TOUCHING THE PAST TO REACH THE FUTURE is a pupil,teacher,parent and grandparent based two-year project focusing on the awareness of Cultural Heritage,Mutual Respect and Cultural Identity.Enriching European Year of Cultural Heritage,six partner schools will work together to awake the forgotten tangible and intangible heritages and make them active and alive.The participants will conclude the importance of preserving and understanding heritage, culture, and traditions with the principles of UNESCO conventions.For a qualified education system in the sustainable development targets of 2030,the teachers should establish the connection between the pupils and UNESCO because it contains Education, Culture and Science in itself. (The Turkish Minister of Education, Turkish National Commission of UNESCO meeting ,17th November,2018).With this inspiration we decided to set up UNESCO clubs at schools to share the impressive work and efforts of this organization with our pupils.In all parts of the project the Heritage Cycle (Simon Thursley,2005) will be used and the awakening process will be started by understanding and then continued with valuing and caring activities.In the end the participants will learn to care for the culture and enjoy it.As T. Navracsics mentioned in 2018 eTwinning book,an Euro-barometer survey about Cultural Heritage nine in ten Europeans wanted Europe’s cultural heritage to be taught at schools.The participant teachers will use Europeana (the digital archive on Europe Culture)in various lessons.We try to reach the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth with our project.The stakeholders and all the participants will realize the destiny of every nation is bound to the destiny of all others by creating a feeling of togetherness within and across national borders and promoting mutual understanding and sharing values.The partnership process has three basic goals;1-For Teachers: to learn how to use Europeana in their classrooms, teaching cultural heritage with digital tools,to support global understanding in their classrooms against the common problem:the unawareness of cultural heritage.2-For Pupils:to learn how to use 21st century skills and web 2.0 tools in their education process with UNESCO's vision,Mutual Respect of different Cultures with democratic participation to become European citizens.3-For parents and grandparents : to share their experiences on cultural topics encouraging their points of views in European aspects.*We will perform the activities with the aim of transforming the elements of cultural heritage topics into an open,knowledgeable and creative society.With Craftsmanship,Traditional Games,Local Dance,Music,Dishes,Superstitions and Folk Remedies,we will touch our PASTS and with digital story telling,digital photo albums,heritage kahoot quizzes, we will reach the FUTURE abilities.*Heritage Talks/ Trips and Cultural Heritage Bazaars enhance the participants’ creative and communicative skills.*With Before and After photos activities,the participants compare and contrast the differences and similarities between the periods in the background of the photos.Their Critical Thinking,Evaluation and Problem Solving abilities will be developed.*With Heritage Selfies, they will enjoy and take responsibilities on Preserving and Safeguarding of all kinds of heritage topics.The expected results are tangible and intangible.1-The tangible results are the digital city maps,Cultural Heritage Selfies album,Heritage Quizzes,A Digital Story,An e-cookbook,A Calendar,brochures,leaflets,A Traditional Games Magazine,Before and After Photo Album,A documentary film on Local Music and Dance Performances,Three Surveys to evaluate the success of the project,the project website,Facebook and Instagram Pages.2-The intangible results are All the participants will feel that they are the part of a UNION,the pupils will become more CREATIVE,they will gain experience on critical thinking,communication skills,web 2.0 tools,problem solving,decision making,citizenship,personal and social responsibility,cultural awareness and mutual respect.The pupils will become more motivated at school,Teachers will increase teaching methods using digital tools of EUROPEANA and Parents and grandparents will feel more responsible on the educational period of their children.During the two-year period,we will organize one Short-term joint staff training events for teachers only in Italy.Each school will understand its responsibilities and tasks. Europeana-digital cultural heritage- will be analysed.The Italian school will share their impressive activities on Cultural Heritage topics.Then with five Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils meetings,all the pupils and teachers will practice on tangible and intangible heritage topics with effective competences,the values of European citizenship by seeing mutual differences and the similarities in Heritages of different Nations using UNESCO vision.