"Title: LEARNING THROUGH SCHOOL PROJECTS - MOTIVATE, CREATES AWARENESS AND MAKES STUDENTS MORE RESPONSIBLE Partners: Romania (coordinator) Turky, Greece, Italy, Croatia. Duration: 24 months. Argument: Education through and for culture represents a key concern for most schools, since cultural knowledge is essential for young people's development. Thus, culture must be a priority in their education. Based on the proposed activities, our project tar-gets students, offering an answer to their needs to learn and understand local, regional, national and European cultural values. Purpose: to educate and to stimulate students' interest towards the history of the town\city and their country, to discover the national identity by acknowledging cultural, spiritual and traditional values, getting involved in the conservation, harnessing and promotion of the national cultural heritage at a European level. Main objective: promoting European multicultural awareness, cultural diversity, multilingualism, intercultural dialogue and shared experience. Specific objectives. Students are expected to: - develop intellectual curiosity for discovering historical and cultural information regarding European countries; - create cultural diversity awareness by understanding their national cultural in relationship with the European environment; - increase their interest and motivation for learning foreign languages, by developing relations with the project partners; - develop positive attitudes, of respect towards diversity and cultural identity, based on developing the feeling of active European citizenship as well as fair-play; - understand the role and importance of local, national and international heritage in defining national cultural identity; - develop the ability to recognize similarities and differences between cultures by showing interest and respect for the national heritage items included in the International Heritage. Teachers are expected to: enhance their knowledge about European cultural diversity, the pedagogical best practices, the manage-ment of their discipline, the non-formal educational strategies by becoming aware of the models used by the partner institutions. Target group: approximately 1000 individuals: 1.direct beneficiaries: students and teachers of partner schools ( (100 individuals); 2. indirect beneficiaries (participants during disseminations): - the parents of students involved in the project; - other students and teachers from partner schools; - the local community (media representatives, museums, memorial houses, Creative and folklore centers, etc.). Effects=concrete results lasting sphere of learning, awareness, involvement and accountability of direct participants. Planned European Cultural Itineraries, to contribute to the discovery/definition of national identity, students’ awareness (direct/indirect), the sense of belonging to the European cultural-historical values. Non-formal education activities are an opportunity for: *students (beneficiaries of the first line),TO BE BETTER AND TO KNOW MORE, and so will give another dimension to their free time combining usefulness with pleasure and accepting that without knowing the history, culture and national traditions can not live in a modern society, you can not relate to the cultural space national in the context of Europe; * teachers: - new opportunities to exchange best practices for increase student performance; - a higher level in strengthening the teacher-student relationship in the context of partnership for learning; - supplementing teaching portfolio with specialized materials needed work in the classroom and in the transformation of an ordinary trip into a lesson of history, culture and civilization, to develop skills in assessing pupils / promotion of national cultural values. Methodology: -wokshops for: a) documentation, ""inventory"", selection and ordering information; b) research for mini-projects development, which will form the basis the project mobility; c) knowledge of customs and traditions specific to each partner countries (wedding rituals, folk festivals, or those occasioned by religious affiliation, etc.); - visiting regions, cultural-historical objectives from the partners countries included in the project; - working meetings; - competitions (face to face) on issues of history,culture, civilization's partner countries. It is transnational because: - involving participants from 5 countries located in different geographical areas of Europe; - each partner country comes to this project with the particular historical, cultural and civilizational specific. These coordinates will facilitate a multicultural and multilingual beneficial dialogue among participants, to strengthen the partner-ship between schools and an advantageous exchange of best practices in management education schools."