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Older Projects
Projects developed by the Road Safety Education Center in previous years
Older Projects
As it follows there is a list of the more relevant projects developed in the Educational and Road Safety education Center in the last years.
Course 2018/19
- Granada celebrates European Mobility Week
- Road Safety campaign for the elderly people
- Motorbike conferences coexisting with bicycles
- Installation of snow chain workshop
- Urban educational route on bike
- Theatre performance Awareness and Road Safety
- Still encouraging active displacements on Bike
European Mobility Week 2018 in Granada
Granada celebrates the European Mobility Week with more than sixty activities planned by the City Council from 16 to 22 September.
Road Safety campaign for the elderly people
The City Council runs a road safety campaign for the elderly. The Major, Francisco Cuenca, visits the informative stands in Plaza del Carmen due to the International Day for the Elderly.
Motorbike conferences coexisting with bicycles
Motorbike conferences coexisting with bicycles recieve this year students from different high schools and, for the first time, from the University of Granada.
The councellor of Mobility, Raquel Ruz, assured that the message has got through on road safety, but we cannot lower our guard.
Installation of snow chain workshop
On 14 and 21 December, from 11:00 to 13:00 hours, at Humilladero Square, next to Fuente de las Granadas, takes place this installation of snow chains workshop.
Urban educational route on bike
Under the European project STARS, Muncipal Center in Road Safety organised an urban educational route on bike greeting Christmas.
Theatre performance Awareness and Road Safety
Last 9 January at 11:30 hours was the performance of the play in the Municipal Theatre Isabel la Católica, created, directed and performed by the student body and teacher staff of the Special Education School Purísima Concepción.
The Educational Center for Road Safety of the Mobility area organises a musical performance at Theatre Isabel la Católica created, directed and performed by the student body and teacher staff of the Special Education School Purísima Concepción Hermanas Hospitalarias of Granada.
Still encouraging active displacements on Bike
Last 26 and 27 February, included in european STARS project, there have been made several routes and practical classes for students of different centers in Granada.
Course 2017/18
- Granada celebrates European Mobility Week
- Driving and overturning simulator
- On Bike to school
- International Day of Elderly People
- XVI Motorbike Conferences and VII Conferences Coexistence with Bikes
- Elderly and Road Safety Conferences
- Merry Christmas on Bike, allied to improve Mobility in Granada: Take care of it
- Teaching bicyle routes through the historical center of the city
- Keep educating in cyclist routes through the historical center
- Project STARS: Walking bus of school Arrayanes
- To school on foot: Walking bus of school Padre Manjón
- Project STARS-Erasmus
- Walking bus of students of school Andrés Segovia in Zaidín district
- Educational workshop about child restreint systems
- Activities in Mobility: Prize ceremony and awards
Granada celebrates European Mobility Week
Granada celebrates from 16 to 22 September European Mobility Week with an activity programme aimed to raise aware on citizens about benefits in the use of transport other than private vehicle.
On Bike to school
City Major, Francisco Cuenca, has thanked educational centers of Granada their cooperation to achieve a more substainable mobility , that is changing the image of our city and making it more modern, clean and habitable. Cuenca has made these statements on the delivery of the award Reconocimiento de Bronce, award given by the UE, to schools Juan XXIII, San Isidoro and Andrés Segovia for their participation on Project Stars encouraging displacements on bike to school.
Driving and overturning simulator
The National Confederation of Driving Schools have settled in Paseo del Salón an overturning simulator to inform in a practical sense about efficiency of safety belt to save lifes.
So, on this driving and overturning simulator, drivers get in the car, put on safety belt and experience, when the car overturns, the importance of correct use of safety belt preventing from fly out of the car, because they remain on their seats after the overturn, thanks to the use of safety belt.
International Day of Elderly People
In the morning of 3 Octobe, in Plaza del Carmen, Road Safety Center of Granada, Red Cross and the Official College of Psychology celebrated the International Day of Elderly Peolple.
From the Mobility Area want to ease urban displacements for elderly people and make them safer ease: get them to their leisure places, their social relationships and familiar, or even their participation in educative activities to recycle them and increase their Road Safety before this changing world we are living in.
XVI Motorbike Conferences and VII Conferences Coexistence with Bikes
On 24, 25 and 26 October 2017 took place in the Educational Center on Road Safety these conferences of motorbikes and bikes. Organised by the Educational Center on Road Safety of the Mobility Area of the City Council of Granada, teached by Vespacito Association and Mutua Motera.
Elderly and Road Safety Conferences
Invited by Red Cross, the Municipal Educational Center on Road Safety of the Mobility Area attended the last Meeting of 2017 about Elderly where recycle themselves and work togheter, among other things, on Road Safety.
Merry Christmas on Bike, allied to improve Mobility in Granada: Take care of it
During this course, have joined Project STARS two new educational centers: CEP Arrayanes and IES Ángel Ganivet.
We continue the commitment made from the City Council of Granada, through the Mobility Area and its Educational Center in Road Safety, to encourage active displacements between schoolchilds through European Project STARS. These 3 associated centers on the last course have been awarded with Bronze Medal due to their high involvement and innovative projects.
Teaching bicyle routes through the historical center of the city
The City Council of Granada, joining european project STARS, educates on bicycle routes through the historical city center of Granada.
The City Council of Granada trhough its Educational Center in Road Safety (Mobility), besides teaching for 6 consecutive years Cyclists Workshops in those Educational Centers, has joined Project STARS to encourage substainable and healthy displacements, teaching to be safer.
Keep educating in cyclist routes through the historical center
New school centers request to learn to circulate on bike through the city center.
Educative centers recieve a training theoretical-practical course in the facilities of the Educational Center in Road Safety and after that make a route around the historical city center, where coexistence with traffic present greater difficulties for schoolchilds.
