"In the world of rapid changes, education seems to have become a big problem in many countries. It is needed to re-adjust the teaching process by empowering our students with competencies that can help them integrate and rapidly adapt to changes. In this frame, the project main coordinator identifieded the social inclusion as a starting point to develop these soft skills. All partner schools with quite same social-economical background in students' families worked in this direction. The Active and responsible citizenship project reunites 5 schools from Greece, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. Our children are raised facing one of the greatest challenges societies face at a European level, diversity. As the young students, to which the project is addressed to, are still at the age when they are looking for role models, we believe that having in front of them teachers who practically promote the active citizenship encouraging social inclusion, offering their own behavioral examples in getting voluntarily involved in improving the life of the community will determine our pupils to be responsible active citizens of Europe. Through our project we aimed to make our students understand that active citizenship is the glue that maintains society together. The objectives we produced in our project were: -to raise awareness about active citizenship among 250 students from 5 EU schools during a 2 years project -to develop 250 students' knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to act as active citizens in their communities -to strengthen active citizenship as a lifestyle among students from 5 EU schools from 5 EU countries -to create an e-toolkit for schools, containing good practice examples for promoting active citizenship The project is addressed to 250 primary school students (8-12 years old) indirectly involved and more than 50 teachers directly involved in the project. We have carefully planned a series of activities that will lead to achievement of the project’s objectives using Social and emotional learning (SEL) strategy to help immerse students in the project development. SEL help participants to acquire knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to understand and manage their emotions, personal feelings, set personal goals, develop empathy awareness and establish positive relationships. Various instructional strategies (group discussion, role play, simulations, debates, multimedia presentations, outside speakers) have been used to raise awareness about active citizenship. The results of these activities were: 5 multimedia presentations ""What is active citizenship?"", 5 videos: “Cultural values in my country”, 5 seminars with a special guest, an outside speakers representing an NGO to talk about civic values and to promote the importance of volunteers have been organized in each partner country. By developing activities using SEL (comics, stories, group activities, team building games), we aimed to develop our students' knowledge, attitudes and skills as active citizens of their communities. To enhance students' social awareness, self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making and relationship skills, tangible results comics exhibition, magazine containing stories, 5 multimedia presentations ""Active citizens and environment"", 5 presentations ""My school, my city, my country"" were created. Thus, a common Erasmus+ garden. We wish that we build up active citizenship as a lifestyle, Active Citizens Clubs for students were created in all the 5 schools involved in the project. These clubs aimed to develop motivation and engagement for promoting civic participation in life on a long term. The students of the club got common T-shirts created within the project. One of the activities of the club had the obligation to create souvenirs and handicrafts for the project partners. Teachers developed 20 lesson plans using an interdisciplinary approach which was part of the Active Citizenship and produced the e-toolkit promoting active citizenship. Through this partnership we considered to promote active citizenship and responsibility, increase school cooperation with institutions from the local community, encourage schools to embrace Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) programs to improve students’ lives and their academic achievements, foster networking among students to continue organizing activities related to the project's topic, develop the school curricula and encourage interdisciplinarity in teaching. The participation in this project contribute to the development of the involved schools in the long-term by expanding the school curricula, especially internationalizing it, contributing to the development of qualitative teaching and to the institutional development plans, and promoting the schools’ image in the local communities. We consider that the Active Citizens Clubs in each school had the knowledge and sensitivities concerning topics as diversity, volunteering, environtment and cultural heritage continuing their activities after the end of our project."