The project „Facing ARTS together“ is specifically an art-oriented project which will involve four European secondary art schools and it will aim at the development of three areas of secondary art education. The first of all is preserving our cultural heritage by capturing the lives of local artists in short documentary films made by students and by presenting these films to the wide public. The second area we will focus on is using art as a communication platform to address sensitive social issues topics. These topics are represented by the capital letters in the project title where A stands for abuse, R for racism, T for threats and S stands for stereotypes. The last but not least, our third area which we would like to deal with is secondary art education and the school curriculums in all involved schools and their countries by comparing our teaching practices, highlighting similarities and differences.