A.L.C.H.E.M.I.A – Alliance of Cultural Heritage Exchange for Musical Innovation and Acquisition Erasmus Project

Project Title

A.L.C.H.E.M.I.A – Alliance of Cultural Heritage Exchange for Musical Innovation and
Acquisition

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

AL.C.H.E.M.I.A. is an integrated project dedicated to innovating the field of musical education. It is based on the experiences inherent to each participating Institution’s respective national heritage.
The goal of the project is to create a permanent impact on the future of musical education and instruction as means to empower creativity skills and competences in students. It will be dedicated to the improvement of the students and professors from each participating Institution. It seeks to create a new integrative course curriculum of study that emphasizes the national cultural and musical heritage from each participant Institution.
A.L.C.H.E.M.I.A. starts from a deep analysis of the educational needs of students and training needs of teachers in the schools involved. The strength of all of the institutions is that each of the institutions can offer a specific teaching method – focused on creativity, improvisation, composition, digital methodologies in the Finnish Ylä-Savon Musiikkiopisto; on ensemble settings in the Italian Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (strings and piano); on teaching vocal and choir theory in the Latvian Lielvarde District Music and Art School; on instrumental improvisation at the Belgian Academie voor Muziek, Woord en Dans; on experience tied to ensemble, with specialization in wind instruments, percussion and guitar at the Spanish Conservatorio Professional de Musica de Osuna -, but cannot however propose a curriculum able to incorporate these different topics, methodologies, competences for their students. Also the teachers have specific competences and haven’t the necessary knowledge and expertise to teach other matters, except those of their national educational context. This project aims to reduce this gap by realising an innovative curriculum on Music Education, capable of integrating these different fields of teaching, which, at the same time, are an expression of the peculiar cultural tradition of each country.
This project aims to reduce this gap by realising an innovative curriculum on Music Education.
The project will take place over the course of two years and focus on two target groups: a) 8 students aged 11 to 16 years old; 2) and 3 teachers from each of the involved partner organizations.
Each Institution involved with their own strengths, will share and help, in finding and disseminating new innovative didactic methods, to improve the weak points of the other participating institutions.
The participating Institutions in AL.C.H.E.M.I.A. have the following strengths that will be shared among the other participating Institutions:
1. Finland – Ylä-Savon Musiikkiopisto: educational experience tied to creativity (creating one’s own music: improvisation, composition, digital methodologies);
2. Italy – Fondazione Scuola di Musica di Fiesole: educational experience in music education in ensemble settings (strings and piano);
3. Latvia – Lielvarde District Music and Art School: educational experience in teaching vocal and choir theory;
4. Belgium – Academie voor Muziek, Woord en Dans – Bornem: educational experience in instrumental improvisation;
5. Spain – Conservatorio Profesional de Música y Danza de Ribarroja del Túria: educational experience tied to ensemble, with specialization in wind instruments, percussion and guitar.
The expected results upon completion of the project are as follows:
• Designing and testing a new integrative course curriculum for students for promoting basic skills and key competences. As well as contributing to raising awareness of the importance of Europe’s cultural and musical heritage;
• Realizing a short-term staff training for teachers to share their strengths with other institutions’ teachers, developing innovative teaching methods, enhancing their professional development;
• Realizing blended mobilities of groups of students for empowering and strengthening their musical proficiencies and skills through online lessons and transnational mobilities. The exchanges are organized to demonstrate what they’ve learned in the forum of public performances specifically dedicated to a particular aspect of cultural and musical importance of each participant country;
• Realization of educational materials dedicated to the particularities of each host nation’s cultural and musical heritage and applied educational methodologies (i.e., video, audio recordings, compositions, method books, treatises, etc.) with the intention of their respective use in future educational courses of study.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 255036 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ylä-Savon musiikkiopisto & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Lielvarde District Music and Art School
• FONDAZIONE SCUOLA DI MUSICA DI FIESOLE ONLUS
• Fundación Pública de estudios universitarios Francisco Maldonado
• Academie Muziek Woord Dans Bornem