THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGNS
NEAR will test and implement developed models of traffic collisions and promotion of safe mobility of young people and secondary victims in pilot campaigns in Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia and Slovenia.

Pilot Campaign Slovenia
With its preventive activities, Varna pot is targeting a wide scope of age groups and profiles: from kindergarten children, schoolchildren (further divided into different age groups), young people and adults. Varna pot provides different standard support activities that are available free of charge for all road victims in Slovenia that seek help or wish to participate. Furthermore, the organisation actively works to also include the victim in other activities like workshops, field actions, events and different campaigns. In this way, we empower them for active participation and finding their place in society again. We expect the project to give us important information about the needs of young people, especially secondary 'invisible' road victims, concerning road safety. We aim to use new prevention and support models to help and inform as many young people as possible. Everything is directed towards achieving the main goal of We Live Vision Zero by 2050.
Find more information on the Slovenian NEAR microsite: Link

Pilot Campaign Austria
VISION5 will run a pilot campaign in schools in the Province of Styria targeting the age group of 15-18. Instead of school teachers, someone directly affected (daughter, son mother, father, sister, brother, wife) describes as mentor the accident of his relative (adolescent driver), explains the consequences to school children and reports on the impacts on legal, economic and social level and in daily life. School children who are starting to make their first experiences as actor in road traffic will be confronted face to face with the authentic and real consequences of such an tragic incident. This emotional approach should generate a better understanding of direct and indirect implications of own action and decisions in road traffic. The overall goal of this project is to save lives on Austrian roads by raising awareness and changing attitudes of young people reflecting their own role in road traffic and possible impacts. This can help to prevent them from fatal actions leading to severe road accidents.
Find more information on the Austrian NEAR microsite: Link

Pilot Campaign Bosnia & Herzegovina
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the activities related to this project will be based on youth between the ages of 15 and 24. Our target group for all activities will be high school and college students. As for high school students, we will base ourselves on the local community of our place, Srbac. As for students, we will carry out activities with students from the University of Banja Luka. The first activities we will do are surveying young people about their attitudes and behaviors on the road safety in the Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition, we will form a focus group consisting of secondary victims of traffic accidents. All these activities will be done by the activists of our association. After analyzing and summarizing our results, as well as the results of our partners we will work together on models of protection and support for secondary victims. When all the activities are combined and the results are summarized, we will test the models, and the focus will still be the same group that was mentioned at the very beginning. The goal of the entire project is to familiarize young people with the negative outcomes of traffic accidents and to raise their awareness in this regard.
Find more information on the NEAR microsite of Bonia&Herzegovina: Link

Pilot Campaign Serbia
In order to improve the road safety of young people in our country, and above all in Novi Sad, we will implement a series of activities for high school students and students: simulations of traffic accidents, field actions, road safety preventive workshops, promotion on social networks. During the implementation of the campaign, we will include our long-standing partners such as the Road Traffic Safety Agency and the local council for road safety, and to invite new ones such as insurance companies. We will cooperate with representatives of emergency services and the police, through the joint organization of traffic accident simulations, which have proven to be a very effective activity. We will try to talk to young people as much as possible and hear their advice in order to create activities that will give the most effect. We will also try to involve as many young people as possible in the activities.
Find more information on the Serbian NEAR microsite: Link