Project STARS: Walking bus of school Arrayanes
Public school Arrayanes, in North District of the city of Granada, joins the active displacements on foot to school, framed in European project STARS.
Technicians of the Educational Center in Road Safety accompany fathers, mothers, relatives, neighbours, and kids themselves on a journey to school where children are teached to make it in a safe way sharing that moments with friends and school mates.
To school on foot: Walking bus of school Padre Manjón
Another educational center in Project STARS, promote active displacements to school.
School Padre Manjón in Pulianas Avenue put into practice, with the technicians of the Educational Center in Road Safety of the City Council of Granada, families and teachers, going to school with their classmates on foot.
Project STARS-Erasmus
The City Council of Granada educates on urban routes with shared bikes.
Last Friday 18 May 2018, due to the repection of ERASMUS students of school San Isidoro, togheter with the ambassadors of Project STARS of the same school, and its teaching staff as well, was organised a Educational Workshop of substainable and healthful displacements on bike promoted by the Municipal Educational Center on Road Safety that are being implemented over the school year.
Walking bus of students of school Andrés Segovia in Zaidín district
School Andrés Segovia, integrated for second consecutive year in european project STARS, organises walking bus to school.
Fathers and mothers, teachers and students of a school in Zaidin district, integrated for second year in the European Project STARS, with technicians of the Educational Center in Road Safety, design safe routes to ease active displacements to school of children: on foot or bicycle.
Educational workshop about child restreint systems
The City Council of Granada, through its Educational Center in Road Safety, cooperate with the General Management of Traffic and BABY´s shops in an Educational Workshop celebrated on 16 June.
Activities in Mobility: Prize ceremony and awards
On Thursday June 21st 2018 took place the closure acts of the activities in the Educational Center in Road Safety of the Mobility Area in this school year 2017/2018.
11.132 students of all ages and ways of displacement have joined the activities organised by the Municipal Educational Center in Road Safety in Granada, whose objectives are: promote healthier and substainable displacements in a safer way.
Course 2016/17
- Campaign against Accidents involving Moped and Motorbikes
- International Elderly Day
- XV Motorbike Conferences and VI coexistence with bicycles
- World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
- Road Safety Campaign to improve driving in roundabouts
- Granada joins European Project STARS with 3 educational centers
- Schoolchilds encourage other students of the city to go to school walking or cycling
- Road Safety aimed to young people: Ford, drive your life
- Closure ceremony of the Educational Activities to improve Road Safety
Campaign against Accidents involving Moped and Motorbikes
On Wednesday 27 July the Council of Mobility and Citizen´s Protection Raquel Ruz and representatives of motorbike associations: Vespacito and Mutua Motera have presented an educational DVD abour driving on motorbike as a part of the activities of the Educational Center on local Road Safety whose aim is to address a problem in our city, according to the diagnosis given by the Urban Plan on Road Safety: motorbikes.
International Elderly Day
The City Council of Granada, Red Cross and the Official School of Psychology inform Elderly how to get old in an active, healthy and safety way.
Coinciding with the International Day of Elderly, was celebrated, with great public attendance, at Fuente de las Batallas, Road Safety Workshops for elderly, in the morning of the 6th October 2016.
XV Motorbike Conferences and VI coexistence with bicycles
These conferences, organised by the Educational Center in Road Safety on 20, 21 and 24 October, are teached by two renowed motorbike associations in our city: Mutua Motera and Vespacito.
The Educational Center in Road Safety of the Mobility Area and Citizen´s Protection organise the XV Motorbike Conferences and VI Coexistence with bicycles, presented by the Delegated Council, Raquel Ruz, and intended for young motorbikers of our city about to begin in this mean of transport.
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
Concentration took place on 20th November 2016 at Fuente de las Batallas.
One more year, due to the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, last Sunday 20 November has taken place a tribute concentration for road traffic victims and their families at Fuente de las Batallas where have met a large group of citizens, relatives, members of the NGO stop accidentes and dignataries of the city council of Granada.
Road Safety Campaign to improve driving in roundabouts
The City Council of Granada encourages a Road Safety Campaign coinciding with Christmas to improve driving in roundabouts.
Due to Christmas season where displacements both in general and motorised increase, and according to the municipal Urban Plan in Road Safety, roundabouts are a special hot spot for accidents in Granada. The Area of Mobility and Citizen´s Protection, has made an Informative Campaign about safe driving in roundabouts, with special respect to those more vulnerable: two-wheeled vehicles both general and specially cyclists.
Granada joins European Project STARS with 3 educational centers
Schoolchilds from three educational centers will encourage their schoolmates to go to school walking, on bicycle or using public transport.
On 6th February 2017 was celebrated a Joining Ceremony of 3 educational centers to this project. It was headed by the Delegate of Mobility Area Raquel Ruz Peis with the Delegate of Education Jemima Sánchez Iborra and the Provincial Traffic Chief José Vico.
Schoolchilds encourage other students of the city to go to school walking or cycling
The area of Mobility and Citizens Protection runs a new project to push active, substainables and safe displacements between schoolchilds.
More than 1.200 students in Granada dialy go to their educational centers walking or cycling, thanks to european STARS project started up by the City Council of Granada, will encourage through an informative campaing to the rest of schoolchilds of the city to join this project.
Road Safety aimed to young people: Ford, drive your life
On Friday 12 May has celebrated the press conference to present these free courses. This press conference is headed by the Delegate of Mobility, Mrs. Raquel Ruz, Provincial Traffic Chief, Mr. José Vico, and the responsible of the these courses Ford, Drive your life in Spain, D. José Pérez.
On the week from 8 to 14 May, celebrates the IV Worldwide Week of Road Safety organised by the UN.
The City Council of Granada joins this celebration, true to our commitment undertaken to improve Road Safety in our city.
