Building Culture Across Borders Erasmus Project

Project Title

Building Culture Across Borders

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: Creativity and culture; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Regional dimension and cooperation

Project Summary

This project “Building Culture Across Boarders” (BCAB) aims to improve the learning process of all people connected to this project – pupils, school staff (teachers), parents and local communities.The main goal is to raise future professional musicians with a sense of community, transnationality, creative attitudes towards the share of music and visual arts with European citizens.The idea for the project started when the Pandemic situation among all world started to increase, and even ended with all the opportunities to make and share music and art with all citizens. The beauty of Music and art is to be shared with others. The problems caused by these Pandemic emergency includes various aspects, such as the end of cultural events in the Music and Art Schools, the suspension without an end of cultural events in the communities, the linked absence of European careers, and the deprivation of creativity and creative vision as a common space and sense for all of our students. Many of these problems are linked to the instability that we lived nowadays: more challenging and overloading way of life.
Education has been quite conservative today and needs to be adapted to modern educational demand. The situation in Europe and in the whole world has changed. The virus has hit most dramatically all the music and art industry. All the participants of these sectors (no matter, student or professionals) need to find new ways to be successful creatively or financially in the industry. To reach that – musicians and artists need to be prepared to face new kind of challenges; new artistic jobs require more compex skills that regular school system doesn’t offer. To be a successful musician/artist, you need to be creative, find non-traditional solutions, able to collaborate, to be flexible, reacting to changes and work across different cultures etc. The project gives the chance to modernize education and helps to develop these skills to meet the needs of the changes in nowadays labor market.
The partnership includes Music Conservatories and Institutions from the cultural sector. All partners want to work together and create mutual art, good practices and tools to make art so they can share with all the communities involved. The project group decided to divide the project into four main parts. First phase – July to December 2021, second phase January to June 2022, third phase July to December 2022, and fourth phase January to June 2023.
The main goal is the improvement of the educational system implemented in the institutions to provide teachers and students the opportunity for contact with cultural development outside the environment and their home area.
This project also aims to link educational institutions to the cultural sector, to create capacities and skills in longterm apprentices that can have an impact as professionals in the cultural field, or as citizens who enjoy an European cultural system.
Music feelings and expressiveness are translated through Visual Arts-this is a moto of our creativity goal.
This project also has an important social inclusion factor, willing to share the cultural background with who doesn’t have to much opportunities to experience cultural events.The project involves music students who aim an academic music path , teachers from the music area and experts on sound and visual arts, staff from schools and institutions. The direct participants are about 200 people.
There are four participating organizations (one from Portugal, one from Italy and two from Estonia), with about 900 pupils and 250 workers. All pupils and some workers will participate in the project and activities locally. The participants of the LTTA’s will attend workshops, keynotes, will also experience the different stages of the performing musical work, performative concerts integrating Music and Visual Arts, developing skills on Chamber Music. The local activities will involve musical composing, music rehearsals, creation of paintings related to the project and to the music created by our composers. We will have Musical Composition, Performance, Learning Music Methodogies, Cultural Management, Building Instruments Workshop, Online Events, Keynote about studying and working in the Music field in the involved countries. The methology that will be carried out is to build performance moments with art involved.
The aim is to set up a permanent exhibition organized by local artists from Molise and to do artistic performances within semi abandoned villages. The result will consist of a mix of performative arts (music and performative arts) which will represent the apex of this cultural and artistic collaboration.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 100153,25 Eur

Project Coordinator

Escola Artística do Conservatório de Música Calouste Gulbenkian de Braga & Country: PT

Project Partners

• Georg Otsa nim. Tallinna Muusikakool
• Rae Kultuurikeskus
• EURELATIONS GEIE