high school students from Bilaspur (a central Indian city of 450.000 inhabitants) decided to drastically reduce emissions and greenhouse gases, noise pollution and road accidents around their school.

Upon discovering accident statistics among cyclists, the class transformed itself into an advertising agency and created a campaign to promote the use of cycle helmets.