Our school, 6o EPA.L Irakliou is an upper secondary vocational school located in Heraclion, Crete, Greece. We have 350 - 400 students each year in the fields of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. 

The vast majority of our students are boys. Teenagers are especially vulnerable to traffic accidents, since at this age they feel invincible and have a rebelious side thinking that rules do not apply to them. Also, the general status of the road network in Crete leaves a lot to be desired (long, narrow roads, full of turns, low visibility, rural and urban arctitecture with little regard for safety) and adds to this vulnerability factor.

As a school we have a policy for teaching road safety and spreading good practices to students and the whole school community. This includes frequent lectures, visits from local community holders, educational material from approved sources and cooperation with local authorities. 

We were pleased to be a part of the KROS project.

KROS proposes the use of innovative resources provided from different stakeholders (open content) through a project-based multidisciplinary approach (open pedagogy) that requires extended collaboration and networking between schools and different stakeholders (open collaboration) who can bring significant expertise in the design and implementation of the proposed activities. In this framework a strategic partnership of Road Safety Experts, Pedagogues and Curriculum Developers, Local Authorities, Advanced Educational Applications Developers and schools are joining forces to design, develop and validate an innovative professional development program for teachers.
Training is best done in schools by teachers who have themselves been trained in the safety issues relevant to children and achieve effective integration of road safety principles into the school curriculum. KROS is based on the use engaging presentation forms to attract the whole community of teachers, students and parents within each school.

KROS will help strengthen the profile of the teaching profession by offering a multidisciplinary approach for the introduction of road safety in the school curriculum. The project wishes to support activities that implement best practices and tools for professionals working with and for children in communicating in a way adapted to their age and stages of development and thus improve the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom while endorsing innovative methods and digital integration in teaching technology and innovation. Students become familiar with Road Safety, mainly through hands-on experimentation. This educational approach promotes inquiry, creativity and collaborative learning.

One of the key aspects of OSOS is the inclusion of RRI - Responsible Research and Innovation principles in innovative pedagogical practices. R: In  particular we focused on the following RRI principles in the KROS accelarator