Transport planner JMP was the sole UK representative in a nine nation team that has won the Sustainable Energy Europe Award in a programme run by the European Commission aimed at promoting eco objectives among the young.

CONNECT, the name under which the nine co-operating nations operate, beat off challenges from more than 240 entries to win the category award for “Promotional, Communication and Educational Actions”.

Its project was aimed at “developing and disseminating excellent mobility management measures for young people”, in which JMP was the partner responsible for monitoring and evaluation. The ongoing project involves thousands of children in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Austria, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece and Italy.

JMP also implemented a campaign in several London schools which attracted 3,533 participants from 12 primary schools in Newham and a further 400 pupils in three secondary schools in Sutton and Haringey.

The younger children took part in a Traffic Snake Campaign to achieve more sustainable trips to and from school while the older ones designed their own short video clips. The top nine will be put on DVD and from those three will be selected for showing at film festivals.

As the project is a three year programme with two years still to go JMP hopes to roll it out to a lot more schools in the UK.