Closure ceremony of the Educational Activities to improve Road Safety
On Monday 12 June in the Plenary Room of the City Council celebrated the closure ceremony of the educational activities made by kids and joung people in different projects to improve Road Safety in Granada.
Course 2014/15
- Beginning of Activities in the Road Safety Centre
- Traffic School Regulators
- XIII Conference of Motorcyclist and IV Coexistence with Bicycles
- Round Tables about Road Safety for young people
- III World Road Safety Week
- III Cyclists Conferences
- Closing Ceremony of the Educational Activities 2015
Beginning of Activities in the Road Safety Centre
There has been started the 2014/15 course in the Road and Security Safety Center of the City Council of Granada.
On 22 september 2014 began these theorical- practical courses of Road Safety in the Road and Security Safety Center in Huerta del Rasillo street in Granada.
School Centers that have not requested it, please do it as soon as possible. You can download the application form in PDF.
These activities are aimed to school child of Primary, Secondary and High Schol, and also to School Regulators of traffic, Round Tables, Drawing contest, Motorcyclist´s meeting and Safety School Routes.
You can have more info at 958 24 82 15, and also send the application form by fax at 958 246983 or email us at: educacionvial@granada.org.
Also there have been imparted courses to School Regulators of traffic and dated the beginning of the Cyclist and Motorbikes Meeting.
Traffic School Regulators 2014/2015
More Road Safety at schools. The Traffic School Regulators put order and and discipline at the end of their schools.
Both pedestrians and drivers, all of them have their time distributed by Regulators to avoid the risk of an accident involving schoolchilds and improve mobility in the surroundings of the educative centres.
There have been 4 educative centers that have applied and joined this training course that this course implies, started on October 2014:
- Santa Marta,
- Divino Maestro,
- Arrayanes,
- Nuestra Señora Del Rosario
Santa Marta School
Nuestra Señora del Rosario School
Divino Maestro School
Arrayanes School
XIII Conference of Motorcyclist and IV Coexistence with Bicycles
On 21, 22 and 23 October 2014 will celebrate the XIII Conference of Motorcyclist and IV Coexistence with Bicycles at the Road Safety Center of the City Council of Granada
Teach:
Road Safety Center of the City Council of Granada and Motorcyclist Association Vespacito
Attend:
Aproximately 230 young people from 16 to 18 years old.
Centers participants:
- Sto Tomás de Villanueva
- Ave Mª Casa Madre
- Ave Mª San Cristóbal
- Juan XXIII Chana
- IES Hermenegildo Lanz
- IES Cartuja
Aim:
Teach young people how to ride a moped to develop behaviours that affect safe riding of moped from the first time they use them.
Methodology:
The activity divides in two parts:
- Theorical
Explains the benefits of motorbike in the city: agility, economy, less time for displacements and occupy less space when riding, ease to park. There are given the reasons why motorbike is the vehicle par excellence in the city of Granada and we have to take part in the training of this group to reduce the risks implied in this vehicle.
It talks about: team, driving techniques, consequences of accidents ...
- Practice in the track where the own bikers teach breaking techniques, how to drive when cornering... Correcting young people when circulating in the track with mopeds and acting like models to make learning ,more effective.
Round Tables about Road Safety for young people
The 3rd November 2014 starts one of the activities carried out by the Local Center of Road Safety focused to young people: Las Mesas Redondas en los Institutos de Granada.
This is an interdisciplinary activity that offer information about Road Safety and prevention of accidents from a very varied point of view:
- The psychologist of the Local Center of Road Safety expose the importance of human factor and driver´s correct training and psycho – physical status to reduce risks on accidents.
- The technician of the Provincial Traffic Headquarters inform of every legal news inserted and requirements for the obtaining of moped Driving License.
- Local Police inform about the risks that open-air drinking sessions imply when is associated with driving, reporting about: drugs and alcohol checkpoints and noise checkpoints.
- 112 inform about the P.A.S. technique in a traffic accident, asking for solidarity on the roads as method to reduce the number of deads due to failure to give assistance.
- 061, in a practial way, offers information about the first aid in a traffic accident performing Cardiopulmonary Resucitation or CPR with a mini Anne doll.
- Accident victims from ASPAYM relate their own accidents, analysing the causes and consequences of it in their new lives.
The beginning of the Round Tables have been at the IES Albayzin and has been focused to Secondary School students with ages between 16 to 18 years old.
They take place every monday of the school year from 12 to 14 hours.
III World Road Safety Week
Celebration in the Road Safety Educational Center of the City Council of Granada of the III World Road Safety Week.
The United Nations, having declared the road accident rates as a pandemic in the whole world, commemorate every year the celebration of Road Safety, where stimulates governments around the world to join against this problem.
This year the aim is the CHILDREN: more than 500 children died each day because of traffic accidents. The goal of 0 victims because of the children retention system (SRI) has not been achieved.
The City Council of Granada ,through its Educational Center for Road Safety in the Mobility Area, organised an Adhesion Event with children of Granada, represented in more than 200 kids of the educational centers Sierra Elvira( as pedestrians) and Ave María Casa Madre (joiners of the Bicycle Conferences)This event was headed by the Major Mr. José Torres Hurtado, the Provincial Traffic Chief Mr. José Vico and the Attorney of Road Safety in Granada Mr. Pedro Jiménez, and also the Deputy Major of Citizens Protection and Mobility Mrs. Telesfora Ruíz.
During the event, boys and girls:
- Read a manifest of the United Nations
- Gave the adhesion signatures of their respective educational centers to the Provincial Traffic Chief, as pedestrians and cyclists.
- Made questions to the authorities about:adaptation of the streets with schools to be safer( question for the Major), the creation of a driving point license for the pedestrians and cyclists traffic offences (question for the Provincial Traffic Chief) and if people who does not use the Children Retention System were fined (question for the attorney).
