Tecnología al servicio del aprendizaje y la creatividad: tejiendo redes europeas a través de la creación musical colaborativa Erasmus Project

Project Title

Tecnología al servicio del aprendizaje y la creatividad: tejiendo redes europeas a través de la creación musical colaborativa

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

This strategic partnership for school education KA201: “Technology for learning and creativity: weaving European networks through collaborative music creation” involves seven organizations in the field of education and culture from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Romania (primary, secondary and music schools).

This project emerges from institution’ vision to use arts education and especially music education to incorporate new methodologies in the classroom in order to enhance the development of skills needed for the twenty first century society such as creativity, digital literacy, cultural and linguistic competence and team work.

This project has focused on achieving the following objectives:

1) To develop basic and transversal skills among approximately 3000 students (6-16 years old) from different countries and socioeconomic backgrounds through interdisciplinary activities and collaborative music and video creation using new technologies.
2) To strengthen the profile of 200 education professionals to implement new pedagogical approaches focused on the students in their classrooms.

3) To Contribute to the development, transfer and dissemination of innovative pedagogical approaches and practices in music education at European level.

The activities of the project have revolved around the use of the technological tool “Soundcool”, a prototype free modular software system for music education and sound creation developed by the Polytechnic University of Valencia. The system allows to use virtual instruments and sounds in different formats through tactile interfaces like tablets, smartphones and Kinect to create musical compositions and multidisciplinary artistic projects.

The main activities carried out have been: teacher training courses and student participation in artistic projects of music and technology with different topics that culminated in the interpretation of a children’s opera at the “Palau de les Arts” in Valencia as well as different activities during the two years duration of the project including two teaching-learning activities with mobility of 63 students to develop these performative projects, video installations and collaborative concerts in Italy and Spain in May 2016 and April 2017 .

The management of the project in all its phases has been carried out by a coordination commission which, through regular meetings, transnational meetings and other virtual mobility activities, have planned all the phases of the project according to the schedules, have elaborated agreements and evaluation reports, in addition to other actions foreseen in the different strategic plans of the project.

The results and impact achieved have been measured through evaluation indicators, questionnaires, interviews and comparative tables. Through this project we have been able to train more than 200 teachers through courses and seminars in the Soundcool system; has worked with more than 3000 students of different nationalities who have been able to generate different artistic products; the students have participated in the creation of an opera using the Soundcool system; bilateral agreements have been signed between several universities in the partner countries to give continuity to this project; use guides have been published with didactic proposals for the use of the Soundcool system.

The long-term benefits consist of the modernization and internationalization of the partner institutions that allow to offer a quality education for the students favouring the development of competences and the equality of opportunities, the consolidation of the innovative practices developed in the project and the creation of a European collaborative network for future projects.

The dissemination of the knowledge, experiences and results generated by this project has been spread at local, regional and international level. The creation of a web page and the participation in different social networks has allowed disseminate the project results, and to share the artistic products generated in the projects at national and international level.

The impact has surpassed the initial expectations since it has managed to involve different institutions such as education councils, city councils, and teacher training centres, universities and other cultural organizations beyond the partners. This initiative has been awarded with the SIMO Education 2016 awards. The project’s sustainability and sustainability have been guaranteed with the award of a KA1 youth project. Soundcool technology and other activities of this project are already being implemented in Mexico and the United States.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 102470 Eur

Project Coordinator

COL.LEGI PUBLIC NOU D’OCTUBRE & Country: ES

Project Partners

• LICEUL DE ARTE BAIA MARE
• IES Arabista Ribera
• AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS JOSÉ RÉGIO – PORTALEGRE
• FEDERACIÓN DE SOCIEDADES MUSICALES DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO TREMESTIERI MESSINA
• Club Amici di Salvatore Quasimodo
• Escola Secundária de Ponte de Sôr