The planned partnership project focusses on forms of democratic participation and active citizenship in and around the schools taking part in the project. The quiding questions will be: 1. To what extent / how are students prepared for democratic participation in both school and society? To what extent / how do the schools deliberately initiate democratic participation and active citizenship among their students?2. How - in praxis - can / how do students make decisions as a class, year, group, whole school and how can they influence decision making procedures within the school´s neighborhood and/or their local community?Civil rights and responsibilities, crime, voluntary action, charity work, fundraising, voting, government and politics are some of the basic themes that are related to the notion of `citzenship´. These can be applied to a wide range of practical issues from children´s rights to the legal status of asylum seekers, from student council elections to prevention efforts against racism. As a multilateral learning process for democracy, the schools involved in the partnership can compare their activities of democratic participation by exchanging their project results.