All the presentations and additional movies from the speakers of the PRI congress on 24-26 June 2009, are available at the La PRI website. Go to www.lapri.info for more information.

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La Prévention Routière Internationale (PRI) celebrates its 50th anniversary by organising the world congress “Young people and innovative road safety solutions” on 24-25-26 June 2009 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The congress offers you;

• A three-day programme with more than 45 speakers from around the world. Among the speakers you will find politicians and policy makers; communication, media- and cam-paigning specialists; students and youth organisations; researchers; representatives from the WHO and EU and speakers form road safety organisations.
• A platform to meet, greet and network with other specialists from around the world.
• Free entrance for PRI Members and a reasonable entrance fee for non PRI Members (euro 150).
• PRI 50th anniversary dinner cruise on Wednesday 24 June, offered by PRI to all congress participants.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from other experts what is effective and how to involve and mobilise young people to make roads safer for them!!

The main issues, trends and themes discussed at the congress are:

• Campaigns: (Campaign) awareness raising strategies; Structure, models and manuals; Communication by means of visualisations and images.
• Best practices: Young people as ambassadors for road safety; The gender approach; Presentations from South Africa, Romania, Argentina, Cuba and Jordan.
• Life style and new media: Behavioural differences in traffic between young males and young females (the gender approach); Presentation/gaming by students about "serious gaming"; Presentation by MTV and TMF on Thursday 25 June.
• Traffic safety issues: Alcohol & drugs and lines of action to tackle the problem; Accompanied driving; Safety of young motorcyclist and what they can do to reduce risk on the road (speed & helmet use); Young road users in Morocco between risk of accident and preventive work.
• International agenda setting and final resolution: How to move road safety up the in-ter(national) political agenda; The development of a global youth network for road safety by the World Health Organization; Partnership solutions for the global road safety crisis, an imperative for youth; Lessons from the Obama campaign - young people  show up in large numbers at the polls and really made the difference; Young people leading policy makers; Presentation of the final congress resolution.

Check this website for the full three-day programme!! You can register at the Registration page.