" Improvisation joins us , gives us inspiration. Professional development of music teachers with the focus on music improvisation and rhythmic topics."It is two years project in which four music schools from three coutries Sweden, Poland and Italy are going to cooperate to develop teachers knowledge and skills in the field of music teaching; to create,test and adopt the new materials and tools to teach/learn improvisation & rhytmic; to develop the pupils' competences both as a musician and in general knowledge focus on linguistic ability; to raise awareness both teachers and pupils to the increasing diversity of our society and to work on tolerance and respect for others.The actually identified needs of the project are:- lack of well approved materials for teaching improvisation - the need is reported in three partner countries- supporting for polish teachers who starting with improvisation as a new school subjectIn response to that needs, the general goal of the project is to improve and develop the quality and attractiveness of music teaching, by professional development of teachers. The more specific objectives are:1. Develop, test, adapt and adopt innovative practice relating to music improvisation i.e.: the new learning / teaching materials and tools for teachers and pupiles; base on the Swedish & Italian experiences exchange; 2. Improve competence in teaching rhythmic by introducing the new guidance and tools of the Dalcroze Eurhythmics teaches concepts of rhythm ; provide by the Polish partner.3. Increase the music teachers skills and knowledge thanks to peer learning, exchanges experience, and implementation the new materials and tools created during the project. 6. Better understanding by all project’s participants, both pupils and teachers, the social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity of the present EU’s society.Our partnership consists of four schools from three countries: - Sweden represents Gällivare Kulturskola and Pitea Musik och Dansskola, the schools collaborate with each other for nearly 20 years at the area of music improvisation; run together "Blue bird " jazz improvisation project in Norrbotten/North Sweden.- Poland - The Secondary Music School in Kielce, partners got to know each other in 2012, when Kulturskola run the project financed by SIDA. - Italy Frosinone Music Conservatory - it is high education school - a new partner in the project; cooperation is possible thanks to two italian musicians - a couple, who have started to work at Gallivare Kulturskola in 2014.The best we can share with each other:The swedish partners' main contribution to the project are: the knowledge and long experience in teaching improvisation, own uniqe teaching skills, creativness and most of all the great enthusiasm for music improvisation . The partner from Poland except its high technique of playing and good knowledge of instruments, will share with the others its knowledge, skills and experience in teaching rhythmic, especially activities of the Dalcroze Eurhythmics method. This issue it is important for the musical development and overall growth of children and youth. The Italian Music Conservatory - is well known in Italy for a high level of music education, particularly jazz improvisation. They fits perfectly into this project, with its high advanced jazz improvisation department and huge experience in running EU's projects. The italian partner will raise the methodical level of the project and bring in the new musical inspirations. We plan to achieve our goals by:- exchanging best practices and training together during 2 international meetings for teachers, - prepare innovative improvisation methodology and the guidelines of rhythmic; and working on them during 2 international workshops for pupils and throughout implementation and follow up phase,- measure the effectiveness and attractiveness of these created materialls by pupils' s evaluation and progress, useing jointly prepare tests of advancement for the selected instruments - build an open communication platform with digital project's products: DVDs, CDs, learning data base, youtube films, - organize concerts playing by pupils and teachers together During the whole project's time, we will not only focus on teaching methods and materials, but also on the teaching environment - pupils, mutual attitudes, use of language, cultural differences etc. We will work on promotion intercultural dialogue, tolerance and standing against discrimination and racism. While we run the international meeting with pupils, we will talk about the culture and history of the countries participating in the project, we plan to organized the trip to Auschwitz and ply the concert with the youth refugees and pupils from Lappland School in Gällivare. Through these activities we want to make them aware how important is the mutual respect and tolerance and how horible could be the consequences of its absence.
This project is in a some extent, the development of " Bluebird" project created by teachers from Gällivare Kulturskola and Pitea Music & Dance School in 1996. The main aim of that was to teach and promote music improvisation both among the teachers and pupils. For nearly 20 years a group of teachers, pupils and students from Norrbotten/the north part of Sweden used to have at least once a year three days meeting, to play - improvise with and for each other. Thanks to Erasmus plus program this idea could developed and was continued with two others international partners in a much wider area, by establishing a schools partnership project called: "Improvisation joints us gives us inspiration". Our partnership consists of four schools from three countries: Sweden represents Gällivare Kulturskola and Pitea Musik och Dansskola, Poland - The Secondary Music School in Kielce, Italy - Frosinone Music Conservatory. The main project's objectives were: 1. Develop, test, adapt and adopt innovative practice relating to music improvisation i.e.: the new learning / teaching materials and tools for teachers and pupils; base on the Swedish & Italian experiences exchange; 2. Improve competence in teaching rhythmic by introducing the new guidance and tools of the Dalcroze Eurhythmics teaches concepts of rhythm; provides by the Polish partner. 3. Increase the music teachers skills and knowledge thanks to peer learning, exchanges experience, and implementation the new materials and tools created during the project. 4. Better understanding by all project’s participants, both pupils and teachers, the social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity of the present EU’s society. The activities undertaken to achieve the project's goals: 1) two joint staff training for teachers organized in Sweden and Italy with the aim to develop their knowledge and skills, exchanges experience, peer each other work, to create and share new materials and methods; 2) two short-term exchange of pupils with workshops running by the teachers and testing the newly creating both improvisation and rhythmic mythology. 3) two transnational project meetings; - one in the middle of the project after two staff joint training and before the exchanging of pupils, - the project's summarizing meeting in Gällivare, which included 3 concerts open to public: played by one polish, one by italian teachers and a joint jam session concert played by mixed swedish-polish- italian Superb jazz band! 4) working on tolerance and respect for others, we organized the following activities: - visit to Ajte Same' Museum in Jokkmokk - visit to Anagni the ancient, historical town and the artistic center - visit to the II WW Uprising Museum in Warsaw - visit to F. Chopin Museum at his birthplace Zelazowa Wola - visit to the Mount Cassino rocky hill - the place of the one of largest battle of the Second World War. Each of the teachers participating in the project contributed to the project their most-powerful skills, experience and pedagogical values.There were two persons - the leaders in each subject: and more then 20 other teachers who were deeply involved in project's activity. During the summing up meeting, the teachers emphasized the substantive contribution made by Sandra Fortuna, who through her own research has found common fields of action for improvisation, rhythms, expanding them even with images. Every teacher has had the opportunity to show their personal conception of improvisation, allowing to widen the boundaries of the idea of improvisation.The different musical heritage of each country has allowed to enrich a concept of improvisation, not only focused on the music aspect. The results of project's partnership: - teaching /learning materials :"Dare to dive into improvisation" by T.Lakso; "Guideline of rhythmic exercises " by Ola Lipinska ; "Booklet children improvisation" by Sandra Fortuna and Loredana Crucitti ; "Didactic Improvisation " by Marianna Rossi and absolutely, inspired improvisations videos based on Kandinsky paintings, by Sandra Fortuna and Loredana Crucitti. - DVDs, CDs, youtube films, project's website, publication - two press releases in Poland and Sweden, live radio broadcasting - disseminations materials ( project logo, posters, leaflets, gadgets, ..) - cooperation with local and regional music/culture schools and general public schools - improvement of english used to communicate by teachers and pupils - better understanding the social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity of the present EU’s society. The best summary of the project is presented in a press article written by a pupil one of the mobility participant: "..How amazing is it that we have had the chance to participate in this exchange? Now we have contacts in both Italy and Poland who will welcome us with open arms if we want to come again. It’s crazy how inspired you can get from other people. Jazz is so cool."