Educational and Road Safety Center of City of Granada reports and educate about Road Safety, organize	prevention activities, campaigns and educational projects.
The CEV of the Citizens Protection and Mobility Dept. of the Excellency City Council of Granada is located in Huerta del Rasillo.
Prevention of traffic accidents with information and Granadian's education.
To inform, educate and make the granadians awake of any age and type of displacement (pedestrian, traveller and driver) about Road Safety.
To increase safety and quality of our displacements.
More vulnerable population: children, young people, people with special educational needs and elderly.
Target: Teach the pedestrian behaviours, cyclist and traveller with their rules, signals and values to be favourable for a safe and solidarity displacements.
Contents: Theorical-practical with educational material made in the Center (folders, interactive notebooks...).
Secondary (2º ESO), High School and FP.
Target: make aware, teach knowledges, habits and positive attitudes for a safer driving with motorized vehicles (cars, motorbikes and quads) and cycles.
Contents : Theorical-practical material made in the Center (notebooks, informative leaflet about alcohol, helmets, roundabouts… ).
It celebrates once a year (normally in October with good weather) to encourage "safer driving" habits between riders of Granada.
Listeners: Those young people initiated in two wheels vehicles that want to drive their motorbike but to learn safe driving skills with experienced and famous riders.
Round-tables discussions sessions in High Schools.
Focused to High School or Formative Cicles to inform, in a multidisciplinary way,of all the subjects about Road Safety to know: Psychology, pólice, legal advice, accidents injured evidences, 112 - 061.
The SCHEDULE of this activity is every Monday in the academic school year from 12 to 14 hours.
Focused to students of 6 course primary school or ESO, who are very worried about Safety in their Educational Center and look after a safe and organized way out of the Center.
It is voluntary to take part of this project and they recieve a formative course and vests, stops paddle and whistle to regulate the students movements with the help of the traffic lights and pedestrian crossings (duration: around 7-8 minutes).
At the end of the year the volunteer recieve a certifícate and presents in an institutional act leaded by the Excellency Major and other authorities.
SCHEDULE: this course is given in october and the project duration is the academic school year.
"Once upon a bus... and its travellers" sponsored by Rober and where children of 4º and young people of 2º ESO design a Granada where they want to live in, making suggestions and giving ideas that they write down on notebooks, folders... and all that material is delivered.
SCHEDULE: It's an anual contest and there is an exhibition at the end of the course in the City Council courtyard with a prize-giving party with the Excellency Major and other authorities.
Ponle Freno has celebrated on the 13 March at the Senate its V edition of these awards, to reward people, actions, entities and public organism that have cooperated on the improvement of road safety in our country.
The Ponle Freno awards 2013 were given at the Senate, an initiative to fight for the Road Safety of Antena 3 group that has been granted the Ponle freno junior award to Granada City Council thanks for the labour done in these last 25 years in the Educational Road Safety Center.
This award was recieved by his Excellency Major Mr. José Torres Hurtado and the Representative of the Citizens Protection and Mobility Department Mrs. Telesfora Ruiz and the technics of the mentioned center as well.
The Educational Road Safety Center in the city of Granada was created in 1987 and with a complete labour in educational and road safety. This award, Ponle Freno Junior award, has been given by Maurizio Carlotti, Vicepresident of ATRESMEDIA and received by Mr. José Torres Hurtado, Major of Granada.
This center was created on 1987 with a complete labour in educational and road safety. Its activities are foused to primary and secondary schoolchilds of the city, disabled schoolchilds and bikers; with safe routes to school projects, drawing competitions, radiophonic and educational material. In these 25 years more than 220000 people joined these activities.
This center also cooperates with diverse entities and public and private organism to spread Road Safety in Granada.
Granada City Major, José Torres Hurtado, has received Ponle freno award, an Antena 3 group , Onda Cero and AXA initiative that reward this accident awareness labour by the Educational Road Safety Center in the City of Granada in these 25 years.
Beside the president of the Senate and the road safety comission parlamentaries, also atended to this act, the General Director of Road Safety, experts in the automobilistic sections and companies dedicated to road safety activities.
This educational road safety center also made in 2012 an urban road safety plan, highly valuated by the General Traffic Delegation, besides other campaignes of school activities and investigation.
The efforts and work in benefit of road safety are decided in other initiatives and activities. So, well, in 1995 the City Council joined the Social Agreement for Road Safety signed by the Senate on the 26th of April 1994, and with the compromiso of making the road safety problems in an imperative actuations; and in 1998 joined the European Agreement of the pedestrian rights.