The project was born from the desire of guiding the students towards the discovery of their own local community as a place of work opportunities, creating new businesses thanks to the cultural heritage enshrined in it and then compare it with the cultural heritage of other European countries in order to look for differences and similarities. The basic goal of the project is less about single identity and more about exchanging and sharing common elements of single country's heritage in order to enliven in students the idea of European citizenship, to let them widen their horizons. Another objective of the project is to enable students to learn basic digital skills, use modern technology by doing practical tasks in an international environment of European countries.

The project will be carried out internationally by six secondary schools based in Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Portugal and Greece, so it will provide an opportunity of teamwork both at national and international level, will enable to share good practices in the area of the way of using the cultural heritage in creating work opportunities and school curricula dealing with this topic. Thanks to transnational collaboration the participants will get to know partners from other countries of the European Union and will learn to work together, taking into consideration cultural differences, need of tolerance, art of listening to others, expressing oneself in a foreign language and gaining confidence in international communication.

The project is based on three Labs:

1. HERE ARE MY ROOTS : art discovery, folktales, natural landscapes

2. THERE ARE SOME "ROOTS" IN MY DISH!: food discovery, family recipes, typical -local ingredients

3. PRESERVE YOUR ROOTS FOR THE FUTURE: eat locally and be healthy, no food waste and keep an eye to labelling

All the labs aim at gaining new knowledge and improving language skills, especially English, (ESP for tourism, cooking, sciences) as it is the language in which the project will be carried out. During the two years of the project students will create different products (questionnaires, presentations, quizzes, digital dictionaries, videos, a magazine, project newsletters) and take part in online and onsite activities (lessons based on online resources taught by teachers from all partner countries, workshops with experts, lecturers, meetings with people specialising in the field connected with the topic of the project, field trips) in order to learn how to use new digital skills, acquire some knowledge local and partners cultural heritage and how to preserve our roots, i.e. eat fresh, healthy local produce or prevent or avoid food waste.

Teachers will create learning meterials, assessment rubrics and digital badges recognizing completed tasks, the main product will be magazines summarising the first and second year of the project, multilanguage dictionary and project newsletter presenting the outcomes of the training events. Six training events are planned during the project life cycle and online activities will be carried out continuously and their outcomes will be uploaded on ETwinning Twinspace.