- Presents were given with reference to Road Safety to children and schools.
- Authorities, through Internet ,have sign their adhesion to the III world road safety week.
- Finally, all the boys and girls released balloons (with the three colours of the traffic light)as a sign of their attachment to all the children in the world, who claim MORE ROAD SAFETY FOR THEM.
The new in www.granada.org
Adherence
You can help entering in www.savekidslives2015.org
III Cyclists Conferences
Organised by the Local Office of Mobility and Citizens Protection, through the Road Safety Center, and Granada al Pedal, have teached in this course 825 students (triple than last course).
Aimed population at this activity
Students of educative centers, from 6th degree in Primary School.Secondary, High School and Training Cycles...Ages, in general, very suitable due to tthe psycho-physical maturity of the schoolchilds, to fulfill this activity that educates in Security of the new styles of displacements more beneficial with our health ( physical and psychological) and for the health of our city.
Used Methodology
- Theorical session teached by specialists of the Municipal Road Safety Center and Granada al Pedal, with knowledge transfer and skills in driving and maintenance of the bike, also to encourage respect and solidarity with the rest of the people travelling and the enviroment. Audiovisual resources, printed matter, and rol-playing to reinforce the interactive methodology and specially practical used by the specialists.
- Implementation in the closed circuit of the Road Safety Center to check what we learned, making a previous training to check the skills when driving bicycles in urban surroundings.
- Going out of the Center, in a tour through different places for bicycle riding in Granada: roads with no bike lane, urban bicycle lane, metropolitan and sports.The students practice their skills and experiment the benefits of bike, also solidarity and necessary respect in their displacements with the rest of the partners and dirvers in general.
- Back from the route, there will be a meeting in the class, to share difficulties found and solution for the problems layed out.
- An evaluative questionnaire of the experience will be given,with a very positive, which is reflected in the growing number of participant in the 3 editions given.
- In the next course will be new itineraries with different levels of difficulty to choose between teachers and parents.
- The course has the cooperation of the Cyclist Unit of Local Police in the cycle lanes in the Motorway.
Total of Schools: 19
Total of Groupes: 33
Total of Participants: 825
Closing Ceremony of the Educational Activities 2015
The closure of the course 2014/15 was on 18 june, presided by the Major of Granada,the Metropolitan Chief of Traffic, the Council of Citizens protection and Mobility and the Council of Education.
One more year we meet in this Assembly Room to celebrate the closure of the educational activities related with such an important thing in our city as their Road Safety is.
The City Council of Granada, has always assumed a big responsability with everything related with Road Safety: joining to the Social Contract for Road Safety subscribed in the Senate and the joining to the European Charter of Fundamental Rights of Pedestrians, Ponle Freno Award 2012, Urban Road Safety 2012 sponsored by the Department of Traffic (DGT).
In Granada, most of all between the children population, youth and elderly, Road Safety and to motivate ways of displacement more susbtainable and healthy,is not a pending subject because it is something worked every day, however we must continue teaching to improve quality of life in our urban space.
So we have many promising factors:
- Almost the entirety of schools and high schools in Granada applicate for the educational activities that the City Council offers through the Educational Road Safety Center, also NGO´s requests them in the summer time.
- The educational measures are taking effect between grenadines: accidents of young people driving mopeds have decreased, the use of helmet is almost implemented, ways of displacement more substainable and healthier are increasing: bicycle and pedestrian displacements mostly.
- The overall assessment of the teachers of the activities offered, is always positive and with brand new expansion proposals for all courses of Primary, and Secondary School, High School and Preparatory Training.
- 4. The evaluation of the Schol Year 2014/ 2015 is:
Applicant Centers 90 Total of students 11.661 Activities that closure today:
- Certificate Ceremony:
- School Traffic Regulators.
Schools joining are:
Ntra. Sra. del Rosario, Santa Marta, Divino Maestro, Arrayanes
Total of students : 43 - Our gratitude for the Educational Centers that cooperated with the City Council in the celebration and joining of Granada to the III Worldwide Week of Road Safety (United Nations) :
Schools: Sierra Elvira y Ave Mª Casa Madre
- School Traffic Regulators.
- Awards Ceremony of the Drawing Contest Once upon a time a bus in its XXI edition. (Sponsored by the company of public transport TRANSPORTES ROBER)
- Total of Centers Joiners: 55
- Total of students: 1.405
- Visit of the Drawing exhibition, in the Patio of the City Council, with free popcorn.
- Presentation of the Campaign Por un espacio Publico más Humano en Granada, widespread on buses with panels.
The aim of this campaign is to spread ideas of the children and young people, captured in the drawings of the winners of this Contest.
School Regulators Certificates
Drawing Contest Awards Ceremony
Diploma Gratitude Ceremony
Course 2013/14
- XII Motorbykes Conferences and III Coexistence with bikes
- Exhibition Road Safety and Humor
- II Cyclists Conferences
- III Intergenerational and Intercultural Conferences of Road Safety
- Safe School Routes
- Closure of Activities Education for Road Safety
XII Motorbykes Conferences and III Coexistence with bikes
Organized by the Educational Center and Road Safety of the Granada City Council and teached by experts of the Center and Vespacito Association as well.
The city of Granada has a vehicle fleet of 170.248, a 14% are motorbikes son motocicletas and are 11,5% mopeds. In relation with last year, the fleet has decreased in 3000 vehicles, except motorbikes that increases a 0,3%.
In a general level there is a decreasing evolution of the urban accidents rate from 2008 to 2013.
Accident rate evolution 2005-2012
Accidents Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 With injured 1123 874 958 836 825 843 665 671 Without injured 914 846 823 823 706 912 765 691 Harmfulness evolution 2005-2012
Harmfulness Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Minor injured 810 787 821 1015 1030 1088 869 856 Major injured 71 62 93 82 44 30 28 14 Deceased 9 8 7 6 9 6 4 6 Two wheels vehicles represent the 25% of the total of the vehicle fleet and the 50% of injured and the 37% of the involved vehicles, that make drivers a risk group to focus the local actions in road safety.
