The multilateral Comenius project entitled “Cultural Values Under Magnifying Glass” unifies partners from Italy, Turkey, Romania, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The project definitely concerns cultural values with special regards to the cultural values of national minorities being present in the area. To ensure the continuation of life on earth, to sustain a peaceful coexistence of different minorities, different nations, we must first get the awareness that we, as single countries, have to awaken students to cultural values of each people emphasizing the importance of contribution of national minorities to cultural values as a whole. The project intends to develop multilingual learning and encourage mutual understanding between the different partners in respect of cultural diversity, a very important pillar of sustainable development. The idea of the project is to involve students in presenting the history of their town, introducing outstanding personalities, art and architectural objects while not forgetting about the additional role of national minorities associated with the dominant culture. This would be a journey through centuries recognizing our own identity and that of the partners, meaningful historical moments and human values. That could help to form the consciousness of common European citizens. School communities will enrich their experience learning from partners’ national educational concepts and will broaden the understanding of cultural diversity in Europe.
