This project is directed to promoting young people's awareness of the values of the common heritage of European citizens since ancient Greek and Roman times. With the design of this project, young European citizens are given opportunities to explore Europe's long-term history, the development leading from these political and social entities leading to basic cultural achievements, which have led to the current political body called Europe. Further cultural influences that have made an impact on the current European situation since the fall of the Roman Empire will also be considered, as it has greatly contributed to Europe's diversity and thus its broad heritage.Given the educational requirements in the member countries of the EU, the age of 12 to 15 seems to be the main target group to promote the awareness of our cultural achievements and to help build a common ground to live together in mutual understanding, tolerance, and support. This way, young people can develop a growing sense of fundamental values that are necessary in a world with growing complexity with more opportunities, but also more threats and risks than ever before.The number of active participants at each partner school depends on the organisational framework in which the project is being carried out. The base will be formed as a group of pupils and teachers actively designing and running the project and forming a link to the curricular classes within the partner schools. This way, a spin-off effect of the project activities is intended. The size of these active groups will range from two to six teachers and 10 to 25 pupils from grades six to ten, according to experiences from previous Comenius and Erasmus projects.The project is divided into five phases with different thematic priorities. The national teams will exchange their findings on the project's digital platforms while working on these and present and discuss the results during the learning, teaching, and training meetings. Four activities at a national level will be accompanied by one activity at Brussels, providing a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a governing European body.The project activities will be monitored and evaluated by pupils and teachers at the end of each project stage and published in the project's platforms.The project results are expected to contribute to regular school curricula in terms of a practice-oriented, hands-on approach to European culture, history, economics, and politics. Using a foreign language will also be an integral part of overcoming lingual, cultural, and social borders, thus contributing to a greater sense of internationalism and awareness of common grounds and diversity among young European citizens. With our final product we hope to achieve a compendium of all aspects of an augmented awareness of and commitment for a European citizenship.

"Erasmus + 2017-2019 project: “Music Connects Europe”. Spain (coordinator) and 5 partners: Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Poland and Latvia. Our project was conceived with the vocation of being shared by all teachers, students or anyone, thus giving more diffusion to something that was fundamental for all partners: to demonstrate that music is a sensational vehicle to transmit the most necessary values in our students and in society in general. As young leaders of tomorrow, it is essential that young people are informed and committed to the global vision of the future. For this reason, it is fundamental to raise awareness about the common artistic and cultural roots that unite us and the important historical facts that have shaped the differences that diversify us as citizens of this world. ""Music connects Europe"" aimed, and still does, to build a discussion platform and create the conditions for active engagement. This was the calendar of the mobilities:October 2017: meeting of coordinators and music teachers in Poland (Przygodzice).March 2018: mobility with students in Italy (Palermo).June 2018: mobility with students in Bulgaria (Vratsa).October 2018: meeting of coordinators and music teachers in Latvia (Saldus).March 2019: mobility with students in Greece (Athens).May 2019: mobility in Spain (Cadiz). During all the mobilities, we shared the activities programmed in the project and the students and teachers carried out those activities organized by the host country and the coordinator. After each mobility, the activities were programmed to evaluate and plan.The participants in the mobilities were 2 teachers and 3 students from each country, who at the time of the exchange were 14-15 years old, although the programmed activities were carried out by all the students of the partner schools.The activities were developed in this order:Before the first Transnational Project Meeting in Poland, the activities were aimed at making the project known in schools and its surroundings and each country produced a video presenting their school and city so that the rest of the students get to know each other. A contest for the development of the project logo was held. Before visiting Italy, students prepared a work on classical music in each of our countries. Another activity consisted in the interpretation of a piece of classical music from each country. Before travelling to Bulgaria, students researched aspects of ""urban popular music"" in each country and performed a piece of this music during this mobility, together with some of their teachers.Then, in the months before the third exchange in Greece, we focused on the traditional (folk) music in each country, searching for information and performing a song. A typical instrument of each country was made before visiting Spain, the fourth and last mobility with students.Coinciding with the Europe Day, May 9th (not casual, it was programmed two years before), we celebrated it in the schoolyard with all the students and teachers of the school, and all the students and teachers from the partner countries attended it. The flags of the six countries honed that day in the courtyard, next to the European Union flag with the word Erasmus + written in the middle. Everyone heard a sentence about music as a vehicle for the unity of Europe read by the students from each country in their mother tongue and in English.A special activity was the final one, in Cádiz: the students put lyrics to a popular pop song, each country wrote a stanza in their language and the chorus was composed in English. The song was called Music Everywhere and was performed live in the auditorium of the school in Cádiz; The music was performed by 4 teachers of the school (acoustic guitar, electric bass guitar, keyboard and flamenco box). The performance was recorded and disseminated on the websites of the schools and on their social networks. It was a multinational teamwork, with students and teachers from 6 different countries, who spoke seven different languages but with a single one that united them: Music."