Project Summary

The project European Orchestra is a two- year Erasmus plus strategic school partnership.
This project brings together European countries  and partners where the music education has a particular significance and importance, with a special emphasize on the positive influence it has on the special needs students. 
-Thematic field of the project involves: Active citizenship, Inclusive approaches,  School improvement and quality evaluation, European citizenship and dimension.
-Main language used for the trainings will be English.
-Profile of the participants: School  education, Local body and Ngos
-Target audience will be: Teachers and students from Primary and Secondary schools, including special needs students.
Its main objective is to introduce and explore a wide range of free available music technologies  and learning tools that provide extra motivation for students and is based on their interests and everyday reality . Participants in the project will work with sensitiveness to individual differences, in order to be prepared to meet different cultures. We first intend to enhance our learners’ motivation and investment in learning foreign languages and music skills since some of these skills  are basic in the labour market and allow them to develop their future competences. On the other hand, we want to offer them an opportunity to meet their European neighbours, discover European cultures in native place, put forward their own culture, broaden their cultural horizons, and thus, build their European citizenship.
We consider studying different music from different cultures and comparing them as a crucial starting point in educational process nowadays. Music education in Europe is becoming more open to all, with a great emphasize on the International Global element that is recognizable in every song.
It may seem that young people intuitively use music in everyday life or are surrounded by it in local cafes, tv, e.t.c. and hence have no need of musical education or training. on the other hand, many teachers and educators would like to integrate music into their lessons, but do not know how. 
All partners carried out a research  in their countries to check if the students and the teachers are equipped in musical skills: it became clear that young people are not educated musically enough  and teachers do not possess the skills for effective use of music  that would make lessons more  interesting for the pupils. what's more, they all underestimate the importance of musical integration into education and the positive influence it has on pupils with special needs since music tends to be one of the top motivators for children with special needs in the education system.
Using captivating instruments prompts a child to make requests, the use of different instruments encourages the development of motor skills and the child is more willing to work through an activity by using music in a challenging way.  That is one of the reasons we think the this topic is very important in order to get familiar with the other best European practices and share experiences. Every country has different experience in using different teaching methods.
We consider studying different music from different cultures and comparing them as a crucial starting point in educational process nowadays. Music education in Europe is becoming more open to all, with a great emphasize on the International Global element that is recognizable in every song. Globalization, the vast increase in intercultural communication and interaction, and the cultural diversity in today’s classrooms create a demand for a new orientation in education and the implementation of school programs that will adopt global perspectives and promote intercultural understanding and respect.
-Reflecting on this need, we focus on discovering common melodies of folk songs of partner countries and publish a unique music education book with implementations and sample songs.
-Moreover, folk stories will be presented and turned to a play. Music teachers will be trained about multicultural music education and international teaching-learning techniques and approaches including special education needs.
-A common orchestra and choir will be established.
-Our project inspires and motivates students and teachers in the importance of music education through folk songs using cross cultural curriculum beyond borders. With the approval of our project, a collabrative environment is going to be created in order to improve soft skills of both students and teachers that encourage team work. Discussing these individual experiences and process in groups of national and international teams will hopefully lead to new horizons in student's and teacher's life-both mentally and emotionally.

Digital Museum of Musical Instruments

Music Book

Teaching Music pupils with special education

Parents Seminar

Photo Exhibition of street musicions

Tales of the Songs

Leaflet

Slovenia Diss

Estonia Diss

Spain Diss

Italy Diss

European Orchestra: il secondo meeting a Bitonto

Luglio 2019

COMUNICATO STAMPA

Il 15 Luglio la città di Bitonto ha ospitato il secondo meeting del progetto europeo European orchestra, finanziato nell’ambito del programma Erasmus Plus, Azione Chiave 2 partenariati strategici per lo scambio di buone pratiche nel settore dell’educazione scolastica, di cui la cooperativa sociale Sinergia di Bitonto è partner insieme a organizzazioni pubbliche e private di Nord Macedonia (Council for Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency - SPPMD), Turchia (Bakirkoy Directorate of National Education), Estonia (Võru Kreutzwaldi Kool) Slovacchia (Nuestra Señora de la Victoria – Maristas)

