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Cultural Heritage - our cuisine, writing, arts, the native language, kids’ games, folk dances, songs – all this is just an unseperable part of our life that makes us consider ourselves as a generation. Passing all this heritage from generations to generations we construct a strong bridge which establishes a bond between the past and the future through the present understanding of the eternality of culture by the school which is the major dynamic in this sphere. Our project is based on the partnership of Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Turkey where the survey held among students has shown a deficiency of knowledge of historic and cultural sites refering to Cultural Heritage of their countries. Then, students of these countries could not distinguish in full between tangible and intangible objects of Cultural Heritage. Moreover, they used to face a kind of problem in naming the sites of Cultural Heritage of their partner countries. One of their latest works of the European Union announced 2018 as "The European Year of Cultural Heritage". EU's slogan was "Europe, a common heritage." Cultural heritage brings Europeans together, whatever their cultural, linguistic or religious backgrounds. https://europa.eu/youth/node/50_en Our project was aimed at "Increasing Quality and Productivity of Education" which was one of the 4 main EU 2020 Education strategic aims, via Cultural Heritage Sharing; and one of the Europe Key Criterions" increasing the rate of learning a foreign language and including their own native language all EU citizens' learning a foreign language." We have learned and taught values which are common and different with European countries, to provide cross-cultural interaction without discrimination of language, religion and race by dealing with tangible intangible natural and cultural values in our project. PARTICIPANTS In our project, which we updated the project duration to 36 months because we could not carry out the project activities due to Covid-19 on time, there were 6 participating countries, namely Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Greece, Portugal, but our partner Greece left the project at the beginning and we completed our project with 5 participating countries. Student ages range from 6 to 18. Our partners in Portugal, Latvia 4 Strategic Partnerships; Portugal, Lithuania and Poland have experience in School Education Staff Mobility. This project was the first international experience for Turkey, the coordinating country. It was planned that 4 students and 2 teachers from each country, at least 1 of whom was disadvantaged, would participate in the mobility. With the withdrawal of Greece from the project, with the approval from the National Agency, we seperated 4 students and 2 teachers who were planned to participate in the mobility in Greece to all mobilities, and even we included one more teacher than planned at the beginning. Mobility in Turkey lasted for 5 days and the other mobilities lasted for 3 days. The first mobility was teacher training on “eTwinning” in Lithuania, which has the “eTwinning School Label”. Other activities were carried out with students. Activities were performed in 4 main cathegories; Preparation Activities Training Activities Activities that will support the cultural interaction Mobility Activities AIMS * Recognition,protection and maintenance of cultural hertage values. * Development in ability of a foreign language. * Providing opportunities for the students with disadvantages. * Enriching the students and teachers’ sufficiencies. * Creating a perspective which is adopting cultural differences with tolerance. * Developing some of 8 Europe Key Criterions; -Communication in the native language and a foreign language. -Sufficiency of digital platform/digital competence. -Learning to learn. -Social and citizenship sufficiencies/and civic competence . -Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, cultural awareness and ability of expression. * Creating the awareness of importance of cultural heritage. * Adding new participants to European cultural heritage. * Providing the communication among cultures including teachers and students at an early age. * Recognizing cultural values which are common and different from European countries. * Providing intercultural dialogue whatever their religion language or race is. * Increasing their goods in cultural heritage over 80% and we even managed to increase it over 90%. https://www.questionpro.com/t/7BonDeZu2qq Dissemination activities were performed on 4 different levels; local, regional, national and EU, just after the acceptance of our project. *After the completion of our project, the project results were shared on the Erasmus+ dissemination platform. * The website of our project has been kept open and we will continue to post/update. * Activities with no or low cost will continue. (Communication with partners, sending letters and postcards, etc.) *New eTwinning and Erasmus+ projects will be prepared with different partners with our experience and experience from our project. * Our new students will be informed of the project, their attention will be drawn and they will be motivated for different international projects. *The e-book we created with our partners was shared on different platforms and reached a wide audience. *We continue to share in our project's social media accounts. *The short film created for our project was delivered to the masses using all channels.