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  1. Advocate the importance of injury prevention and safety promotion for adolescents aged 15-24 at both European and national level, and for consistency of policies and educational programmes used throughout Europe that impact on the safety of young people.
  2. Mediate the different interests in society regarding youth injury prevention and safety promotion with coordinated actions by all concerned: governments, health, and other social and economic sectors, nongovernmental and voluntary organisations, local authorities, business, and the media.
  3. Provide strategy recommendations and tools to different stakeholders to promote injury prevention among adolescents with specific focus on risk taking behaviour.
  4. Strengthen actions for empowering young people to cope with risks and to explore their potential without undue injury risks.  



AdRisk Project team
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Newsletters

Issue 7 AdRisk launchs its results (September 2008)
Issue 6 AdRisk April meeting (June 2008)
Issue 5 Focus on Injuries and risk taking among young people (April 2008)
Issue 4 Do's and Don'ts (October 2007)
Issue 3 Initiating national actions plans (September 2007)
Issue 2 Pilot project
Issue 1 Risk-taking behaviour

Events

19 September 2008, Austria
Workshop Youth, risk behaviour and injury prevention - campaigning with new media

9-10 October 2008, Paris
2nd European Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion

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"Risk taking is fun: Better be safe than sorry"