The two-part youth workshop "In the footsteps of our ancestors" - MYTHs with 10 young people from each country Germany and Croatia - marks the start of planned multi-part educational series. It deals with traditions, customs, cultures and social changes in the region (as well as within Europe), but also new and old crafts, trades and opportunities that Europe offers through joint interactions. Our project questions the meaning of myths and heroes in one ́s own culture. It also asks how traditions influence society and its system of values to this day. A focus will be on the historically shaped roles of men and women and their modern day development. What behavioral patterns have survived to this day, what do they mean and and what purpose they still have today? What opportunities are there in the rural areas today or creating their own existence and preserve useful traditions? What kind of support is there for the common Europe idea? What development potential can be used to strengthen the position of rural regions in a civil society, to increase their own interests in and to build political awareness of a common Europe, even in remote areas? By exploring their own roots and the associated „stories", the youngsters should create a common thread between then and now. In doing so, young people should be encouraged to stand up for their dreams, wishes and interests and to use them responsibly. Especially in mythology, it becomes clear how people have repeatedly set out to do good things. Today, when is Europe threatened by a collapse, it is even more important to work together to develop new approaches and recognize the added value of a "large community" and to stand up for it. All we can say for certain at the get-go is that myths collectivize our sense of self. It’s not good enough that you know a story, what’s important is that we can orient ourselves in relationship to our interpretation of it. So, stories — once they’ve become culturally embedded or repeated — are generalized into myths, and those myths serve as a kind of connective tissue for human societies. Myths define who we are, defines where we are in time, what role we serve, and what the nature of that role should be. That abstract phenomenon of myth has been, in our project, researched trough different arts. Our participants are young academic artists from animation, sculpture and dance field. All those methods of myth research trough arts were documented with the camera aiming high end recordings which should flow in a common film documentation - the goal is to create the material for arthouse short film and develop it further, means continue our work together each group in their own art field and then putting it together. Here we see the undercurrent of all forms of human representation, a collective shadow that looms over societies, which we’ve taken to refer to simply as “myth.” This opens up the door for new approaches to mythic study which go far beyond what can be accomplished in a single project, but we are hopeful that more work will continue in this direction in the future.