Our vision is a world where children travel safely to and from school

WE ALL WANT THE BEST FOR OUR KIDS …

Each day 500 children are killed in preventable traffic crashes around the world. Sometimes they are killed just yards from the school entrance.

Each traffic death and injury violates a child’s right to an education.

Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) is an evidence-based tool for measuring, managing and communicating the risk children are exposed to on a journey to school. It supports quick interventions that save lives and prevent serious injuries from day one.

The United Nations has included road safety in its Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.6. SR4S is key to meeting these global targets for child and adolescent pedestrians.

SR4S was awarded a prestigious Prince Michael International Road Safety Award in December 2018, recognising the application’s huge potential to reduce risk and save the lives of pedestrians worldwide.

3M extends support of SR4S as Global Programme Partner for two more years

Building on an existing 3-year partnership supporting the SR4S vision of a world where children travel safely to and from school, 3M announced that it will continue to support SR4S as a Global Programme Partner for two additional years. The partnership began in 2020...

Star Rating for Schools May 2023 Newsletter

The latest Star Rating for Schools newsletter is out now – read some great stories of how SR4S Lead Partners are engaging partners and leading safer infrastructures around the world.In this issue: Enhancements coming to the SR4S model – here is what you need to know...

Enhancements coming to the Star Rating for Schools model – all the information you need to know

SR4S (Star Rating for Schools) has been used by partners in 63 countries to assess the risk children are exposed to on their school journeys. iRAP is now updating the SR4S model, under the guidance of iRAP Global Technical Committee, to ensure SR4S reflects the latest...

UNICEF Paraguay – Students analysed road safety in the school environment

Image credit: UNICEF Paraguay Students from the Paraguay Pyahu school in Caaguazú recently attended a workshop supported by the Paraguayan Touring and Automobile Club and UNICEF. They analysed road safety around the school, supported by the SR4S app, and proposed...

Four school zones in Georgia get a ‘5 Star’ upgrade informed by SR4S App

The FIA Road Safety Grants Programme and the FIA Foundation have together supported the Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (EASST), Partnership for Road Safety (PfRS), and the Georgian Automobile Sport Federation (GASF) to upgrade four school zones in...

Missed the first #RAPKnowledgeLive session? Watch the recording on the Youth Engagement App for safer school journeys here!

On Tuesday 18 April 2023, over 50 delegates across the world attended our first ever monthly #RAPKnowledge session on the recently released Youth Engagement App (YEA). In this session we covered: how the free app works; how it’s capturing student road safety...

Thiago de Moraes Gonzaga Foundation launches collaborative platform to protect children and adolescents

Image caption: Thiago Gonzaga Foundation presenting the platform during the Eighth Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims, in El Salvador Thiago de Moraes Gonzaga Foundation has launched a new collaborative platform...

FIA Road Safety Grants Programme 2023 is open

The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has launched the 2023 Road Safety Grants Programme. The FIA Road Safety Grants Programme enables Clubs to address road safety at a local level and support the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety. The FIA Mobility...

New school safety zone built through collaboration with 3M Indonesia: A youth initiative

Image credit (above): Estiara Ellizar In Bandung City, Indonesia, a new school safety zone at Junior High has increased safety from 2- to 5-stars, impacting more than 800 students and 5,000 nearby residents, thanks to a collaboration between 3M Indonesia, Global Youth...

NASA Nepal leads a pioneering ‘Safe School Zone’ campaign using SR4S assessments

Image credit (above and right): NASA Nepal  The Nepal Automobiles’ Association (NASA Nepal) has recently completed a pioneering campaign called ‘Safe School Zone’ - a first-ever Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) campaign in Nepal. ​ The campaign has been implemented...

It’s time to #RethinkMobility: Support UN Global Road Safety Week

Star Rating for Schools and our partners are proud to support this year’s 7th UN Global Road Safety Week from 15-21 May with the theme #RethinkMobility. Road traffic injures are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with around 1.3 million people killed...

SR4S Lead Partners reunite in El Salvador

As part of the Eighth Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims (Global Meeting), Star Rating for Schools partners gathered in El Salvador on the 6th of March, 2023. During the meeting, iRAP presented where the SR4S...

SR4S training in the Philippines – creating safer journeys for school children

Image credit (above and below): UP NCTS The University of Philippines (UP) National Centre for Transportation Studies (NCTS), in collaboration with ImagineLaw, conducted a training session on Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) in Cagayan De Oro City on March 17 2023. The...

Under spotlight at world’s largest mobility expo

We are delighted to join the Autonomy Mobility World Expo (AMWE) in Paris this week from 22-23 March, the world’s largest platform for sustainable mobility solutions. Star Rating for Schools and the YEA app will be on show, along with iRAP partner innovation making...

