Culture, nationalities and ethnic groups infl uence each other all the time. The aim of this Comenius School Partnership was to use art performances to increase the knowledge and the understanding of this mutual infl uence. Teachers and pupils wanted to show the unifying eff ect of cultural production and art performances which transcend national and political borders. Schools from Finland, Germany, Spain, Italy and Belgium cooperated in this Partnership. But in each school also diff erent subjects had to work together to achieve this target and to produce musical performances, lyrics, portfolios of materials, computerised information fi les, and a web site. The project also enabled pupils to establish close contacts with their partners in the diff erent countries and to experience European cooperation in practice. The main result of this cooperation was the creation, production, performance and recording of a joint musical. "The Station" is the story of people living in diff erent parts of Europe; in one of their meetings they end up in a rural train station. Here they meet a group of tramps and suddenly experience the "magic of Comenius". Songs, dances, the script, the scenography and all costumes were developed by the pupils. ICT tools facilitated the collaboration among the schools when planning, elaborating and realising the project. Final rehearsals and the performance took place during a projects meeting in Finland, in the city hall of Vantaa. In total 88 students and 15 teachers, coming from all participating schools, acted in this colourful musical. Smaller music and theatre performances were also arranged in each of the partner countries. They attracted a wider audience than just the staff and pupils; local media reported on the project and the performance. The project partners developed also a small booklet describing the whole process of the intercultural communication through art performances.