The "Insula Europae" project arose from the need to strengthen social and cultural elements of the European Union integration process. This would enable the EU, also in the education sector, to be accompanied by a growth in the sense of solidarity and the ability of dialogue and democratic comparison through strategies and educational practices aimed at accomplishing a "European civic education." This is intended as an introduction to a sense of "citizenship" that respects the differences present and is attentive to factors amounting to the identity of European culture and society.

Except for the Italian and the Spanish partners, the other project members are all from CEC (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania and Slovenia). In CEC, the integration of the European dimension inside an educational process becomes an indispensable factoring for the EU enlargement process.

The methodologies and didactic curricula anticipated by the project are linked to particular subjects that lend themselves to the idea of "education to sovranationality":

This choice has been made to answer the points raised in the volume "Learning and teaching about history of Europe in the 20th Century" by the Council for Cultural Co-operation of the Council of Europe and by the resolution 7-00163 on history teaching approved by the VII Commission that both identify one fundamental aspect: "the promotion of the European dimension of teaching and the development of subjects that allow an explanation of the origins and development of our distinctive European tradition in order to give indispensable elements for the conscience of one's own identity.