MusIntegrACTION: Transforming music education institutions to ensure their role as transmitters of European cultural heritage. Erasmus Project

Project Title

MusIntegrACTION: Transforming music education institutions to ensure their role as transmitters of European cultural heritage.

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

The European Union is the first world cultural power, and the value of the cultural heritage of its member states is invaluable. The European Parliament and the Council of Europe emphasized this fact celebrating throughout 2018 the Year of Cultural Heritage, whose main aim was “to encourage the sharing and appreciation of Europe’s cultural heritage as a shared resource, to raise awareness of common history and values, and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space”.

This aim is shared in its entirety by the educational institutions that have formed the strategic partnership MusIntegrACTION -four Music Conservatories and three High Schools from Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain- and, within this framework, we have developed between 2018 and 2021 a project focused on the educational and social value of the European cultural heritage. The seven educational institutions, as leading cultural agents, were very concerned about their role as social actors, and sought out excellence by improving their educational programmes and methodological innovations.

Our project joined many plurinational cultural manifestations, organised in an ambitious activity plan that implemented the project-based learning among other methodological strategies, and stressed the importance of our cultural heritage, essential for the development of our European identity.

The work plan consisted, among other activities, of four international staff meetings during which pedagogical conferences where held, as well as four international student meetings with academic activities focusing on the transmission of the cultural heritage and the active citizenship.

The development of the Erasmus+ MusIntegrACTION project has made it possible to achieve the following goals:

1. To promote the awareness of the European cultural heritage among all members of the educational community.
2. To promote the awareness of the similarities and differences of the cultural legacy of the different European regions and develop the sense of European citizenship.
3. To encourage, through transnational cooperation, the improvement of curricula, teaching methods and school management strategies, and disseminate the results throughout the respective nations.
4. To analyze the social role of the concerned institutions and encourage their transformation in agents of social change.
5. To foster multilingualism, digital competence and metacognitive learning among students, in order to improve their qualifications and facilitate their personal and professional integration in the European context.

Our project has directly involved 64 teachers and 74 students in 8 mobility activities, and it has had a much bigger impact on the institutions contexts: if we only take into account the whole teaching staffs and all the students of the partner institutions, more than 5000 citizens have been indirectly reached. Moreover, as a result of the cultural events that have been held, such as concerts, it has been possible to make a further impact on the local community.

This has been thus a large-scale project, offering among its achievements both tangible – audiovisual material related to the European heritage, temporary exhibitions, teaching exchange documents, project website and social media accounts,…- and intangible results – development of students’ key competences on European cultural awareness and expression, methodological innovation, changes in the institutional concept of the partner educational centres and in the schools’ leadership teams,…-.

Finally, we underline the sustainability of these achievements, which will be maintained over time beyond the funding period due to three main factors: 1) the commitment of the involved institutions, that have already established common lines of work for the future (e.g. the development of a new Erasmus+ project combining music and dance events); 2) the profound transformations that the programmed activities have brought directly or indirectly among the citizens involved in the project ; and 3) the curricular changes proposed to the Education Authorities in some of the participating countries that will benefit future generations of students.

Project Website

http://www.musintegraction.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 159924 Eur

Project Coordinator

Conservatorio de Música de Murcia & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere Weimar
• Liceo delle Arti di Trento e Rovereto “Vittoria Bonporti Depero”
• IES El Carmen
• Conservatorio di musica “F.A. Bonporti” di Trento
• Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional
• Hochschule fuer Musik Franz Liszt Weimar