Preparation activities (sponsors, online tasks,preparation of the action plan,...)
The best young driver contest is designed for young drivers 18-24 of age, to promote road safety and young participation of young people in contest to prove themselves and show as that they are not worst drivers, regardless the lack of years of driving experience or kilometres travelled. The contest searches for wide personality, so they need to prove knowledge and skills from six different fields: traffic rules, first aid, driving skills, automotive in general, road safety and vehicles technical knowledge. It is designed in two stages, first is online survey, as qualifications, where best 100 of them (50 boys and 50 girls) qualifies into 10 semi-finals of 10 participants. Practical contest as semi-finals and later on finale of twenty (10 boys and 10 girls) finalists are performed at AMSZ Safe driving centre, with specially designed practical challenges: such as vehicle parking, luggage loading, hidden failures on the vehicle, connecting smart phone using Bluetooth, emergency breaking, driving on slippery surface, first aid real situation, driving thru bent, attaching and driving with trailer, spare wheel change. The contest starts with PR conference with partners/road safety stakeholders and sponsors. Special web page, FB page, Instagram and ,… have been designed and used for communication through whole project. The finale ends with awards ceremony and media coverage, with all important TV and press media. The winners (1 boy and 1 girl) are awarded with use of two sponsor’s vehicles for one year, other 18 finalists also receive valuable sponsors awards.Two famous Slovene vloggers joined advertising of the contest and also published vlogs of the contest on his and her YT channel.
In 2018, following the example of AMZS, a Polish automobile club (PZM) and a Bulgarian automobile club (UAB) also prepared the competition Best young driver. In 2019 also Serbian automobile club (AMSS) will start this project.
2019 October: International: cooperation with PZM, AMSS, UAB as international super-finale organized by AMZS in Slovenia, also FIA cooperation/support
AMZS, PZM and UAB were also awarded together for this projects by the FIA.
Preparation activities (sponsors, online tasks,preparation of the action plan,...)
Availability of online tests, application of candidates, promotion of the event through several media channels, ....
5.4. 2019 - 6.4.2019 - semifinals
9.5.2019 final national competition
Preparation on international final event (together with polish automobile club and bulgarian automobile club), further promotion of the project with ambasadors of safe driving
17. 10. - final international event in Slovenia (AMZS Safe Driving Center)