The age range with a larger number of motorbike accidents is between 35 to 59 years, many of them are car drivers that due to economic reasons have changed the car for motorbikes without driving experience on them. The moped drivers are mostly women, while in motorbikes there are mostly men.
July has the higher level of accidents with motorbikes and mopeds, followed by December and January. The days with more motorbike accidents are wednesday,thursday and fridays, and the more dangerous hour is between 14 and 15 hours. In mopeds the most dangerous day is friday and the more dangerous hours are between 14 to 15 hours and between 18 and 22 hours.
The XII Motorbike Conferences want to improve the formation and awareness raising of young people, principal subjects of traffic accidents in the city driving two wheels vehicles.
In this edition there has been duplicated the number of school centers and students. There are 270 students between 16 and 18 years joining this initiative of the following centers:
- Ave María Casa Madre
- IES Hermenegildo Lanz
- Agustinos
- IES Cartuja
- Juan XXIII Chana
- La Madraza
- Ramón y Cajal
- Ave María San Cristóbal
The subjects to teach are Active and Passive Safety, Security Measures, Driving techniques motorbike mechanics, factors that increase the risk of accidents and Attitudes that ease or difficult Road Safety.
We use a theoretical-practical methodology consisting of one session in the classroom, where the contents are teached, using audiovisual resources and injured testimonies, and a practical session about driving skills in a circuit, using motorbikes and mopeds.
Exhibition Road Safety and Humor
From the 16th of september to the 16th of october 2013 you could visit the exposition in the patio of the Granada City Council.
The Citizen´s Protection and Mobility Area, through the Education and Road Safety Center of the Granada City Council, organizes this exposition in the European Mobility Week.
The exposition "Road Safety and Humor" of the Instituto Quevedo del Humor (University of Alcalá de Henares) tackles a very important aspect as secure mobility is, in a positive way, using humor to educate in Road Safety, main target in a local level, so the exposition brings a new and original way to understand Road Safety.
We can find some aspects of traffic: the use of safety belts, the use of helmet, security distance, speed, abuse of alcohol, use of the mobile phone, or the driving license; elements that affect security when driving, and it uses humor to get to the citizens in a entertaining way.
This exposition was produced by the Graphic Humor Programme and took part of the XII International Exhibition of Graphic Humor (2005). There are 130 pictures from 32 countries that tackles a wide geographical representation.
Organizes: The Citizen´s Protection and Mobility Area. Road Safety Center.
Produces: Institute Quevedo of Humor. University of Alcalá de Henares
Duration: September 16th to October 16th of 2013
Timetable: From 9 h. to 20:30h. continously
Location: Patio of the Granada City Council in Plaza del Carmen
See the new at the Institute Quevedo of Humor web page.
II Cyclists Conferences
The January 21, 2014 will be inaugurated the II Cyclist Conferences composed of 24 sessions distributed along the current course. More than 640 schoolchilds in the city will be trained in cyclist subjects.
Arranges: Granada City Council.
Mobility and Citizen Protection Area, through the Road Safety Education CenterTeach: Granada al Pedal and the specialists of the Local Road Safety Center.
The Mobility and Citizen Protection Area bets for a safer ways of moving, more sustainable, healthy and first of all the target is to be SAFE.
Through their Road Safety Center, with Granada al Pedal, the II Cyclist Educational Conferences have been started, wich target is to educate and teach how to use this vehicle as a mean of transport more healthe and less polluting to encourage in our city, as it has been settled in the rest of the countries of Europe.
Ways to get this targets using Education
To encourage bicycle there have been making different procedures on the infrastructure and Sensibility Campaings aim both cyclist and drivers of motorized vehicles as well.
To educate cyclist there have been making the following actions from the Local Road Safety Center:
- Theorical- practical courses in the Road Safety Center to schoolchilds of all ages: 14.500 aproximately every school year.
- Cyclist Conferences: these conferences have duplicated the number of applicants from previous announcements , being 11 the centres wich appliedand a total of 642 people in 24 sessions distributed along the current course
- Making the Local Ordinance of cyclists and pedestrians
- Making of informative brochures of the mentioned ordinance
- Educational resources in relation to bicycle: notebooks, audiovisual media
People to whom is aimed these Conferences
Schoolboys/ schoolgirls of the educational centres from 6th degree of Primary Education, from 12 years and forward.
Participants
School Group Number of students Carmelo 2 64 Juan XXIII Chana 4 100 IES Vergeles 3 70 San José Tablas 1 11 Ave María San Isidro 2 50 Mulhacén 2 50 Sagrado Corazón 3 80 Santa María Hijas de Jesús 1 25 Santo Tomás de Villanueva 3 80 Presentación 2 55 Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes 2 57 Total Educational Centres: 11
Total Groups: 24
Total Schoolchilds: 642
Route made
After a theorical session with the normative and safety signs contents, they will practice in a track the skills needed when riding a cycle, and finally they will go out using different roads: metropolitan cycle lanes, sport cycle lane, urban cycle lane and road without cycle lanes.
Ver Bicycle Route in a larger map
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- News TG7
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III Intergenerational and Intercultural Conferences of Road Safety
January 30, 2014 have been celebrated in the Red Cross Headquarters in Granada these conferences of Road Safety, organised by the City Council in Granada, the Red Cross and the Ilustrious Official Association of Psychologist.
The traffic accidents are a world public sanity problem, being a high risk group eldery and joung people.
