Källby Gård is a comprehensive school with children from 1 to 12 years old. The school was the first in the world to be awarded the title of safe and secure school, according to the criteria set up by the WHO, on the 24th November 2003. The school has been a model for work with accident prevention. In order to create secure and safe environments, the school has developed a plan of action to promote the children’s security and safety in both the physical and psychosocial environment.

PAPILIO is a program in kindergartens for early prevention of behavioural problems and support of social-emotional competencies for kindergarten children. The program is based on knowledge gained from developmental psychology and counteracts the risks of violence and addiction in the long term. PAPILIO has been conceptualized and evaluated in the frame of a longitudinal study with more than 700 children, 1,200 parents and 100 kindergarten teachers. Project partners are betapharm foundation, Robert Bosch foundation, Free University Berlin, University Bremen, University Augsburg and the Augsburger Puppenkiste, which is a famous string- puppets- theatre.

The “¡ A salvo!” (Safe!) campaign directed at primary education students aged from 6 to 12 years in all schools in Castilla y León and was developed to increase the children's awareness and attention to safety. Its objective was to create a new preventive culture by acting from the first stages of education to promote awareness that safety is socially desirable and must be defended by all, and by promoting an attitude change that contributes to the development of health and safety habits for all and benefits everyone.

On this website of the Accident Insurance North Rhine-Westphalia, children, pupils and other visitors can click through a unique virtual model of a school or a kindergarten. Users can find out a lot about safety, risks and technical details.
The kindergarten has several floors and shows rooms inside and outside, the school shows corridors, classrooms and specials rooms for chemistry, biology and more. Even a natatorium and a gym can de visited.

The Independant Institute for environmental questions (UfU) in Berlins offers a a collection of materials about "Noise and Listening", which will be available for all teachers in Berlin and which consists of literature, concepts for lessons, CDs with practice examples, work sheets, videos, excursions, measuring instruments and more.
Providing a collection of material which is available to all teachers, makes this project highly effective and reduces its costs; any teacher who has worked with the material may function as a supervisor/advisor to others.

In April 2005, the primary school Zachar Kroměřiž in the Czech Republic was announced International Safe School. The programme International Safe Schools is a part of larger movement the World Health Organisation Safe Community movement, formally started in 1989 and located at the WHO Centre Community Safety Promotion in Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Hearing Health provides material for teachers in compulsory schools to enhance the knowledge of their pupils about noise, their sound environment and about the protection of hearing damage.
Hearing Health for the Compulsory School consists of two parts, each of which has been adapted to a different age group and intended for use in teaching.
The factual sections do not claim to cover the subject area comprehensively, but rather aim to function as basic information and sources of inspiration in areas which may be explored in greater depth. The material can be integrated with and used in various subject areas such as music, visual arts, biology and physics.

This project of the construction supervision council of the canton Zurich wants to sensitize pupils and give them knowledge about noise. The speech “You are, what you listen to!” or the theatre “Threatened by the noise mafia…” offer an effective noise experience for teenagers aged 15 years and serve as an introduction of the theme noise.
The speech can be heald in front of the pupils, the theatre production approaches the topic in a funny, satirical way by watching two secret agents hunting the noise Mafia...

| Bild: | “Safe School with PZU” is organized under the patronage of the Ministry of National Education and Sport, National Road Safety Council (NRSC), Main Police Command, and Onet.pl.Experts from those institutions worked out materials which would be easy to understand for pupils. “Safe School with PZU” is the only campaign in Poland realized on so large scale and engaging so many institutions and people. It is a continuation of other big prevention campaigns organized by PZU, which should improve safety on Polish roads.

The "Foundation for Listening", founded by the Hessischer Rundfunk and Bayerischer Rundfunk, Germany, wants to teach people how to listen. It wants to give children, adolescents and adults positive listening experiences, and intends to do so by using contemporary teaching methods.
The project "Listening in Listening Schools" won the 3rd price at the 6th Training & Innovation from 7th to 8th July 2006 at the BG Institute Work and Health (BGAG) in Dresden

It is the most wonderful task of architecture to create a home. Home means feeling yourself at home with body and soul. In order to reach this, however, we all have to show concern for our direct social and architectural environment with much more self-determination and imagination.
With its "hands-on design of spaces" scheme, Bunte Kuh e.V. regularly conducts different architectural projects using clay, water and fire in problem districts and in education facilities.

Pellekaija Pum is an exotic and rare bird. It is distantly related to a parrot. Pellekaija Pum is bumbling around in all kinds of dangerous situations and the children must give him advice so that he will not hurt himself.
The advice is often in the form of songs dealing with fire safety, falling, poisoning, sharp tool hazards and traffic safety. The children learn to prevent and avoid hazards and to act correctly if an accident occurs.

The school, being the authority in charge of education par excellence, shall take the burden for the education to the Civil Protection, which is a pivotal aspect in personal education .
The education to the Civil Protection at school shall concern above all the prevention at social level that, through the knowledge of the environmental and technological risks, results in useful behavioural measures in case of emergency.

Can children and teenagers discriminate safe from dangerous behaviours?
'Mister Help' is the title of a TV programme by Rai Educational and Ispesl (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Prevention), which was broadcast on Rai 3 and via satellite.
This programme was aimed at children and teenagers attending compulsory education (aged 6-15), to convey among young people a clear message on issues related to safety.

