Each of the schools is located in a ethnically homogenous, economically underperforming and culturally traditional region and many of our students do not have experience of encounter individuals who represent ethnographic diversity. The project is intended to challenge the widely held stereotypes our students encounter and often accept without question. We intend to focus on students aged between 11 and 14 and integrate the project work within the curriculum. Each school will offer participation in the project to all students within this age group.Because stereotyping and prejudice is such a wide ranging topic, we are going to focus on five key areas with each partner taking the lead in managing the project content, student activities and outputs. The principle stereotypes we have decided to focus on are Gender stereotypes, sexual identity stereotypes, racial stereotypes, religious stereotypes and migration stereotypes.The first transnational project meeting will coincide with a training event hosted by local authority equalities staff and community leaders who will provide training on strategies we can use to raise awareness of this topic.Each of the partners has a particular area of expertise, the Maltese teacher is experienced in web design and her role is to create a portal for displaying results.The Finnish teacher school are specialists in inclusive education and have a particular expertise in integrating students with learning difficulties into mainstream education. The Portuguese school has worked in partnership at local, regional, national and international projects (Comenius and LdV).They have a long history in Multimedia VET courses for high school students. This way they will be responsible for the disseminating the project results through video, audio and other multimedia formats.The Croatian school already have extensive experience of tackling stereotypes and has established contacts with the Red Cross. They have highly- developed communication, social and conflict- resolution skills, our teachers challenge stereotypes on a daily basis. These have primarily been focused upon stereotypes relating to Croatia's relationships with countries from the former YugoslaviaThe UK school has extensive experience of managing international projects, of keeping the project focus, of ensuring effective communication between partners. On completion of the project we will have created a public web site in which we will offer our outcomes to teachers and educators as a learning resource.Each school will collaborate to produce written schemes of work , printed activities, which are to be offered to other schools throughout Europe. This will be publicised on the public events forum on E Twinning.Public performances of poetry, drama and music which tackle stereotypes will be staged in our schools and recorded The schools will work n partnership with womens rights groups, LGBT groups such as Rainbow schools and Stonewall alliance as well as with local bodies representing diverse sections of our societies.From a project management perspective, all schools will work with local authorities, local employers and will consolidate their existing links with the press.E Twinning will be the means by which we maintain day to day communication and we will be offering participation in the project to schools outside of the Erasmus partnership. The medium term objective is to ensure our students can increase their respect for their fellow citizens.In the longer term we want to create a library resource of work challenging stereotyping, freely available to other schools.During the UK short term student study visit, the Academy at Shotton Hall will, in partnership with "Durham Direct" , organise a diversity conference.A monthly bulletin/newsletter will be prepared.