1. Learning foreign languages It is sometimes difficult to make our pupils aware of the usefulness of learning foreign languages. A concrete use of these languages will make them understand that modern communication necessarily requires the knowledge of several languages and that they are a priceless asset on the job market. 2. Information and communication technologies Moreover, teenagers often limit their use of new technologies to social networks. To make this project work, they will use these tools in a perspective of communication (thanks to the website, emails, a blog or the wiki) and for concrete productions (a DVD, videos or an interactive book). The pupils as well as teachers will thus build new skills in IT. It is obvious that this input is also an asset for the professional future of our pupils. 3. European diversity as an asset The goal of this project is to establish an intercultural dialogue between young European pupils coming from very diverse social and geographical backgrounds (about 200 teenagers from seven different countries) about the theme ''Land and Food.'' The pupils will get to discover one of the main riches of Europe: its diversity. This diversity will be studied in its different forms: its geography, agriculture, gastronomy and languages. 4. “Tell me where you live, I’ll tell you what you eat”: the main steps of the project The different steps of the project will allow our pupils to have a more precise knowledge on their own countries and to anchor them in a much wider frame: that of Europe. They will get to know the differences that there are between them and their neighbours and also their common points. First, the pupils will study the geography and the climate of their own countries in order to know more things about themselves before discovering other countries and cultures. We will lead them to question their knowledge so that they can eventually do a reliable and precise presentation of the geography, the climate, the resources and the productions of their regions and countries to their partners. To achieve this, the pupils will be asked to use different mediums such as a website, a wiki, emails or a blog. The pupils will then make hypotheses on the resources and productions of the partner countries, based on what they know best: their own countries. They will take into account the similarities and differences between these countries inside the European Community. An introductory course of the languages of all the partners will be included at this stage. Finally our pupils will question their regional gastronomy and that of their partners and their link between the resources and the local productions. The exchanges with the partners will allow to understand how the natural resources but also culture have an influence on what we eat. The final production of this project (the interactive book of recipes and its paperback version) will bring a very concrete dimension to this great work, which we hope will be carried on well beyond the expected end, through the continuation of personal and professional exchanges between pupils and teachers. There is no reason why we couldn't regularly update and add new things to the recipe book and the website. 5. The impact of the project The impact we expect to get thanks to this project is multiple. - First, it has to do with our pupils: we hope to teach them tolerance and what it truly means to be a European citizen, thanks to a better self-knoweldge and an acknowledgement of others. - It will also impact the teachers who, thanks to many exchanges on teaching between European partners, will do their best to diversify their teaching approaches and, consequently, make their teaching more attractive. - Each school will be impacted and, thanks to the dynamics set by the teachers, their influence on a local and regional scale, will shine. To conclude, we can undoubtedly say that what the pupils (and the teachers involved) will live and go through in terms of experience will be an everlasting source of personal satisfaction and enriching.