In 1979 a network of 28 schools was established in the member countries of the EEC in order to develop models of consumer education. This pilot‐project shows that consumer education should be both cross‐curricular and multi‐disciplinary. Even if consumer education has both cognitive, skill‐ and attitude‐orientated goals, it has been the fundamental belief of most participants in the pilot‐project that consumer education should primarily be activity‐based, skill‐orientated, problem‐, and decision‐based as well as orientated against the real‐life situations of the pupils. Most teaching activities have been integrated in some project‐work technique, where the methods used typically have been tools in an empirical field strategy which aims at giving pupils a greater understanding of their own situation as consumers. A teachers' manual based on the research results will be published in all official EEC‐languages and in all