The project “Learn to Drive Learn CPR” has been awarded!
EFA European Driving Schools Association and ERC European Resuscitation Council are thrilled to announce they received the best road safety project award at the CIECA 2024 Conference in Dubai!
This award is a huge honour and a testament to the team’s hard work and dedication in developing this project. We are passionate about improving road safety and making a real difference in people’s lives.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the CIECA organization for recognizing our project and everyone who supported us. This motivates us to continue working towards a safer future for all road users.
At the United Nations Palace in Geneva, during WP.1 an international agreement was signed to increase the spread of road safety and strengthen cooperation between two continents. It is with great pleasure that EFA announces that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute for Road Traffic Education (IRTE) for the exchange of best practices in the field of training and scientific research. During the morning the EFA General Secretary, Dr Manuel Picardi, gave a presentation on the working progress on the new Driving Licences Directive. In the afternoon, during the “Global” session, Dr Rohit Baluja (President of IRTE) and Dr Manuel Picardi signed a historic agreement to raise the level of quality in driver training. Dr Picardi says: “We are very happy to have signed this MoU. For EFA it is very important to expand his network with serious and reliable partners. We started working with IRTE a few years ago and we believe that we can enrich each other, from professional point of view, in the coming years. We plan to organize a specific training session for motorcycle instructors in Delhi, by the end of 2024. Continue to follow us, we will keep you informed”.
In 2022, 20 640 people were killed in road accidents in the EU, with pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists particularly at risk. The EU aims at halving road fatalities and serious injuries by 2030 and getting close to zero by 2050. The European Court of Auditors assessed whether the Commission had been effective at setting up the EU Safe System approach and supporting member states in the achievement of those objectives. The European Court of Auditors concluded that the Commission has set up a comprehensive approach. Here by you can download the full report and the EU Commission reply, in all the European languages
National governments will need to invest significantly to improve the safety of rural roads in order to hit a collective EU target to cut road deaths by half by 2030, according to a new report published today by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC). The report shows that around 10,000 people died on rural, non-motorway roads in the EU in 2022 – accounting for around half of all road deaths.
Tym Silnicni Bezpecnosti, Asociace Autoskol (Czech Driving Schools Association) and EFA are glad to invite you to this amazing training session for driving instructors and examiners on the 24th of May in Autodrom Vysoke Myto (Czech Republic).
Hereby you can find information regarding the last year training session (the forth article of the 2023 EFA Newsletter:
The EPDA are hosting a road safety event nearby at the Clayton Hotel on Wednesday the 17th April 2024.
If you are a key stakeholder in the road transport industry, your attendance and input would be most welcome, and we look forward to an exciting and interesting event with informative presentations and engaging discussions between all parties in attendance.
The agenda for the day, along with location information is provided below. To confirm your attendance at the event, please complete the registration form by following the link.
We look forward to seeing you at the event and should you have any queries or require further information, please contact us using the details at the end of this invite.
MaaS Global, the pioneering mobility-as-a-service organization set up by Sampo Hietanen, has filed for bankruptcy with the Finnish Legal Register Center. The news comes following an announcement earlier this month that it was to discontinue its flagship Whim app.
