LE.IT.M.O.T.I.V. – LEarning how to InTegrate Music in schOol Through International Ventures Erasmus Project

Project Title

LE.IT.M.O.T.I.V. – LEarning how to InTegrate Music in schOol Through International Ventures

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social dialogue; Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Modern challenges such as population growth, urbanization, climate change, increasing inequalities and poverty call for new approaches that must start from school education and that are able to highlight and create, when necessary, harmony among peoples and between humans and nature, meaning dignity, well-being and sustainability. Culture plays an important role in this process as it offers a framework to build equal sustainable development according to UNESCO’s Hangzhou Declaration (2013). Music is a cultural expression common to all nationalities and it has the power to bring added value to pupils’ learning experience and self-development if integrated properly in curricular activities.
The UNESCO’s Hangzhou Declaration words have never been closer to the truth, now, in the pandemic caused by Covid-19. Music has to become a tool to be integrated into disaster-risk reduction and inclusion policies applicable by schools; a common means to appeal to younger generations and motivate them towards their academic and personal success; a chance to support knowledge transfer among educators in a cross-disciplinary approach. The project “LE.IT.M.O.T.I.V. – LEarning how to InTegrate Music in schOol Through International Ventures” stems from such reasons and from the expertise of the Art School “C. Brailoiu” in teaching Music but it also embeds the missions of the other partner schools: the Turskish “Bergama Cumhuriyet Anadolu Lisesi” with its experience in STEM didactics; the Finnish “Hyvinkään yhteiskoulun lukio” with the high results achieved in teaching foreign languages; the Portuguese “Escola Básica de Pedome” with its previous experiences in European projects.
The project “LE.IT.M.O.T.I.V.” aims at strengthening the resilience of 84 young learners (aged 15-18) of different nationalities through training activities developed in transnational mode, hosted in turns by each of the partner school engaged in this Strategic Partnership; 7 pupils will be selected by each school for each LTTA, but when hosting, the schools will still involve 7 local students so that the actual number of pupils involved will increase to 112.
The activities will be organized during 4 international exchanges lasting 5 days, plus 2 days destined to travel arrangements from and to the Hosting Countries: Romania, Turkey, Finland and Portugal. The groups of students will be accompanied by 2 teachers from each school (for a total of 6 educators representing the school staff). The project will foresee the creation of 2 concrete outputs, one realized by teachers and the other by pupils:
-O1: translations of the European Agenda for Music into new languages;
-O2: an online course for the Teacher Academy of School Education Gateway.
The objectives of the present project proposal will be:
-to deepen the idea of European citizenship among students of different nationalities through the common value given by music as part of one’s own artistic and cultural heritage;
-to motivate students towards the learning process by experimenting ways to integrate music in the teaching of curricular subjects (second language, stem disciplines, art, sport, etc.);
-to design innovative educational paths that can innovate the teaching standards and produce added value in terms of a more integrating and inclusive didactics;
-to strengthen the internationalization strategy of the European schools involved;
-to spread the use of digital tools to integrate the teaching process (i.e. virtual exchanges on eTwinning).
The project will produce positive impacts, to be measure in the short and medium-long term:
-to enhance pupils’ motivation towards the learning of STEM disciplines, foreign languages, Art and Sport through the effective integration of Music as a learning tool;
-to sensitize educational stakeholders and schools towards a more conscious perception of Music as a support participatory and innovative didactics;
-to speed the internationalization process of the partner schools involved by empowering its staff’s language/digital skills throughout the project lifespan as well as by enriching their curriculum with additional management experience in the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme;
-to foster new didactic activities, transnational projects and virtual exchanges will stem from the cooperation among the partner schools to enhance the quality of teaching.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 123852 Eur

Project Coordinator

Liceul de Arte “Constantin Brailoiu” & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Bergama Cumhuriyet Anadolu Lisesi
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Pedome
• Hyvinkään yhteiskoulun lukio