"Context and objectives: This project is designed to improve students' critical thinking and their awareness of being an active European citizen. By taking actively part in the project the students will heighten their self-competence and improve their natural science, technical and digital competences. These goals will be achieved when students deal with different topics around the field ""Cultural Heritage"". It became clear during the planning of this project that there is a lack of awareness among young people about Cultural Heritage in our countries. Instead, there are a lot of prejudices. By studying those and becoming aware of the similarities between our countries, a basis for European citizenship will be created. From that point on, students can research our Cultural Heritage and explore some similarities in intangible, tangible and natural heritage. Furthermore, our project, Cultural Heritage, from prejudice to awareness, aims at creating and expanding awareness of our European identity by creating a digital platform on which citizens of our countries can learn more about our Cultural Heritage. We also hope to achieve an integral educational approach by including practical work rather than an emphasis on theory. Students will get the chance to experience the efficiency of ""do-it-yourself"" and ""learning by doing"". The project consists of 4 sub-topics to be worked on by all students together for 6 months each: 1.Conceptualizing Cultural Heritage- Researching prejudices of the partner countries and creating a common framework for our project - Exploring the features of our common European similarities - Constructing a common framework of Cultural Heritage- Creating schedules by using the digital tool GOOGLE SKETCHUP - Transnational meeting in Croatia2.Exploring Cultural Heritage - Studying the concept of cultural heritage- Learning about digital tools through workshops- Teaching fellow students about cultural heritage in different countries - Excursion to national heritage sites / the national organization for cultural heritage- Transnational meeting in Poland 3.Discovering Cultural Heritage - Analyzing the selection processes of cultural heritage - Exploring different cultural aspects for nomination as cultural heritage- Developing suggestions for improvements by using GOOGLE SKETCHUP - Meeting with the municipalities / NGOs- Transnational meeting in Finland4. Creating awareness for Cultural Heritage - Planning and conducting activities to improve awareness of cultural heritage - Creating virtual heritage - Transnational meeting in the Netherlands Participants: - OMO Scholengroep Bergen op Zoom e.o. (the Netherlands)- Siilinjärvi Upper Secondary School (Finland)- Strojarska tehnička škola Fausta Vrančića (Croatia)- Zespół Szkół Ogólnokształcących i Technicznych im. Marii Konopnickiej w Milówce (Poland)Project leaders: Arnold van der Werff (Netherlands), Marina Kevric (Croatia), Merja Mikkonen (Finland) & Anna Witos (Poland)16 teachers (4 from each school) 108 students from the participating schools, 30 per school in total8 students from every school on transnational learning activities Methodology: All of our activities will be implemented by a wide range of innovative teaching methods both in and outside of school, incorporating: critical thinking, digital competence, collaboration and team work, communication skills and personal and social responsibility. Constant evaluation and improvement are self-evident. Intended results: - increased feeling of European Citizenship among young people in society. - Greater awareness for the target groups - use and spread of innovative teaching methods - increased personal technological and digital competences and skills"