Although our students are provided with quite high quality formal education, we often find they are not adequately prepared to handle and solve the challenges of nowadays because the skills relevant to the demands of our society aren‘t often covered by the traditional lessons and classes. Sometimes there is a significant “skills mismatch“ between the competences the students need to succeed for the personal and professional success in the future life and those they actually possess. All the partners of our Project, five schools from Lithuania, Latvia, Turkey, Portugal and Poland, are focused on the growing active and productive members of their communities and providing them with the supportive atmosphere. We, teachers and educators, look for the new attractive teaching methods and techniques which would help us to meet the students‘ needs and build their key skills and competences. The main goal of this project is to provide appropriate opportunities for the students, their families and other community members to experience and practice life skills, to inculcate them into day to day practice so that it can last with them for their life time. The activities of our Project combine improving the life skills with the learning through the Arts. We focus on such arts areas as music, drama, painting and photography asserting that practices in those fields lead and support most interpersonal skills and deal with the conflicts, provide self-confidence and social tolerance, and show positive effects on other processes. Learning through the arts involves children and adults from the different social and cultural backgrounds and creates equal opportunities for all students including those from the disadvantaged groups. We believe that the general effects of such a Project mention a development of cognitive, social and personal competences for all the participants. We‘ll use a wide range of the methods and approaches such as peer and group learning, classes for the students of mixed ages, experimenting, guided, focused and free exploration, modeling, simulation and visualization, role play, discussions, and conferences. Carrying out the activities of the Project we expect to create and prepare the brochures related to the teaching life skills through four fields of our project: music, drawing, painting and crafts, drama and creative dramatics,and photography and video making. They will contain the descriptions of the teaching techniques, lesson plans, practical exercises, scripts and photos of the students’ works. The brochures will be prepared in paper and digital formal and spread among the learning community on local, regional, national and international levels sharing the best practices and experiences. One of the outputs of our project will also be the photo album “The world seen through the children eyes.” containing the social, street and nature photographies taken by the students . We expect that our students will develop a wide range of leadership skills. The students will improve the skills and abilities to work well with others and step forward to lead with the new ideas and initiatives. In a long time perspective our students will take on big issues and address them in a meaningful way that will have an impact on the world outside the classroom. The students as well as other participants will develop healthy work habits of doing the job in time, respecting the contribution of others and putting the efforts into the success of the final piece. Because most arts disciplines are collaborative in nature , the participants practice working together, sharing responsibilities and compromising with others to accomplish a common goal. The students will learn that a constructive feedback is a part of learning and it isn‘t anything to be offended by or to be taken personally. The evaluation is incorporated in every step of the process in the learning through the arts ensuring that critique is a valuable experience and greatly contributes to the success of the final piece.We believe that our Project matches the real needs of the teaching staff as well as needs of the students and other educators on local, national and international levels, and its results and outputs such as practical guidelines for the workshops and trainings, teaching techniques, lesson plans, descriptions of the exercises to teach and learn life skills through the arts, will be used and exploited continuously after the end of the Project.