Access to Music and Opera – Social inclusion through Arts Erasmus Project

Project Title

Access to Music and Opera – Social inclusion through Arts

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; Access for disadvantaged; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The context of the project responds to the need to implement the A.M.O.S. Creativity partnerships involve adult education organizations together with those in the cultural sector. The external context of the project is related to the COVID-19 situation, which caused the crisis in the cultural sector. The partners’ knowledge and experience were used in planning the project. Partners prepared an initial review / analysis of opera / arts education. There is a need for a change in the popular perception of opera as an elite and exclusive habit. Opera is an intangible human heritage. Opera is an international language and its stories reflect an understanding of human nature and contribute to upholding the values ​​of freedom and tolerance (World Opera Day 2020, Operavision). The project engages in dialogue between the activities of opera education as a way of developing a creative and innovative educational tradition using this art form.
The main goal of the project is to improve activities in the field of developing parents’ cultural competences and on this basis to propose good practices conducive to the implementation of activities. This is consistent with Europe, Creative Clush. Artistic Intervensions to stimulate innovation, sustainability and inclusiventess – Increasing access to culture.
Specific objectives:
Objective 1 – Illustrate the importance of context for developing parents’ cultural competences.
Objective 2 – Exchange of good practices and experiences on social inclusion through art of parents with low cultural competences.
Objective 3 – Equipping parents with the necessary competences needed to create creative and innovative solutions in the face of social challenges.
Objective 4 – Determining the legitimacy, purposefulness and added value resulting from increasing the organization’s ability to operate at the supranational level – in the situation of COVID -19.
Target groups in the project:
a) users: adult educators who receive new solutions developed within the A.M.O.S.
b) recipients: parents whose problems can be successfully solved thanks to the new solutions developed under the project.
The needs that the project responds to are necessary and expected. We have experience in conducting workshops for parents with low competences, many counseling sessions for parents developing key competences, we cooperate with non-governmental organizations in the local environment. We have experience of several international projects covering the subject of key competences.
The partners decided to implement the project jointly due to the fact that the partnership will generate benefits, both for the target group and for the implementers themselves. The implementation of the partnership project will create an added value in the form of extending the territorial scope of the project to the area including partner countries: Poland, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain.
The implementation of the project will bring high-quality results.
Phase 1: Determining the base line (4 months)
Completing national questionnaires – Cultural Competence Self Assessment at parents Outcome 1 – Research report, publishing a report summarizing the survey. The report is available in four languages: English, Polish, Italian and Spanish. The output is related to Objective 1.
Phase II: Developing and Testing (8 months)
Design, run and update support.
Carrying out activities aimed at supporting the exchange of good practices and experiences on social inclusion through the art of parents with low competences.
Outcome 2: Newsletter development: Community art projects – Ability to deal with sudden problems through art and creativity. The output responds to Objective 2.
Result 3 – Training Resource Kit – Development of materials for educators to assist in conducting community arts projects for parents. The material will allow to obtain a tool that will support solving the problem of social inclusion through art.
The contents of the Training resource Kit are:
Module I – Participatory art. Community culture development.
Module II – Providing parents with the necessary competences needed to create creative and innovative solutions.
Module III – Parental attitudes supporting creativity.
Module IV – Artistic care for society. A life-saving opera for parents today
The output responds to Objective 3.
The innovativeness of the project is based on the search for new and effective ways of solving the problem within the support area. The A.M.O.S project is innovative for the partner group due to the fact that the subject of social inclusion through art is taken up.
We anticipate that the project will have a significant impact at each impact level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 55332 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundacja Family Center & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Fondazione Don Orione Onlus
• Associació Cultural Escuela Polaca
• ENSO GROUP LTD