In Granada, after the diagnosis made by the Local Road Safety Plan, we are able to constitute as transport´s risk groups in Granada:
- Pedestrians: outrages represent the 20% of the accident with injured in the city, and imply more seriousness of the damages.People involved in these kind of outrages are people above 65 years.
- Cyclists and motorcyclists, represent the 40% of vehicles involved in accidents and imply the half of deads and two third parts of serious injured.
- Schoolchilds, a very vulnerable collective and of relevance in prevention.
III Conferences for young and elderly of different cultures
For the third year there have been organised a Road Safety Conferences with the Red Cross and the Official Association of Psychologist where eldery and young have learn togheter their risk behaviours that may imply traffic accidents and also how to prevent and make safer displacements.
The presentation was presided over the President of the Red Cross, Mr. Escribano, the Dean of the Official Association of Psychologist Mrs. M.M. Vera and the Representative of the Citizen´s Protection and Mobility Representative of the City Council in Granada, Mrs. Telesfora Ruiz.
After that, specialists of the Red Cross and the City Council of Granada, both psycologists, gave workrooms where they shared and worked with togheter with some messages for young people as: consumption of alcohol, speed , mobile phones, helmet... and the eldery: lapses, lose of some abilities and how to balance them, the consumption of medicines and its consequences... With a high involvement of both collectives with subjects relatives to Road Safety.
When it finished, they had been given material made by the Local Educational Road Safety Center aimed to both groups: posters and notebooks for the eldery and panflets about alcohol and markers promoting night buses on weekends for the young people.
The assistance and participation was very very high with high demand for the continuity and frequency of these initiatives.
Safe School Routes
On 30 April 2014 starts the programme of Safe School Routes developed by the Road Safety Center of the City Council of Granada.
This project of Safe School Routes developed by the Road Safety Center of the City Council of Granada, is a initiative came up in the cities, where worries to recover the spaces children had before and at present has been occupied by vehicles. Streets are meant to be spaces, not only to walk around but to live together.In the end,the purpose is to recover the streets for children as source of learning and social and personal development, as they were not long time ago
There are a compound of actuations to make come true a project expected to be extended to many other educative centers:
- With the information taken from the Road Safety Plan we have analysed school mobility through polls between 10000 schoolchilds of different educational centers.
- The conclusions have been sended to every participant educational center, inviting them to join the project of Safe School Routes which target is to promote the active displacements, healthier and safer of schoolchilds that live under 1,5 km distance from the educative center.
- Ave Mª San Isidro school is the first one to join this pilot experience that we present today.
- It has been created specific signs both vertical and road marks to indicate the meeeting points for the youngest one, and safer routes for schoolchilds in general as well.
- The informative sign designed of meeting points for little children to go accompanied, are located in 4 points, on request of the AMPAS and at these meeting points always will be adults( fathers, mothers or grandparents)that will pick up the schoolchilds left by their parents and take them to the school center on foot to avoid congestions of cars at the doors of the school that involve so many problems and risk for schoolchilds.
There have been located 4 meeting points, always in a wide space for pedestrians, for child safety and adult´s relief:
- Central reservation Tete Montoliu
- Ribera del Beiro in junction with Pulianas Ave.
- Cármenes Square
- San Agapito in junction with Beiro Roundabout
Cooperations:
We are not alone in this project but we have the contribution of the University of Granada through the Faculty of Psychology and the Official College of Psychology that offer their professional point of view to the families about the physical, social and maturity development skills of children, offer autonomy, healthy habits of displacement, development of social skills because improve displacements in company and responsibility, from some ages and with the abilities and knowledgements for that.
Signing
Closure of Activities Education for Road Safety
On 13 June 2014 took place the Closure Ceremony of different activities performed in the Educational Road Safety Center of the Mobility Area.
This Ceremony was headed by the Ilustrius acting Major D. Juan Antonio Mérida, and beside him, the Deputy Major Council of Mobility and Citizen´s Protection, Telesfora Ruiz, the Provincial Traffic Chief, D. José Vico, and the local council of Education, D. Jorge Saavedra. :
This Ceremony once more completed the seating capacity of the Ceremony Room with children, young people, fathers/mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, and teachers as well, to celebrate the different activities developed in the Center:
- First of all, there was the diploma delivery for the Traffic School Regulators due to their unconditional work for Road Safety in the surroundings of their respective school centers:Santa Marta (Zaidin), Divino Maestro (Albayzin), Ntra. Sra. del Rosario (Realejo) and Arrayanes (North) with a total of 47 Regulators
- Prize award delivery to the winners of the Drawing Competition in its XX Edition and whose slogan was: Safe School Route. 40 school centers have taken part with a total od 1057 drawings both individual and group modality
- Diploma delivery to cooperators with the local Center for their work to spread Road Safety, so we can ALL make our city a Healthy and Safety one.Have recieve these diplomas: the 061 emergencies Dr. Francisco Javier Ferrón, the president of the Provincial Association of Driving Schools José Blas Valero, the AMPA and Ave Mª San Isidro School for being pioneer en the project of Safe School Route, Divino Maestro School, Santa Marta, Arrayanes and Ntra. Señora del Rosario for the invaluable cooperation of their teaching staff on the dayly work of the Traffic School Regulators.
- Presentation of the Campaign on the Bus of School Routes with a paneled bus with the drawings of the 8 winners, schoolchilds 4th Primary and 2nd Secondary .
At the end of the Ceremony, a little girl became representative and gave the acting Major a ballon for the Major hospitalized, wishing him a soon recovery, a very cheered gesture by the audience.
With pop corn and some presents children visited and took photos with the authorities beside the bus paneled with their drawings.
Course 2012/13
- Conference of Elderly and Road Safety
- XI Motorcyclists Conferences
- Workshops of Road Safety on the II World Week of the United Nations for Road Safety
- I Cylist activity Teaching on the Bike
Conference of Elderly and Road Safety
Elderly recycle themselves in Road Safety
Due to European Mobility Week the 20 of september was celebrated in the Mobility and Citizen´s Protection Area and given by specialists of the Road Safety Center, an Elderly and Road Safety Conference.
