On 22 and 23 April 2013 from 10 to 18 o’clock on the ground floor in front of room 114 in Corpus â„– 1 of the Southwestern University "Neophyte Rilski" in Blagoevgrad "Open Youth" and the Student Council at SWU will hold a joint action to promote responsible behavior among young people not only on the road, but also in life.

Unlike previous years, students will now be able to understand in an interesting way not only the risks that threaten them on the road, but also their fundamental rights as citizens of the European Union. The first will be achieved through the already traditional: driving simulator, recreating risky driving situations; the entire spectrum of alco- and drugvision goggles, simulating vision under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and what is the effect on human capabilities; and specially designed weight calculator, showing everyone how heavy his/her body is in a collision with a given speed (50, 90 or 130 km/h). Knowledge about the civil rights will be available to young people through an original comic book that explains their fundamental rights as citizens of the European Union and the way in which they can complain to the European Ombudsman. The book will be distributed free of charge to those who answer eight questions related to these rights. The collected responses will be analyzed and compared at a later stage with the results of the same questionnaire, but given to young people from the Netherlands, Belgium and Hungary. The comic book can already be downloaded for free from the website of the UPDATE project (http://update.open-youth.org) on a computer and to all devices using the Android operating system. A release for Apple devices is coming soon.

The campaign is the first of its kind in a series of initiatives that will be held in different Bulgarian cities, combining messages about responsible driving behavior and understanding the civil rights of the individual citizen. For the implementation in Blagoevgrad a team of five volunteers from the Student Council at SWU will be trained. It is realized in the framework of the project UPDATE (Unveiling European Union citizenship rights through Powerful messages, Developed in Attractive Technological Environment). The project is co-funded by the European Commission within the "Europe for Citizens" programme, Action 2.3.