What would a teenage show a peer from abroad around his/her hometown? The mall! Do our students have any personal cultural awareness? Not really... Do they know which countries belong to the European Union? UK is messing them up! This is exactly what made us feel the urgent need of applying for an Erasmus+ project aimed at the mobility of students. We absolutely want them to have a direct contact with other cultures, compare them to theirs and start thinking about the values of their own. Also, travelling out of their country may offer our students a good input to develop new ideas and build relationships for their future, especially for their job career, hopefully in a European perspective. Last but not least, all school staff members will surely benefit from exchanging information about other school systems and didactical approaches.The participants involved in this project are about 150, aged 10 - 14, coming from public schools located in Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia. Some of them might have learning difficulties or be poorly engaged in their education, so potentially early school leavers.We would like our school community to be aware of the local cultural heritage starting from food. Not only is food a necessity for nutrition, but it also incorporates many cultural values. We want our students to visit and discover the numerous economic realities around that produce specialties with passion and tradition from generation to generation; local products such as the Parmesan Cheese or the Traditional Balsamic Vinegar are known worldwide! These are PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) and/or PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) products, and it is important for our future generation to recognize, evaluate and cherish them. We also want them to realise that so many job positions are required in the food field, going from the farmer or dairyman to the cook, giving them some inspiration for their future decisions in terms of education and employment. Food is also a synonym of gathering: families and friends so often meet around a table to share a meal. But who keeps the culinary traditions? We want to put different generations together, our students and old people, and different cultures to make them work together on traditional recipes in order to create a wellbeing atmosphere for a better social cohesion. Another objective we would like to achieve is a deeper knowledge of what the European Union is for, how it started, how it is evolving and why it is so important for all the nations to cooperate and distinguish their own cultures at the same time. Diversity is the resourceful key for European citizens just like the numerous culinary good traditions! Since English will be the language of communication among the projects' partners, we will engage students in a new and useful way of learning a foreign language.The planned activities are very practical and include:- visiting a local food reality, for example a farm where the Parmesan Cheese is produced;- creating a traditional recipe book in English;- taking pictures of whatever is linked to food while walking down the streets;- prepare a typical dish from the culinary tradition with the help of old people;- creating a digital cartoon to tell every single activity of the project in English;- visiting the nearest Europe Direct info point for a workshop on Europe and the EU;- comparing different uses of the same ingredient;- analyzing GPI and PDO labels.The informal atmosphere of these activities can help students evaluate education in case they are not engaged in school; the chance to be creative in their own special way and to communicate with foreign speaking peers in a simple way will increase the students' self esteem.The participation in this project will contribute in the long-term to:- make the teachers rethink about an effective approach to raise cultural awareness in their pupils;- continue and create transnational collaborations on diverse topics;- engage students more actively in their own learning process, since the international atmosphere they have tasted in their school and the creativity required will give them a positive input to focus on their future education, be it in their country or abroad;- have the support of more donors to sustain future projects, both on site and transnational, all bearing the same aim: raise European citizens who will eventually choose to be tolerant and collaborative.