On October 15, 2011 "Open Youth" and the Municipality of Vidin will hold for the fourth consecutive year the event as part of the annual European campaign "European Night Without Accident."

Nearly one third of Bulgarians believe the fines for road rules violations to be low. This result is derived from the study held within the "Choose your way" campaign. The study involved 915 people. 32% of respondents indicated "increasing fines" as a means to improve the situation on Bulgarian roads in the short term. "Road improvements" follow by 17%, "reduction of corruption among police officers" by 16%, "preventive information campaigns" by 15% and "rewriting the laws" by 14%.

In Sofia on September 9, 2011 with an action in front of the Ministry of Health "Open Youth" will launch its largest campaign to prevent alcohol abuse and subsequent driving. The action to be held from 10:00 to 18:00 in partnership with RZI Sofia is the first out of ten consecutive ones within the campaign "Choose your way". After Sofia the campaign will visit Pernik (12 September), Vidin (15 September), Montana (18 September), Vratsa (21 September), Blagoevgrad (24 September), Kyustendil (27 September), Pazardjik (30 September), Karzhdali (03 October) and Haskovo (06 October).

On August 29, 2011, at 11:00 am with a press conference in the media center of Vidin municipality “Open Youth” will launch the "City angels" campaign in Vidin.

The campaign "City angels" is new "Open Youth" initiative, with which young people will contribute to reducing risks in their free time. In the framework of our initiative we will organize 11 events with a preventive focus (1 pilot and 10 in the campaign). They will be implemented by a team of six young people, equipped with recognizable clothing and bicycles with small trailers. The main target group is young "street revelers” aged 16 to 30 years. Prevention will focus on the basis of antisocial street behavior (drug use, alcohol abuse, road aggression, sexual violence, social and cultural intolerance, suicide and self harm, bullying among young people). Free material will be distributed in support of the preventive messages: leaflets, antistress balls, water, single-use tests for alcohol or drugs, condoms.

The results of this year's campaign "Drive responsibly" were presented to the Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technologies Ivaylo Moskovski who is patron of the initiative.

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