School stories

This section acts as a central catalogue of group school projects on road safety and sustainable mobility. Discover the incredible initiatives already launched by secondary school pupils from all over the world as part of the international competition Your Ideas, Your Initiatives, and draw inspiration from them to dream up your own project. You can search for them by country and date, and also check out those selected by the panel as finalists and winners.

Results : 82
2016/2017

Colored Reflective Ribbons

Our project is a colorful reflective tape which can help drivers in general. This tape will be placed on the side of the highway so that drivers can identify danger areas such as closed turns, animal passages, schools, etcetera.

2016/2017

Be Road Safety Smart!

Road safety starts with monitoring your own behaviour. Be attentive! Keep safe! Stay smart!

YEKATERINBURG ACCESS TEAM - USPU
2016/2017

Adopt-a-Kilometer

Adopt-a-Kilometer aims to create a safe and clean space for students and our general community to be able to walk and drive safely through the bypass.

INSTITUTO INTERNACIONAL OCTÁVIO PAZ
2016/2017

MOPED MANGLE

Each hour in India a road accident occurs. This is an issue that is totally avoidable with the conscious and responsible effort of road users. We've strived hard to spread the message of choosing a joyful life over the perils of accidents.

MOUNT ABU PUBLIC SCHOOL
2016/2017

Durban Girls' High School - Road Safety Awareness

Durban Girls' High School is situated in Durban, in a busy urban area. We, the Representative Council of Learners Executive Committee, value the safety of all 1,200 learners at our school; this project is aimed at helping them and others stay safe.

2016/2017

School neighborhood redevelopment

Making our neighborhood a safer place is everyone’s task. Moving cars from pavements, creating pedestrian zones are some of the solutions available. Let's become responsible members of society; let's change our neighborhood together.

GYMNASIUM 136
2016/2017

The problems with our school's street flow

Our project looks to answer the question of how to improve our school’s street flow because at entrance/exit times, for around 5-15 minutes, the traffic moves very slowly. We wanted to find out why this happen and what can we do.

SAINT PATRICK'S SCHOOL
2016/2017

Child Safety In Cars

Awareness campaigns have been launched to prevent children's deaths during accidents. However, the crucial role of child safety inside the car has never been highlighted - and that's what the JM Road Safety team planned to do.

JESUS & MARY SCHOOL
Finalist
2016/2017

Road park Cali - Colombia

We created a traffic park in order to develop pedagogical strategies for promoting safe mobility that will help children at the Cañaverales International School, as well as the children from the other schools in Yumbo.

COLEGIO INTERNACIONAL CAÑAVERALES
2016/2017

Roads without landmines

The goal is to design a drone to detect landmines and improve road safety in Colombia.

GIMNASIO LOS CAOBOS
Finalist
2016/2017

Help! The respect asks for passage.

The Your Ideas Your Initiatives challenge was a catapult! After a motion of applause from the city council and the mayor's interest in transforming our project into a draft bill, we realized that we do not have to change the world - we have to act.

COLÉGIO BATISTA BRASILEIRO (UNIDADE BAURU) - BRAZILIAN BAPTIST SCHOOL (UNIT BAURU)
2016/2017

Technology, global warming and greenhouse gases

Our presentation looks at the problems that arise from urbanization and how technology plays a part in global warming from cars and greenhouse gases.

2016/2017

“Nos movemos”- Project of Road Safety Culture

Colegio Santa Ana de Bucaramanga Colombia, for more than three years, has focused on providing a quality education in a comprehensive way to train children and young people to serve society by being responsible citizens.

2016/2017

Don't stop me now

The project aims to implement a campaign of awareness-raising and experiences-sharing regarding road safety as well as risky and responsible behavior. The focus was our school and digital community, especially teenagers between 16 and 19 years old.

Colégio Sesi Internacional de Cascavel
2016/2017

SAFETY in the STREETS / SAFETY for ALL

What if there were an automobile that securely protected its driver and passengers in case of a car crash or a traffic accident? The students of the International School "Istochnik" came up with the idea of designing the safety car of the future.

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL "ISTOCHNIK"
Winner
2016/2017

Explaining the risks of driving in Gran Canaria by perfoming a role playing game

In the Canary Islands traffic accidents are the most relevant cause of mortality among 15 to 24 year olds.
Our challenge: use physics to make drivers aware of the risk on Gran Canaria roads by performing an entertaining role-playing game.

IES SAULO TORÓN
2016/2017

Safe behavior on the road

Road safety is important for everyone in Ukraine as the number of deaths during road traffic accidents was more than 3,000, only for the year 2016. This is comparable to the number of victims in the war in the east of Ukraine.

UKRAINIAN HUMANITIES LYCEUM
2016/2017

Project designers to impact the educational community

This is the fourth year that our school participates in Your Ideas Your Initiatives. The program is now integrated in our school curriculum.

MONTESSORI
2016/2017

Renaultvável

Our campaign aims to promote alternative of means of transportation that are more sustainable for the environment and that collaborate to improve transit in our city.

SESI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
2016/2017

KNOW SAFETY FOR SAFE CHILDREN, SAFE FAMILIES, SAFE COMMUNITIES

Expansion of the city of Delhi compels students to adopt different means of transport to commute to and from school. A number of safety issues arose; our task was to raise awareness about safe mobility while traveling, thus building a safe community.

SHAHEED RAJPAL DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL