"<< Background >>Youth civic engagement or participation in their countries or the EU civic activities are quite low even though it is slowly growing at present. The results of surveys and researches implemented by different European organizations show that youth participation in civic and political life are low enough Working with students all the time it is noticed they are passive and avoid expressing their opinion for specific topic and it might be considered that it is not for the lack of knowledge but lack of competences and skills of self-confidence, critical thinking and creativity as well as the lack of practice in public speaking and debating. It is undoubtable young people of the EU should gain consciousness for their importance in active civic and political participation, understand that their activities and decisions can make changes for welfare of humanity. Participating in the project activities students will gain and improve their knowledge of current issues and cultures of the European Union, strengthen their critical thinking and creative competences, develop skills of public speaking and debating. They’ll also build the values for importance of being active in participation to consider, overcome and make decisions for the problems which the EU is facing at present. The project language is going to be English so participants will develop the language skills.<< Objectives >>- Youth civic engagement and developing their civic responsibility - active youth participation in local. national, European context;- develop the competences : critical-thinking, creativity, problem-solving, tolerance, empathy, - developing debating and public speaking skills in the international context;- improving cooperation and communication skills at international level;- establishing online cooperation (etwinnning); - learnt to be open to diversity, teenagers are able to accept differences and estimate similarities;- created the programme of Active citizenship"" - created rooms on social media: facebook, youtube for the intercultural messages to Europe;- strengthened students' self-confidence and developed values;- shared good teaching practice among teachers;- creating strategies to integrate the EU studies in the school subjects applying partner schools practice;- prepared training programmes for students'' trainings, which could be used as non-formal trainings at schools after the project activities have finished;<< Implementation >>LTTA for students and teachers, each LTTA activity is devoted to a different theme linked to the EU issues (discrimination, fake news, democracy and EU citizenship, pollution and consumption, human rights), LTTA for teachers is devoted to develop methodological competences to integrate the EU in their teaching subjects;Working on the creation of the programme “Active citizenship” with teacher’s toolkit will be created;Each partner school will launch a debating club in their schools;Each partner will organize multiple event at the national level;Competitions of debates and public speaking will be constantly organized;Meeting with the national members of the parliament will be organized.<< Results >>Project production: the programme “Active citizenship” with teacher’s toolkit will be created;Students will develop their critical thinking, creativity, empathy, tolerance, language skills. They will be more motivated and active in their communities, civic activities. They will also develop debating and public speaking skills, gain more self confidence in decision making or solving problems.The students will gain much knowledge regarding the EU and its workThe teachers will develop their professional qualification, will gain knowledge and improve the quality ofthe lesson organization by applying more different methods"