"TACKLING THE INTANGIBLE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE LINKED TO THE MANY DIFFERENT HORSE ACTIVITIES OR USES, SAVING THIS HERITAGE, RESPECTING IT AND ENHANCING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF IT AT LOCAL, NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LEVELS. Everybody carries within himself a concealed but meaningful message. EMPREINTE is a cultural and artistic exchange scheme involving students from 3 high schools in Romania, Spain and France; It is based on the memory and transmission of the right move to adopt with the Horse, whether it be in farm activities, environmental protection, transport or more widely about any other human activity linked to the Horse. André MANDARINO, Director of the artistic company ""Les Escargots Ailés"" (Snails with wings) with which the project was built, is particularly interested in the intangible cultural heritage made of all the know-how and actions of the practices related to the various activities of the horse world. Every culture has a different approach to this issue, it seemed interesting to compare our knowledge and our experience to those of our European partners. The horse is indeed a useful animal in some countries (e.g., for transport and work in Romania), pet for hobbies in others (e.g. France), and in Spain, there are of course these different uses and in addition to them there is dressage and the use of the horse in various artistic fields (Royal School of Equestrian Art in Jerez). How can we preserve this cultural and intangible heritage? Simply by making it live by itself. This scheme aims at collecting these moves, this intangible heritage, in order to arouse skills somewhat ancestral. The primary step consists in meeting the different actors taking part into the project, collecting and listing these skills, know-how and know-how-to-be, and identifying them as meaningful identity eye-opening. As far as exchanges are concerned, the scheme has enhanced these ancestral practices which have slowly disappeared over the years in favor of technology and ensure that they will continue to exist in the long run. This whole work which has been done in every partner school has been reinvested in the setting up of a show based on contemporary circus arts. It has emphasized aerial performances, choreographic requirement as well as staging, lights and sound in an effort to draw a sensitive approach to these Horse moves and practices that we all carry in ourselves without being really able to express them. ERASMUS + helped fund three mobility students (Spain and Romania for the creation of the scenario and training, then France where the show was created) as well as three transnational meetings (Spain, France and Romania) for managers of the project. The main participants involved in the project are: - 37 French, Spanish and Romanian students aged 16-17 years - 10 French, Spanish and Romanian teachers (mainly teachers of languages, sport, socio-cultural education, history)The joint visits in the field of the horse and the many artistic repetitions with 2 artists (André MANDARINO, Director and Sibille PLANQUES, choreographer) helped the students to discover and create together a show that was presented to a large audience (more of 700 spectators). The show was complete success and is the highlight of the project.This project aims at encouraging the holders of such an intangible and cultural heritage to transmit their valuable knowledge to the next generations."