Road safety awards

Celebrating and recognising our road safety advocates and heroes.  

Every year we host and participate in awards ceremonies to celebrate the work being done in the area of road safety. Recognising our country’s often unsung road safety heroes is so important to encourage and promote safe behaviour and action on our roads. 

European Road Safety Charter awards

The European Road Safety Charter (ERSC) will announce when applications are open for their Excellence in Road Safety Awards. The winners are announced at an awards ceremony in Brussels, Belgium.

Each year, the ERSC Excellence in Road Safety Awards acknowledges different categories in order to champion as many good practices as possible.

Categories include but not limited to:

• Best use of data to promote road safety
• Best road safety project for road users with reduced mobility
• Best project promoting fitness to drive
• Best project supporting road safety in the e-commerce sector
• Urban Road Safety Award

Please visit the ERSC website for more information.

BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition road safety award

Every year we present an award at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition for projects that cover a road safety or related topic. We find it heartening that young people continue to engage hugely with road safety awareness and have come up with ingenious projects and solutions to keep everyone safe on our roads. 

The Road Safety Authority award 2024 was presented to Ciara Hughes and Bronwyn Crummy from St Mary’s College in Arklow (pictured above) for their project: 'I'm too texty for My Car'. 

More information on our road safety award at BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 

If you would like to find out more information about our road safety award and past winners, please: 

• go to www.btyoungscientist.ie
• contact our road safety education service
• Check out the Education section of our website

BT Young Scientist 2025

Student Media Awards for road safety journalism  

Every year we sponsor a specialist award for journalism relating to road safety at the annual Student Media Awards ceremony (also known as the Smedias).  It is presented to recognise the best written, published or broadcast piece of journalism on road safety issues in any medium – such as television, radio, internet, digital or otherwise – by a third-level student in Ireland.