The project aims at opening Opera’s educational departments to explore the huge potential of Opera theatre and its immersive, cross-arts and engaging experience for meeting specific learning needs, in particular those of migrants who need new approaches to be actively involved in the community of European shared values. The project wants to experience an innovative approach based on Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory (MIT) to work with Opera’s educational projects.The implication of the theory is that learning/teaching should focus on the particular intelligences of each person. Another added value of MIT with regard to inclusive and intercultural education is that it emphasizes the cultural context of the learning process as it shows that every culture tends to emphasize particular intelligences. The project objectives are to: - Develop and test new learning methodologies to be applied to migrants, combining creativity, interculturalism and performing arts; - Apply multiple intelligence theory and practice in the educational and intercultural arts projects developed by the Opera educational departments focusing on the application to cultural and linguistic integration of migrants through Opera repertoire; - Innovate and increase the educational offers of the educational department of Opera houses for the new audiences of a multicultural Europe; -Rethink Opera houses as place for social innovation and open / intercultural / inclusive education Main target group of the project are Opera educationalists, educators working in Opera houses educational department. Indirect beneficiaries of the project are migrants which will go through a process of cultural and linguistic integration using the methodology developed by the project. In particular, the project will involve: - 3 Opera educationalists per country (IT/UK/ES/EL/BE) that will test the training in a European learning event in Brussels; - 20 educationalists, per country, that will be involved and asked to work as testers on the social learning platform; - 10 migrants per country that will be involved in the national pilot of the training methodology and process to be developed in the last phase of the action; Project activities will start with the development of the competence framework (IO1) for Opera educationalists to become facilitators of cultural and linguistic integration. Based on the framework, the partnership will start the development of the the training model based on MIT and Opera repertoire (IO2) and a pilot application (both at European and National level) that will happen during a 5 days training event for Opera educationalists in Matera (2019 European Capital of Culture) and national pilot of a month during the last months of the project, by involving directly migrants. Migrants will test together with Opera educationalists the methodology of the project, working for a month in 4 events with them and testing Opera as a learning tool for cultural and linguistic integration. To support the training model, the partnership will also develop a Social Learning Platform and an Open Source Transmedia Manual that will be open for contributions from all over Europe and from other arts practitioners and educators using creativity for learning. Open Source Manual - (IO4) will be a tool available for all those actors working in the Opera sector but not just them as being open to contribution and experience the IO4 will also target all those professionals developing training activities through arts and culture and all those that are working on the application of multiple intelligence theory to education. In order to make the project methodology transferable and used in other European contexts and by other actors, the project foresees the development of policy/recommendations/guideline to be structured by the European networks involved in the initiative to invite other organizations to follow the path opened by the partnership and transfer/receive its outputs. Local communities will take part to the multiplier events and will have access to Opera houses. The project would like to reduce the distance between these places and the wider public in a process that, by fostering integration of migrants in European communities will also ensure audience development and social innovation. The partnership has been selected in order to ensure to the project the right mixture of competences able to develop, test, disseminate the methodology, the tools, the procedures the action aims to realize. It proposes an innovative and high quality creative partnership comprising specialists in: creative and cultural industries; Opera houses; theatre companies; intercultural education, and multiple intelligence applied to arts education, migrants integration thus laying the ground for a positive cross-fertilisation among the fields of non formal learning, arts education and migrants’ cultural integration.
The project worked to open Opera’s educational departments exploring the huge potential of Opera theatre and its immersive, cross-arts and engaging experience for meeting specific learning needs, in particular those of migrants who need new approaches to be actively involved in the community of European shared values. The project has experienced an innovative approach based on Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory (MIT) to work with Opera’s and Art’s educational projects. The implication of the theory is that learning/teaching should focus on the particular intelligences of each person. Another added value of MIT with regard to inclusive and intercultural education is that it emphasizes the cultural context of the learning process as it shows that every culture tends to emphasize particular intelligences. The project objectives were to: - Develop and test new learning methodologies to be applied to migrants, combining creativity, interculturalism and performing arts; - Apply multiple intelligence theory and practice in the educational and intercultural arts projects developed by the Opera educational departments focusing on the application to cultural and linguistic integration of migrants through Opera repertoire; - Innovate and increase the educational offers of the educational department of Opera houses for the new audiences of a multicultural Europe; -Rethink Opera houses as place for social innovation and open / intercultural / inclusive education Main target group of the project have been Opera educationalists, educators working in Opera houses educational department. Indirect beneficiaries of the project have been migrants which have been involved in pilot processes to test the methodology developed by the project. In particular, the project involved: - 21 Opera educationalists that took part in the training week in Matera, European Capital of Culture 2019 - 130 educationalists that have been involved as testers on the social learning platform and 180 users that regularly are using the community online; - over 100 migrants and local communities involved in the 10 pilots of the training methodology and processes developed in the last phase of the action; - 188 participants to the project multiplier events Project activities started with the development of the competence framework (IO1) for Opera educationalists to become facilitators of cultural and linguistic integration. Based on the framework, the partnership developed a training model and package based on MIT and Opera repertoire (IO2) and has tested it during pilot application that happened during the 5 days training event for Opera educationalists in Matera (February 2019) and national pilots involving directly migrants, happened in the last months of the project. Migrants have tested together with Opera educationalists the methodology of the project, during small projects focused on making Opera and Arts as a learning tool for cultural and linguistic integration. To support the training model and create a cooperation platform, the partnership has developed the Social Learning Platform and produced an Open Source Transmedia Manual that are tools open for contributions from all over Europe and from other arts practitioners and educators using creativity for learning. Open Source Manual - (IO4) is a tool available for all those actors working in the Opera sector but not just them as being open to contribution and experience the IO4 is also targeting all those professionals developing training activities through arts and culture and all those that are working on the application of multiple intelligence theory to education. In order to make the project methodology transferable and used in other European contexts and by other actors, the project has developed with its IO5 a policy/manifesto structured by the European networks involved in the initiative to invite other organizations to follow the path opened by the partnership and transfer/receive its outputs. Local communities have been involved in the multiplier events and will had access to Opera houses. The project tried to reduce the distance between these places and the wider public in a process that, by fostering integration of migrants in European communities will also ensure audience development and social innovation. The partnership has been selected in order to ensure to the project the right mixture of competences able to develop, test, disseminate the methodology, the tools, the procedures the action aims realized. An innovative and high quality creative partnership comprising specialists in: creative and cultural industries; Opera houses; theatre companies; intercultural education, and multiple intelligence applied to arts education, migrants integration thus laying the ground for a positive cross-fertilisation among the fields of non formal learning, arts education and migrants’ cultural integration.