Mozambique School Zone Safety Supported with Star Rating for Schools

Image credit: FIA Foundation Original article from FIA Foundation https://www.fiafoundation.org/news/mozambique-school-zone-safety-supported-with-star-rating-for-schools Mozambique auto club ATCM has joined forces with road safety NGO Amend on new school zone safety...

New! SR4S launches new tools to support school assessments

Enhanced Star Rating for Schools mobile app now available for Android and iOS We are thrilled to announce the launch of the new SR4S mobile app. It supports the data collection process for school assessments and works in combination with the SR4S web app. The new SR4S...

Youth Engagement App now integrated into SR4S web app

In exciting developments, iRAP has integrated results from the YEA (Youth Engagement App), recording road safety perceptions of students travelling to and from school, into Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) assessments to provide a more comprehensive picture of the...

Come see us at the Global Alliance of NGOs Meeting, El Salvador

We are looking forward to sharing the life-saving impact of Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) and roads made safer world-wide thanks to the inspiring work of road safety NGOs at next week’s Global Meeting of the Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety in El Salvador. With the...

iRAP and Prudence Foundation Announce Partnership to Improve Safety for School Children Around the World

The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) today announced that Prudence Foundation, the community investment arm of Prudential Plc, has become a Global Programme Partner in the Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) programme. In this collaboration, Prudence...

Young Generation of Tajikistan is addressing children’s road safety as an urgent priority (EASST)

Image credit: EASST The Star Rating for Schools App has been used to help assess and improve road safety around schools in Tajikistan. Original article published by Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (February 2023) In 2021, Tajikistan’s Traffic...

Launch of the AI&Me Youth Engagement App encourages young voices to champion safer mobility in Vietnam

As part of our innovative Big Data road safety project, AI&Me: Empowering youth for safer roads, we are excited to launch the Youth Engagement App (YEA) pilot in Ho Chi Minh City, Pleiku City, and Yen Bai starting December 2022 to January 2023. The launch engages...

Star Rating for Schools December 2022 Newsletter

The latest Star Rating for Schools newsletter is out now – read some great stories of how SR4S Lead Partners are engaging partners and leading safer infrastructures around the world.In this issue: Launch of SR4S interactive tool to share global safety upgrade...

KRSD Trust and Lea Primary School, Nigeria video receives an Honorable mention in the International Safety Media Awards 2022

HONORABLE MENTION in the Short Video category for Star Rating for Schools - KRSD Trust and Lea Primary School, Nigeria video We are delighted to announce that SR4S and our represented partners have an Honorable mention at the  International Safety Media Awards for...

SR4S features in FIA Foundation Annual Report 2022

Our major donor the FIA Foundation has just released their 2022 report which once again highlights some of the  Star Rating for Schools’ significant achievements. The FIA Foundation reports on its charitable activities in 2022, including participating in the first UN...

Zugdidi City Municipality (Georgia) set 30km/h speed limit around school zones

Image credit: EASST Original article published by EASST here Municipal authorities in the Georgian region of Zugdidi are in the process of setting 30km/h speed limits around all school zones in the municipality. 40 school zones in Zugdidi city have already had new...

Tres Cantos Council (Spain) launches ‘Safe School Roads’ project, resulting in infrastructure improvements

Image credit: Tres Cantos City Council Project Background: During the 2021-2022 school year, Royal Automobile Club of Spain (RACE) has designed and implemented, together with the FIA Foundation, the Road Safety Plan “Caminos Escolares Seguros” in the Madrid...

Youth Engagement App training launch allows young voices to champion safer mobility

Image credits: AIP Foundation As part of the AIP Foundation’s innovative Big Data road safety program, AI&Me: Empowering youth for safer roads, AIP Foundation, iRAP and the Ministry of Transport (MOT) hosted the first hands-on training of the Youth Engagement APP...

FIA School Assessment Toolkit presented at the first COFO Road Safety Meeting in Poland

Image credit (above and right): Rafaela Machado, iRAP Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) Global Programme Coordinator Rafaela Machado had the opportunity to attend the first ever FIA Region I Coordination Forum for Eastern and Central European Countries (COFO) Road Safety...

National and local governments in central Vietnam receive two prestigious international awards for prioritizing safe school zones to safeguard every child’s journey to school

Image credit: AIP Foundation Original content from AIP Foundation: www.aip-foundation.org/national-and-local-governments-in-central-vietnam-receive-two-prestigious-international-awards-for-prioritizing-safe-school-zones-to-safeguard-every-childs-journey-to-school/ For...

Star Rating for Schools interactive tool to share global safety upgrade insights

We are excited to announce the launch of a new ‘Safe Schools Tracker’ – a Star Ratings for Schools (SR4S) interactive report that shares insights about how safety around schools is being improved.   SR4S is an evidence-based tool for measuring, managing and...
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