Il focus del progetto è la promozione dell’educazione musicale nella scuola primaria e secondaria, attraverso la scoperta e valorizzazione della musica folk quale veicolo di conoscenze e dialogo interculturale, e di competenze trasversali relative alla prevenzione delle forme di discriminazione, bullismo, e disparità nei risultati di apprendimento.

Il piano di lavoro prevede la realizzazione di un museo musicale digitale che conterrà i materiali didattici relativi alle musiche popolari che ogni paese andrà a valorizzare, e di un ‘Music Education Book’.

In particolare, Sinergia intende promuovere la valorizzazione delle musiche della tradizione pugliese (taranta, pizzica etc.) con un approfondimento, oltre che prettamente musicale anche culturale (danze, storie tradizionali etc).

Per ricevere ulteriori informazioni è possibile:

• Visitare la pagina Facebook Sinergia Go2Europe
• Visitare la pagina Facebook del progetto European Orchestra
• Contattare direttamente all’indirizzo mail info@sinergiasociale.it

Macedonia diss

Turkey Diss

Preparing the students for orchestra

TURKEY

Competition-designing the logo

The Winner

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yxShj0Ep1K4a6fpwX9S-ElhC9DliJmADbp3Qcrdqym4/edit

Project Timeline

Project timetable(September 2018-September 2020)

MONTHS

M1

M2

M3

M4

M5

M6

M7

M8

M9

M10

M11

M12

M13

M14

M15

M16

M17

M18

M19

M20

M21

M22

M23

M24

Project activities

A1-Completition of Erasmus teams/ Lauching a blog/website/fb and e twinning project registration

A2-Partnership SWOT analysis

A3-Establishing Erasmus corners in each school

A4-Preparing the group for quire and orchestra

A5-Competition-designing the logo

A6-Editing a project brochure

A7-Sharing presentations regarding music teaching techniques

A8-Preparing activities for the 1st TM  in Macedonia

M1-TM in Macedonia

A9-Feedback/dissemination on the TM in Macedonia

A10-Creating a play musical from a folk tale

A11-Choosing students participants for the drama

A12-Photo exhibition of street musicions at schools

A13-Seminar for parents on the importance of music education

A14-Preparing presentations for the 2nd TM in Italy

M2-TM in Italy

A15-Feedback/dissemination on the TM in Italy

A16-Sharing power point presentations and videos on teaching music pupils with special needs

A17-Preparations of the group for the first C1, making power point presentations, videos and choir and orchestra practice and sharing the presentations on e twinning

C1-Short-term exchange of groups of pupils

A18-Feedback/dissemination activities on C2,display outcomes and video presentations

A19-Implementation of Makey Monkey(making piano musical with coding) by video conference

A20-Preparations for the third TM in Turkey

M3-TM in Turkey

A21- Feedback/dissemination on the TM in Turkey

A22-Presentations of the cultural instruments of the countries involved

A23-Preparations for the second C2/choir rehersals for the quire competition and preparing the text for the common musical play/rehearsals /preparations of pp presentations/videos

C2-Short-term exchange of pupils

A24- Feedback/dissemination on the exchange

A25-Publishing the Music Education Book

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A26-Launching the Digital museum of musical instruments

M4-TM in Estonia

A27-- Feedback/dissemination on the exchange

A28-Publishing the Book Drama for kids

A29-Distributing brochures about the activities of the project during the 2 years of the partnership

A30-Performance of the choirs in the Music hall of their Municipalities

A31-Completing all the activities of the project on e twinning

A32-Dissemination of the project in the Municipalities

A33-Coordinators write the final report