DRESS TO IMPRESS: A FASHION KISS FOR PEACE! With our project title “Dress to impress: A fashion kiss for peace!” we want to express our intention to lead the students` awareness to a peaceful communication by creating and wearing fashion to set positive statements. “Je suis Charlie” is one of our flashpoints. The serious development of the actual political situation in the world asks for peaceful re-actions and visions to find ideas created by students – the youth of Europe – for a way how to show their open minded community and tolerant coexistence. Fashion has a motivating character for young people to express their personal identity and find their own style. Additional they send a message and set a statement for peace by wearing their clothes created by themselves. This project has to be carried out in Europe because the students exchange, discuss and reflect their ideas about religion, politics, tolerance in an intercultural dialogue and realise their visions in a positive way by setting statements of peace in their European fashion style designed by themselves in international teams (with partner schools from Poland/Elblag, Turkey/Gemlik, Germany/Beerfelden) during Erasmus + meetings in every country, fashion blogs, fashion weeks/shows and digital communication. By dissemination events, in Germany Theatre-Music-Art festival and at public places the students show different fashion lines (corporate identity, recycling aspects) with logos and slogans (poems, proverbs, innovative appeal) to send a “fashion kiss”, that means fashion created with love representing their peaceful intention. Hereby they develop a sense for entrepreneurship. For their collection from top to toe the students create a concept with promotion to distribute their ideas and fashion styles. This collection will be published by the students’ representatives of every partner school contacting out-of-school organisations and enterprises to initiate an international dialouge to reach a multiplier effect of their vision of peace – including a special support for disadvantaged people (students from difficult social background; invitation of refugees). In the subjects design, craft work, religion, philosophy, history, National language, English, politics and art classes we activate and elaborate the students’ background knowledge about fair trade, business, fashion material, design, production, conditions of production, peace literature, linguistic competences and political situation in the world with analysis, interviews, digital and personal research, visits, lectures, interactive actions and happenings. The project is carried out in 3 phases: preparation for transn. learning activities - 10 students per partnerschool in host families (process of professional orientation) 1st year: - Transn. Proj. Meeting with coordinators: organisation, management , motivation, considering SWOT analysis, SMART skills : Poland -Trans. learning activities/Germany: Sensibilisation for solutions of peace discussing the actual political situation in the world to find peacefull issues by panel discussions with experts of peace literature and representatives of different religions - Discover fashion as multiplier method to present the students' statements of peace by European workshops for the development of corporate identity via fashion and international logo competition with regional media experts of design who open their doors of companies to introduce their profession; Workshop for screen printing of statements for peace created by students with fashion shows in the region and surroundings on a public place in Frankfurt / Heidelberg,- if possible - on a red carpet in Berlin - Reichstag 2nd year: - Transnational learning activities in Turkey with final balloon happening sending postcards of peace into the world. The students exchange their art fashion style in different colours as swap action to discover diversity as enrichment. 3rd year: - Transnational learning activities in Poland with development of natural fashion line from top to toe with final presentation on the European catwalk and discussions with representatives of Nobel Peace Prize and World Peace Convention with special guests “Fashion – the Language of Redefining Liberty” By this intercultural project the students develop their awareness of the importance of peace, empathy for refugees, tolerance for diversity, sensibility for a conscious and respectful interaction with environment and society and they spread their creativity as vision for a peaceful future. By the creative process in an intercultural dialogue they develop their grown self-confidence to exchange and realise their visions with enthusiame. They dress their collection to impress the international public by wearing their visions with a fashion kiss for peace: Wearing the collection has the power to convince people and multiply the positive thoughts and peaceful vision for a following community.