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More than 1,000 engineering students have attended the lectures and all have been invited to submit proposals for a road safety campaign to fix one high-risk site in their hometowns. Based on these proposals, 25 motivated students will be invited to participate in the R2R Camp that will take place in Brussels from 28 September to 2 October 2009.
At the camp, international road safety experts will teach the participants how to run an infrastructure road safety campaign. All aspects of the process are covered including the identification and development of a suitable technical solution, preparation of a strategy to involve relevant stakeholders in the initiative and the implementation of the project. The most successful students will be invited to an award ceremony in Brussels in 2010. At the ceremony, those students that have made the most progress in treating the high-risk sites will be recognised.
About Roads to Respect
Roads to Respect (R2R) is an international road safety campaign which is coordinated by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) and supported by Toyota Europe and 3M Europe. R2R involves graduate students and young professionals from across Europe in science-based road safety work and policy development. R2R seeks to build road safety knowledge and awareness among these future road-safety professionals so they can make a life-long commitment to the prevention of death and injury in road transport. Attendance at the lecture tour has almost double since the event was first run in 2007.
