It is evident that children’s literature and especially the genre of fairy tales, helps a young child make sense of what it means to be human and helps them understand the world around them. Another well established fact is that mental health and wellbeing is an important issue for all educators, who are often the first line of defense for their students. Based on these assumptions, we considered it appropriate to undertake a two-year training program to address exactly mental health issues, using fairy tales as a means to do this.With different multicultural project activities we want to stimulate students’ curiosity and motivate them to explore innovative approaches to solving problems and tackle with environmental issues.In order to decide the choice of the axes on which this project is based, we conducted a thorough analysis in each of our organizations and concluded to the following needs: a. Need for innovative approach to educationb. Teacher’s need to have in-service training on Mental Health Issuesc. Poor use of English as a second language. d. Reluctance to access traditional literaturee. Early school leaving and reluctance to attend school To achieve our objectives, we decided that the main idea will be: “Raising mental health awareness and teaching valuable life lessons through the perennial wisdom of old tales”. Actually, the project will be implemented on two educational axes as follows:* Students axis: Traditional Tales - Intercultural education – Arts – Literature* Teachers axis: Tackling with and promoting innovatively Mental Health Education StrategiesDuring the two year program, students will implement six 3-month sub-projects, dealing with environmental issues. The results of their work will be presented during the LTT activities and travels abroad. The essence of the project is also contained in its acronym, where “TALES”, refers to children and the full title “Teaching about life and emotional skills” refers to educators.1. Turkey: Shadow/Puppet Theater. (Handcraft, making puppets and shadow-figures)(Empathy)2. Bulgaria: Most popular tale in each country. (E-book, dramatization, costumes of the era). (Self Esteem, Self Emotion - Skill Development) 3. Greece: The Aesop fables. (Dramatization) (Interpersonal relationships)4. Serbia: Funny change of a popular fairy tale. (Creative writing, original theatrical presentation)(Adolescence, behaviors and perceptions - Addictions)5. Romania: Fairy tales from around the world and of non-western civilizations (Common characteristics, common ethical subjects, differences) (Issues of physical / mental health and quality of life in fiction and poetry)6. Lithuania: Fairy tales and art. (Presentation of traditional fairy tales in traditional and modern art in each country. Recreation of artistic approaches) (Skills to deal with stress and fear). All activities are addressing both the needs of teachers and pupils. For example, the projects, which will be implemented using innovative mental health approaches, will give teachers the opportunity to try out new teaching styles, but at the same time will also give students the opportunity to improve their performance and gain new and necessary knowledge on cultural and linguistic aspects like the fairy tale genre.Several international seminars are planned, to elaborate simultaneously on the psychological thematic, as well as intercultural subjectsThe seminars will be addressed to broader educational community and the participants will receive official documents as motivation to enrich their portfolios.Etwinning platform will be essential for the implementation of our TALES project, aiming mainly to combine physical mobility with virtual exchanges, making also each LTT mobility integral part of our parallel eTwinning project. Therefore, one third from all activities planned for the overall duration of our project, are going to be implemented through the eTwinning platform.The project is also addressed to other organizations and institutions too, like local communities that are going to be heavily involved by local press, tv and radio programs and get an open mind on different subjects. Also, higher educational authorities will receive the results of our discussions on the reasons why certain problems arise in our educational systems. The experience and the outcome of the seminars will be published in concise e-books, which will be distributed in every possible way and in as many educational sites in the countries concerned.