Improviser pour apprendre Erasmus Project

Project Title

Improviser pour apprendre

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Research and innovation

Project Summary

In educational structures of music, improvisation is often an area that is, mainly for cultural reasons, considered to be part of advanced music training courses only. Similarly, the development of creativity is less practised than the learning of cognitive abilities and technical gestures. In this project, however, we wish to find the creative abilities of every participant and encourage them to speak, take risks and listen to each other without judgment. The aim is to strenghten the abilities of the students to be able to communicate intuitively with each other and that way learn the skill of self learning. We want to place improvisation ardently as a pillar tool of the training of a student from his first steps in education. We also wish to attract new audience with this method. The goal of the project is to create useful materials for music education centers and teachers in order to develop joint improvisation as a learning tool. In these materials will be included a booklet presenting ideas and means of training situations suggested by us. An other part of the material that will be produced, is going to be a panel of short videos including presentation of technical resources needed and also experiences of using improvisation as a learning tool. By doing so we will ask teachers, adult learners, institutional partners, institutions training arts education teachers and people with special needs to test improvisation as a method of learning music.

Partners in this project are a French conservatory communal radiation, a community college for the education of Finnish adults and a non-governmental organization for education and musical projects in Latvia. The experiences from improvisation will be used when trying to associate elderly people and foreign minorities to take part in the events of artistic education.

Improvisation workshops will gather together other arts like theater, dance, and visual arts, too. We wish to encourage music educators to create new learning situations and encourage them to use improvisation as a tool in their work at the very early stage of the musical training of their students. We also invite adult learners to seek new entries for new skills and call new people to join this dynamic training.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 59655 Eur

Project Coordinator

Commune de JOIGNY & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Iisalmen kaupunki
• 5 – ata!, puteju kvintets