7th Panhellenic Nationwide Road Safety Week (16-23 March 2014)
Athens, 13thof March 2014
PRESS RELEASE
7th Panhellenic Nationwide Road Safety Week (16-23 March 2014)
The Road Safety Institute (R.S.I.) “Panos Mylonas” and the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (H.I.T.E.) co-organize for the seventh consecutive year the Panhellenic Nationwide Road Safety Week with many activities throughout the country. This year the events will take place under the auspices of the Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks.
As part of the activities during the Road Safety Week, a Voluntary Blood Donation will take place in cooperation with the General Hospital of Athens “Benaki-Korgialenio” Hellenic Red Cross (16/3 & 17/3) and the Urban Rail Transport S.A. (STASY S.A.), while throughout the week Voluntary Blood Donations will take place in Patras and Thessaloniki.
The R.S.I. Mobile NEST along with R.S.I.’s simulators will be at Alsos Peristeri (Peristeri Park) (16/3) in cooperation with the Municipality of Peristeri and at the Electric Railways Museum of Piraeus (Rail Station “Piraeus” - 17/3) on the occasion of the 145 years of operation completed. On March 21-23, the Mobile NEST will be at the Bridge of Rio-Antirrio and then for the remaining days it will be at Nafpaktos (22-23/3).
Along with the above actions, during the Week will be implemented:
· Traffic Education Programs for children and experiential activities supported by the Mobile NEST
· Debate organized by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) and R.S.I. “Panos Mylonas” on Road Safety Performance Index, entitled “Greece’s Road Safety in a European context” (19/3)
· The "Traffic Policeman of the Year" award ceremony as well as the "Volunteer of the Year" awarded by R.S.I. (19/3)
· Distance Learning programs to country’s high schools (18/3)
· Programs for high school students at the Centre for Road Safety of Western Greece that is hosted at the University of Patras (Museum of Science and Technology, Hall "Foucault's Pendulum") (20/3)
· "European Day of Courtesy on the Road" (22/3) campaign with the distribution of informative material from all motorways throughout the country and relevant radio messages broadcasting.
Media sponsor of the activities during the Road Safety Week is the Athens-Macedonian News Agency that supports our work.
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Information Centre on Road Safety
5 Pesmazoglou & Stadiou, Stoa tou Vivliou, 105 64 Athens, Tel.: +30.210-32.11.051
Western Greece Office
Management and Operation Center of the Rion-Antirion Bridge, 30020 Antirion
National Road Safety Centre (Coming Soon)
Mesogeion Av. 156, 155 10 Cholargos