European Training Quality Label to be updated
Late last year, the Brussels based international motorcycle trade association ACEM announced that its successful European Motorcycle Training Quality Label is being updated - "with Label Holders and academia bringing motorcycle safety training to the next level".
All 36 schools awarded the European Motorcycle Training Quality Label and academia are joining forces to pave the way to a new high-quality training concept to address the most relevant and frequent powered two-wheeler accident scenarios.
The aim is to create a level system that clusters these skills in groups of increasing abilities, encouraging motorcyclists to continue developing their personal riding curriculum over time.
This concept will be offered free of charge to all training schools interested in improving the quality of their post-licence courses. To ensure a larger deployment, it will also be shared with bodies planning to set up voluntary motorcycle safety training programmes in countries currently with limited training options.
"The level system concept represents a natural evolution of the European Motorcycle Training Quality Label especially thanks to the united endeavours of training experts and academia, namely: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - LMU, Würzburg Institute for Traffic Sciences - WIVW, Institute for Motorcycle Safety - ifz and traffic accident research at TU Dresden - VUFO."
ACEM Secretary General, Antonio Perlot, is quoted as saying: "The European Motorcycle Training Quality Label already is an excellent example of how industry players, NGOs, motorcycle trainers and users' organisations can work together for motorcycle safety.
"With strong involvement we will now take the Label to the next level by providing a self-assessment tool for European riders and a toolbox for motorcycle trainers. Ultimately, the goal of this initiative is to motivate riders to undergo regular voluntary training and achieve higher levels of safety riding performance."
The working process will be led by Klaus Schwabe of the KTM Riders Academy and the architect of this concept. The high-quality training concept is expected to be launched by the end of 2025.
The European Motorcycle Training Quality Label is a voluntary certification scheme for post-licence safety training programmes run by the German Road Safety Council, the International Motorcycling Federation and the European Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers.
The main objective of the scheme is to inform motorcyclists across the EU about the best training programmes available in their countries and to increase the number of riders undergoing high-quality voluntary training regularly.
There are currently 36 certified programmes in 11 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, with more motorcycle training centres expected to join in 2024.
In 2019, the European Motorcycle Training Quality Label received the Road Safety Charter Award in the category "Voluntary commitments" from the European Commission.
