On 10th of August 2013 in Pernik on “Krakra” square from 10 to 17 o’clock a joint training on "Eco-driving" will be held by “Open Youth” organization and “Obectiv” association – Youth Information and Consultant Center – Pernik. It will be an individual training for moderate driving with minimum fuel cost and green gas emission. A special software in the driving simulator will analyze the driver behavior, will calculate more optimal one and will give recommendations, if necessary.

Unlike previous years, the citizens of Pernik 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 Android or iOS operating system.

The action 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.