"We decided to make this partnership because we want students to be educated, to know how to make the difference between good and evil, to find positive models, to learn that they always have a positive alternative, no matter how hard the life situation is. This partnership aims to promote the acquisition of civic attitudes, skills and knowledge through relevant traditional and innovative tales for different students coming from different walks of life and from different cultures. Encouraging students to read tales makes them discover attitudes and qualities that can help them develop healthily in the 21st century. In this way, the students notice the difference between good and evil (the national tales have the ability to see the differences between positive and negative powers) and they become aware of the true values of the contemporary world and the issues that we confront with every day. Participants The target groups of our project are represented by students between14 and 19 and teachers. The students belong to different environments, with financial, social and economic issues, with the risk of dropping out, with poor marks, of different religions and with special needs. General objective: -promoting the acquisition of civic attitudes and active citizenship among students from participating schools by reinterpreting traditional tales from the perspective of the values of contemporary European society (minimum 60% of target group) Specific objectives: -increasing the interest in school through exchanges of good practices and intercultural experiences among students and teachers from participating countries (min. 50%); -developing teaching skills among teachers through innovative reading approaches that link the message of the tale to the contemporary reality (min 60% of the target group); -supporting innovation and creativity through partnership and transdisciplinary approaches (language, literature, religion, history, civic values) (min 40%). Activities: C1 (Romania) - ""An Interactive Course in Narratology and Creativity"" is the course elaborated by a Literature teacher and is meant to provide both a theoretical and practical approach to the concept of ""TALE"", as a literary species. C2 (Greece) - The first students exchange will take place in Greece and its main topic will be ""Our Most Representative Tale"". Therefore, each country has to identify the national story that best represents its cultural identity and present it to the others using different means of expression. C3 (Poland) - the second students exchange consists in learning about European values and the Polish team will have to prepare a power point material with the topic ""Europe and its Values"". C4 (Turkey) - The third students exchange consists in a creative workshop entitled ""Labor-a-story"", where the students guided by their teachers will have to start working on a modern tale having the traditional tale as a model. C5 (Macedonia) - The fourth students exchange consists in developing the technique of writing a tale - a modern tale that focuses on European values. The topic of the meeting will be ""My European Value"", meaning that each country should choose the European value that needs to be better highlighted in their present society. C6 (Portugal) - The final students exchange has as main goal the presentation of the original modern tales in a creative manner. The participants will reunite in order to present their ""Fairy-Tale Europe"", which is their own vision about Europe and its modern values incripted in the language of a tale. Results and impact The biggest impact of our project refers to the number of students who will become aware of the European values and raise interest in reading. During and after the lifetime of the project, the students and the teachers will work cooperatively and throughout the project activities they will realise the need of respecting each other, of being tolerant and friendly, of being respectful and trustworthy. Tolerance, friendship, honesty, peace, freedom are values that contribute to a healthy atmosphere in each school, each country and in Europe. This warm and creative atmosphere is expected to diminish the low achievements of our students and to discourage the lack of interest in reading. Long - term benefits The audio CD and the Digital Book will be at the schools' libraries, at orphanages, at nursing homes, so many people will benefit from them. The information received during the training course will be shared during the teachers' meetings at regional level and many teachers will be able to apply the new approach of reading to classses and many students will be able to discover another way of reading. The outcomes and the outputs of the project will be developed and used permanently in the partners' schools and at local level."