Social network and peer education: an experience in a road safety education project

This paper presents a road safety education project realised in the area of Bologna (Italy) with a network of different educational agencies (schools, University, health system, Province Authority of Bologna). In the last 4 years students from upper secondary schools were trained about several road safety contents using peer education and a social network, Facebook. In particular Facebook was used as tool of communication, documentation and discussion for those young students, giving them space to creativity and production of multimedia contents in a more informal way. The experience developed in these years showed that the environment created by this project was more effective than traditional ones and reached a large number of students creating a bridge between formal and informal learning.