The COW BOYS & GIRLS project (Create Our Way, Boys and Girls) is a partnership between the city of Cenon (Aquitaine, France) and the city of Parades de Coura (Norte, Portugal). Each of these towns are themselves in a partnership with schools, but also with artistic and cultural operators located in their area. The collaborators role is to guide and work along with pupils (attending secondary school and high school) whose educational paths are at a disadvantage due to the social and economic environment they live in. The project aims to draw up a learning plan enabling the students to develop a flexible and essential skill : the ability to know how to create one's own way all life long, out of school, by learning independance, how to collaborate with firms, local authorities, people involved in the social and cultural fields around them. The partners, committed for a long time to managing artistic and cultural education, plan to work with artists, so that students can consider their environment in a different and creative way. The involved artists will be charged with guiding the discovery and the appropriation of the area. They will work from various artistic fields : live performing arts, visual arts, musical arts, street art, digital art... The teachers, the students and the other partners will be led to discover, locate, identify the resources needed to set up a shared event. The latter will take place out of school, in the public area or within the institutional places they will be granted. Proceeding this way, they will be able to identify the needs and find the corresponding resources in various domains : regulatory obligations, possibilities for recycling, sources of funding such as sponsorship or partnership, knowledge of advertising, merchants, local associations (e.g. fabrics, cooking), volunteering work... Organising this event (which could be, for instance, an exhibition) will be an opportunity for the young people from both of those countries (France and Portugal), to present the know-hows of their schools (in languages, theater, music, sports, sciences, new technologies). Together, they will share their experience with their peers (the other pupils), as with their families, the inhabitants, the entrepreneurs, the local communities representatives, and the artists. A recurring theme will lead all the works presented during this event : exploring the territory, whether in a geographic, sensitive, social, invisible, spoken, lived way... or even in a dreamed one. Will arise from this work : - an event in the public area - a territory inventory taken by the students and the professionals accompanying them (artists, local communities, cultural companies, teaching staff) - a movie produced by students guided by a videographer. This creation brings out the learning steps the other students have gone through, shows how they manage to identify the needs, to look for and to find the corresponding resources : it highlights the path undertaken to build the ability to create one's own way all life long. This movie is to be shooted, produced, published online and exploited by the students. To carry out this project, some partners will be collaborating with : - a research laboratory specialized in educational sciences, in order to define, build and manage the assessment process, - interdisciplinary artists, - a small publishing house (a communications agency) The educational processes, the methods, the assessment project, and the cooperation between stakeholders of such a different kind will be the basis of : - transnational meetings - training programmes - coordination works between task forces from both of those countries. The partners communicate then to their networks (professional, national, international ones) about the three realisations described above, the two territory inventories, the two movies putting into practice the learning and assessment project, and the publishing, which will present the works achieved during this international meeting.