DICTAT intends to create a transnational network of organizations engaged to start a process of raising awareness towards the historical memory of dictatorships experienced by European peoples in the past, since they have not been re-elaborated and delved into enough through public debate nor in school books. Partners share the need to organize common actions aimed at detecting, analyzing and re-elaborating the common identity developed as a common historical heritage. The instrument of theatre will help reaching a more conscious analysis/reading of what happened in Europe in the last 60 years, avoiding potential nostalgic tendencies towards dictatorship, and helping to learn from history and build a European citizenship based on common historical memory.The project will last 18 months involving 4 main participants from IT, RO, PL, ES, all combining cultural, artistic and educational domains. Main activities will be: research and study on the dictatorship historical heritage, production of a joint theatre performance to be performed in the 4 countries, organization of cultural laboratories on the project theme and an international conference, communication and dissemination activities. Main target groups will be: youngsters sensitised towards the rediscovery of a common historical memory of European dictatorships; professionals encouraged to the transnational mobility and through the circulation of artistic production; old generations who were witnesses of past events; EU citizens in general. Expected results will be: raised awareness on the cultural meaning of EU dictatorships; achievement of a common European space based on a common historical heritage, in order to create a “positive” and aware European citizenship; increased transnational mobility of cultural players and the circulation of artistic productions towards a EU-wide public; encouraged intercultural dialogue.