The project The Way We Live in different Countries involves teachers and pupils from six comprehensive schools in the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Cyprus, Romania and Poland. The aim of the project is to introduce the participants to their own cultural habits and to present them to cultural habits of other countries throughout Europe. To ensure cultural diversity, the northern, southern and central European countries are involved. Children with their teachers will travel to the participant countries and they will cooperate on various workshops together during each of the visits. We will meet once in each country with our pupils.

The participants come not only from different European countries, but also from different conditions. Some live in small village, others come from the capital city, we have participants who have experience with international projects and also those, who are taking part for the first time. We all are enthusiastic about taking part in the project and willing to learn and share our skills and experiences.

There will be two teachers travelling from each school and one or two pupils, so there will come 16 - 18 visitors to every school that will host their part of the project. Additionally, there will be a group of home participants who will create the background of the workshops and take care of the foreign guests. The children will be accommodated in host families to learn as much as possible about the country they visit. The workshops will take place at the host schools, with few planned trips to visit close environment and landmarks.

The activities we plan to work on are: presenting our home countries and schools (we will create presentations and posters) , guide the guests around famous and interesting sights (with children as guides), learning and teaching national dances and songs, having cooking classes and learning how to prepare national dishes, having History and Geography CLIL classes and also having a methodology seminar on CLIL for teachers, studying legends and fairytales of the host countries and creating a comic, collecting memorabilia and information during the travels and creating travel diary of each participant country, using also e-learning and teaching approach, especially with our Cyprian partners, creating a website and  a Facebook site and keeping them up-to date. We believe the children will develop tolerance to diversity, higher motivation to travel and learn, healthy curiosity that is essential for increasing knowledge, improve language skills, increase their social literacy and also learn to appreciate their own culture and uniqueness of diversity, which can still be found in European cultures.  We are sure that the participants will also build friendships and will keep in touch even after the project will have finished.

The methods that are going to be used are: peer teaching, communicative approach, CLIL, ICT learning and teaching, Total Physical response.

The expected results are: questionnaires (that will have been distributed before and after the project to help us evaluate the results and progress), a cookbook containing traditional dishes of the participant countries, a comic with national legends and fairytales, travel diaries continuously created by the pupils during their foreign trips, CLIL lessons plans, worksheets and handouts (which will be available online for downloading and further usage), itineraries of the sightseeing trips with information about important places we are about to visits, dictionary of basic phrases in all languages of the participants, videos and pictures of the dances and songs we are going to learn and teach with lyrics, presentations and posters on the home countries, schools, housing, website and Facebook sit, that will be kept up-to-date and will serve as basis for uploading the materials we are going to create. The website will be used even after the project will have finished as it can be updated with the follow-up information about how the materials form the project are used, and what changes has the project lead to at our schools.

We hope that the project will have impact not only on the direct participants but also on family and friends, the local schools and will help to raise awareness of local people about the schools and education level. It can inspire other teachers to try a similar cooperation as well, therefore, after the project, we would like to share our experiences via seminars, meetings with parents and school partners and dissolve the information about the project in local media and our school webs.