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The main goal of the project is to prepare suggestions for unification in selection, preparation, examination persons wanted to train new drivers including long life training and licensing.

The issue of Occupational Health and Safety in industrial workplaces, in big factories as well as in SMEs, in spite of a series of laws and regulations, is still far from being resolved.

Road safety is one of the most important public health problems in Europe and in the world. The World Health Organization estimates that every year, according to the statistics, 1.2 million people are known to die in road accidents worldwide.

Nightlife plays a major role in modern life, with much socialising and other forms of networking taking place in bars and nightclubs. Further, globalisation has influenced a large group of young people to become so-called party nomads, and become a particularly important risk group in modern society in many ways. There have been large increases in nightlife problems in the last decade almost all over the world such as getting drunk and using illicit drugs. Risks include sexual ones, violence, noise, anti-social behaviour, driving under the influence of alcohol and illicit drugs, and suicide.

The systematic attempt in developing accident or incident scenarios for training of young cadets and seafarers working at sea and ports in emergency situations is considered novel and has not done before. The project concerns those aspects of human error related to emergency situations which can be corrected through removal of existing deficiencies in Maritime Education and Training (MET) of cadet officers as well as those working on board vessels as officers of various ranks.

With this project Governorship of Antalya aims to increase the quality and therefore the usage of public transportation all over the city including holiday resorts and cultural heritage districts. Governorship of Antalya has collaborated with its local and international partners to develop new educational programs for drivers and to train them through it. Furthermore, not only Antalya but also one of the most tourist attractive cities of Italy, Cagliari, had a chance to improve the quality of city transportation by this trainings that will be transferred and adapted from one of the successful projects in transportation sector.

SHNW is a transnational project presented by partners in Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Greece and Romania that intends to transfer an innovative solutions to the problem of accidents at work faced by new employees of small enterprises and businesses in the industrial sector. In particular, this problem affects young trainees, young apprentices and manual workers accessing their first job in the sector, as they have no or very scarce knowledge of the risk entailed by the manipulation of machinery. It also affects the trainers training this collective of workers, who do not count with adapted and attractive training tools, often just a number of listed regulatory instructions.