"The motivation for this project is to share and implement best practices on how to build on the foundation of similarities between different nationalities to attain a higher sense of European and international citizenship amongst the students, while respecting differences in cultural heritage and personal identity. The need for this project stems from a growing nationalistic movement seen not just within the European Union, but globally. We aim to support young Europeans in achieving the understanding that international collaborations do not de facto obliterate cultural heritage or identity. Despite differences, communities - big and small - can thrive by creating a space where everyone experiences being included. The methodologies that will be used in the project are Blended Learning, soft CLIL and social inclusion. These will help working towards developing the students' 21st century skills e.g. “Social Responsibility and Cultural, Global and Environmental Awareness”, “Collaboration and Leadership” and “Lifelong Learning, Self-Direction and Personal Management”. These skills support what we aim to achieve with this project + work towards the ET 2020 set for common EU objectives to address challenges in education and training systems by 2020. The project ""Cultural heritage and social inclusion in an international optic"" includes five partner schools from Netherland, Poland, Portugal, Turkey and Denmark. The projects aims to connect three main elements: cultural heritage, social inclusion and internationalization. These optics made it important for the participants to represent a wide range of geografical, cultural, religious and ethnic diversity. Since the project has a focus on creating school communities based on social inclusion method, it was also important that the participating schools differ in size and character, having vocational schools, high schools and a 10th grade centre represented. Diversity within the school communities also differs, with some partner schools having a great deal of experience with inclusion of minorities and disadvantaged students and others have a more homogenous student body. All these elements will offer an opportunity to compare local practices and developing new strategies and working procedures collectively to put to the test at partner schools. The projects aims demand active participation from both teachers and students. Teachers must implement the best practices they learn from European colleagues and evaluate on these ongoing, while students must be motivated to parttake in culture meetings with open-minded-ness and an eagerness to reflect upon own identity in both a national and international optic. The term culture meeting is defined in a fairly broad sense in this project: Because no two people are alike, the possibility of being challenged on your beliefs and view of the world are always present and therefor so is personal growth. Four of the school partners have worked together in different KA2 projects earlier on (Portugal, Poland, Turkey and Denmark) and the Dutch coordinator, Hilgo Wempe, has also worked on several KA2 projects together with the Danish school, however, with another Dutch school as the partner school. The extensive collaborative experience helps ensure a prosperous collaboration. During the project four physical mobilities will take place with 2 teachers and 6 students (aged 15-17) from each partner participating. Every physical mobility will be supported by workshops in the project's Twinspace group and virtual meetings in Twinspace - Online Meetings beforehand. The topics of the physical mobilities are the basis of communities seen across the world: History&cultural heritage, music, performance & folklore, food&art and lastly nature&human life. These topics should give the students a possibility to see that no matter how many differences they see in each other, they will always be able to connect on several interfaces, helping to break down stereotypes. During each physical mobility all partners will contribute actively to the content by sharing from their home country about the week's topic. Two teacher trainings are included in the project (one in each school year) to ensure sharing of best practices as well as knowledge obtained during Erasmus+ KA1 funded courses on cultural heritage and social inclusion, that can be implemented throughout the project. Twinspace will also be use to communicate, organize, dividing of tasks and ongoing evaluations. A handbook for teachers about best practices will be assembled and uploaded to the Project Results Platform at the end of the project. The longterm results of this project are expected to be seen in the way the partner schools will keep working on creating openminded and tolerant communities with their future student bodies. For the participating students the aim is for them to learn from this project that investing in both national and international communities is possible and a positive."