PROJECT TITLE:	INtegrated system FOR an advanced and life-long training MEthodology of Dangerous goods drivers and trainers.
PROJECT CODE:	3112
COORDINATOR (if there is): Complete elements: name of organisation, surname and name, type of organisation, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail, responsible person.	Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (C.E.R.T.H.) / Hellenic Institute of Transport (H.I.T.) Dr. Evangelos Bekiaris 6^thkm Charilaou – Thermi Road 57001, Thermi, Thessaloniki Tel: +302310498265 Fax: +302310498269 [email protected]
TYPE OF ORGANISATION:	REC
CODE OF ORGANISATION:	REC
DESCRIPTION OF ORGANISATION (PROFIL):	The Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) is an Organization devoted to the promotion and execution of Transport research in Greece. It was established in March 2000, by Presidential Decree 77/2000 as part of the National Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). It is a “private status” legal entity under the supervision of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Ministry of Industry. It is based in Thessaloniki, Greece.
DURATION OF THE PROJECT:	3 years
SECTOR:
CODE SECTOR:	Κ73
TARGET GROUP:	Drivers and Trainers
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT:	INFORMED is a Pilot project aiming exactly at the targets set by the European Commission with regard to road safety during the transport of dangerous goods, i.e. the development of a new training curriculum and innovative multimedia tools, to support the training of drivers and their instructors on transporting dangerous goods and handling them efficiently in case of an accident. The new curriculum is intended to extend to a wider training content, in order to meet the increased demands for safety in the field. It will thus include new elements such as ecological driving and anti-skid, defensive and other advanced driving techniques, focused on particular types of vehicles.
OBJECTIVES:	To improve the quality of vocational training and guidance systems and of training qualifications. This will be achieved through a new training curriculum, covering a wide range of transport behaviours while carrying dangerous goods and a global guidance on treating dangerous cargo in case of an accident. To improve, as a consequence, the skills and competences of drivers who transport dangerous goods, through a complete vocational training at all levels, initial but also advanced post-training, of them and their instructors. To provide work-linked easy access to lifelong acquisition of skills and competences through a well-designed training curriculum, applied through a multimedia-training package. The new training package will cover an initial vocational training as well as a continual / lifelong training scheme for the acquisition of skills and competences in transporting dangerous goods. To facilitate training by full use of the ICT tool pedagogic aspects. To offer training flexibility, by including elements of self- and distant-training. To grant the wide-scaled applicability of INFORMED products through its validation at a wider European level.
ACTIVITIES:
RESULTS/ PRODUCTS:	An easy-to-use multimedia training package (e.g. CD-ROM) that would provide access to databases of multimedia files, including pictures, video and audio, self-assessment facilities, while enabling self- and distance learning. A learning centre, accessible through internet, that would offer facilities such as, downlodable multimedia training courses and curricula, interactive information and courses, on-line tutors support for learning / consulting / assessing skills, teleconferencing, self- and interactive assessment facilities, open and distance learning.
PARTICIPANTS COUNTRIES:	Belgium, Denmark, France, Hellas, Netherlands.
PARTNERS:	Institut du Transport Routier a.s.b.l. (IWT-ITR) Belgisch Instituut voor de Verkeersveiligheid vzw (Belgian Institute for Road Safety) (BIVV-CARA) Transporterhvervets UddannelsesRåd (TUR) Institut Pedagogique du Transport et de la Logistique (AFT-IFTIM) BP HELLAS A.E. (BP HELLAS S.A.) VTL