"Molli and Walli" is an interactive and animated website for kids, containing quizzes, puzzles, a Jump 'n' Run game and much information about road safety for children. The website is supposed to prevent accidents on the way to school and to teach children about road safety in a playful way. It was set up and is hosted by the German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the public sector in Hesse. It contains lots of useful information, brochures and links for parents as well.
The website is available in German and in Turkish.

KidsMatteraims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children, reduce mental health problems amongst children, and achieve greater support for children experiencing mental health difficulties, and their families.
KidsMatter includes KidsMatter Early Childhood, designed for implementation in preschools and long day care; and KidsMatter Primary Schools, designed for implementation in Australian primary schools.
KidsMatter Early Childhood has been developed by the Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing, in collaboration with the Commonwealth Government Department of Health and Ageing, beyondblue: the national depression initiative and the Australian Psychological Society and Early Childhood Australia.

The school focuses on teaching foreign languages, information and communication technologies and healthy lifestyle. This year has 15 classes and more than 300 pupils. Since the school year 2007/2008 the school began to implement their own educational program Hornoměcholupská Elementary School - School of the Third Millennium ".
Everyday school activity and programme contains such activities that lead the pupils into positive changes of the attitude towards one another, the environment, to maintain good relations with people, to be able to solve the problems effectively and manage stress and the regime. The school considers a long-term priority to educate a man who grasps and understands the value of health and strives at health protection.

The school development award „Good healthy school“ is an initiative of the Statutory accident insurance for the public sector In North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2008, it is awarded annually to schools in Northrine-Wesrtphalia, that inetgrate health promotion and prevention into their quality development. The prize awards schools for their good work and promotes the dissemination of good healthy school practice. All general education schools and occupational schools in North Rhine-Westphalia can participate in the tender. Previously awarded schools are allowed to apply in a parallel procedure.

The VISIONART and VISIONARIES-NET programs, supported by the European Commission, aim to create international and country-specific Internet portals on violence prevention in schools and to bring together persons engaged in violence prevention in school.
VISIONARY is a European collaborative project on school bullying and violence (SBV), addressing teachers, parents, professionals, pupils and others interested in the topic.
Partner counties are Denmark, Finland, Germany, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
The web portal aims to help all who search for background information on SBV, project descriptions, good practice, materials and other resources on SBV in the Internet. It also wants to support all who are interested in exchanging ideas and experiences with others on an International level. The main sections of the website are available in English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Danish and Finnish.

The "Naschgarten" (Munching garden) at Holzminden is a local prevention project for more nature experience and living areas in the city to reduce adiposis in childhood. Children are supposed to be introduced to healthy nutrition, more physical excercises and creation of their own living environment in a playful way for promotion of activity and well-being of the children.
In the munching garden (Naschgarten) in the city centre of Holzminden, the children can put their own play- and garden-ideas into practice. They are involved in planning, gardening and harvest. The project addresses especially children of socially disadvantaged families.

Originally from Australia, MindMatters is a school based programme for the promotion of mental health in secondary schools (Grade 5 – 10). The German language adaptation was developed and pilot tested within a research project under the lead of Prof. Dr. Peter Paulus at the Leuphana University Lueneburg from 2002 to 2006.
MindMatters is a setting approach and aims at all persons involved in school such as pupils, school heads and non-teaching staff as well as at affiliated outside the school.

In the scope of this project by the University Hospital of Heidelberg, Department of Clinical Social Medicine, a web-based learning environment for schools has been developed. This learning environment called "In touch with health" puts a focus on the subjects of skin / skin diseases and sexuality / sexually transmittable diseases. It is designed for teenagers and multipliers who want to look into these subjects. The central question will be what everybody can do to protect their skin and to support their health. This learning platform is the result of the interdisciplinary "paedimed" project between medical and educational professionals and received financial support from the European Union.
The intention of the project is to enable the target groups to acquire competencies and attitudes which will help them to stay healthy.

Upsi is a comic character, created by the Accident Insurance Berlin to raise awareness for OSH topics in a playful way. Six books and one radio play have been released until now, dealing with physical excercises, skin, fire, learning to swim and listening.
The books are supposed to be read to children aged 4 - 6 in kindergartens to give them information on the topics and raise their awareness in a playful way. The radio play can teach children how to concentrate on one single sound, how to listen.
Every kindergarten in Berlin gets the books for free and can use them.
On the next page you will find more information on the books and the radio play.

The National Healthy Schools Programme is an long term initiative that helps young people and their schools to be healthy. The programme makes a difference to the health and achievement of young people in thousands of schools across England.
Healthy Schools help children and young people to reach their potential by building on a solid foundation of health to do better in learning and in life.

The Irish Health and Safety Authority (HSA) launched a pilot project in post-primary schools in the south-east and west of the country in September 2007. ‘Choose Safety’ is a teaching and learning resource pack for post- junior certificate students. It is primarily aimed at transition year, leaving certificate applied and leaving certificate vocational programmes and those who are likely to engage in work experience. The ‘Choose Safety’ module consists of a students’ workbook, a teacher's guidebook and a DVD. The module is approximately a 20 hour programme and the lessons may be expanded or condensed to suit the timetable- arrangements in schools and the ability range of students.