They have attended to this conference people both sex between 60 and 89 years from differens day care centers in the city of Granada.
The Conference consisted on a theorical-practical activity, where theorical knowledges of atractive subjects for elderly people have been teached:
- The necessity of recycle and be target of interest in the educative activities in a continuated change and evolution topic that affect them because their mobility necessities and their relationships with family, social and cultural enviroment.
- Informaction of the psicophysical characteristics distinguishing of elderly in relation with traffic.
- Accident rate between the elderly: most frecuent violations.
- Teach how to compensate their deficiences in knowledge, habits and actitudes as drivers,pedestrians and users of public transports.
- Audiovisual resources projection and dossiers with documents.
- After that, participants circulate in the circuit with motorized vehicles to show the habits to have, adecuated to their capacities and reflex.
This activity went on a high receptivness and motivated atmosphere with a high involvement of all participants very sensibilized because they suffer a high level of accidents (in more of the 50% accidents in the city there is a 65 years old people implicated).
XI Motorcyclists Conferences
Closing of the XI Motorcyclist Conferences celebrated on 15-17 October 2012
According to the conclusions of the Urban Road SecurityPlan in Granada made by the Mobility and Citizens Protection Area, one of the means of transport and risk group more relevant in Granada are young people driving moped and motorcyles.
Facing this problem the Road Safety Center of the Mobility and Citizen´s Protection Area organised the XI Motorcyclist Conferences to young people to teach and inform them and so reduce the number of accidents in the city with more prepared and responsable drivers.These Conferences, have been inaugurated by the Mobility and Citizen's Protection Councilor Mrs Telesfora Ruiz and the President of the Motorcyclist Association Vespacito Joaquín Muñoz Arias.
In this initiative have colaborated the Motorcyclist Association Vespacito specialists who have given a practical and testimonial aspect as accidents victims to these Conferences.
The subjects given are associated to: upgrade in relative to the current normative, passive and active security, risk factors that affect two wheels vehicles drivers, allies and enemys of road safety, consecuences of an accident, and also practice with specific techniques for two wheels vehicles users, have been the main contents that these Conferences follow, in a practical way, and the purpose is that the two wheels users will be better trained in Road Safety and this way Granada will be a more secure city.
Centers that have joined this Conferences:
- Juan XXIII Chana
- Hermenegildo Lanz
- Ave Maria Casa Madre
- Ramón y Cajal
The number of participants aproximately is 150 young people between 16-18 years.
Comparative Analysis of moped and motorcycles accidents:
January-August 2011 and 20122.011 2.012 Number of accidents 418 379 Dead 1 1 Severe injured 20 4 Mild injured 483 463 Vehicles involved 700 625 Moped/Motorcycles 270 240 
Workshops of Road Safety on the II World Week of the United Nations for Road Safety
The Road Safety Center in the Mobility Area of the Granada City Council organise with the RACE a week of interactive workshops to learn Road Safety with innovatives technologies focused on young people of Granada.
You can learn:
- How safety belt works turning a car upside down
- The efficiency of a good tyre checking its capacity on the screen
- Driving under alcohol effects
Come to the Palacio de Congresos terrace in the afternoons from Tuesday desde el martes 7 to thursday 9 of may 2013, both included.
Download PDF file with RACE-Goodyear Program.
Program RACE-GOODYEAR of Vital Risk Prevention in Young people in cooperation with Granada City Council
In the II World Week on the United Nations for Road Safety these workshops are taking place focused on young people in Granada.
The II WorldWeek on the United Nations for Road Safety, that will take place from the 6 to 12 of may 2013, has an unique opportunity to make aware about pedestrian´s security. That week will contribute to generate new measures to increase the security of pedestrians and reach the Decenio de Accion target for Road Safety 2011-2012 to save five million lifes.
Goal
The target of this program is to encourage between young pre-drivers safety actitudes and behaviours in traffic and road safety. The targets are based on three axis:
- Use of the retention system. Importance of safety belts.
- Alcohol effects in the organism and driving.
- Sustainable mobility: encourage a more sustainable, safe and respectful mobility with the enviroment.
Metodology
To get this targets there have been made 60 minutes duration courses to young people between 14 and 18 years.This young people will have sophisticated driving simulators where they can check the consecuences of the risks when driving, they can also try a overturning simulator to check the efficciency of the security belts.Finally they will learn with tactile screens the harmful effects of alcohol both in the organism and driving.
Schedule
Mornings (from 9.00 h to 14.00 h): the program will be in those School Centers previously arranged by the Educational Road Safety Center.
Afternoons (from 16.00 h to 19.00 h): the program will be open doors to all the citizens.
Location
Congress and Exhibition Centre esplanade.
Resources
The facilities will have a number of entertaining workshops for students to make aware of risk factors.
The workshops will be:
Workshop I: Overturning Simulator
Pupils can check the safety belts efficiency in a real overturning case.
Workshop II: Efficiency driving Simulators
The pupils will learn about benefits of a secure and ecologic driving using virtual driving simulators.
Workshop III: Alcohol Workshop
Using tactile screens pupils will learn the effects of alcochol both in the organism and driving.
Workshop IV: Tires Workshop
Using tactile screens will check the effects of tire in bad condition and the risks for road safety.
Workshop V: Vehicles Workshop
There will be several vehicles with different hybrid technologies and security elements for the children, like child retention systems.
Location
I Cylist activity Teaching on the Bike
The Mobility and Citizen´s Protection Area, through its Road Safety Center, with Granada al Pedal association, has started the training of cyclist to introduce bikes as secure way to move in the city.
