The link between art and citizenship education has not previously been explored in theEuropean context and this is a new area of research and curriculum development.The project will produce four different products for publication as an education resource:1. A review of relevant practice, curricula and resources and visual imagesavailable in all 6 countries involved2. Lesson Plans and Exemplars for teachers to help children create images usingdigital media.3. Image Banks of by contemporary artists and images that children haveselected and created4. Guidelines and Strategies for:• Engaging school children in critical reflection and discussion of images that exploreand represent personal and group identifications• Facilitate lessons in which children explore and represent their own identificationsusing digital media• Integrate citizenship education content, resources and methods into discussion ofimages (including a political dimension and human rights)• Guidelines and list of online resources for introducing European Citizenshipdiscussions into Art lessons using images.• These products will be tested in a variety of European contexts to ensure best practiceis adopted and be disseminated for use across Europe.The project will employ forms of art production such as photo stories, staged images,fictional website and may include digital collage, blog animation or video/ film. Thisproject will use ICT in innovative ways through:• A website for public dissemination and awareness raising• A final product that is web based (including an image bank, examples of curricula,teacher guidelines and a list of web resources).• Use of web sharing sites (such as flickr and in-house produced portals) for internalcommunications• Training teachers to use digital media in art lessons.All higher education and teacher participants will be trained in digital imaging for artteaching and Web based methods of documenting curriculum development in action.The project will impact directly on participating schools and be incorporated into initialand in-service teacher education courses at for generalist and specialist teachers at thepartner institutions. National coordinators will disseminate project outcomes at eachstage to local and national subject associations and at a European Regional and WorldConference of the International Society for Education through Art. The final product willbe disseminated via the project website to educational and arts policy makers (e.g.UNESCO, The Arts Council of England) locally and nationally and globally.