"Sometimes people(students, parents, teachers, and administrators) are comfortable living in the shells of their own existence. They are satisfied with the status quo, choose to interact with those from the same religious backgrounds, cultural heritage, and political affiliations. They prefer their days to be filled with very little questioning, or feather-ruffling, or challenging. Sometimes they consider the alternative views of others to be wrong, not just different. From an educational perspective, this is downright dangerous. According to Article 2 of the Treaty on the European Union the Union is based on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. We, the partners from Bulgaria, Lithuania, Italy and Turkey, now have an enormous responsibility to ensure that our students develop cultural awareness and are engaged in acts of citizenship, not only within our schools and surrounding areas, but as active members of the global community. The objectives of the project are derived from the current challenges of education in Europe: • to build pupils’ cultural competences, including students from different background, in terms of becoming culturally aware, gaining cultural knowledge and achieving cultural skills through creative activities • to improve pupils' linguistic, communicative competences in different European Union languages • to make the pupils learn to use ICT to do some activities of the project and virtual collaboration and leadership skills • to enhance the quality of students’ education by exploring good practices in partner schools and adopting them in teaching and learning methods and curricula of each school RESULTS: 1) Learning materials: book""Story about friendship"", leaflet ""The oldest and strangest traditions in our country"", Glossary of terms for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, interactive maps- ""Intangible Cultural heritage under the aegis of UNESCO”,”Landmarks of our countries” 2) Creative materials: logos, posters, Digital story ""How to communicate well with people from different nations”, presentations that include pupils drawings, paintings, video about family traditions, 3) Events: Logo competition, Dancing and Singing Concert, Parents Make a Difference evening 4) Workshops:"" Building Cultural awareness"" and ""How to make a digital story"" 5) Website of the project 180 participants (pupils , aged 16-19, and teachers) will take part in this project.12 pupils and 6 teachers per country ( 72 persons for the whole project) will participate in LTT activities. Many of pupils who will participate come from unprivileged situation and /or regions. In order to achieve the goals, the project includes national and four transnational learning activities in the time period of 24 months. In each initial activity, the students research their local environment. The findings are presented in international groups, where they serve as the starting point for cooperative creative activities – the research of characteristics, habits, culture, and presenting them in educational process. The teachers exchange examples of good practice and include creative approaches in teaching. Thus the methodology follows the pattern: researching/learning – creating – presenting/use of results. During the project, the website is being created, which comprises the project results: an online resource pack of creative learning material for classroom use, created by the participants, a collection of guidelines for interacting with people from different background, the findings of the international research on cultural heritage,human rights, and a gallery of posters, drawings, paintings, produced by the participants. The activities and the impact are evaluated with tools created during the project. The expected impact on students is the development of creativity in learning and its transfer to other spheres of their lives; the impact on teachers is the inclusion of creative approaches in their subject syllabus. Parents realize that educational process appreciates their active involvement.Local cultural organizations, craftsmen and entrepreneurs experience cooperation with an educational institution; their activity is presented to international audience. Creative activities do not end at the project completion: the website remains active and is upgraded into an online collection of examples of creative approaches in education. Schools to which the project results have been disseminated use the material and/or add their own creations."