"The Erasmus+ Project „ Learning about our countries – we are united in Europe“ with pupils and teachers of schools in 5 countries- ""Nikolay Katranov"" secondary school in Svishtov, Bulgaria; 7th gymnasium of Rhodes, Greece; Kulupenai M.Valancius Basic School, Lithuania; Pobiedziska Kazimierza Odnowiciela Basic school, Poland; and Ahmet Cuhadaroglu middle school in Istanbul, Turkey - opened new opportunities for the schools' communities to travel, to improve their geographical knowledge and the world perception which were insufficient before the beginning of the project. The students of the schools were given new and unconventional possibilities to learn about European Union and the five countries of the project. The project program was created with the purpose to broaden students' views about the contemporary world, to present new unconventional methods and learning and communicating, to improve the competences necessary to be successful in nowadays world. The project fulfilled these objectives: - created more attractive educational conditions based non- traditional ways/methods of teaching/ learning about the EU and the countries of the project;- created possibilities of self - education for students with low motivation when involving them in task preparation and fulfillment process;- improved the communicative competences and social skills of pupils while their participating in various activities with peers of the 5 different countries;- created non-traditional learning possibilities (to learn with peers of the 5 countries) opportunities for pupils;- raised pupils‘s motivation in learning English and some basic vocabulary of Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Polish, and Turkish; - opened traveling possibilities for pupils with lower opportunities when participating in transnational students- teachers meetings;- improved pupils‘ active participation in a society life when presenting the project to their school communities and communities of other participants; - increased pupils‘ digital competences when constantly communicating by using IT during the project implementation and collecting and selecting the materials to be used for learning- teaching activities ; - improved the knowledge about Europe and about the 5 countries' geography, history, and culture;- the teachers of the 5 countries shared their pedagogical competences regarding non-traditional ways of education;- encouraged international communication among pupils and teachers of the 5 countries during the project lifetime and after the completion of the project. These objectives affected directly the communities of the 5 schools -participants of the project. The students aged 11-18 were the participants in different planned activities of the project.The project program consisted of the 5 parts/ topics chosen by each partner country to develop and prepare learning - teaching activities for all the participants : 1.Our Local History (Greece), 2. Natural beauty of our countries (Poland), 3. Our folklore and customs (Lithuania) 4. Our traditional cuisines (Turkey), 5. Sports and games (Bulgaria). Each topic was led by the country responsible for the activities and outcomes of the topic. Developing learning/teaching process for each topic would took about 4 months time. At the beginning of their time, the country responsible for the topic presented the non- traditional learning/ teaching tasks and activities prepared for all the project members and presented them on the main project dissemination platform, eTwinning, for all the partners to study. At the end of the task completion, the leading topic country organized an international mobility meeting where learning/teaching activities were performed and the intellectual output was created and presented (if created earlier) to the all the participants of the project. The five day learning /teaching activities were organized in 4 partner countries - Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, and Lithuania. The program of the Turkish school was covered be the 7th gymnasium of Rhodes because of political instability and the state of emergency status in Turkey at the time of the project implementation. Five CD/DVDs ( intellectual outputs) were created during the project time to use them as pedagogical means in school education curriculum.The project was innovative in methods chosen : non-traditional learning-teaching methods leading to new teaching and assessment approach during the project program implementation. The results of the project have long lasting impact on the participants and the whole communities of the five project partner countries:- the relationship and friendship of the partner schools the did not end after the completion of the project;- participating in Erasmus + project brought a new comprehension of European values and experience for the future projects."