What have European students in common to learn about Europe. This is the question that the European Academy of Yuste addressed in June 2008 in the declaration: Towards an interactive curriculum on European civilization for high school students. The Academy consisting of prominent artists, scholars and intellectuals from different member countries of the European Union proposed the necessity to include European civilization in the curriculum for secondary school students. The innovation of this project lies in the fact that the programme for European civilization will not refer to a specific list of historical persons and events or to specific history schools books. On the contrary, it will provide students and teachers with the opportunity to see on their own how scholars, reformers and artists from their own region contributed to the process of exchanges that constitutes European civilization .