Creative Teens project is about bringing Art into the lives of high school students. Why? Firstly, there is growing evidence that learning arts does improve academic achievement. Studies have shown that when STEM approach is combined with teaching Art, students tend to achieve better results in general because arts cultivate cognitive abilities. Furthermore, arts also develop a more positive attitude towards school, nurture positive character traits, and foster critical thinking. STEAM education in schools provides students with the opportunity to learn creatively, using 21st century skills such as problem solving and critical thinking. These general capabilities are crucial to growing a future-ready workforce. Secondly, we want to emphasize that the purpose of the Arts Education is not to simply boost academic results. Immersed in arts, students experience the world and themselves in a different way. They often discover a lifelong passion, develop a sense of self and identity, grow in confidence, and envision a world beyond their immediate environment. To sum up, art helps create creative, self-confident, emphatic individuals who can view the world in a critical way and who will bring value to their workplace. But it also helps people appreciate culture, understand their national and global identity and open up to the world. Investment in art is investment in creative industry, individual cognitive development and in the quality of life. Therefore we decided to start a project which will focus on art, precisely on Literature and Drama, and combine it with IT and design. The idea is to present the students with two challenging tasks: writing a book and creating a theater play based on the book. It will be a two-year process, divided into two modules and many smaller steps that will help the students to achieve the goals with the help of their mentors. The first year of the project will be focused on the book. The students will write the book, design its visual identity and turn it into an e-book and audio book. During the first students' exchange in France they will attend courses in creative writing, IT and design to gain the required knowledge to complete their tasks. The second exchange in Turkey will be the time to present the books, analyse and discuss them. After the first module, the teachers will attend training in production of a theater play, organized by the UK partner. The goal of the second module is to turn the book into a play and perform it on stage. Again, the students will gain the required knowledge for this endeavor during the exchange of students in Italy and they will present and further analyse their final products during the final exchange in Croatia. The emphasis throughout the whole process will be on giving students the tools to tackle the problems on their own and to come up with creative solutions to the given challenges. Arts will be combined with IT and hands-on approach. Instead of only listening and reading about something, students will do it: they will plan the process, manage their time, work in a team, find solutions for the tasks, write a book, design its covers, prepare it for printing, turn it into a digital and an audio version, present it to the public, adapt it for stage, create the costumes, design the stage and promote their products. All activities will develop students' creativity, problem solving skills and critical thinking. Another goal is to create a meaningful link with a finished Erasmus+ project IMAGINE. That will be achieved by partly employing the method of educational workshops in part of the students' training and by promoting the same values: tolerance, equality and human rights. Each partner school will choose one humane value and work on it through the content of their book and theater play. Additional benefits of the project will be improving the students' communication and language skills due to the opportunity of using them in real life situations, building IT skills, developing understanding of other cultures, strengthening their self-confidence and social skills and strengthening the international character of partner schools.There are five different schools that will take part in the project: Gimnazija Dr.Ivana Kranjceva, a small rural high school from Croatia, with an academic curriculum; Lycée International Charles De Gaulle, a large French school with the curriculum focused on languages and a strong international dimension; Nezihe Derya Baltali Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi, peer science and art center in Turkey that provides supplementary education to the gifted; I.S. TRAMELLO - CASSINARI, an Art school from Italy that fosters the practical approach in teaching; The Abbey School, a high school with an integrated Autism unit and History, Media Studies and Performing Arts at the heart of their curriculum. Each school will involve 20 high school students in the exchanges, some of which come from rural areas or are economically disadvantaged.