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How can we in the research community together utilize the opportunities that come with the UN Conference and the Stockholm Declaration?

In February, Sweden hosted the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety. The UN conference gathered about 1,700 delegates from 140 countries. Among these were a large number of ministerial delegations as well as representatives from industry, research organisations, NGOs and others. In addition to the exchange of knowledge and experience, the conference resulted in "The Stockholm Declaration", a strategic agenda and recommendations to achieve the global sustainability goals by 2030 and halve the number of fatalities in traffic between 2020 and 2030.

At SAFER and Chalmers Area of Advance Transport, we now together see a great opportunity to take advantages of each others’ strengths to both contribute to the global sustainability goals and to be inspired and guided in our research to meet our common challenges. 

As a step to maximizing our collective and individual opportunities, we will carry out a number of activities and projects to initiate a strategic work. The first activity will be an open seminar together with partners and funding bodies where the Swedish Transport Administration presents the outcome from the UN conference and the Stockholm Declaration. We then plan to analyse gaps between our current research agenda and the new recommendations and goals. This analysis will inspire a discussion together with different stakeholders to identify needs and opportunities to carry out relevant research and other activities. We also plan for more activities during the autumn, including further seminars, project creation activities and workshops, among other things during FFI's results conference in September, which we will invite you to contribute to and participate in. We look forward to develop the plan together with you!

WEBINAR: The outcome of the UN Conference on road safety and the Stockholm declaration

PURPOSE: Introduce the SAFER and Area of Advance Transport research community to the Stockholm declaration with its recommendations and the opportunities that follows the strategic approach towards the Global 2030 agenda.

AGENDA

1. Welcome and introduction
Introduction to the webinar, including a presentation of the initiative and strategic planning ahead, Sinisa Krajnovic, Director Area of Advance Transport
2. Summary of the 3rd global ministerial conference on road safety
Maria Krafft, Traffic Safety Director, Swedish Transport Administration presents the most important outcomes and her reflections
3. Saving lives beyond 2020 – the next steps
The nine recommendations developed by the Academic expert group will be presented from a research perspective by Claes Tingvall, Adj Prof at Chalmers and head of the academic expert group
4. Research challenges and recommendations to the traffic safety research community
Claes and Maria will together present their thoughts on how we together can address the new targets and recommendations.
5. Summary
Conclusions and questions, moderated by Magnus Granström, Director at SAFER

You can send in your questions in advance to help us to prepare the seminar to get the right focus, adding value to you.
Please sign up here and post your input to the seminar on the link below. Please note that this seminar is for SAFER-partners only.

Most welcome!