Musical Inclusion Erasmus Project

Project Title

Musical Inclusion

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: Disabilities – special needs; Creativity and culture; Social dialogue

Project Summary

The Lemgo has not participated in ERASMUS + projects so far. However, it seems to us of importance for the newly formed European bilingual to be part of such programs to implement its European values. Our new project is born from the need to share experiences between countries and to cross classroom boundaries for a global and personal enrichment. At the same time achieving the participants´ opening up and awareness of the plurality not only of European, but also of the world’s society. We seek inclusive education regardless of the origin or social and cultural background of our students, while strengthening the skills of the pedagogues themselves. The principle of lifelong learning combined with the use of the potential of European human and social talent and the use of cooperation and mobility with our partner, will lead us to a highly positive outcome. Reaching the conviction of the necessity to live in harmony, taking advantage of all our cultural background and traditions.
A common desire connects us: to acquire a better knowledge of sociocultural differences and similarities. Therefore we are looking for creative skills for the integration in our current diverse society. Consequently we are planning a cultural project, whose product is going to be digital news in the school’s website, with different traditional songs from both countries. Inclusion is going to be the fundamental theme. On the one hand involving people with special abilities, for example using sign language to sing or dancing on wheelchairs, on the other hand incorporating also other generations, performing the project in a residence for the elderly or showing the songs to child in nurseries. Our project is planned to develop various activities (local and transnational) combining observation, training, production and evaluation.
The following mentioned objectives are the starting point to achieve the motivation of our students to increase their language skills. Aiming to a better understanding of the cultural differences, as well as valuing and respecting the opinions of others: to understand the mutual influence between traditions, celebrations and human activities; to develop creativity through artistic achievements; to improve participants’ foreign language and promote the wide diversity of EU languages, reaching cultural awareness, to acquire skills and attitudes such as intercultural understanding and social integration, to increase awareness of artistic manifestations as a mean of transmission and cultural exchange; to promote interculturality through communication and exchange of information, both based on an opening to cultural diversity and appreciation of the knowledge of different people and to experience a form of collaborative work with students from another school, valuing and respecting their different contributions and opinions.
We have decided to share the project with San Lorenzo in Spain, as it is the first time for both schools, facing this challenge. We also find the schools’ profile similar, since both schools are music-oriented (the students at Lemgo have an instrument training as part of their curriculum), but diverse at the same time, due to the fact that the Lemgo is a big institution based in one of the main European capital cities, compared with the San Lorenzo, a small school, located in a small mountain village. For this reason some of the activities to perform would be focused on the observation of the opposite environment and on learning cultural festivities and traditions. Concretely there is a big difference on how the two schools work with music: while the Lemgo have cooperations with the national ballet or the Berlin´s philharmonic, San Lorenzo is a sustainable teaching center, meaning that they visit places, that can be reached by feet, eat local food and involve also locals by performing their activities in homes for the elderly or organizing collections of recyclable waste in the surrounding area.
Our desire is to build the methodology of single parts of the project with the other school once the cooperation takes place but the general approach would be that each activity starts with the presentation of the daily local school work. Then we will proceed together to the artistic production. In each activity (before, during and final) an evaluation elaborated by the participating teachers will be carried out. The idea is that the collaboration helps improving the existing local project through the extern contribution and at the same time gives the “foreign” school a new input to take back home and implement in the school program. We will publish the artistic productions and other events related to the project through, among others, e-Twinning and the website of our centers.We expect not only highly positive results for both participating schools, including the project permanently in the musical programming of both schools, but also a great impact and long-term benefits for the local population.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 65994 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lemgo-Grundschule & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Ceip San Lorenzo