Background/context of the project: Our topic is building on results of our previous Comenius-project “Our Past is unifying us”. In there we concentrated on the “positive aspects” of a regional cultural variety and on the economical unity open to inside outside influences. Nevertheless for centuries there was a kind of lingua franca and a common currency which both combined had been providing a high degree of mobility. There were neighbouring networks stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Baltic Sea. Since and throughout the Greek Antique we find statements against war and mention of living in “harmony with the neighbours and the nature”. These ideas of a perpetual peace were linked up with Kant and modern pacifism of the late 19th century. The modern destructive wars do not fit the specific context of these European intellectual traditions. In view of findings that emerged during this project a new idea originated for a new project on the topic “war and peace”. The 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War was a convincing reason to choose the “Great War” for our research.The goals of our project:-Research on the First World War from a regional perspective;-Cooperation with local and regional institutions, museums, archives, associations and scientific organisations;-Introducing scientific methods to the students getting practical and theoretical knowledge by their own research on the local and regional level concerning the First World War; -Raising awareness and understanding of our special responsibility for security and peace in Europe;-Initiation of further activities beyond the project.Number and profile of the participating institutions:-Feodor-Lynen-Gymnasium (Planegg, Germamy);-1 EPAL MOUDROU (Lemnos, Greece);-Ciszterci Rend Nagy Lajos Gimnázium (Pécs, Hungary);-Bayramic Mustafa Gulsen Cinaroglu Anadolu Lisesi (Bayramic, Turkey);-LP St Joseph Tahiti (French-Polynesia); -ASS Gestion Collège Lycée Catholique (Réunion, France) ; -Rigas pilsetas Plavnieku gimnazija (Riga, Latvia).These are mainly secondary schools, Greece and French-Polynesia are vocational training schools.All school were dealing with the subject “The First World War” before starting our project. Via eTwinning we found each other looking for a partner on this project. Description of the main activities:-Organisation and implementation of all Transnational and Learning, Teaching and Training Activities according to the application;-Textual elaboration of the key content in the three phases of the project: pre-war period, 1914-1918, post-war era;-Individual occupation of each partner school with the given topic of the project;-Preparing collections of material, reports, short movies, reports and handouts for the theme-orientated meetings;-Cooperation with the local authorities relating the maintenance of the regional commemorative culture in regard to the First World War (exhibitions, major public events, memorials etc.);-Efficient PR activities (involving the media, neighbour schools, local communities, associations and public authorities).Outputs and impacts achieved:-Publications, lectures and reports on the results of searches in public and private archives and museums -Interviews with families, still in relationship to the First World War (by wounded or killed family members);-Music, songs, drama scripts, related to the First World War-Public events in reference to the regional commemoration of the First World War (together with the French President Hollande in Tahiti, with representatives from the government in Réunion, with members of the Canadian and Australian Embassies in Lemnos amongst others;-Special activities (for example “Earth form Verdun”, involving a “guest-partner-school” from Perth/Australia to our project);-Construction of memorials associated with the regional victims of the First World War in St. Joseph and St. Pierre (La Réunion), in Papeete (Tahiti) and in Moudros (Greece);-An intensive involvement with the own regional history in the context of the First World War;-Awareness of our common European history and responsibility;-Clarifying the global character of the First World War by our partners from the overseas territories of the EU.Long-term benefits:-Continuation of the project with regard to content (annual summer school by yearly turns in Lemnos and Canakkale/Bayramic) ;-Follow-up meeting october 2018 in Lemnos, anniversary of the armistice of Mudros between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire);-Educational Seminars promoting the European ideal in all partner regions.