Our house, in the middle of our street...If we look carefully at the streets we live in - the buildings, neighbours, relationships - we can learn a lot about ourselves, our hopes and fears. This is the idea behind the My Street (Moyata Ulitsa) project in Bulgaria. It is part of the British council's EU&Me project.

EU&Me is a regional project happening in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Greece, Cyprus, Macedonia, Serbia-Montenegro, Turkey, the UK and Bulgaria which aims to put discussion about the EU into an everyday, personal context.

Two hundred people from each country have been invited to share their hopes and fears about their country's membership in the EU. Each country has decided on its own approach to the theme. In Bulgaria, project moderators Diana Ivanova and Boris Deliradev suggested the idea of talking about our streets as a way of talking about EU accession in everyday language. The result is a fascinating and diverse collection of photographs and stories by people from across the country: in the capital Sofia, the seaside town of Varna, Stara Zagora and Haskovo in southern central Bulgaria, Vrushets in the north-west, Kozloduy on The Danube river in the north, and Koprivshtitsa in central Bulgaria. Project manager Leah Datcheva says that this stage of the project will culminate in two people from each country being selected to meet with EU officials in Brussels to discuss future projects for EU funding. Other components of the project have included video conferences on the topic of the EU between Bulgaria and Romania, Serbia- Montenegro, Macedonia and the UK.