Traditionally the term ‘heritage’ is used to describe a people’s language, culture or architecture in a historic way. More current definitions of heritage focus rather on contemporary society in terms of what people have in common, promoting the values of diversity, civic participation and intercultural understanding. A city’s heritage is no longer a set of buildings, archeological sites or statues of people showcasing historic facts but also a set of values that promote civic engagement and participation, openness to society and critical thinking. The development of civic competences - knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that enable an individual to actively participate in the society – is a prerequisite for the active, democratic and civic engagement of people in their societies. Education in ‘values’ helps to build our civic heritage -inclusive societies on the shared values of democracy, tolerance and freedom by strengthening solidarity and local communities.The Covid-19 pandemic is already changing the way people are engaging with each other and how they are supporting their local communities and national initiatives. Activities related to civic engagement have become stronger than ever during this pandemic, getting people closer together during a time of extreme physical isolation. From informal local and small initiatives such as helping vulnerable neighbours during the pandemic, to large scale national programmes of volunteering to support health service or food production, all citizens have a role to play. We have also noted during this period, unprecedented support for a European action and involvement of citizens to support at European level. As we are still in the early days of this pandemic and these new ways of working, we will monitor how people’s civic engagement will progress. There will be a lot of mourning and reflection at the end of this crisis, but also quite a lot to celebrate on. Civic engagement is bound to be a success story. The project Our Civic Heritage seeks to promote European common values and civic education and engagement in Europe. It addresses three types of target groups: members of the public that are interested in civic participation activities, educators that teach civic participation and cultural heritage, and policy makers and those working in the cultural heritage and civic sector whether in a public or private capacity. The project’s aim is the promotion of European civic identity and engagement through the following specific objectives:- Enabling intercultural understanding- Promoting European cultural diversity- Embracing the common European values of openness, civic engagement, critical thinking, human rights- Increasing civic capacity training initiatives- Strengthening digital literacy and enabling digital engagement - Strengthening digital European citizenship actions The project will apply a comprehensive approach that includes provision for civic education with an intercultural dialogue to strengthen the civic participation capacity, digital, social, intercultural competences and critical thinking of adult citizens of diverse background and generations. It will provide educators with clear methodological guidance regarding civic heritage, authentic teaching resources and good practice examples.‘Our Civic Heritage’ builds its methodology on experiences of 10 partner organisations in citizenship education, training and promotion of European values, history and culture, and will produce and disseminate at EU level intellectual outputs that will significantly contribute to the innovation of the adult education sector in the 8 partner countries and beyond.The project creates easily adaptable and transferable outputs - digital library with study cases of civic engagement initiatives in action, civic heritage methodology, digital impact stories, training kit to digital civic actions, curriculum for civic skills development and actions with high potential of adapting to different learning styles and transferability to other countries and environments. A total of 200 targeted citizens/adults will benefit of the pilot activities: workshops and local civic events; 160 target groups representatives and stakeholders will be involved in civic engagement initiatives identification; 8 target group actors will share their impact stories; 16 adult educators will be directly involved in the validation process of outcomes. Project results will directly reach at least 800 persons (citizens, adult educators, stakeholders) via project activities, multiplier events, creating a strong base for long term exploitation.In long term, the awareness and development of civic skills and civic capacity will influence directly the social, cultural and environmental welfare in the regions involved and the project educational products and practical civic actions will contribute to the integration of European values and civic skills training into European curricula.