"Written Europe" is a Comenius School Partnership which highlights the rich European history and its cultural traditions through the study of graphics in public spaces in several European cities. Four European graphic design schools were involved in this project which lasted 3 years. While exchanging experiences, many contacts with diff erent institutions have been established throughout Europe and a frequently visited multilingual website has been created. Amsterdam, Madrid, Prague and Riga are the four cities involved in the project. Each year, a group of pupils of the respective graphic design schools studied a specifi c theme. The fi rst theme which has been emphasised was "written cities". What do cities say to us? Informative graphics, identity advertising, poetic utterances were detected and analysed. The following theme was written things and persons. For this action the pupils studied the mobile elements in the cities, small and big objects such as brands, trademarks, cars, public transport, or furniture. Also the animals in cities were observed, their names, marks, etc. And the same was done for people, their names, tattoos, marks on clothes and on bodies. The fi nal phase of the project local, global and common graphics was a synthesis of the work carried out during the two previous years in the four cities. The local identities were compared to the global identity. The project allowed to identify every participating city and to determine its own local identity. Infl uences between diff erent cities were tracked and through comparative studies and analysis of the compiled information, the pupils were able to look for a European graphic identity. They examined the trend towards a global non-identity and searched for the common way we are writing Europe. The European dimension for both school staff and students was present at all stages of the project. This very original and well elaborated project substantially increased the awareness of globalisation and cultural integration amongst European young people. Materials and pupil and teacher experiences are available to a large public via an attractive website. The project has also been presented at conferences, various museums, associations and institutions. Several exhibitions have been organised.