Multiform Pedagogy in Arts, Health and Wellbeing Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Multiform Pedagogy in Arts, Health and Wellbeing Education

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: Creativity and culture; Health and wellbeing; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

In 2019 The WHO Regional Office for Europe published a report “What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and wellbeing?” This report recommends the inclusion of arts and humanities education within the training of health-care professionals to improve their clinical, personal and communicative skills. This report with it’s recommendations confirms the needs for cross-sectoral action.

Multiform Pedagogy in Arts, Health and Wellbeing Education (ARTHEWE) project develops HEI education in the interrelated fields of arts, health and wellbeing. This topic widely known as arts and health is a fairly new area of expertise that is attracting growing interest throughout Europe. A holistic approach to health and wellbeing can’t be achieved without developing the related education.

The ARTHEWE project develops and renews multiform pedagogy, methods and tools in six international pilot modules. The project partners represent different fields of education and approaches to arts and health in their education. These differences are exploited in pilot modules to find new and innovative ways to arts and health methodology, planning curricula and tutoring students of various fields.

Project partners are European HEIs from north, south and west. Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) as the project coordinator wishes to boost its new education in Creative wellbeing. The Royal College of Music (KMH) in Stockholm educates professionals in music, health and wellbeing. Medical School Hamburg (MSH) and its Department of Arts, Society and Health brings to the project its methodology of artistic research. The Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) at Trinity College Dublin provides training in brain health, leadership and dementia prevention including medicine, science, business, law, journalism, social science and the arts. King’s College London (KCL) and its Faculty of Dentistry Oral & Craniofacial Sciences utilizes embodied practice sessions for students using contact improvisation as a way to explore mental and social wellbeing and shares this expertise in the ARTHEWE consortium. University of West Attica (UNIWA) is a new player in the field of arts and health and brings strong health-promotion and public health aspects to the project consortium.

The project objectives are
1) To increase and share knowledge and skills in arts and health education.
2) To co-develop multiform pedagogical approaches and arts-based methodology of arts and health education in both online and contact learning.
3) To develop new study modules and to enhance the integration of arts and health into the curricula
4) To strengthen the collaboration between social, health care and art educators in the partnering organizations and transnationally.
5) To define the concept of holistic wellbeing and other relevant concepts.
6) To develop and define the needed core expertise of the professionals working in the international field of arts and health.

The ARTHEWE project is targeting arts and health students and their educators in partnering organizations and beyond. The ARTHEWE project involves 140-200 students and 22-32 teachers in participating organizations. The main activities of ARTHEWE are development, implementation and evaluation activities of the pilot study modules in all partner HEIs.

The results of ARTHEWE project are:
1) Shared understanding of the core expertise of the professionals working within the field of arts and health, brought together in a co-written publication which combines the views of all participating fields.
2) Co-developed multiform learning and teaching materials and implementations which can be applied to multiple fields of education. They combine multiform pedagogy approaches and methods from all participating fields and the best practices from the ARTHEWE pilots.
3) New and improved arts and health study modules in the field of arts and health. The study modules developed in the project assimilate input and inspiration from all the participating fields and experts.
4) Innovative methodology and pedagogical approaches of multiform pedagogy in arts and health education. The educators will create and apply new methods, skills and digital tools in the future education of arts and health professionals.
5) Graduating students in multiple fields equipped with wide-ranging professional skills and versatile professional identity. Pilot study modules provide the students with innovation skills, professional growth and meta-skills that multiform learning methods convey.

The project results will be disseminated to European HEIs providing education in the fields of arts and health or interested in using arts-based methods in the education in the field of arts and health as well as the research and development networks of the field(s).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 392123 Eur

Project Coordinator

TURUN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY & Country: FI

Project Partners

• KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
• Kungl. Musikhögskolan i Stockholm
• THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN
• PANEPISTIMIO DYTIKIS ATTIKIS
• MSH Medical School Hamburg GmbH