This first Activity Teaching with Bike was developed on the morning of Thursday 10 january 2013.
In this time, the Educational and Road Safety Center of the Mobility Area in Granada City Council had the cooperation of the Granada al Pedal association.
Targets
- Opt for a more sustainable, healthy, cheaper way to move as it in the rest of Europe is.
- Train and make aware cyclist and drivers the need of the respect of these two ways of displacement to circulate in the streets.
- Encourage the use of bike with formed drivers.
Whose people is this activity focused on
Pupils from 6 degree in Primary Education
Metodology
- Theorical sesion where Road Safety Center municipal specialists and Granada al Pedal teach about driving and maintenance of the bike.
- Practice in a circuit for the training and security skills that the bike demands.
- Using bike lanes urban, metropolitan and sport in the outside, to practice what they have learned and feel the benefits of bike but in a secure way.
- When we get back, share the problems and find solutions to them.
- Evaluative questionary of the experience, where we see a very good reception both teachers and pupils.
Participants
Ramón y Cajal High School with 25 students of 1st degree of E.S.O.
Applicants
Contact Municipal Road Safety Center: 958 248215
This itinerary starts from the Road Safety Center in Huerta del Rasillo using the metropolitan bike lane that connects with Churriana de la Vega, then the bike lane that passes in paralel with river Genil and going back using the one paralel to A44. The itinerary was:
- Huerta del Rasillo
- Méndez Núñez roundabout
- Camino de Camaura
- Camino de Purchil
- Camino de Churriana
- Río Genil (near Juncos street)
- Doctor Alejandro Otero
- Eudoxia Píriz
- Neptuno roundabout
- Bici lane parallel to A44 highway
- Huerta del Rasillo
It has the colaboration of the Granada Local Police to have more security when crossing the accesses from the motorway to Neptuno and Méndez Núñez roundabouts.
See First route teaching in bike in a larger map
Projects of Past Courses
Projects and activities developed in previous years:
- Theater play Clowns in danger
- RACE report Young Drivers
- The Educational Road Safety Caravan of Mapfre Foundation
- Schoolchild traffic regulators
- Intergenerational and Intercultural Conference of Road Safety
- IX Young Motorcyclist Conferences
- Other projects
Theater play Clowns in danger
The Road Safety Center of the Mobility and Citizens Protection Area organises with MAPFRE Foundation the theater play: Clowns in danger, performed in the Jose Tamayo theater in Chana.
The use of theatre as tool for teaching is not new. Historically, theater is a recognized educational way, is a very effective tool to wake the wish of study up in students, as Shakespeare said: "All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players". It is also proved that stimulates brain development, emotional intelligence and creativity.
The educational centers joining this initiative, with 700 students and teachers, both sesions, are:
- Ntra. Sra. De la Consolación
- Santa Micaela
- Ciudad de los Niños
- Santa Juliana
- Eugenia de Montijo
- Juan XXIII Chana
Attended to the premiere: The Representative of the Mobility and Citizens Protection Area Mrs Telesfora Ruiz Rodríguez and the MAPFRE Territorial Director Pedro José Carreño.
Two sesions were perform las Thursday 12 april 2012 at 09:30h and 11:30h am.
RACE report Young Drivers
Check this link to see the complete report:
RACE young drivers report
The Educational Road Safety Caravan of Mapfre Foundation
Located on the Palacio de Congresos terrace, from monday 26 to friday 30 March 2012 from 9 to 14 mornings and from 16 to 19 hours afternoon.
About 1.000 children join this educational activity to encourage traffic actitudes and behaviours in schoolchilds.
The Road Safety Institute of MAPFRE Foundation, in cooperation with the Mobility and Citizens Protection Area (Road Safety Center), brings to Granada the Educational Road Safety Caravan.
It is an educational free activity for schoolchilds between 8 and 12 years, whose target is to encourage traffic actitudes and behaviours, sharing proper knowledges and performing real situations.
Schoolchild traffic regulators
Intergenerational and Intercultural Conference of Road Safety
Old and Young people share information to prevent problema due to motorized mobility in Granada.
The Road Safety Center of the City Council in Granada, with the Red Cross and the Psycologist School, have organised a round table about Road Safety for young and old of different cultures to inform them about the most frecuent risky behaviours in these age groups and ways of life, to prevent them and reduce traffic accidents.
Entities who have joined in this roundtable:
- City Council Road Safety Center: the principal subjet is the citizen, so information can prevent it from accidents both in old and young people.
- Provincial Traffic Headquarters: informs about new rules that may affect to the actual knowledges of both groups.
- Local Police: more common violations in the street of Granada that leads to accidents.
- 112: in an accident, make the PCH guideline : Protect, Call, Help.
- 061: essential first aid in a traffic accident.
- Red Cross: the importance of training and the volunteers to improve Road Safety actuations.
- ASPAYM: accident victim that tells his experience and consecuences in a personal, familiar, profesional and social level.
People who have participated was high, and it is one of the initiatives that Granada City Council will bet on.
IX Young Motorcyclist Conferences
Days 27 and 28 of October were celebrated in the Informative, Training and Road Safety Center of the Mobility Area, the IX Young Motorcyclist Conferences. With 2000 students joining this Conferences from these school centers:
- Escolapios,
- Juan XXIII Chana,
- Ave Mª Casa Madre,
- Agustinos,
- IES Hermenegildo Lanz
- and Ave María San Cristóbal.
These Conferences were presided by the Representative of Mobility Mr Jose M. Garcia Nieto, sponsored by Yamaha and with the cooperation of club Vespacito.
Other projects
- Young people: Short film projection of Armonia Films Productions 21 and 22 of January in Isabel la Catolica Theater
- Elderly: Short film projection during November about Road Safety for people of 65 years old and above.
- RACC
- RACE
- Mapfre week
- Certificate Ceremony:
