Scientific coordinator: Prof. Anna Rita Addessi
Project Team: Luisa Bonfiglioli
Applicant: Novalis Trust (UK)
Partners: Polskie Stowarzyszenie Terapii Przez Sztuke (PL), Gimnazjum nr 1 im. Jana Pawla II (PL); Associacao Para a Educacao de Segunda Oportunidade (PT), Universidade do Porto (PT); ALMA MATER STUDIORUM Università di Bologna (IT), Associazione MusicSpace Italy (IT), Istituto Comprensivo Granarolo dell'Emilia (IT); University of the West of England (UK).
N.r Partners: 9
Partners’ Countries: PL, IT, PT, UK
UNIBO’s role: Partner
Project Duration (in months): 24
Start Date: 19/09/2015
End Date: 18/09/2017
Status: completed
Total Budget: 202.220 euro
Budget EDU: 18.182 euro
Project’s Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education
Description : The LINK Project strategic partnership has explored the power of therapeutic music and arts centred experiences to alter emotional states and engender the positive engagement of self with the world in the context of classrooms in 4 European countries. Through carefully planned teacher training activities / experiences, teachers have been supported in extending their professional capacities as classroom-based therapeutic practitioners who can create safe, enriched, aesthetic and transformative learning environments for vulnerable young people who risk becoming early school leavers because of their poor emotional and mental health.
Thus the project has been extending school based provisions for young people who often continue to face exclusion from social and educational opportunities due to personal conditions that result from their trauma histories. The LINK project team has found high levels of such psychological distress exist within each of the project schools. The project is called 'Learning in a New Key' as a reminder that this target group need to experience newly attuned ways of learning in European classrooms.