Growing Up Together was a partnership between East Sweden Region/Östergötland in Sweden and Region Emilia Romagna in Italy. It has been a strategical schooldevelopment project concerning integration and reception of newly arrived immigrant pupils in school within the Comenius Regio program. As for the mobilities the partnership has implemented 2 coordination meetings , 2 transnational seminars, 2 study visits and a final dissemination/follow-up event.Through exchange of experience between schools and educational departments in different municipalities in the two regions a large number of practices has been identified aimed at facilitating the integration of immigrant pupils in primary and secondary schools. Schoolsystems and modells for reception and integration of newly arrived immigrant pupils have been compared. During the studyvisits bservations in classrooms have been made.The project has identified four objectives:To identify and highlight existing good practise in order to improve the introduction of immigrant pupils.To experiment innovative methodologies aiming at easing learning and leading to educational success of the pupils.To spread among all students an intercultural dimension aimed at civil coexistence.To promote the national language learning in immigrant children.Thematic areas of the good practises from East Sweden has been: Language 2-learning in International Classes, study-guidance in mother tongue, ,other tongue- teaching, mapping/evaluation of former knowledge of immigrant pupils, language workshops, sport activities in schools presented by the Östergötland Sport AssociationThematic areas of the good practises from Emilia-Romagna has been: Language 2-learning, intercultural knowledge activities, integration in classrooms, organizational practices in Intercultural Centers such as MEMO and CD/LEI and intercultural mediators, the family perspective in different projects and after school activitivities.