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Contingent to make awareness campaigns in which ILCAD
will be associated. The World Organisation of the Scout
Movement (WOSM) is composed of 28 million scouts
in 160 countries and is the largest children’s and youth
movement in the world.
Isabelle Fonverne, UIC, presented ILCAD 2010 in which
more than 40 countries worldwide participated with
smaller or bigger campaigns. She showed the EC financed
video “Just in time” and informed participants that the
date for 2011 has been fixed for 9 June. The campaign
has been registered on the WHO website as part of
road safety campaigns; therefore by supporting and
advertising on the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety
2011-2020 she may use the logo of the UN campaign on
ILCAD communications media.
Urmo Reitav, UNICEF Estonia, presented UNICEF actions
for children and campaigns in Estonia. He talked about
cooperation without which no project can be supported.
Werner de Dobbeleer, Belgian Road Safety Institute,
presented the CAST project and recommendations to
increase the chances of success of awareness-raising
campaigns.
Robert Nowak, UN-ECE Geneva, Secretary of the Working
Party 1 on Road Traffic Safety, covered the 1968 Vienna
Convention relating to road signs and repeated that UN-
ECE intends to initiate a Road/Rail Interface Safety Group
(UIC again invited to participate at WP1 session on 22
This was just a brief overview of topics discussed at the
“Let’s save lives” conference. Exiting exchanges of ideas,
ideas for new campaigns and discussions continued
both in the conference halls, around coffee tables, in
the hallways and during the workshops. Although the
conference is over, the mailing lists, telephone numbers
and common event calendars are still used on a daily
basis. The world of people dealing with railway safety has
again become smaller and OLE was happy for its small
contribution for achieving that.