Eurhythmics in Education & Artistic Practice Erasmus Project

Project Title

Eurhythmics in Education & Artistic Practice

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 higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality and Relevance of Higher Education in Partner Countries; Pedagogy and didactics; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Eurhythmics in Education & Artistic Practice (EEAP)
Music is a worldwide phenomenon and understood by all people, regardless of ethnic, religious or linguistic background. The occupational market in music is also becoming more and more international. Therefore, it is important to equip students for an increasingly global professional life. All future musicians and music teachers need to be trained for working in a global multi-cultural society.

Eurhythmics is a pedagogy that combines music, natural body movements, imagination, improvisation and reflection. Eurhythmics is taught as a subject in higher music education and other performing arts education. Eurhythmics is also used as a method in pre-school, primary schools, and in music and dance education for all ages, as well as in work with senior citizens and people with special needs.
Eurhythmics Teacher Education is to be found at 18 Higher Education Institutions in Europe.

International contacts through conferences have been traditional in Eurhythmics, since its beginning in the early 20th century, but the network-building has been very loosely organized.

Building a network, aimed at supporting and connecting Eurhythmics teachers, students and alumni in Europe, would promote development of a subject that, within its methodology promotes democracy, inclusion, creativity and cooperation.

This international project, with participants from four European countries and one associate, has as its main goal to strengthen the quality of education and to promote internationalization. The aim is to build a sustainable network for Higher Education Institutions offering Eurhythmics education throughout Europe. To achieve the aim, the EEAP project intends to create a structure, with common activities, available resources, a digital platform for communication, and a Joint Master’s Program.

All of the partners are Higher Education Institutions (HEI), with a focus in the arts:
Kungl. Musikhögskolan i Stockholm (project leader)
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Austria,
Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany,
The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland,
Haute école de musique de Genève, Switzerland, associated project partner
All partners offer Eurhythmics Teacher Education.

In the project, a number of activities will take place, and common modules will be produced:
• Workshops,
• Translations; articles, teaching materials, national and local documents,
• Planning and applying for a Joint Master’s program in Eurhythmics,
• Building and launching of a digital platform for communication, sharing knowledge and developing teaching materials.

In the “Learning Teaching Training” workshops, (hosted by the different participating HEI, each visited by another of the HEI), students and teachers will meet for trying new common modules, new material and new methods. The workshops will include both teaching and creative work, as well as visits in schools and community groups. After the workshops, the teaching material will be edited, and the experiences will be summarized. All material will later be shared and available on the digital platform.

The project should be carried out trans-nationally, as its main purpose is sharing and developing knowledge in an international context. The artistic and pedagogical characteristics of the partner universities of this project, have developed and diversified through the very different professional specialties of each country. Bringing together this diversity among the teachers and making it accessible and networkable, is particularly important for the further development of the subject of Eurhythmics. It enables for strengthening the quality of education, enriching the didactic method and artistic means, as well as broadening the areas of influence and application of the Eurhythmics method. It is innovative because it also allows for the development of a new quality of modern work methods, considering sustainability, democratic values and a multi-cultural approach to teaching and learning.

Through dissemination of the project results and the continuance of cooperation, the aims of the project are to:
• Promote artistic and didactic development of Eurhythmics teachers in higher education, with emphasis on the connectedness of movement and music as an art practice,
• Integrate artistic and scientific research,
• Point out the relatedness/correlation in Eurhythmics of arts and pedagogy, as well as the practice/content and its didactics,
• Work out a joint Master’s Programme with emphasis on Eurhythmics in higher education,
• Explore and create Eurhythmics materials in multi-cultural and inclusive contexts,
• Promote internationalization,
• Expand mobility,
• Develop common international practice.

The project spans over three years and concludes with an international dissemination event in Stockholm 2023, followed by national dissemination conferences both inside and outside of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 284417 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kungl. Musikhögskolan i Stockholm & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Szymanowskiego
• UNIVERSITAT FUR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST WIEN
• UNIVERSITAT DER KUNSTE BERLIN