Migration is one of the main themes that will continue challenging the attitudes of European governments, populations and individuals in both our current and future generations. Countries all over the Europe are engaged in developing strategies in integration and education of migrants, refugees and newcomers, and national and transnational institutions are still only beginning to develop suitable frameworks education in common, democratic values, civic engagement and participation with migrant adult learners. Integrating newcomers into our societies is a challenge which can only be solved on a transnational level. In our project, “Democratic Heritage - Memorials and heritage museums engaging migrants in developing resilient democracies”(DH) seven partners working with cultural heritage such as memorial sites, museums, NGOs, governmental institutions, and cultural centers have gathered to develop a cross-European forum where we will share and evaluate our best practices in adult migrant learning of common values, civil and democratic competencies: experiences and methods in working with newcomers, refugees and migrants. Using the European Councils democratic competencies together with the expertise from our institutions current learning programs, DH wishes to share and develop best practices on how institutions can further develop their innovative participatory methodologies and activities minted on newcomers, refugees and migrant populations in differing European contexts. The project includes workshops on best practices across borders, data gathering as well as evaluation of innovative methods and practices. The evaluation will be conducted based on surveys and questionnaires developed by the project group and will provide new and useful knowledge which will further advance the knowledge of democratic learning for migrants, refugees and newcomers. Profile of participants: The partnership will work in close contact to establish differing engagement strategies dependent on the participating groups varying situations. This will be a challenging task, but one we hope will engender a series of best practises which contain transferable knowledge and skills, allowing for differing institutions to learn from each other and carry these learning solutions through e-learning activities, written reports and published material. The PP’s involved are The Falstad Centre (Nor), Filipstad cultural school (Swe), World Value Survey (Swe), The Green Cultural and Educational Centre Visio (Fin), Art 27 (Blg), The University of Murcia (UMU), and the Centre of Peace Studies (Croatia).Objectives: The main objective of DH will be to share and develop the institutions innovative participatory methodologies, and seeing how they correspond to the learning requirements detailed in the Council of Europe’s democratic competencies. This will be ensured through the committing to a series of transnational best practice workshops and the production of a handbook, serving as intellectual outputs co-produced by all project partners. The handbook is translated to 7 languages.A second objective will be to collate and collect the data from the activities to help generate more information on the effect that this methodology can have on refugee, migrants and newcomers, relating to the European Council Democratic Competencies. This will be ensured through the development of a survey by the World Value Survey which serves as a second intellectual output, and will allow the collection of underrepresented data from migrant, refugee and newcomer populations. A third objective is the creation of a project website, which will share best practices, concrete examples as well as survey data, which will be available to other institutions engaged in adult migrant learning programs beyond the project periode.The partners involved in this project represent various organizations in the EU/EAA who all have developed and practice different strategies in working with migrants, refugees and newcomer through shared frame of common values, civic engagement and participation. Having a diverse set of partners allows this project to collect responses from both participants and teachers as well as collecting an international sample of empirical material from groups of migrants and refugees that are underrepresented in statistical studies. Developing a cross-european forum where experiences, techniques and methodologies in working with migrants, refugees and newcomer education can be shared, developed and tested in the field is a one of the primary objectives that this project will contribute to.