"""Together in our diversity"" is a two-year project that has been conceived to foster collaboration and innovation among four partner schools in different parts of Europe: Spain, Italy, Latvia and Romania. By carrying this project out transnationally we wish to tackle the issue of social inclusion from an European, broader, richer perspective which, no doubt, will make the project outcomes more widely valid and applicable to any other countries of our environment. The project aims at providing an insight into the state of the matter in the four schools, in order to raise awareness among our educators and our students , and thus develop more dynamic and committed learning environments.While tackling social inclusion and students at a disadvantage, our main priority, we will focus on two other major goals:a) develop competence in the English language, with a special attention to oral skillsb) improve the level of digital competence All the partner schools involved in the project bring to the table knowledge and experience in delivering successful school to school European projects and have many links with schools across Europe and outside the EU. IES Padre Feijoo (Spain) is a leading school in implementing programs to care for diversity and will act as coordinator.Our target groups are secondary school students aged 14-17, who will have the opportunity of taking active part in a multilateral project that they would otherwise have no access to, given their particular social, economic or academic disadvantage. Such opportunity will broaden their minds and it will increase their European sense of belonging, preventing racist, intolerant and chauvinistic behaviors.The project is based on the analysis of four main topics both through collaborative work on the eTwinning platform and by means of four short-term group exchanges:1- Migration, ethnicity, minorities.2- Abilities, disabilities, gifted students, specific programs.3- Gender diversity, stereotyped images, sexuality.4- Cultural and linguistic diversity, EU values and challenges.Apart from the exchanges, three staff training events have been planned to offer participating teachers some professional development on areas which are essential to guarantee the success and sustainability of the project: eTwinning, ICT and dissemination strategies.An initial assessment conducted by each of the participating schools has allowed us to identify our needs and set the following goals: 1) To foster social inclusion and to prevent early school dropout among socially disadvantaged students.2) To promote social and civic, digital and intercultural competences as well as foreign language learning.3) To develop the participants' oral skills in English through virtual media and face to face meetings.4) To study from an analytical, critical perspective the issue of social inclusion in several European countries different in their social nature, as well as in language and culture, in order to find common ground among the four partners regarding the social challenges that each of us faces.5) To come up with tools and resources which will enable us to prevent, deal with and solve the problems that our societies and school communities face due to social and ethnic diversity, migration flows and socio-economic differences.6) To encourage the use of eTwinning as an instrument to develop quality projects in education. All sectors of the school community will be represented in the project: students, teachers, social workers, learning support staff, families and local NGOs and agencies. This is a student-centered project, so our students will be the beneficiaries and key actors. As such, they will be involved in all stages of the program: design, development and implementation.Assessment will be coordinated by a joint assessment commission. All through the development of the project we will establish some key stages for evaluation: a) an intermediate and a final evaluation, b) on-site assessment during all staff training events and group exchanges, c) ongoing evaluation of work on eTwinning and d) follow-up meetings by virtual media after each student mobility. Partial evaluations of results and impact conducted on a regular basis will help to make adjustments and introduce improvements as required. The outcomes of the project will be available on a blog linked to the websites of the schools. It will also contain a virtual guide which may be used by other schools and institutions to address social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity. A specific plan of action has been designed for dissemination activities to achieve as wide an impact as possible."