Laboratory of Health and Road Safety – LaHeRS is affiliated to the Department of Social Work at the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece (TEI of Crete) ( http://www.teicrete.gr ). LaHeRS has been actively involved in the undergraduate education of Social Work students and promotes research in health and safety related areas. Since its foundation LaHeRS has been a partner or a coordinating institution in several research projects under the Operational Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training, which is co-financed by the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund and national resources (e.g. www.teicrete.gr/archimedes). Besides national funds LaHeRS has an active involvement in projects under international funding schemes (COST “357 PROHELMET”), LdV “LLP-LdV-TOI-2007-TR-008”). LaHeRS has also established strategic partnerships with many Greek and European educational and research institutions to increase its research capacity (e.g. Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham; Department of Psychology, Technical University of Ankara). LaHeRS has produced considerable evidence on the above research areas and has authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings to disseminate its work (Social Sciences Citation, Scopus, Medline-indexed). LaHeRS has retained an explicit inter-disciplinary character with academic partners from sociology, social psychology, health promotion, social work, statistics, engineering and biomedical informatics.